Oct. 15, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Ultimate Software (Nasdaq:ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today that long-term healthcare customers, including Homewood Retirement Centers, Mather LifeWays, and Holiday Home Health, are reporting significant improvements as a result of UltiPro’s comprehensive human capital management (HCM) features—including UltiPro’s sophisticated reporting, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, and robust functionality.

Human resource professionals in healthcare have many industry-specific HR and payroll challenges they must address in addition to day-to-day workforce management issues. With a large part of their budgets devoted to administrative costs, health services organizations in particular must stay on top of labor expenses, effectively manage recruiting, and closely monitor and track employee performance. UltiPro gives healthcare organizations the tools to manage these processes and handle other critical issues, such as:

• Unique industry reporting requirements, such as the ability to compare costs to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements
• IT departments that are tapped out by supporting other internal systems specific to the healthcare industry
• Complex compensation requirements that may involve employees who work in different jobs at varying pay rates and in different business units in the same period

Prior to UltiPro, Homewood Retirement Centers, a nonprofit healthcare organization with 1,300 employees, used an in-house payroll solution that did not include unified HR functionality—making reporting by department, position, or on the entire company extremely difficult and time-consuming. Plus, the solution required considerable support from IT. Since deploying UltiPro in 2006 and Ultimate’s Software-as-a-Service offering in 2009, Homewood has enjoyed the benefits of centralized data for faster, more accurate reporting for federal and state legislative compliance, healthcare-specific reporting, and workplace-related business intelligence—without requiring IT resources.

“Using UltiPro, we have transformed our ability to manage human resources and payroll data and processes, so that we can monitor employee information more effectively and efficiently,” said Lin Yoder, vice president of human resources for Homewood. “With UltiPro’s one-table design for HR, payroll, and benefits information, we now have improved data integrity and organizational efficiencies as well as the ability to identify trends in staffing, turnover, and overtime.