We use Timestar:
www.Galaxy-inc.com <http://www.Galaxy-inc.com> Don't know much about it as I haven't been here long, but I don't hear anyone complaining about it. Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Department Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com <blocked::blocked::http://www.prufoxroach.com/> [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jeff Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:05 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vacation / PTO Tracking So HR is asking about implementing a Vacation / OOTO / PTO Tracker, something more robust and useable than sending a spreadsheet around each week. Some of the things that were mentioned: * A system that works based on accruals of PTO (and sick days) by pay period. * And that can be modified or adjusted to reflect the changes in allowed PTO based on years of service. * A visual calendar that shows who is out and color coded by groups (RS, CS, IT, HR, etc...). * An auto-warning that is either displayed to the requester or manager when a certain number of people are already approved to have a certain day off (her example: if 2 CS employees already have the last day of the month off, then there should be a warning that a 3rd can't). * Don't inundate managers with too many emails - this would be hard to avoid especially for someone that potentially has 60 people under her... Maybe a nightly email that says, "you have 5 requests to approve". * Not expensive - there is talk of requesting budget for something like this. But how much? Past solutions have been shot down because they were $10K. We currently run SharePoint, and found links to some Windows SharePoint Applications: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=96dbe5f3-203a-4 0f8-a03a-64d0a9811368&DisplayLang=en (from 2005) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56406562-01f9-4 a18-9924-2dc0684232c8&DisplayLang=en (from 2007) Or something similar to this: http://www.digiappz.com/digileave.asp (but not exactly this one, because the demo looks like you can only specify that each person gets the same number of PTO days). This one looks decent: http://teqnologix.com/uat/ (but it could be out of our price range at $2 per user per month. At 150 employees, that's $3600 / yr.) Or maybe ADP has something that integrates with payroll, but that is also probably expensive as well. There's got to be something out there that we can use that doesn't cost thousands of dollars. We looked at a few screenshots of the SharePoint 3.0 application listed above. It looks like a promising solution, but there wasn't enough detail in them to determine the effort / procedure involved in setting up the rules that we need to track? I would love to see this application (or any others that the group has worked with) in action. Does anyone have the SharePoint application installed, and is happy with it, and could we set up a WebEx to see how it looks / works, and would be open to possibly answering some of the questions we have about our requirements? What can I say, I'm a visual person... would love to see / hear about what is working for you all... Thanks, Jeff </pre> <table width="100%><tr><td class="body"> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential<br> and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to<br> whom they are addressed. It may contain information protected by <br> state and federal privacy and intellectual property laws.<br> If you have received this email in error please<br> notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from<br> your system. If you are not the named addressee you should<br> not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail, and you are<br> notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any<br> action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.<br> </td></tr></table> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
