software applications

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AMPL OPTIMISATION SUITE
The AMPL system is a sophisticated modeling tool that supports the entire
optimization modeling lifecycle: development, testing, deployment, and
maintenance. By using a high-level representation that represents
optimization models in the same ways that people think about them, AMPL
promotes rapid development and reliable results.
AMPL integrates a modeling language for describing optimization data,
variables, objectives, and constraints; a command language for browsing
models and analyzing results; and a scripting language for gathering and
manipulating data and for implementing iterative optimization schemes. All
use the same concepts and syntax for streamlined application-building.
Powerful modeling language features
Broad support for sets and set operators. AMPL models can use sets of
pairs, triples, and longer tuples; collections of sets indexed over sets;
unordered, ordered, and circular sets of objects; and sets of numbers.
General and natural syntax for arithmetic, logical, and conditional
expressions; familiar conventions for summations and other iterated
operators. Automatic handling of linear and convex quadratic problems in
continuous and integer variables. Nonlinear programming features such as
initial primal and dual values, user-defined functions, fast automatic
differentiation, and automatic elimination of “defined” variables. Convenient
alternative notations for network flows, piecewise-linearities,
complementarity conditions, and logical implications.
Valuable modeling support features
Interactive command environment with batch processing options. Powerful
display commands let you view any model component or expression,
browsing on-screen or writing to a file, using automatic formatting or your
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Powerful scripting language including looping and if-then-else commands.
Programs in the AMPL command language can define sophisticated
iterative schemes that process input data, repeatedly adjust and solve
instances of multiple models, and prepare results for analysis.
Separation of model and data. AMPL models remain concise even as sets
and data tables grow. Models may incorporate many kinds of conditions
for validity of the data.
Data input and output connections. Concise statements relate the model
data and results to the contents of relational data tables.
Broad availability
Available solvers include the most popular and powerful optimization
engines:
Linear and convex quadratic solvers for both continuous and mixed-integer
problems (CPLEX, Gurobi, Xpress).

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Nonlinear solvers for local solution of continuous problems (CONOPT,
Ipopt, KNITRO, MINOS, SNOPT) and mixed-integer problems (Bonmin,
Couenne, KNITRO).
Hook your own solver to AMPL using our open-source AMPL-solver
library.
Supported platforms include Windows, Linux, MacOS, and several Unix-
based workstations.
Extensive supporting materials
The AMPL book provides a detailed introductory tutorial plus tutorial
introductions to all basic and advanced features.
Numerous examples are available including all models and data from the
AMPL book as well as a variety of scripts for common iterative schemes.
The AMPL user forum on Google groups is open to the public for
searching or posting.
WHY AMPL?
The AMPL system supports the entire optimization modeling lifecycle —
formulation, testing, deployment, and maintenance — in an integrated way
promotes rapid development and reliable results. Using a high-level
algebraic representation that describes optimization models in the same
ways that people think about them, AMPL can provide the head start you
need to successfully implement large-scale optimization projects.
AMPL integrates a modeling language for describing optimization data,
variables, objectives, and constraints; a command language for debugging
models and analyzing results; and a scripting language for manipulating
data and implementing optimization strategies. All use the same concepts
to promote streamlined application-building.
New AMPL APIs offer programming interfaces for embedding AMPL
models into enterprise systems written in a variety of languages.

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AMPL FOR BUSINESS
The AMPL modeling system has been used in hundreds of business
operations worldwide. Applications are found in manufacturing,
transportation, energy, finance, and many other sectors where complex
decisions must be made to minimize cost or maximize efficiency.
AMPL models are built by skilled practitioners who have backgrounds in
operations research, engineering fields of many kinds, diverse
mathematical sciences, and business analytics. Additional assistance with
AMPL application development is available from educational institutions
and professional consultants.

