ADP Australia & WorkForce Software Sign Partner Agreement

ADP to Provide Access to WorkForce Software’s RosterLive Workforce Management Solution to Clients Throughout Australia

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA and LIVONIA, MI – (Sep 29, 2013) – ADP^®, a leading global provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, and WorkForce Software, a leading provider of workforce management solutions for organisations with complex labour policies and stringent compliance demands; announced today the signing of a multi-year partnership.

Under the terms of the agreement, ADP will offer WorkForce Software’s RosterLive workforce management suite to clients throughout Australia as part of its integrated Payforce payroll solution. ADP and WorkForce Software’s solution will deliver highly configurable, cloud-based time and attendance, rostering, and leave management solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, fully integrated with ADP’s payroll and human resource management solution via Single Sign-On (SSO).

“ADP provide flexible, reliable and secure Payroll and HR solutions that ensure a cost-effective and efficient process for the payroll and HR needs of organisations,” said Susan Heron, Managing Director for ADP Australia and New Zealand. “We see labour cost management, coupled with optimal and efficient use of workforce resources emerging as key strategic areas for HR managers and directors. Workforce Management has become an increasingly complex, yet critical component of Human Capital Management automation strategies.”

“ADP are very excited about the expanded potential that this creates for Australian business to manage their workforce in new, innovative ways that improve cost management and bottom line results.”

“With this agreement, midsized companies throughout Australia can now implement a single, integrated solution to aid regulatory compliance, optimise employee rostering, and flawlessly perform award interpretation calculations” said Travis Burke, Vice President of Global Alliances for WorkForce Software.

The RosterLive Platform

RosterLive enables managers to quickly and easily build and deploy rosters based upon specific business requirements. Rosters are populated via a powerful rules engine that considers employee skills, availability, and other criteria, and exceptions are highlighted for quick review and resolution. Labour costs can also be displayed in real time by date range, day, shift, and employee, enabling employers to gain a precise view of both labour costs and labour dollar allocations.

The platform consists of a flexible time and attendance solution, which includes a configurable award interpretation engine designed to accommodate even the most complex and unique pay conditions and calculations. Time data can be collected via multiple means — from wall-mounted clocks and state-of-the-art hand scanners to mobile devices and other web-based data capture options — which will also be offered by ADP.

The ADP/WorkForce Software integrated solution is available today for employers throughout Australia.

For more information, visit adppayroll.com.au, WorkForceSoftware.com, and RosterLive.com.

About ADP 

At ADP we take pride in delivering world class service to more than 7,000 clients across Australia and New Zealand, spending more than 35 years building our reputation in the payroll and HR industry. Our clients range from the region’s largest corporations through to thousands of successful small and medium sized businesses. Our flexible solutions are reliable, secure and simple to operate, and ensure a cost-effective and efficient process for the payroll and HR needs of organisations.

Globally, the ADP group is one of the world’s largest providers of business outsourcing, with over $10 billion in revenues and more than 600,000 clients, and offers a wide range of HR, payroll and timesheet attendance solutions.

For more information about ADP or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1800 000 729 or visitwww.adppayroll.com.au.

About WorkForce Software 

WorkForce Software is the leader in workforce management software for organizations with complex policies and compliance concerns. Through Its EmpCenter® and RosterLive suite of workforce management platforms, WorkForce Software enables organizations to fully automate time & attendance processes, effectively manage employee absence and leave, optimize staff scheduling, gain real-time visibility into labour costs and activities through robust analytic and reporting tools, and mitigate the risks associated with employee fatigue across the enterprise. Hundreds of leading organizations, including Bakers Delight, Melbourne Racing Club, Medica, and Collins Publishing rely on RosterLive to streamline compliance, reduce payroll costs, provide more intuitive tools to their employees, and achieve strategic HR.

Orica Selects Enablon to Achieve Environment, Health & Safety, Community and Sustainability Excellence

CHICAGO, IL and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - Aug 26, 2013) - Enablon, the world's leading provider of EHS and Sustainability Software, announced today that Orica Limited, a global mining services and ground support leader to mining and infrastructure markets, has selected Enablon to manage its Safety, Health, Environment, Community (SHEC) and Sustainability initiatives worldwide.

