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Product Highlights
TimeStar Enterprise™ is a comprehensive time & attendance automation and labor management solution, which is scalable to meet the demands of organizations ranging from small business to Fortune 500. While this document highlights Functional and Technical Highlights, it is not a complete list of all of TimeStar Enterprise™’s comprehensive capabilities. Please consult with your Galaxy representative for more information regarding your objectives.
Functional Highlights
| Feature |
Benefits |
Data Collection for
All Employee Populations |
With real-time web-punching, flexible,
spreadsheet-style time recording, and a vast array of
supported timeclock and mobile devices, TimeStar Enterprise™
integrates the most appropriate data collection devices
for all of your employee populations. |
Industry-Leading
Time & Labor Rules Engine |
Built for optimum configurability
to execute even the most complicated calculations and
policies, TimeStar Enterprise™’s powerful
rules engine supports intricate shift differentials, premium
conditions, holiday rules, pay-to-schedule, automated
labor allocation, break and lunch rules, union policies,
regulatory labor laws and much more. |
| Automated Attendance Tracking |
Track, alert and report on a wealth
of highly configurable employee attendance conditions
– all in real-time. |
| Points-System Management |
Calculate up-to-the-minute, attendance-based
Points Policy transactions and balance accruals, while
alerting supervisors in real-time as employees reach defined
thresholds. |
| Benefit Balance Calculations |
Help supervisors and employees intelligently
manage time-off requests, by providing accurate and timely
benefit balances. |
| Customized Employee and Manager
Self-Service |
By employing a highly-configurable
“roles-based” methodology of self-service,
TimeStar Enterprise™ allows you to define with pinpoint
accuracy, the features, workflows, employee hierarchies,
reports and even fields-of-data that each of your unique
employee populations can access. |
| Streamlined Requests Workflow |
Save employees and supervisors countless
hours by automating the entire requests workflow for PTO
requests, schedule changes and other messaging. TimeStar
Enterprise™’s “1-click” request
approval processes moves an employee request all the way
through to payroll and scheduling with ease. |
| Comprehensive Employee Scheduling |
With effortless support for complex
recurring and swing shifts, split shifts, scheduled org.
transfers and more, TimeStar Enterprise™ empowers
you to efficiently design your workforce calendar. Choose
between “on-the-fly” management with the graphical
“Team Schedule” or familiar “Outlook”
style scheduling via recurring rules and events. Schedules
are seamlessly integrated with the business rules engine,
attendance and payroll. |
| Web and Email Alerting |
Keep supervisors informed and actively
involved in managing employee attendance, procedural errors,
impending overtime conditions, work policy violations
and more, through real-time web and email alerting. |
| Real-Time Status Monitor |
View in real-time, who’s in,
who’s out and where they’re working with the
TimeStar Enterprise™ Status Monitor. |
| Mileage and Dollars Tracking |
In addition to robust time and attendance,
TimeStar Enterprise™ offers a comprehensive mileage
reimbursement and vehicle tracking system, plus support
for dollars transactions such as bonuses, awards, commissions,
tips and more. |
Labor Insight and
Management Reports |
Achieve critical insight into your
most important and costly business resource – your
workforce. TimeStar Enterprise™’s flexible
and intelligent Crystal Reports® based reporting module
will give your supervisors, payroll administrators and
executives the real-time labor analysis information they
need to manage the workforce and streamline labor costs. |
| Flexible Approvals Workflow |
Custom-tailor your approvals workflow
to meet your business culture and streamline your review
and signoff processes. TimeStar Enterprise™ offers
highly adaptable Supervisor and Employee approvals workflows,
with comprehensive control for enforcing pre/post-approvals
rights and responsibilities. |
| Limitless Organization Levels |
With up to 99 labor allocation levels
and unlimited, hierarchical, organization (labor) codes
within each level, TimeStar Enterprise™ enables
fine-grained allocation and reporting of your vital labor
and payroll data. |
| Security and Auditing |
Security and accountability are at
the very core of your TimeStar Enterprise™ solution.
