Marketing News: Maximizer CRM 11 Team Edition Released Across Europe

BRACKNELL, UK – 6 September, 2010 – Maximizer Software, a leading provider of simple, accessible and affordable customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, has released a new version of its popular Maximizer CRM 11 Team Edition system.

Marketing News: East Durham College transforms HR with iTrent

*College signs five year in-house contract with MidlandHR*

Marketing News: MidlandHR wins five year contract with Swan Housing Group

Nottingham, 09 August 2010 – Swan Housing has chosen MidlandHR's iTrent solution, which provides a single platform for HR, payroll, talent management and workforce planning, alongside payroll outsourcing services. Based in Essex, Swan Housing Group started life in 1991 as Basildon Community Housing Association (BCHA) and today manages over 10,000 homes in Essex, Suffolk and East London. One of the main drivers for Swan Housing choosing MidlandHR's technology and services overall was the need for a single system to support modern best practice and enable the most efficient operating models, in particularly, manager and employee self service. Geoff Weedon, Head of ICT at Swan Housing explains: "Our previous HR and payroll operation involved an amalgamation of small systems which was very difficult to manage and maintain. Additionally, we had a separate browser based solution for self service holiday requests/bookings which required individual login access for each employee, causing

Marketing News: MidlandHR's iTrent unites HR and payroll at Farnborough College

Marketing News: Changes at the top for MidlandHR

MidlandHR today announced the appointment of Lawrence Knowles as Vice Chairman and Iain Moffat as new Managing Director

Marketing News: Kent Shared Service Initiative selects MidlandHR's iTrent to provide HR and payroll excellence

MidlandHR's complete HR, payroll, talent management and workforce planning solution, iTrent, has been chosen by Kent County Council (KCC) to provide a shared HR and payroll service for the East Kent region, including four District and Borough Councils. MidlandHR will work in partnership with KCC to maximise economies of scale and efficiency, improve resilience and effectiveness of service delivery and reduce overall costs.

Marketing News: Networks First Awarded Cisco UK Services Partner of the Year 2010

Networks First has been awarded 'UK Services Partner of the Year' by Cisco.

Marketing News: The Salvation Army secures the future with MidlandHR

High profile charity upgrades to single strategic iTrent platform and commits for further nine years

Marketing News: MidlandHR's iTrent comes to the rescue for Manchester fire fighters

Nottingham, 14 April 2010 - Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, the second largest fire service in the UK, has signed a five year contract for MidlandHR's iTrent, the specialist HR, payroll, talent and performance management solution.

Marketing News: City West Housing Trust builds iTrent partnership with MidlandHR

MidlandHR has signed its latest client in the housing sector in a five-year contract to provide its fully-integrated HR, payroll and talent management solution iTrent. The solution is due to go live in April 2010 when the Salford-based housing trust moves away from its present outsourced payroll provision which is currently shared with a local authority.

Marketing News: Networks First gains highest possible distinction from Cisco for Customer Satisfaction

Redditch, 3rd March 2010 - Networks First, an independent provider of support services for network infrastructure (www.networksfirst.com) has attained Customer Satisfaction Excellence, the highest distinction possible in the Cisco Channel Partner Programme. This follows the completion of the independently audited Cisco Customer Satisfaction Survey in which Networks First achieved an impressive customer loyalty rate of 100%. As part of the audit process to achieve silver partner status, customers are asked to score the company on the quality of its service delivery. Networks First's overall score was 4.88 out of 5. Ian Hearn, head of sales, Networks First, comments: "We are very proud of our reputation for providing some of the best customer service in the industry and are pleased that our high score reflects all the hard work that the team here puts into making sure our customers are both happy and loyal. "Cisco's audit now takes place every six months, rather than only once

Marketing News: iTrent goes live at University College Plymouth Marjon

University College Plymouth St Mark & St John has gone live with iTrent, the fully integrated HR, payroll and talent management solution from specialist supplier MidlandHR. iTrent has replaced two disparate systems previously used to manage HR and payroll at the University College. These systems often presented issues with reporting and daily HR functions, and were also the cause of clear inefficiencies. Having joined the University College as HR manager in 2008, Lucy Pengelly quickly identified the problems that resulted from running two separate HR and payroll systems. The new starter process in particular was time-consuming and prone to inaccuracy, as data had to be entered separately on each system by the different departments.