"In line with our vision of delivering 'Clever Resourceful Solutions,' we're very pleased to announce the partnership with Enablon," said Mark Edebone, General Manager - Global Sustainability at Orica. "The Enablon solution will establish a single repository for all SHEC data, enabling globally standardized processes, a solid foundation for unified reporting and analytics through this all-in-one integrated platform. It will both support and strengthen Orica's social license to operate and social integrity."

With a workforce of over 15,000 people that operates in more than 50 countries, Orica recognizes the need for building best practices in safety, health, environment and community to deliver value to stakeholders and enhance financial performance. In 2012, Orica initiated a global review of the company's systems & structures for sustainability performance and started developing an organizational approach to a more detailed assessment process.

Along with this approach, Orica selected the Enablon integrated platform to replace its previous systems and support the group's long term objectives, which include:

·         Better worker safety & health outcomes by preventing injuries, illnesses & environmental incidents

·         Lower environmental footprint of operations by becoming carbon & water neutral, achieving zero waste and developing environmentally friendly operations, products & services

·         Strong and enduring relationships with community stakeholders and customers

Orica's key requirements for its information management system includes the ability to support multiple languages, capture data offline and on mobile devices, integrate with Orica's core systems, generate standard and customizable reports and be compliant with data security and privacy legislation in all countries where Orica operates. The group was also looking for a system that is easy to configure and that can be managed without vendor intervention.

The Enablon platform to be implemented by Orica will enable the following key initiatives:

·         SHEC Data Management and Reporting across all operations

·         Health Assessments & Record Management

·         Management of Change and Action Plans

·         Incident Management and Monitoring

·         Investigations, Inspections and Audits

·         Sustainability Report

·         Safety

"Helping companies improve environment, health & safety performance to drive sustainable business value is what we do at Enablon," said Phil Tesler, CEO of Enablon North America.Forward-looking companies such as Orica recognize that smart technology is essential to support this vision globally and we're very happy to partner with them on their journey towards sustainable performance."

About Enablon
Enablon is the world's leading provider of Sustainability Management solutions. More than 1,000 global companies and one million users worldwide use Enablon software solutions to manage environmental and social performance, minimize risks and improve profitability. Enablon provides on-premises and SaaS solutions and an advanced online sustainability network called Wizness. Through its partnership network, Enablon operates in more than 160 countries.

For more information about Enablon: www.enablon.com

 

About Orica

Orica is a global company listed and one of the largest entities listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Founded in 1874 in Australia, Orica is:

• The largest provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining and infrastructure markets
• A global leader in the provision of ground support in mining and tunneling, and the leading supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction
• A supplier of general chemicals across a diverse range of markets, including agriculture, building and construction, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care, plastics, pulp and paper and water treatment industries
• A holder of a strong portfolio of manufacturing and distribution assets, strategically located across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Latin America and Africa which enables valuable supply chain capabilities for Orica's customers. Additional information can be found at www.orica.com

 

Contact Information

Press Contact 
Coline Vaillant 
Enablon Corporate Communications
Email Contact
Tel: +1 312 784 7955 
www.twitter.com/enablon

Simon Westaway 
Orica Corporate Communications
Email Contact
M: +61 401 994 627 
www.twitter.com/OricaLimited

Orica Selects Enablon to Achieve Environment, Health & Safety, Community and Sustainability Excellence

 

CHICAGO, IL and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - Aug 26, 2013) - Enablon, the world's leading provider of EHS and Sustainability Software, announced today that Orica Limited, a global mining services and ground support leader to mining and infrastructure markets, has selected Enablon to manage its Safety, Health, Environment, Community (SHEC) and Sustainability initiatives worldwide.

"In line with our vision of delivering 'Clever Resourceful Solutions,' we're very pleased to announce the partnership with Enablon," said Mark Edebone, General Manager - Global Sustainability at Orica. "The Enablon solution will establish a single repository for all SHEC data, enabling globally standardized processes, a solid foundation for unified reporting and analytics through this all-in-one integrated platform. It will both support and strengthen Orica's social license to operate and social integrity."

With a workforce of over 15,000 people that operates in more than 50 countries, Orica recognizes the need for building best practices in safety, health, environment and community to deliver value to stakeholders and enhance financial performance. In 2012, Orica initiated a global review of the company's systems & structures for sustainability performance and started developing an organizational approach to a more detailed assessment process.

