Thank you for visiting www.exaserv.com. We sincerely apologize for the temporary unavailability of our website. We have been informed that our website has been hacked by an unauthorized user. We are in the process of restoring our site to its original condition. In the meantime please find some exciting news with regards to the upcoming SAP HR 2010 conference.

We hope you are as excited as we are about the SAP HR 2010 conference in Orlando. This will again be a great opportunity for learning and networking. Stop by our booth at the show - #240.

Several of Exaserv’s expert consultants will be presenting their experiences at the conference. We encourage you to attend the following sessions:

Self-service strategies and best practices customers are using to reduce HR costs

Rebecca Bartlett, Exaserv
Tuesday, March 16, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Based on lessons from recent and mature self-service implementations, this session details the strategies and best practices that have been most effective at meeting strategic HR and cost-savings objectives for employee and manager self-service initiatives. Review details of the three most significant ways SAP customers are saving money through their self-service deployments. Understand the technology, implementation, and upgrade decisions that have the largest impact on support and maintenance costs. Discover the nine factors that must be accounted for to ensure a successful employee or manager self-service implementation. Get criteria to verify that processes are good candidates for self-services. Obtain proven techniques to keep self-service deployments aligned with your organization’s strategic goals. Take home a guide to self-service benefits and requirements.

Best practices for updating your SAP ERP HCM implementation with HR support packages and tax update bulletins (TUBs)

Dana Stelk, Exaserv
Tuesday, March 16, 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Examine what's contained in tax update bulletins (TUBs) and HR support packages, and get best practices for determining why, when, and how to install them in SAP ERP HCM. Step through a checklist of the key applications, user roles, and system access necessary to ensure a successful installation of TUBs and HR support packages. Get tips for developing a TUBs installation strategy that keeps your organization current with critical updates, such as year-end and mid-year adjustments. Find out how to reduce the resources needed to install and test updates by implementing TUBs and HR support packages simultaneously. Learn which standard reports can help you identify the employee records that may need to be retroactively processed after installing TUBs. Find out how these reports can help you deter-mine the differences employees can expect to find on their remuneration statements after an update.

Increase your proficiency with SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe to improve self-services and streamline HR processes

Michael White, Exaserv
Wednesday, March 17, 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Understand the proper way to set up SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe and use it to streamline existing HR business processes. Get ideas to enhance employee self-service and manager self-service usability with SAP Interactive Forms features. Explore how SAP Interactive Forms functionality aids users in streamlining data entry, drives online and offline forms usage, and ties into workflow for submissions, approvals, and reviews. Find out how to properly check a workflow process to ensure that all business audit requirements are met. Step through examples that show how SAP Interactive Forms can be customized and changed to meet the needs of your HR business requirements using custom error messages, dynamically generated field content, and restrictions on form data that align with system security.

Lessons for enhancing employee and manager self-service delivery by customizing the homepage framework

Michael White, Exaserv
Thursday, March 18, 11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Obtain best practices to enhance the layout, function, and design of portal-based employee self-service (ESS) and manager self-service (MSS) applications in your SAP system using the homepage framework. Review the features and technical prerequisites of this functionality, and get step-by-step instructions on the best ways to set it up. Learn how to add content and customize the look and feel of the homepage framework to include any combination of standard and custom iViews (portlets) along with delivered ESS and MSS services. See examples of real-life portals that successfully combine ESS and MSS in a single framework. Gather ideas to increase the effectiveness of self-services. Take home a tutorial with detailed steps you can follow to add previously developed or new custom iViews to the framework.

How to keep up with the latest market trends in salaries using SAP functionality for job pricing

Luke Switkowski, Exaserv
Friday, March 19, 8:30 am - 9:45 am

Take a comprehensive look at how to set up the job pricing process in SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) — from configuration to end-user experience. Find out how internal salary ranges can be compared to market values and ultimately adjusted to reflect the most accurate market data. Step through a demo that shows how job pricing is conducted through a portal-based interface. Explore each step of the job pricing process, including searching for an internal job to price, matching it to market data, and viewing comparisons between internal and market data. Learn what’s required to set up job pricing in SAP ERP HCM, including which infotypes are required and how to import data. Get best practices for how to save data correctly, date the composite results, and apply the composites to actual salary ranges.

Re-define the experience;  making SAP Human Capital Management more productive and easier to use

Terry Mikloucich, Exaserv

TBD

The toughest problems companies face with large application software implementations like human capital management are often found post-deployment.  “Deploy it and they will use it” can easily become an unfilled promise.  Companies struggle to achieve needed adoption levels and subsequent return on investment.  The root causes of this on-going challenge are commonly traced back to changing user requirements and overall usability.

This presentation provides a practical approach for dealing with this post-deployment challenge by unveiling a holistic approach for making SAP Human Capital management more productive and easier to use.  Exaserv will introduce Exalerate™ for HCM and discuss how three of its solution elements can be used to deliver enhanced functionality and an improved user experience.  Attendees will be provided with a no-nonsense, cost effective solution for enhancing current SAP HCM implementations and increasing enterprise adoption of HCM practices.