Having earned enough credence as one of the most established Human Capital Management (HCM) services provider,
Blueprint Technologies continues to develop the most experienced team of Workforce Management (WFM) consultants in the market today with Kronos.
Our team of highly skilled Kronos professionals coupled with our expertise in HCM, has enabled us offer a full range of services to our Kronos customers. An intense focus on continuous innovation for years has made Kronos facilitate revolution in how organizations manage their workforce. Our passion and a keen inclination to master the solutions for Workforce Management led us to partner with Kronos. Their award-winning products cover many of the common items customers seek from a modern WFM package. We have gained better, more desirable results by combining superior products with superior services.
As a Kronos partner, we provide a range of services for Workforce Central applications
Kronos Implementation
For nearly 40 years, the Kronos implementation methodology has excelled in combining innovative technology and deep domain knowledge.
With unmatched expertise deploying and optimizing Kronos solutions for complex organizations, our seasoned professionals leverage a proven methodology to help clients achieve superior results and ROI. Our online project workspace, dynamically created documentation, and accelerated testing speed puts your time to value first. Workforce Insight leverages a proven approach to streamline requirements analysis to prepare for the optimal configuration of Kronos - leveraging best practices for each industry we serve.
Customized Enterprise Deployment Plans (EDPs) help clients identify the most effective implementation roadmap and deployment strategy – particularly effective for mergers, consolidation, centralization and standardization initiatives. A transition to Kronos aids an automated calculation of overtime to ensure efficiency and accuracy, enables employees to submit future time off requests electronically, interfaces timesheets directly to Payroll system for more efficient pay processing and helps supervisors to better manage employee time and attendance.
Kronos Upgrades
Kronos upgrades has enabled Blueprint to take advantage of new and improved functionality.
Fast and easy upgrades are just one of the many benefits of deploying Workforce Central in the Kronos cloud. Upgrading to Kronos Workforce Timekeeper enables MSM to improve the overall labor and technology management functions associated with time, attendance and leave management. Such an upgrade increases the productivity of supervisors as well as HR and payroll staff.
Kronos provides new functionality in its major upgrades that reflects evolving technology and workforce needs. An upgrade can be a relatively quick project or quite extensive, depending on the version of Kronos, how much customization is in place, and if your current environment is already working smoothly.
Kronos Integration
Integrating Kronos information with your other business applications helps in extracting more value from your employee data.
Whether you’re leveraging your HR, payroll, patient information system, or other back office applications, it’s easy to share Kronos data because Kronos provides integrated applications, utilities, tools, and services. Integration makes it easy share data between applications within the Kronos family because they share the same database and the benefit of it is a single, integrated system can do this job.
Workforce integration manager uses industry standards to create interfaces that can expand the value of your workforce management data by making it accessible to other applications in the formats they require. It additionally keeps the Kronos solutions synchronized with other business systems.
Kronos Time Management Analysis
Kronos helps in empowering your teams with Time and Attendance solutions.
Workforce Timekeeper simplifies the tedious task involved with monitoring employee time and attendance, labour tracking and data collection. It helps organizations control labor costs, improve workforce productivity, and manage compliance risks. Kronos’ automated time and attendance solutions reduce labor costs by enforcing pay and work rules consistently and accurately across the organization. Labor-intensive timecard tracking, data entry, and approval processing are simplified that also reduces the administrative time associated with attendance exceptions and employee inquiries – all while minimizing overpayments and compliance risk. Benefits of Kronos automated time and attendance solutions include:
- Better payroll efficiency and accuracy
- Eliminated employee time theft
- Heightened employee satisfaction
The following Kronos product offerings are designed to support your Time and Attendance needs
Kronos Time Management system helps you collect the data you need for total time management precision. A time and attendance system is only as strong as the data you feed it with. Your clean and accurate data can be fed in your preferable choice of data capture option that is reliable and hassle-free like in a fixed-mount time clock, a mobile app, a telephony system, or a browser-based solution. This powerful time tracking software helps in
- Minimizing data entry errors and compliance risks
- Enforcing pay and attendance policies
- Enhancing workforce productivity
Making available the most accurate information at your fingertips, Workforce Activities, provides you with the latest and most detailed labor activity data. This enables you to measure the productivity of your workforce and make swift corrections accordingly. The unique labor tracking software from Kronos can provide:
- Real-time visibility into your operations
- Reliable, proven, easy-to-use technology
- Comprehensive services
Kronos Custom Reports
Kronos, though comes with a variety of well-designed reports, strategic decisions must be made based on certain set of data criteria.
Managers and key-decision makers may need actionable data to ensure compliance with new labor laws. The report may need to be produced in a certain format or automated to run. Whatever the reason, creating a custom report gives you the most valuable, key answer.
With Kronos by our side, Blueprint helps clients determine their data requirements and create the queries needed to prepare their custom report. We develop the report in the specific output format as per client’s standards and create the processes to run the report as needed to make timely decisions based on actionable data.
We help identify which reports you currently trending, which reports have been replaced with new standard functionality, and which reports can be eliminated. We re-write required custom reports so clients can continue to have the labor data they need.
SLA based Post implementation support
Post implementation support is essential for any completed project as it is one pre-requisite to ensure the utility value.
At Blueprint, we provide different configuration of support services to meet the different needs of customers.