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Customer areas
Optimization is distinguised by its broad range of uses throughout the
business world. Thus AMPL has been applied in numerous business
areas, of which the following are representative:
Transportation Air
Rail
Truck
Production Planning: steel, automotive
Supply chain: consumer products
Finance Asset management
Investment banking
Insurance
Natural resources Electric power
Gas distribution
Mining
Information technology Telecommunications
Internet services
Consulting practices Management
Industrial engineering

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XS Trade
ABOUT XS TRADE SOFTWARE
XS Trade is the brainchild of James and Emily Connolly, who run
successful leading mechanical and electrical business, Konnect Services
Ltd, based in Hertfordshire. The concept is simple: if you have left over
building materials, XS Trade ensures you don’t have to skip them - you
can sell them on and make an unexpected profit.
It saves money, it saves waste AND it saves the environment. An
estimated 13% of all building materials - worth £1.5BN - are skipped every
year in the UK. That is a shocking figure and one we believe to be totally
unnecessary.
XS Trade is aimed at ANYONE - from the DIY enthusiast looking for a few
extra paving slabs to a major building company seeking bespoke, high-
end, materials. The user:
Gives their location
Uploads pictures of the materials
Suggests a starting price
Adds a contact number
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affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.
• Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example
only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

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SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of
this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of
this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem
appropriate.
Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material
breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site,
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• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our
site.
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uploaded by you to our site.
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indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative
and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we
reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this
acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not
limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem
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HOW IT WORKS
XS Trade connects buyers and sellers together. People with excess
materials are connected to people who need materials.
How to Buy
Buying materials from XS Trade is easy.
You can find the items you’re looking for by searching the website.
You can do this by:
1. Clicking on the Categories listed at the top of most pages of the website.
2. Using the ‘Quick Search’ function on the homepage.
3. Using the filters to search in more detail.

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Once you’ve found an item that you’re interested in then simply telephone the
seller (if they have shared their telephone number). Alternatively click the
‘Enquire’ button to send an email to the seller.
You and the seller can discuss the specifics of the item and agree a private
sale.
Please note: XS Trade simply connects buyers and sellers together and it is
the buyer’s responsibility to ensure that items being purchased are as
described. XS Trade will have no liability to the buyer or the seller for the
purchase or sale of any item – please refer to the terms and conditions on the
website for further details.
How to Sell
It’s free to list one item at a time for sale. Simply:
1. Click ‘Sell your XS’ from the Sell menu, or the ‘Click Here to Start Selling’
button on the homepage.
2. Create a new account by filling in the form and agreeing the Terms and
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3. On the ‘My Listings’ panel click the ‘New Listing’ button.

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4. Add the details required to list your item.
5. Finally, click the ‘Put Live’ button to publicly list your item so buyers can find.

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6. Sit back and wait for buyers to contact you.
‘Fixed Price’ or ‘Make Me An Offer’
Price is an important factor in most deals – if the price is right then often a
deal can be done.
At XS Trade we want to make deals happen. To help with price negotiation
we allow sellers to say whether the price of their items is fixed, or whether
they are open to offers.
When you list an item for sale specify the price (e.g. £100). Then use the pull
down menu to choose whether:
• the price you have specified is fixed price, or
• sellers are welcome to make you an offer.
Buyers will then be able to see whether the item is fixed price or whether the
seller is open to offers.

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BUDGET MAESTRO
Faster, More Accurate Budgeting Software
With so much flexibility and financial intelligence built-in, Budget Maestro
will transform the way you develop and use key financial data. Budget
Maestro budgeting and planning software products let you concentrate on
the structure and performance of your business, not on troubleshooting
spreadsheets. Key features include:
• Driver-based modeling
• Powerful what-if capabilities
• Compatible with any general ledger
• Fast, flexible reports, statements & KPIs
• Extensive built-in business & financial intelligence
• 100% accurate GAAP-compliant calculations
Budget Maestro: a scalable budgeting & planning software solution
Budget Maestro is designed for productivity, confidence and insight into
your financial operations and is available in these editions:
Advanced Planning Edition — Suited for organizations with more
advanced budget planning and performance management requirements.
This robust, cost-effective enterprise planning software solution automates
time-consuming activities in the budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting
and analysis process.
Cloud Edition — Available on a subscription basis and accessible
anywhere 24/7, Budget Maestro Cloud Edition online budgeting software
provides easy access from home, outlying locations, or on the road.
Available in client server and SaaS platforms.
Budget Maestro adapts to your structure and reporting requirements
Budget Maestro is a powerful integrated business budgeting and financial
planning solution that offers your business fast, flexible reports and
financial statements. With easy-to-use wizards, menus, and drop down