Along with this approach, Orica selected the Enablon integrated platform to replace its previous systems and support the group's long term objectives, which include:

• Better worker safety & health outcomes by preventing injuries, illnesses & environmental incidents
• Lower environmental footprint of operations by becoming carbon & water neutral, achieving zero waste and developing environmentally friendly operations, products & services
• Strong and enduring relationships with community stakeholders and customers

Orica's key requirements for its information management system includes the ability to support multiple languages, capture data offline and on mobile devices, integrate with Orica's core systems, generate standard and customizable reports and be compliant with data security and privacy legislation in all countries where Orica operates. The group was also looking for a system that is easy to configure and that can be managed without vendor intervention.

The Enablon platform to be implemented by Orica will enable the following key initiatives:

• SHEC Data Management and Reporting across all operations
• Health Assessments & Record Management
• Management of Change and Action Plans
• Incident Management and Monitoring
• Investigations, Inspections and Audits
• Sustainability Report
• Safety

"Helping companies improve environment, health & safety performance to drive sustainable business value is what we do at Enablon," said Phil Tesler, CEO of Enablon North America.Forward-looking companies such as Orica recognize that smart technology is essential to support this vision globally and we're very happy to partner with them on their journey towards sustainable performance."

About Enablon
Enablon is the world's leading provider of Sustainability Management solutions. More than 1,000 global companies and one million users worldwide use Enablon software solutions to manage environmental and social performance, minimize risks and improve profitability. Enablon provides on-premises and SaaS solutions and an advanced online sustainability network called Wizness. Through its partnership network, Enablon operates in more than 160 countries.

For more information about Enablon: www.enablon.com

About Orica
Orica is a global company listed and one of the largest entities listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Founded in 1874 in Australia, Orica is:

• The largest provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining and infrastructure markets
• A global leader in the provision of ground support in mining and tunneling, and the leading supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction
• A supplier of general chemicals across a diverse range of markets, including agriculture, building and construction, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care, plastics, pulp and paper and water treatment industries
• A holder of a strong portfolio of manufacturing and distribution assets, strategically located across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Latin America and Africa which enables valuable supply chain capabilities for Orica's customers. Additional information can be found at www.orica.com

 

Contact Information

Press Contact 
Coline Vaillant 
Enablon Corporate Communications
Email Contact
Tel: +1 312 784 7955 
www.twitter.com/enablon

Simon Westaway 
Orica Corporate Communications
Email Contact
M: +61 401 994 627 
www.twitter.com/OricaLimited

NextMark and Adslot Join Forces for Programmatic Direct

Bring Trading Efficiencies to Thousands of Publishers and Agencies

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 22, 2013) - Adslot Limited (ASX: ADJ), a global provider of display media trading technology, and NextMark Inc., a leading provider of agency workflow and trading technology to media agencies, have partnered to help media owners and buyers trade more efficiently through a new programmatic direct channel.

"This is the first time supply and demand side parties have integrated their toolsets to allow media buyers to purchase, in a real-time environment, forward market guaranteed inventory direct from publishers", said Adslot CEO Ian Lowe.

NextMark's client base of U.S. media agencies will be able to access and purchase premium display inventory directly from Adslot's rapidly growing publisher client base, all from within NextMark's agency workflow platform.

NextMark CEO Joe Pych said, "This is a valuable partnership for publishers, for our media agency clients, and ultimately the advertisers. Integrating our platform to offer supply and demand a frictionless buying experience with significantly reduced overhead makes a great deal of sense. We're strong believers in the programmatic direct value proposition of buying efficiency driving revenue growth for all, and so are enthusiastic about what our partnership can achieve".

"As the online display industry looks to automate their trading practices across the globe -- practices that are by any definition hugely inefficient and expensive -- this partnership creates a new efficiency benchmark. We're thrilled to be the first", added Lowe.

Contact Information

Contact: 
Raj Chauhan 
Email Contact

Chiyoda Corporation Selects Aconex for Global Project Collaboration

EPC to Provide Project Teams With Mobile Access to Collaboration Platform

SAN BRUNO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 20, 2013) -  Aconex, provider of the world's most widely used online project collaboration solutions for the construction, infrastructure, power, mining, and oil and gas industries, today announced its selection by Chiyoda Corporation, a global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm based in Japan. The company's wide-ranging EPC portfolio includes projects in energy, chemicals and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, social infrastructure, and industrial facilities.