Marketing News: Awardas : MidlandHR awards best dissertation prize at Nottingham Business School

HR, payroll and talent management specialist MidlandHR has presented the winner with a cheque for his work

Marketing News: Preston College gives MidlandHR top marks for its integrated solution

Preston College has signed a five-year contract for MidlandHR's fully integrated HR and payroll solution iTrent. One of the largest and most successful further education colleges in England, Preston College has signed a five-year contract for MidlandHR's fully integrated HR and payroll solution iTrent. Robin Newton Syms, director of corporate strategy and planning of Preston College, comments: "Having used two separate systems to manage our HR and payroll, we wanted an integrated solution going forward. We selected MidlandHR because we were impressed by iTrent's flexibility and extensive functionality as well as its ability to integrate our separate HR and payroll data and processes into a single system. "With MidlandHR's help, we are looking to merge four separate payrolls into one simple function so that all of our information will be in one place, removing the pain of repetitive administrative tasks, therefore driving efficiencies and freeing up the time of our people, allo

Marketing News: MidlandHR puts its hands in the air for Humberside Police's payroll process

Humberside Police, covering the districts of North-East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire, has partnered with HR, payroll and talent management specialist, MidlandHR. The force has signed a five year contract for the Payroll Bureau Service which is underpinned by the web enabled iTrent solution and administered by a team of highly skilled payroll professionals at MidlandHR. MidlandHR will host the iTrent system from its secure data centre in Nottingham and will facilitate the timely payment of the police service's 6,500 people including officers, civilian staff, volunteers, police pensioners and Police Authority members. By adopting a bureau service, Humberside Police will pass on responsibility for a number of payroll processes, including that of ensuring compliance with the ever changing legislation surrounding HR and payroll.

Marketing News: Pentagon Investments drive HR efficiencies with MidlandHR's iTrent

Motor trade retail group, Pentagon Investments Ltd, has signed a five-year in-house iTrent contract with HR, payroll and talent management solutions provider, MidlandHR. The commercial vehicle, used car and truck group has selected core HR, Absence Management and Manager Self-Service modules to help centralise employee information across multiple sites, streamline processes and tackle key issues such as absenteeism. Pentagon Investments was formed in the early 1980s to facilitate expansion into commercial vehicles and passenger cars. The group has four Mercedes Benz commercial vehicle businesses in the East Midlands and two DAF truck franchises, trading as Lancashire DAF at its site near Preston and Lothian DAF on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Marketing News: MidlandHR : Survey shows pay and benefits are not the key to performance

A survey launched today identifies the contributory factors to employee engagement. An independent survey launched today by HR, payroll and talent management solutions provider, MidlandHR, has identified the contributory factors to employee engagement. Despite many organisations assuming that flexible working hours, good pay and benefits are fundamental to it, the study found these to be the three least important reasons. Adding weight to this, nine out of ten (92%) respondents expressed that employee engagement is key to organisational performance.

Marketing News: Organisations yet to discover the benefits of predictive software

New research indicates that organisations are yet to fully understand the benefits of predictive software in improving employee engagement. New research commissioned by HR, payroll and talent management solutions provider, MidlandHR indicates that organisations are yet to fully understand the benefits of predictive software in improving employee engagement. Four out of ten respondents (40.5%) were unsure of its role even though a staggering nine out of ten (92%) believed that employee engagement is key to organisational performance. Despite this, half (49.5%) of those surveyed do see it as providing information that can be used as an indicator.

Marketing News: Public sector lacks understanding on employee engagement

New research launched today by HR, payroll and talent management solutions provider, MidlandHR, has found that almost half (47%) of today's public sector business leaders do not understand how to engage their employees. The study, Investigating Employee Engagement and Predictive Analytics, surveyed the opinions of over 100 business leaders in UK public, private and charity sectors. The survey revealed that while public sector organisations unanimously agree that employee engagement affects employee performance, alarmingly, only half (53%) understand the level of engagement of their own employees, while nearly two fifths (38%) admit to not understanding how to engage employees.

Marketing News: Employee engagement is key to performance and retention

*New research shows just under half of organisations are still in the dark on engaging employees* An independent survey launched today by HR, payroll and talent management solutions provider, MidlandHR, has found that despite the vast majority of organisations agreeing that employee engagement affects employee retention and overall organisational performance, almost half (49%) don't understand the level of engagement of employees or indeed how to actually engage them (42%). Astonishingly, nearly two in five (38%) organisations don't recognise the importance of assessing employee opinion.