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options that guide you throughout the budgeting, planning and reporting
process, you can use Budget Maestro with little to no need for IT
involvement. Additional features and options include:
• Enterprise Budgeting and Planning. This powerful enterprise budgeting
and planning software feature offers a single centralized database,
integrating all the elements of the budget plan. A comprehensive solution
for companies with a single line of business or many entities or locations,
• Financial Forecasting. Budget Maestro financial forecasting software
makes the forecasting process productive and accurate, but also allows for
quick adjustments as conditions dictate.
• Financial Consolidation and Reporting. Instead of chasing dead links and
busted spreadsheet macros, the Budget Maestro financial consolidation
and reporting process keeps you focused on results, no matter how many
entities, locations or products you may have.
• Financial Dashboard Reporting. Analytics Maestro extends Budget
Maestro reporting capabilities by bringing the power and flexibility of
enterprise-class OLAP (online analytical processing) financial dashboard
reporting to the desktop.
Better data. Better decisions. Better Options.
Budget Maestro budgeting and planning software products offer you an
array of business budgeting advantages over Excel and other
spreadsheets. Plus, the power of Budget Maestro can be easily enhanced
with these robust options:
Analytics Maestro — Extends Budget Maestro reporting capabilities by
bringing the power and flexibility of enterprise-class OLAP reporting to the
desktop. Analytics Maestro: formula-free financial dashboard reporting at
its best – dynamic, visual, and customizable.
Link Maestro — Automates the exchange of financial information between
your accounting/ERP system and Budget Maestro. This seamless
connection between Budget Maestro and your ERP application makes it
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variance reporting and analysis.
It’s time to move beyond spreadsheets and formulas
Fast, accurate budgets with the confidence you need to forecast into next
quarter or next year. Test drive the power, flexibility, and functionality of
Budget Maestro. Request your Free Demo or Watch a 3 Minute Tour
Today!
Optimize business performance based on complete, accurate and
current data.
Budget Maestro Advanced Planning Edition (formerly Planning Maestro) is
a business performance management software application designed for
the mid-market enterprise. This robust, cost-effective enterprise planning
software solution automates time-consuming activities in the budgeting,
planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis process.
Focus on your business, not data collection
A giant leap beyond spreadsheets, Budget Maestro Advanced Planning
helps you efficiently monitor and manage the financial health of your
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• Flexible multi-view capability for budgeting and reporting by customer,
product, location, division, manager, channel, etc.
• Easy-to-use unit, monetary and percentage ‘drivers’ throughout your
planning model
• Multi-Entity Balance Sheet & Cash flow reporting
• Multi-dimensional reporting with roll-ups
• Revealing what-if scenarios
• Tight alignment with your Chart of Accounts for accurate variance analysis
• Integrated Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow reporting
The Advanced Planning Edition accommodates an unlimited number of
users.
For lower up-front costs and easy 24/7 access, web-based software may
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Budget Maestro is available in client server and SaaS (software-as-a-
service) platforms. With identical functionality to the on-premise version,
Budget Maestro’s online budgeting and planning software edition offers
you a flexible solution with less up front costs.
Access from around the world, around the clock
Available on a subscription basis and accessible anywhere 24/7, Budget
Maestro Cloud Edition online budgeting software provides easy access
from home, outlying locations, or on the road.
• Lower entry cost to take advantage of all Budget Maestro budgeting
software features
• Fast implementation with no software to load
• No need for IT department involvement
Flexible, secure solution
You can easily upload any budget and actual data from a local copy of
Microsoft Excel. All reports can be exported to Excel, printed, or saved as
a PDF file. The back end servers are located in multiple redundant secure
facilities offering full physical, power and environmental security.