Chiyoda plans to use the Aconex Online Collaboration Platform across multiple divisions of its business to manage project-related information and processes. With Aconex, Chiyoda and its project partners around the world will be able to instantly access, distribute, track, and archive their documents, drawings, models, and correspondence -- at any time and from any location -- through a secure, neutral, centralized platform. Chiyoda plans to offer its users access to the platform on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets in addition to laptop and desktop systems.

Mr. Ichiro Ota, deputy general manager of the IT Management Unit at Chiyoda, said: "Our company has been continuously enhancing our project control systems and technologies. After extensive evaluation of the market, we decided to implement the Aconex Online Collaboration Platform for a large segment of our portfolio. We believe that the system will improve productivity with its user friendliness and support best practices in collaboration."

Since its founding in 1948, Chiyoda has delivered engineering projects in more than 40 countries. Its services include project and program management, feasibility studies, FEED (front-end engineering and design), engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance, and asset management.

Andy Lake, general manager of Asia at Aconex, said: "Chiyoda is one of the world's leading EPC firms, with an unrelenting focus on quality and innovation, and we are pleased to service its business. Over the past year, we've seen increased uptake of our platform for domestic projects in Japan. We expect this trend to continue as more firms experience the benefits of online collaboration compared to their in-house document management and email systems."

About Aconex
Aconex provides the world's most widely used Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for managing information, processes and people throughout the lifecycle of construction and engineering projects across multiple industries. The Aconex suite of solutions -- secure, neutral and centralized -- enables project managers to reduce the cost and risk inherent in capital projects of all sizes and improve efficiency, productivity and accountability for all project participants. Aconex has served projects valued at more than US$800 billion, with over 430,000 users. Clients include nine of the world's top ten EPC/EPCM firms, 23 of the 25 leading global design firms, and nearly all Fortune 500 construction and engineering firms. For more information and examples of Aconex in action, see www.aconex.com. Follow Aconex on Twitter at @aconex and on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/aconex.

Contact Information

Aconex Contact:
Tod Bottari
Communications Director
+1 650 731 3309
Email Contact

Virtual Instruments Expands Into Asia Pacific Region

Infrastructure Performance Management Platform Will Help Local Customers Mitigate Risks and Improve Business Agility

 SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 21, 2013) - Virtual Instruments, the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments, today announced the launch of its operations in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Through its APAC headquarters in Singapore and a local office in Australia, the regional team will provide sales, services and support to enterprise customers across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and throughout Southeast Asia.

"Our expansion into Asia Pacific follows our growing success in North America and Europe. The global nature of our customer base requires that we have a strong presence in the markets where they have growing business operations," said John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments. "We have an industry-leading solution, an expanding partner ecosystem and a growing sales, services and support operation that positions us well to help IT organizations across the region."

Asia Pacific is home to some of the largest and fastest growing data centers in the world and customers are increasingly adopting virtualization and cloud technologies to create a more flexible IT infrastructure. However, these technologies have also added increased levels of complexity that limit IT's ability to manage the underlying systems infrastructure. Businesses expect their infrastructure to always be available and downtime, or even a modest amount of performance degradation, is no longer acceptable.

As a result, companies are paying more attention to proactively managing the performance of their IT infrastructure, and turning to Virtual Instruments for help. The Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom^© platform helps organizations guarantee the highest level of performance, availability and utilization of IT infrastructures supporting mission-critical applications.

"We're pleased to have won our first few customers in Asia Pacific. We expect our growth to accelerate as we focus on global enterprises, especially those in financial services, telecommunications, government, and the service provider segment supporting these markets," said Todd Osborne, Regional Vice President, APAC Sales, Virtual Instruments. "With a professional services team in the region we're able to work closely with customers to baseline performance, optimize existing infrastructures and remediate outages or performance bottlenecks. Our goal is to have VirtualWisdom become the standard for IPM within every enterprise data center throughout the region."

