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Global Demand for Kronos Cloud Services Continues to Rise

ORLANDO — KronosWorks — Nov. 7, 2011 — Kronos Incorporated announced today that it continues to see exceptional interest in its cloud services offering from organizations looking to maximize their investment in workforce management technology. By leveraging cloud services from Kronos®, organizations are achieving significant cost savings, improving the reliability of their workforce management solutions, and accelerating return on investment.

News Facts

  • In a year-over-year comparison, new bookings of Kronos' cloud services offering grew by 92 percent. Organizations across a spectrum of industries around the globe now leverage Kronos cloud services, including Colorado andWhistler Blackcomb, North America's premier four-season mountain resort; Dr. Reddy's de Mexico, an emerging global pharmaceutical company; PFD Food Services, an Australian-owned and -operated food service distribution company; Swissport UK, part of Swissport International, the world's leading provider of aviation ground services; and Town of Breckenridge, Colo., a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Summit County.
  • Kronos has more than 1.75 million employees at hundreds of organizations on cloud services in more than 20 countries including Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Ireland, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
  • With cloud services, Kronos can perform hosting, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and support of the Kronos workforce management solution, enabling an organization's IT department to focus resources on other priorities.
  • Cloud services are offered regardless of how customers elect to acquire their Kronos solution.

Supporting Quotes

  • Oren Youngstein, assistant director of technology, City of Strongsville
    "Maintaining our Kronos solution and fully leveraging its capabilities is easier with the help of Kronos cloud services. It would be nearly impossible for our department to be fully knowledgeable about all of the city's various software solutions, so we jumped at the opportunity to have a team of Kronos experts dedicated to our organization. Being able to consult with them is invaluable. For us, cloud services proved itself in the first hour."
  • Ernesto Hernández, network analyst, Dr. Reddy's de Mexico
    "Organizations today want fast payback from technology investments, and combined with Kronos' advanced products, the cloud services offering is a win-win option."
  • Paul Stamas, vice president, information technology, Mohawk Fine Papers
    "Since migrating to Kronos cloud services we have realized improved system reliability at lower costs and shifted our resources from managing the application to delivering more business value."
  • Richard Cohen, chief information officer, PFD Food Services, Australia
    "Kronos' workforce management solution helps manage labor costs, one of the largest controllable expenses for most organizations. And its cloud services offering further adds to fast payback. We're really excited to achieve many benefits from Kronos."
  • Mark Smith, CEO and chief research officer, Ventana Research
    "Our research is finding that organizations want to have access to the latest applications for workforce management but are challenged with budget, resources, and time across business and IT to implement the software within the company. We are seeing a significant increase in the demand to host and outsource solutions like workforce management so businesses can adopt and use the new technology much more rapidly. Organizations should evaluate vendors that provide the ability to manage the solutions, as it can save valuable time and money but also reduce the risk of not implementing as efficiently or reliably."
  • Andrew Manos, director, cloud services, Kronos
    "The incredible demand we are seeing for cloud services comes as no surprise. Smart organizations want to achieve cost savings by accelerating ROI, reducing IT burdens, and ensuring that the applications are running optimally at all times. Our cloud services offering is one more way that Kronos is proving that workforce management doesn’t have to be so hard."

Supporting Resources

  • This announcement was made from KronosWorks™, the world's largest workforce information exchange. KronosWorks is taking place this week in Orlando.
  • See live updates and join the conversation by using #KronosWorks11 on Twitter.

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-use solution, visit www.kronos.com.

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Indrani Ray-Ghosal
Kronos Incorporated
+1 978.947.3042
indrani.rayghosal@kronos.com