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Budget Maestro Enterprise Budgeting and Planning Software
Develop your plan with people, products and dollars, not cells, formulas
and macros.
Budget Maestro’s enterprise budgeting software streamlines the entire
budgeting and planning process. By greatly simplifying the task of data
collection, Budget Maestro dramatically shortens budget cycle time as well
as improves accuracy and relevance of results… and does it all without the
aggravation of spreadsheets.
Unified financial picture
This powerful enterprise planning software offers a single centralized
database, integrating all the elements of the budget plan. A
comprehensive solution for companies with a single line of business or
many entities or locations, Budget Maestro allows:
• Unified budgeting, forecasting and reporting of all financial & non-financial
elements, including revenue, expenses, personnel, capital assets, loans
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• Productive use by both financial and line managers, using an intuitive
interface, with wizards, menus and drop-down guides
• Budget development at any level – Benchmark off actuals or existing
budgets by department, company, project, account, etc.
• Synchronized Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statements derived from P&L
Budget
• Quick and accurate allocations – based on hours worked, billable hours,
square feet, production hours, headcount, total expenses, total revenue or
any other driver value in your budget with no formulas to manage or debug
Easily import data from your existing systems, including accounting
systems, ERP, HR, FAS and CRM.
Forecast and Reforecast with Financial Forecasting Software
Create a forecast based on all available information and easily modify it as
conditions change. In a perfect world, your final budget and financial plan
would last the entire fiscal year. Instead, the budget is an ever-changing
document, reflecting changes in your operations, customers, suppliers,
financing, or other factors. Organizations need a reliable financial
forecasting solution that can adjust with those changes.
Where you are and where you’re going
Budget Maestro financial forecasting software makes the forecasting
process productive and accurate, but also allows for quick adjustments as
conditions dictate. This versatile financial forecasting software:
• Centralizes data in a single database, not across numerous spreadsheets
• Consolidates data automatically, providing real-time forecasts from
summary to detail level
• Reflects changes in assumptions about key business drivers or market
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• Generates variance reports of budget, actual, and reforecasted numbers
• Facilitates comparison of multiple financial forecasts, e.g. Forecast with
Flat Sales and Stable Healthcare Costs, vs. Forecast with 10% Sales
Growth and 5% Healthcare Increase
• Provides a long-term view, with the ability to create rolling forecasts
beyond 12 periods
• Allows you to quickly and easily compare Income Statements, Balance
Sheets and Cash Flow Statements for multiple periods and versions
• Allows budget managers to update their line items and generate accurate
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BAMBOO HR
What is BambooHR?
BambooHR is an intuitive HR software system that simplifies usual HR
tasks like attendance, time-off requests, employee benefits, contact
information, trainings and certifications – all facets of the employee
lifecycle, essentially. Its in-depth reporting features provide executives and
managers insight into vital business indicators like employee retention and
turnover rates, and certification and compliance metrics.
From the color scheme to the company logo, from individual tabs to
required fields in a report, BambooHR is highly customizable and affords
clients the ability to create their own systems based on how they run their
HR departments. Customizable and pre-defined alerts keep employees
and managers apprised of important dates like anniversaries and
birthdays, and due dates for certification expirations and renewals,
performance reviews and benefit eligibility.
BambooHR is a cloud-based human resources (HR) software service for
small and midsize businesses. BambooHR offers small and growing
companies a human resource information system (HRIS) that includes an
applicant tracking system (ATS) and HRIS tools to manage all aspects of
the employee lifecycle.
BambooHR provides HR process automation tools that are accessible in
several languages and multiple currencies. The platform allows HR
professionals and managers to track organizational data such as mployee
turnover and retention.
BambooHR also provides customization services, multiple administrator
seats, user support and the ability to maintain inactive employees.
Administrators can provide access to all employees or limit access to only
those in the company that need it.
Pricing is subscription-based depending on the number of employees plus
a one-time implementation fee.
In an Excel spreadsheet one can move/archive candidates who are no
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words, with BambooHR you're forced to keep EVERY APPLICANT who
applies. This means that as your pipeline grows so does the time it takes
to move around. Once the role contains several hundred applicants you
must slog through multiple pages (10+ ?) of information that's only slowing
you down. As we veterans know, time is money and efficiency is the key to
success.
Key Features of BambooHR
• Employee profile directory
• Employee profiles w/ custom fields
• Training & benefits tracking
• Job & salary history
• Online document storage
• Employee self-service
• Custom access permissions
• Time off requests & approval
• Time off reporting
• Staff calendar

