Legacy payrolls successfully migrate to Empower-HR

February 2007

Empower has successfully completed a year-long migration program during which it transferred more than 100 organisations from the legacy Masterpay bureau to the Empower-HR online payroll service.

Iconic Australian companies including a national retail group with more than three dozen stores, RM Williams, Just Group and Australian Air Express now have access to the latest Human Resource management functionality. Many of these customers, which use Empower to pay thousands of employees, have signed contracts for three to five years.

Melbourne’s St Leonard’s College, which has 1740 students and 400 staff, is one of the organisations that are embracing Empower-HR after more than a decade using Masterpay. St Leonard’s College Accountant Brad Sims said the migration process had gone well. “We took it slowly because we wanted to make sure it went right,” he said.

“It is early days, but Empower-HR is much more user-friendly, so it is much easier getting around the screens. There’s a lot more information in there, but once you know where to go, you’re right. Empower has been very helpful. Its staff are very good people to deal with and always happy to help out.”

Senior Empower executives are currently undertaking a national program of meetings with major customers to discuss the migration process and explore how they can further benefit by utilising Empower-HR’s rich Human Resource functionality to meet other business requirements.

Empower Masterpay Director, Client Services, Daryl Rasheed said the migration process was a challenging exercise. “We were aggressive with our timeframes and delivered a good result,” he said.

“The biggest challenge was the success of the Masterpay payroll bureau. Some companies had used Masterpay for nearly two decades, so they had 18 years of entrenched knowledge and experience with the bureau. For them, moving to a new service was a sensitive issue.

“The most important benefit of this program is that all Empower customers now have the future at their fingertips. With Empower-HR, they have the latest HR management capabilities including Manager Self-Service, Employee Self-Service and Time & Attendance.

“The flexibility of the Empower-HR system means they can do much more than just pay their employees, without having to increase the in-house resources to maintain the system. Empower-HR provides them with a powerful management tool for the next decade.”

For more information about Empower-HR, contact Daryl Rasheed on 08 8332 6988 or email daryl.rasheed@empower.com.au.

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