Typically deployed over the web or corporate LAN/WAN via
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), every user interaction is
100% encrypted. The fine-grained, “roles-based”
security subsystem ensures that each user has access to
only the exact data and employees he/she is authorized
to manage. Additional security highlights include an exhaustive
audit trail of all changes to your critical labor and
schedule data, IP-based security for restricting access
to authorized computer networks, one-way password encryption
and much more. |
| Online Help & FAQs |
Your employees will find answers and
“how-to” guides with ease, by using the integrated
online help system, which includes: Graphical tutorials
and step-by-step instructions, helpful FAQs, searchable
text queries, common term definitions and more. |
| Administrators’ Toolkit |
While a typical “day-in-the-life”
for your employees and managers will focus on efficient,
process-driven activities, TimeStar Enterprise™
is rich with useful administrator tools to help keep your
solution running at peak efficiency. System and data diagnostics,
ad-hoc database querying and reporting tools, global maintenance
and search tools, extensive configuration and setup wizards
all serve as invaluable problem-solvers for your labor
management administrators. |
| A Long-Term Solution |
As your enterprise succeeds and evolves,
your long-term labor management solution will scale comfortably
along with it. TimeStar Enterprise™ accommodates
tens-of-thousands of employees, unlimited labor codes,
schedules, organizational groups, pay and business rules,
attendance and benefits policies, data collection points
and more. |
| Tight
HRIS Platform Integration |
Automated,
trouble-free data integration with your HRMS, payroll,
accounting, ERP and business intelligence platforms will
permanently eliminate dual-entry and ensure that you extract
the maximum business advantage from your labor management
investment. |
Technical Highlights
| Feature |
Benefits |
| 100% Web-Native Application |
Designed from the ground-up to be
delivered via the Internet, TimeStar Enterprise™
requires no client-side software installations, offers
“any time, any where” web-access and is familiar
and intuitive to use. |
| Microsoft SQL-Server®
Database |
The industry-standard for robust,
Enterprise-class data management, TimeStar Enterprise™’s
Microsoft SQL-Server® platform ensures vast scalability,
cutting-edge performance and bulletproof reliability.
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| Real-Time Data Processing |
Real-time, up-to-the-second data processing
and display ensures that your labor management decisions
are timely and accurate — a key tool in proactively
controlling labor costs, such as overtime. |
| Powerful Self-Service via
Roles-Based Security |
TimeStar Enterprise™ offers
unparalleled flexibility in creating security “roles”
for your user base. Roles can be configured by the group
and/or individual, allowing you to define with pinpoint
accuracy, the features, workflows, employee hierarchies,
reports and even fields-of-data that your employees can
access. As opposed to the more inflexible model of Employee/Manager
“Self-Service” modules, TimeStar Enterprise™’s
roles engine allows you to fine tune the exact user experience
and set of responsibilities for each of your employee
populations. |
| Point-in-Time |
Point-in-Time is vital resource in
reporting for today’s increasingly complicated Labor
Law and Accounting Compliance regulations (i.e. Sarbanes-Oxley).
By capturing a “point-in-time” snapshot of
all critical employee data and assignments, you gain an
accurate picture of exactly how your labor rules and calculations
applied to each person throughout his or her employment
history. Additionally, changes such as temporary assignments
and future changes become a breeze to administer. |
Crystal Reports®
Reporting Engine |
The world-leader in business analytics
and reporting, Crystal Reports® powers TimeStar Enterprise™’s
comprehensive, built-in reporting module. |
| Security-Centric Architecture |
TimeStar Enterprise™ incorporates
a leading-edge security architecture to ensure the safety
and integrity of your mission critical data, including:
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) data encryption; One-way password
encryption; IP-access security for restricting access
to authorized PC’s or networks only; Middleware-layer
database access to prevent SQL-injections, buffer overflows,
spoofed POST data and other common threats. |
| Automated Database Maintenance |
Designed by Galaxy’s experienced
database engineers, each TimeStar Enterprise™ implementation
includes a standard package of automated database maintenance
routines. With no extra burden on your I.T. staff, your
SQL-Server database will automatically perform routine
optimizations, data backups and performance tuning to
keep your solution running smoothly year-after-year. |
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