The VirtualWisdom^© platform has been architected from the ground-up to provide visibility into the performance and availability of an organizations' IT infrastructure. When evaluating infrastructure performance management solutions, organizations need to consider:

1. Continuous Real-Time Measurement: Measurement of end-to-end response times to get a true view of infrastructure performance. 
2. Unbiased and Heterogeneous: The ability to collect data from various devices in the infrastructure without a dependency on or giving priority to specific vendor products. 
3. Systemic Data Collection: Data and metrics that are collected throughout the IT infrastructure, including from the virtual machines, servers, fabric switches, storage arrays and volumes.
4. System-wide Visibility: The capability to track any activity across the IT infrastructure for a high-level view into the performance, health and utilization of the end-to-end infrastructure.

About Virtual Instruments 
Virtual Instruments is a leader in Infrastructure Performance Management for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The award-winning VirtualWisdom© platform provides visibility into real-time performance and health of the entire open systems stack along with metrics that assess utilization. Virtual Instruments improves the performance and availability of mission-critical applications while lowering the cost of the supporting infrastructure. Forbes Magazine listed the company third on its annual ranking of America's Most Promising Companies. The company was founded in June 2008 with headquarters in San Jose, Calif. and sales and engineering offices throughout the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Virtual Instruments can be found online at http://www.virtualinstruments.com.

 

Contact Information

MEDIA CONTACT:
Chris Fucanan
H3O Communications
Email Contact
415-618-8809

Melissa Martin
Virtual Instruments
Email Contact
408-579-4121

Brickstream and Maidenbower Partner to Help Retailers Transform the Customer Experience

Partnership Launches Pilot Program for Australian Retailer Coles; Maidenbower Supports Brickstream's Sophisticated Retail Behavior Intelligence Technology With Customer Service Industry Best Practices

 ATLANTA, GA and SURREY, UK--(Marketwired - Aug 20, 2013) - Brickstream, a leader in behavior intelligence solutions for environments where people shop, gather, work and play, today announced a partnership with Maidenbower Consulting (MBC), a leading training consultancy for the global retail and service industries, to empower retailers to completely transform the processes that impact customer experience, brand perception and the likelihood of return visits. As part of the partnership, the two companies have launched a first-of-its-kind pilot program to dramatically reduce customer wait times at Coles, Australia's leading grocery chain.

The pilot program currently underway at the Coles Taylor Hills store is the first in-store collaboration between Brickstream and Maidenbower. The installed Brickstream system measures customer traffic, analyzes queuing times and behavior, and then predicts the number of queue lanes required in the next 5, 10 and 15 minutes. The Maidenbower (MBC) customer-centric methodology provides Coles staff with best practices for acting on the recommendations made by the Brickstream system, including opening a new register to reduce customer waiting time, as well as how to respond to common customer behavior patterns to create a better retail experience.

Brickstream's BehaviorIQ platform, TrafficIQ and QueueIQ applications, and Brickstream 3D smart devices use advanced analytics and sophisticated stereo vision technology to discreetly capture highly accurate intelligence about in-store customer behavior as people come and go, move about, and wait in line at retail locations. This rich insight helps retailers better understand shopping characteristics such as the ratio of sales to store traffic, wait times of individuals in queues, and service levels, as well as how customers are responding to product displays and other types of promotions.

For more than 20 years, Maidenbower has worked with retail service businesses to train staff on the latest retailing technologies and promote best practice customer service. Maidenbower manages large-scale training rollouts, helping national and international businesses deliver vital skills to their workforces via a mix of trainer and delegate sessions, online interactions, and shop floor training. Maidenbower (MBC) has helped leading UK retailer, Sainsbury's become the number one user of self-service technology, gaining 100 percent positive feedback in the process.

"The overall customer experience is influenced by the last thing they remember in a store and that shouldn't be waiting an eternity to purchase your item," said Paul King, managing director of Maidenbower Consulting (MBC). "Working with the Brickstream solution will help retailers make serious improvements to wait times and to customer service in general."

"Our partnership with Maidenbower provides our joint customers with the best of both worlds, the implementation of the leading in-store behavior intelligence technology along with best practices for how to respond to the knowledge that the technology provides," said Steve Jeffery, CEO of Brickstream. "We look forward to expanding our relationship with Maidenbower and working together on additional large-scale, in-store projects."

Contact Information

MEDIA CONTACTS
Stephanie Rock
Maidenbower
+ 44 (0) 207 725 9798
Email Contact

Laurie Gibson
Brickstream
+1 (650) 969-0764