Workforce Central 6.0

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Workforce Central 6.0

• Southern California User Group
• October 19th, 2007

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Workforce Central 6 Headlines

• New User Interface
• New Dynamic Reporting
• Extended Multinational International
  Capabilities for a Global Workforce
• Intelligent Scheduling Enhancements

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User Interface

• Workforce Central 6-- The Easiest to Use
  Workforce Central Ever

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Workforce Central 6 New User Interface

• Ease of use personalization
• Improved navigation operation (navigation
  profile)
• More screen real estate
• View personalization features
• Theming feature provides customizable look and
  feel
• Change color scheme, add your logo to better
  blend with your corporate environment
• New, yet very familiar layout to users
• Minimizes training requirements

• Intuitive layout increases ease-of-use
• Sleek user interface optimizes users time

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Interface Timecard
Where are we today?
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Interface Timecard
Where are we today?
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Interface Set up
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Interface Set up
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Workforce Central 6 Reporting

• Dynamic Reporting for Faster Access to Critical
  Workforce Data

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Workforce Central 6 - Reporting

• The most robust Kronos reporting functionality
  ever
• Drilldown
• Reports are no longer just static documents! Are
  now dynamic.
• Drill down right from the report for faster,
  focused data report access - no need to run a
  separate report
• Charting graphing support
• Integrated charting graphing support provides
  additional context and representations of
  critical comparison data
• Data export
• Export data to Excel, PDF and other formats for
  limitless ad hoc reporting - directly from report
  view

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4 Reporting Deployment Options

• Basic
• Microsoft Report Definition Language Client
  (RDLC) out of the box
• Replaced Crystal Reports runtime engine for
  default reports
• Advanced
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
• Legacy
• Crystal Reports Runtime Engine
• Allows your custom crystal reports to run without
  issue in WFC 6
• Third Party Reporting Engine
• Business Objects, Cognos, etc.
• Allows clients to leverage third party reporting
  engines
• Delivered via Kronos Services Engagement

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Reporting Current World
No Export
No Drill Down
Limited Formatting
No Graphics!
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New World
Export
Drill Down
Charting Support
Great Formatting Flexibility
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Advanced World Direct Excel Optimized Output
Direct Excel Export
Modern Report Viewer
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Workforce Central 6 Global Multinational
Enhancements

• Designed by Global Experts for the Way You Do
  Business Locally

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Global Multinational Enhancements

• Extended Language Support
• Unicode Chinese now directly supported
• Enhanced Regional Administration and Display
  Options
• Automatic formatting of numbers, dates, and
  currencies based on locale
• Phonetic Romanized Employee Name Genie Columns
• Regional Configuration Access Management
• Regional Holiday Support
• Regional Accruals Enhancements
• Lost Time and Bradford factor

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Unicode Chinese Language Support
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Workforce Central 6 Scheduling

• Most Compelling Kronos Workforce Scheduling
  Solution Ever

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Significant Usability Enhancements

• Action Palate
• In the planner, the user can select an action and
  apply it with one-click to any day and any
  employee that is opened streamlining schedule
  creation
• Enhanced Schedule Assistant Call List
• Integrated priority based filtering
• Mouse-over info, Free text comments, Highlights
• Configured for the way managers want to schedule
• Schedule groups
• Allows the assignment of employees to groups in
  the planner

Easier to use, allowing managers to spend less
time administrating schedules and more time on
other top priorities
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Workforce Central 6 - Scheduling
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One Click Scheduling for Healthcare and
Manufacturing

• Healthcare
• One click scheduling introduced to automate the
  creation of the optimal schedule for healthcare
  organizations
• Certifications, compliance automatically
  accounted
• Manufacturing Unionized Workforces
• Automatically generates an optimal schedule for
  complex unionized workforces
• Seniority bumping rules, shift preferences
  factored into allocation
• Manufacturers and other companies with unionized
  workforces can increase employee satisfaction and
  reduce union grievances

• Managers spend less time administering schedules
  and more time on higher value priorities
• Better schedules result in happier employees that
  are more productive and stay longer

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Workforce Central 6 Workforce TimekeeperAbsence
Management

• The Most Comprehensive Solution Available

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Timekeeping Accruals

• Time Stamp Restrictions
• Now restrict Timestamp entry to within a
  scheduled start and/or stop time margin, via Java
  or HTML client, and Quick Timestamp entry
• Navigation Profile
• Can be set to default to reports instead of
  genies
• Delegate Authority
• Process Manager function now follows delegate
• Free Form Comments (Notes)
• Anyone with access to comments also has access to
  notes
• Day-Based Accruals Enhanced Support
• Day-based accruals information available in DD.dd
  format everywhere seen in the system day-based
  pay code edits will also be supported

• Greater flexibility and granularity of
  timekeeping accruals data

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Absence Management

• Workforce Leave
• Entry of leave time from schedule or timecard
• Direct integration, streamlining use of the
  application
• Leave admin field
• Process Manager templates can be sent to Leave
  admin
• Unlimited user-defined data fields and validation
• Added flexibility and reduced implementation time
  for integration
• Document status audit trail
• Maintains an audit trail of document status
  changes to adhere to compliance and security
  requirements

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Absence Management

• Workforce Attendance
• Same day pattern
• Capture and flag special attendance incidents
  such as calls in on a weekend day, or day after a
  major holiday
• Formula policy support
• Can calculate such things as attendance rates,
  absenteeism rates, etc
• Lost Time Bradford Factor
• Gain insight into productivity and profitability
  from attendance absence rates
• Better auto-generated document formatting

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One-Step Upgrade from Version 4.x or 5.x to 6.0
3.x
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Your New Upgrade Center

• What is the Upgrade Center?
• A new, online always available resource for
  Kronos customers!
• Created to provide answers to the questions you
  may have regarding upgrading and links to get
  more information to make upgrading easier than
  ever. We can help you
• Explore your upgrade options
• Capture return on investment data to justify an
  upgrade
• Get the training you need
• Quantify the time, resources, and costs to
  upgrade
• Perform the upgrade on schedule and in budget
• Where is the Upgrade Center?
• The Upgrade Center is located in the products
  section of the Customer Portal (access via
  customer.Kronos.com).

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The Upgrade Page