By implementing Service Level Agreements (SLA), Blueprint strives to improve customer service, facilitates communication, defines procedures, sets standards for customer service and develops an understanding of negotiation and mutual acceptance with the customers. Blueprint, by employing SLA based post implementation is duly committed to understanding time constraints and customer needs, identify stakeholders who should participate in the IT service management process, study your current support metrics and channelize team effort to determine and achieve goals.
HCM and Kronos Solutions
Kronos provides a complete Human Capital Management (HCM) solution for managing and engaging your diverse workforce.
To engage and retain top-quality talent today, human resource professionals need an integrated set of tools for managing and nurturing their organizations’ most valuable strategic advantage from pre-hire to retire. The Kronos human capital management (HCM), solution , powered on a unified platform embraces your entire workforce with end-to-end employee lifecycle management.
While trying to engage your workforce on a unified platform, the Kronos HCM solution integrates HR, Compensation, Time & Attendance, Scheduling, Leave/Absence, Payroll, Performance, Benefits and Recruiting for a streamlined and efficient way to manage and nurture your employees — while giving managers single-source access to real-time employee data for driving productivity, increasing employee engagement, and making more informed business decisions. With today’s diverse, multigenerational, and mobile workforce, the flexibility of the Kronos HCM solution helps you meet the needs of every individual. It effectively bridges the salary-hourly divide with a breadth of automated tools that help managers simplify processes to increase productivity and employee engagement across your entire organization.
Kronos Services is committed to
meeting your expectations with the
experience and efficiency you expect.
Our partnership that is focused on your
long-term success. Services provided by
Kronos helps your clients gain
maximum value by thoroughly
understanding their business needs.
Our team of expert consultants help you achieve smart value fast with services that help you get the most from your Kronos solution. An efficient implementation helps you realize value fast. Role-based training ensures your users fully adopt the system. Our people, our expertise, and our time-proven processes get you up and running fast with a solution that is easily deployed and managed in the cloud. Throughout thousands of efficient implementations, we've refined our process to ensure quick, early customer success. There's no faster way to get a strong start with your Kronos solution, and rapid time to value from your workforce management investment.
Workforce Central Implementation Services
For nearly 40 years, the Kronos
implementation methodology has
excelled in combining innovative
technology and deep domain
knowledge. With unmatched expertise
deploying and optimizing Kronos
solutions for complex organizations,
our seasoned professionals leverage a
proven methodology to help clients
achieve superior results and ROI.
Our online project workspace, dynamically created documentation, and accelerated testing speed puts your time to value first. Workforce Insight leverages a proven approach to streamline requirements analysis to prepare for the optimal configuration of Kronos leveraging best practices for each industry we serve. Customized Enterprise Deployment Plans (EDPs) help clients identify the most effective implementation road map and deployment strategy particularly effective for mergers, consolidation, centralization and standardization initiatives. A transition to Kronos aids an automated calculation of overtime to ensure efficiency and accuracy, enables employees to submit future time off requests electronically, interfaces time sheets directly to Payroll system for more efficient pay processing and helps supervisors to better manage employee time and attendance.
The Implementation Services can be categorized into
Cloud Readiness Services
A cloud deployment means you're always on track, up to date and and secure with the latest technology updates. Blueprint helps you for a smooth migration to the Kronos cloud with our Cloud Readiness Services. We audit, review, and validate your current Kronos architecture, network, application, databases, workstations, custom reports, extensions, and more to keep your migration to the cloud on time and on budget.
Upgrade Resources
One of the many benefits of deploying Workforce Central in the Kronos cloud are fast and easy upgrades. Furthermore, Upgrade Central will enable you to find resources to help assess the value of new features, ensure your current software version is supported, and stay compliant with legislative updates.
Advanced Testing
Advanced Testing Services supplements the accelerated testing of Kronos Paragon by providing certified testing resources. This can help in assisting your team during the Paragon Initiate and Collaborate phases. Advanced Testing allows you to balance the needs of your day-to-day business operations with the demands of implementation and testing tasks and keep your implementation on time and on budget.
Workforce Central Support Services
Kronos Support Services helps in
providing software and equipment
support online or on the phone,
anywhere and anytime. Equipped with a
variety of support options, the support
services will provide you with the level
of support your team needs to ensure
your applications run at optimal
performance.
The workforce support services is designed to meet your every need and aims at providing one-on-one support you need to achieve workforce management services.
The support services are further divided into
Equipment Support Services Datasheet
Kronos Equipment Services helps you with complete Kronos time clock support for your solution.
Kronos Support Services at a Glance Datasheet
It provides a concise overview of the features of Kronos' Platinum Plus, Platinum, Gold, and Gold Plus support offerings.
Plus Support Datasheet
Workforce Central Advisory Services
Our workforce management expertise
and best practices helps you to drive
your workforce management journey.
We are here to lead you to the best path
towards efficiency and help build a
strategy that will ensure you re getting
continuous value from your Kronos
system.
Kronos Strategic Roadmap paves your way to success by providing you with a long-range plan to align your Kronos system to your business strategy. It includes basic steps, sequence, timing, and budget along with actionable items that empower you to leverage your Kronos investment and our expertise.
Mergers, acquisitions, legislative changes, collective bargaining revisions, and competitive changes- all these factors alter as per business requirements which results in affecting our Workforce Central system. Our best practices implementation ensures that the Kronos system meets your current organizational goals and requirements.
Additionally, Kronos attestation tools help you keep complaint and foster a level of employee engagement that makes it easier than ever to enforce employee time and approval compliance.