2010 Annual North American
AUA Users Conference

Conference Sessions with Descriptions

Monday, September 13

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM

110—Using Reporting Administration with Cognos Impromptu

Target Audience: All Experience: All

Creatively expanding the knowledge of your business using Impromptu:

  • Features of Reporting Administration
  • Organizing data
  • Filtering data/Advanced filtering
  • Crosstab reports
  • Linked and sub-reports

111—Accero On-Demand Success Story

Target Audience: All Experience: Beginner

  • Business benefits of AOD
  • Business Analysis—why the move to AOD
  • AOD Operations: A day in the Life
  • Project plan

112—Improving Efficiency: Using Accero Workflows

Target Audience: All Experience: Beginner/Intermediate

  • How to create a personal workflow
  • How to create a universal workflow
  • Workflow tools
  • Workflow and Fast Forward

113—6.1 Upgrade Success Story

Target Audience: IT Experience: Intermediate to Advanced

  • Project review
  • Tools, tips and tricks for upgrading
  • Accero expert advice/Tools to help your upgrade go quicker
  • 5.2.1 sunset (45 days to go)

Breakout #2—2:45 PM – 4:00 PM

120—Introducing Workforce Intelligence (repeat 210)

Target Audience: All Experience: All

What is Workforce Intelligence? Learn how Accero’s new reporting and analytics solution can transform your future!

  • Workforce analytics
  • Reporting via SSRS
  • Predictive analytics for workforce management
  • Ease of implementation—one week to go live

121—System Audits: Optimizing the Value and Efficiency of your Accero Cyborg Solution

Target Audience: All Experience: All

  • Unlocking value you already own
  • Performance tuning for increased efficiency
  • Retiring obsolete customizations
  • Optimizing Payroll and HR processes

122—Workforce Software: Time and Labor Management

Target Audience: Payroll Experience: All

  • Time and Labor Management—an overview of the Workforce
  • Software solution
  • Advance Scheduling
  • FMLA/FLSA Support
  • Integration with Accero Cyborg
  • Customer Success Story—McJunkin Redman

123—Tips and Tricks for Accero’s Advanced Tools

Target Audience: All Experience: All

  • Advanced tools to streamline processes
  • Analyzing and troubleshooting using advanced tools
  • Optimizing your system for efficient use

Tuesday, September 14

Breakout #3—10:45 AM – 12:00 PM

210—Introducing Workforce Intelligence (repeat 210)

Target Audience: All Experience: All

What is Workforce Intelligence? Learn how Accero’s new reporting and analytics solution can transform your future!

  • Workforce analytics
  • Reporting via SSRS
  • Predictive analytics for workforce management
  • Ease of implementation—one week to go live

211—US Year-End/Year-Begin Planning

Target Audience: IT, Payroll Experience: All

  • New online W2 processing as part of 6.1 Self Service
  • W2s, 1099s
  • Federal and state tapes
  • Application of regulatory and tax bulletins
  • Application of Year End PTFs
  • Year End adjusting runs

212—The Accero UI Experience: Usability and Efficiency through UI Design

Target Audience: All Experience: All

  • Interactive User Interface discussion
  • Accero UI vision
  • Help us shape the future of the Accero Cyborg UI by sharing your ideas

213—Where’s My Log File? Tips for Efficient Data Management

Target Audience: IT Experience: Intermediate/Advanced

  • Working with Data
  • Power Tools for Debugging and Verifying System Integrity
    • Accero Cyborg Tools
    • Self Service Logs
    • Fast Forward Logs and Tracing capabilities

Breakout #4—3:15 PM – 4:30 PM

220—The New Accero Self-Service

Target Audience: All Experience: All

  • New features and enhancements
  • Set up and configuration
  • Administrative functions
  • Pay Check Portal (Employee Self Service Lite)
  • Product roadmap: Vision for Self Service

221—Designing and Using Reports within Workforce Intelligence

Target Audience: All Experience: All

  • Learn how to mine through all your workforce data and create meaningful and comprehensive reports.
  • SSRS reporting toll (replaces Cognos reporting)
  • Product roadmap for Worforce Intelligence
  • Re-creating Cognos reports in Workforce Intelligence

222—Flex Benefits Set Up and Interaction Self Service

Target Audience: Benefits, HR Experience: All

  • Forms needed to set up benefits (US and Canada)
  • What forms are required yearly
  • Implementing benefits in Self Service

223—Setting Up Extended Security and Workflow Security

Target Audience: Security Officers only Experience: All

  • Basic security overview
  • Hierarchical security
  • Workflow security requirements
  • Accero Cyborg security and Workforce Intelligence

Wednesday, September 15

Breakout #5—9:00 AM – 10:15 AM

310—Canadian Legislation Overview

Target Audience: All Experience: All

  • Open discussion with guest speaker

311—Implementing Position Administration

Target Audience: HR, IT Experience: All

  • Considerations before implementation
  • Forms required to implement

312—Implementing Retro Pay Processing

Target Audience: Payroll Experience: Intermediate

  • Understand the retroactive payment process
  • Define Organization and Employee Retroactive payment rules
  • Generate pending retroactive payments
  • Generate timecards for base pay and non-base pay retroactive payment
  • View employees who have pending retroactive payment

313—Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity

Target Audience: IT Experience: All

  • Accero as your Disaster Recovery partner
  • Service levels for Disaster Recovery and business continuity
  • Accero services versus traditional data backup services

Breakout #6—10:30 AM – 11:45 AM

320—Canadian Year-End/Year-Begin Planning

Target Audience: Canadian Payroll Experience: All

  • Requirements Overview
  • Year-Begin/Year-End Checklists
  • Tax Form and Reporting Changes
  • Self Service Annual Statements (New)
  • Application of Regulatory Bulletins

321—The “New and Improved” Fast Forward

Target Audience: All Experience: Beginner

  • The new look of Fast Forward
  • Fast Forward benefits
  • Configuring Fast Forward for your organization’s needs
  • Review implementation process
  • Discussion of improved workflows
  • Performance enhancements

322—Interation between Benefits, Payroll and HR

Target Audience: HR, Benefits Experience: All

  • 6.xEnhancement—Payroll processing override rules based on
  • individual HR activities/status and impact on Payroll processing
  • 85-RPT—Recalc Benefit Plans
  • 8R-RPT—HED Segment Changes this Period

323—Automating Garnishments

Target Audience: Payroll Experience: Beginner/Intermediate

  • Understand the Federal and State mandated processing priority order
  • Understand the deduction types required by state laws and regulations
  • Understand the priorities among the garnishment types & prioritization of multiple garnishment orders
  • How the system stores the protection rules for all garnishment types
  • New company level and employee level garnishment forms

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