Diverse Businesses Use Ultimate Software's UltiPro to Handle Payroll Complexities

Ultimate Software (NASDAQ:ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today that its customers American Seafoods Company, Huntington Hospitality Group, and Norbord Panels are efficiently managing diverse, and often complex, compensation situations using the multi-faceted feature-sets in UltiPro’s core payroll engine. An Ultimate Software customer since 1998, American Seafoods is a leader in harvesting, processing, preparing, and supplying quality seafood. With a global workforce that scales from 700 to 1,800 employees depending on the season, American Seafoods’ payroll department must handle contractual compensation agreements that vary from employee to employee. Pay frequency, benefits, and paid time off often differ from person to person at American Seafoods. Suzy Moran, payroll supervisor for the Seattle, Washington-headquartered company, has found that UltiPro gives her flexibility to manage the complicated payroll process efficiently and accurately and to, at the same time, store global workforce compensation information within UltiPro. "We have a very unique payroll, and UltiPro gives me what I need. I have used service bureaus, and there is no way they could handle the scheduling, processing, and reporting we require. Sometimes I need to run 14 payrolls a week, and with UltiPro, this frequency is not a problem,” said Moran. "We manage payroll for our global workforce through UltiPro and store employee information such as name, address, country and phone number in a single system, so everything I need is in one place for simplified reporting.” Huntington Hospitality Financial Corporation (HHFC), a customer since 1997, delivers timely and accurate accounting services, such as payroll processing, data monitoring, financial reporting, tax filing, and garnishment management, to hotel owners and managers under Marriott, Hilton, Starwood, and Intercontinental brands, as well as to independent hotel operators. The Irving, Texas-based company uses UltiPro’s flexibility to address the unique needs of its customers whose 4,000+ employees may work in more than one job within a single pay period or may be partially paid with tips. HHFC also uses UltiPro to give more than 40 hotels a secure, remote connection for administrators to log into UltiPro for inputting payroll details, making salary changes, and running reports as needed. Additionally, the HHFC team can review and analyze the payroll information submitted by each hotel or group of hotels and, after each payroll is complete, integrate the data with HHFC’s general ledger solution for financial reporting. "Our business is financial services so we needed a strong yet accommodating application that could be customized to address each of our clients’ specific business requirements. UltiPro handles our clients’ complicated payrolls well,” said Joyce Kirkland, vice president of financial services for HHFC. "With UltiPro, we have also been able to reduce our payroll administrative headcount even though our customer base has held fairly steady.” An Ultimate Software Intersourcing customer since 2006, Norbord Panels USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of Norbord Inc., an international producer of wood-based panels headquartered in Canada. Norbord Panels has more than 1,000 employees who work in 8 locations, with each mill previously processing its own payroll using its own service bureau account—creating cost-control issues and centralized reporting problems. With UltiPro, Norbord Panels can process its payroll centrally but still enable each location to record and submit its own pay information. And because all locations are using the same system, Norbord can generate reports companywide, by area, by job, or by almost any field stored in UltiPro. "UltiPro was set up to empower our remote offices with the ability to have control over their own HR and compensation information, but we can still process the payroll for the entire company with a push of a button,” said Kathy Lamb, payroll coordinator for Norbord Panels USA. "Using our old solutions, it was like pulling teeth to get reports because each location had to submit their own information that had to be compiled into a single report. Now, we can extract information as we want it, when we want it, so reporting is more rapid and efficient.” "UltiPro’s payroll engine was developed and is supported by a team of payroll experts. It was designed to meet the needs of multiple industries and businesses, each with their own distinctive needs,” said Greg Swick, senior vice president of sales for Ultimate Software. "We are very proud of its flexibility, comprehensive nature of its functionality, and the tremendous value it brings to our customers.” Ultimate Software A leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, Ultimate Software markets its award-winning UltiPro products as on-demand services through its software-as-a-service offering, Intersourcing, and as licensed software. Based in Weston, FL, Ultimate Software employs more than 700 professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality products and services. Ultimate Software’s IT team won a first place award for its management of Intersourcing, from the American Business Awards in 2007, and its customer service team won two first-place awards for service excellence in 2006, one from the Service & Support Professionals Association and another from the American Business Awards. Ultimate Software was named a "Leader” in Forrester Research Inc.’s 2006 U.S. Midmarket HR solutions Wave ranking and ranked #3 on the 2006 and 2007 lists of the Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work For in America by the Great Place to Work Institute. Ultimate Software customers represent diverse industries and include such organizations as The Container Store, Elizabeth Arden, The Florida Marlins Baseball Team, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, Nintendo of America, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and SkyWest Airlines. More information on Ultimate Software’s products and services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com. UltiPro and Intersourcing are registered trademarks of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.