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Product Highlights
The complexity of your labor rules, attendance policies and organizational structure demands a truly enterprise-class software. However, obstacles like upfront capital investment, upgrades, infrastructure and ongoing IT labor burden have prevented you from leveraging the benefits of this powerful technology. Galaxy’s high-value, TimeStar™ On-Demand subscription brings real-time labor management within your reach! While this listing highlights Functional and Technical Highlights, it is not a complete list of all of TimeStar™ On-Demand’s comprehensive capabilities. Please consult with your Galaxy representative for more information regarding your objectives.
Functional
Highlights
| Feature |
Benefits |
Streamlined,
Not Stripped-Down |
The incredible value and low-cost
of entry for TimeStar™ On-Demand is the result of
Galaxy’s streamlined “best practices”
implementations and the efficiencies of the Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) delivery model, not of a “Light” product
offering. TimeStar™ On-Demand is a comprehensive,
massively scalable and flexible labor management solution
that will grow and evolve with your enterprise for years
to come, without capabilities roadblocks. |
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™
On-Demand 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™ On-Demand’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. |
| Customized Employee and Manager
Self-Service |
By employing a highly-configurable
“roles-based” methodology of self-service,
TimeStar™ On-Demand 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™
On-Demand’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™ On-Demand 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™ On-Demand Status Monitor. |
| Dollars Tracking |
In addition to robust time and attendance,
TimeStar™ On-Demand offers a comprehensive tracking
system for dollars transactions such as bonuses, awards,
commissions, mileage reimbursements, tips and more. |
Labor Insight and
Management Reports |
Achieve critical insight into your
most important and costly business resource – your
workforce. TimeStar™ On-Demand’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™ On-Demand 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™ On-Demand 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™ On-Demand 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™ On-Demand 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 on-demand labor management solution will scale comfortably
along with it. TimeStar™ On-Demand can scale to
accommodate thousands of employees, unlimited labor codes,
schedules, organizational groups, pay and business rules,
attendance policies, data collection points and more. |
| Tight
HRMS/Payroll Integration |
Automated,
trouble-free data integration with leading payroll and
HRMS platforms permanently eliminates dual-entry and ensures
that you extract the maximum business advantage from your
on-demand labor management investment. |
Technical Highlights
| Feature |
Benefits |
| Go “Stress-Free”
with Galaxy’s, Fully-Managed, Hosted Solution |
Let Galaxy’s highly experienced
engineers provide 100% of the application and infrastructure
maintenance, data backup, disaster planning and security
auditing to ensure critical availability and integrity
of your labor data. Hosted in a world-class Data Center,
TimeStar™ On-Demand allows you to focus on your
core business of managing your workforce and not on the
burdens and cost of supporting HRIS technology. |
| 100% Web-Native Application |
Designed from the ground-up to be
delivered via the Internet, TimeStar™ On-Demand
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™ On-Demand’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™ On-Demand 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™ On-Demand’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™
On-Demand’s comprehensive, built-in reporting module. |
| Security-Centric Architecture |
TimeStar™ On-Demand 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. |
| Fully Convertible to Licensed,
In-House Ownership |
All TimeStar™ On-Demand implementations
have a seamless conversion path for transitioning to in-house
hosting/traditional licensing. |
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