Kronos® Customers Wowed by Workforce Central® 6
Customers at KronosWorks give solution high praise for helping to optimize global workforce
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 05, 2007 — Customers gathered at this week's KronosWorks™, the industry's largest venue for exchanging ideas in how to effectively manage the workforce, are buzzing about the latest version of the Workforce Central® suite from Kronos® Incorporated. Workforce Central 6, with its extended multinational management capabilities, powerful analytics, advanced scheduling features, and intuitive user interface delivers valuable insight and information to help organizations better manage employee performance and effectively optimize a global workforce.
"Customers are thrilled with Workforce Central 6," said Peter George, chief technology officer at Kronos. "Version 6 is the talk of the conference. It's gratifying to hear such positive feedback, indicating that we really hit the mark with this product release."
Managing a global workforce
Today's workforce is 24/7 and located across the globe. Executives are challenged to consistently have their finger on the pulse of workforce performance. Workforce Central 6 provides organizations with a centralized location for their labor data, enabling them to monitor and compare workforce performance across geographies. As a result, executives have access to standardized workforce performance metrics that provide increased visibility into their global labor resources.
"The key performance indicators in V6 help us better track efficiency, productivity, and utilization of our workforce resources," said John Russo, senior business systems analyst at Elliott Company. "Overall, Kronos is helping Elliott be a global leader in the manufacturing of turbomachinery."
A view to workforce performance
Workforce Central 6 improves visibility into workforce performance by offering enhanced analytics. The intuitive tools compile labor performance and other business metrics, enabling users to assess workforce performance by employee, geography, shift, job, and other dimensions. In addition, Kronos applied its expertise in healthcare, manufacturing, and retail operations to help organizations identify and address their industry-specific challenges.
"Workforce Central 6 is another milestone in Kronos' successful history of developing products for optimizing the workforce," said Michel Boeckx, CTO at Aker Philadelphia Shipyard. "The ability to have one comprehensive view to identify the various work types that are represented at the shipyard at any given time enables us to better forecast and schedule our employees to meet our production goals."
Right person, right place, right time
The powerful scheduling engines in Workforce Central 6 consider business constraints while automatically generating schedules that accommodate specialized skill sets and employee preferences. This allows managers to balance qualifications, coverage needs, and costs to achieve optimized performance at the lowest expense. The advanced scheduling technology also makes it possible to manage compliance with policies, regulations, and union agreements.
"Enhancements in Workforce Central 6, such as the action palette for scheduling, are a great improvement for our nursing staff," said Suzette Reid, senior application analyst at the University of Utah HealthCare. "It improves the time it takes to schedule our staff. That's a significant benefit to ensure the right person is in the right place at the right time to meet our patient's needs."
Minimize Training, Maximize Performance
Workforce Central 6 is designed for use by the entire workforce. Its fresh new user interface is optimized for both casual and power users. Special care has been taken to minimize training costs while existing users will find their favorite features even more intuitive. As an added bonus: Color schemes and other style settings can be tailored to match customer-specific branding thereby further minimizing training and speeding adoption.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos Incorporated empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce. At Kronos, we are experts who are solely focused on delivering software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Kronos serves customers in more than 60 countries through its network of offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. Widely recognized as a market and thought leader in managing the workforce, Kronos has unrivaled reach with more than 30 million people using a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos at www.kronos.com.