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• Pre-built & custom reports
• Custom alerts
• Applicant tracking system module
• Basic & advanced recruiting features
• e-signature of documents
• Multicurrency payroll data
• Multiple languages
• API
• 3rd party integrations
• Customizable interface
• Payroll
Main Features
Time-Off Management
For BambooHR to automate your time-off management workflow, you will
initially need to specify your company’s time-off policies: accrual levels,
waiting periods, maximum accruals, carryovers, and so on. Once done,
employees will already be able to check their time-off balances, request
time-offs from their computers or smart devices, and view a calendar of
employees scheduled to be on leave.
When an employee submits a time-off request, their manager is notified
through email. Depending on the company’s service level requirements,
the amount of time the employee has already accrued, and the number of
people scheduled to be out on the requested date/s, the manager can
either approve or deny the request via phone or online. The requester then
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The company calendar, which lists all holidays and approved time-off
requests on specific dates, can be filtered by department, division,
employment status, job title or location.
Centralized Employee Information
Aside from task automation, BambooHR functions as your company’s
central repository of essential employee data that includes job and salary
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emergency contacts, benefits, trainings, and other related information that
your HR department keeps on file, including annotations that may protect
the company from future litigations. Relevant online documents
(applications, company forms, training manuals, performance reviews,
handbooks and health forms) can be stored and shared.
BambooHR also has a directory feature that lets you view an employee’s
name, job title, employment status, date of hire, and photo. Contact
information can be quickly accessed and shared with other members of
the organization. The system has basic organizational chart functionalities,
but for organizations that need a more robust alternative, BambooHR has
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The employee directory makes it easy to search for certain employee
records.
Customizable User Access Levels
In order not to put your employee data in jeopardy and make certain that
information is shared to only those with authorized user access,
BambooHR uses role-based access protocols that let you build custom
user groups with access assignments based on their job descriptions.
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access are entirely up to you.
Using any device, employees can log in to their accounts from anywhere
to update their personal information, view their time-off balances, training
particulars, benefits data and company documents. Managers, on the
other hand, can access reports pertaining to their employees’ paid time-off,
trainings, certifications and benefits, without the added strain to their
already hectic schedule. This is because everything is automated, and
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To ensure confidential employee information are kept confidential, users
are classified into groups and can only access information allowed to their
specific groups.
Customizable Fields and Reports
BambooHR understands that every organization is unique, which is why
fields, tabs and reports can be customized to reflect the way companies
manage their workforce. You want to track your employees’ favorite color
or candy bar? Probably not the kind of data businesses usually keep an
eye out for, but yes, those can be tracked with BambooHR.
On the reporting side, there are two ways reports can be generated:
through customized reporting or using standard reports available in the
report library. Standard reports include Additions and Terminations, Age
Profile, Benefit Eligibility, Birthdays, EEO-1, Employment Status History,
Gender Profile, Job History, Last Pay Change, Salary History, Time-Off
Balances and Schedule, among others. For customized reports, the data
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Employee fields can be customized according to how your HR department
functions.
Usability for Global Companies
If you have business offices in various locations around the world, you
would naturally want your employees to use the language they are
comfortable with. BambooHR currently supports six different languages
(English, French Canadian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and
Dutch), which can be adjusted on a per-user basis.

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Popular local currencies are likewise supported, and number, timezone
and date formats are also provided as an option.
Integrations
BambooHR’s native API (application programming interface) client allows
integrations with just about any software out there (including those that
have been built in-house) to ensure users keep their existing systems,
eliminate the need to re-enter business-critical data, and stay working in
familiar environments.
BambooHR has ready-made integrations with applicant tracking systems
like CATS and HiringThing, NetSuite’s ERP system, performance review
solutions like Bullseye Engagement and Small Improvements, payroll
software like TRAXPayroll and Simplepay.ca, and time and attendance
systems like SwipeClock and NimbleSchedule, among others.
Pricing
The professional package costs $8 per employee per month, again with a
minimum spend of $99 per month. For this, you get all of the basic
features plus employee onboarding, employee self service, benefit
tracking, advanced custom reports, custom alerts, 100MB storage per
employee, powerful batch editing, and more.
Bottom Line
• Intuitive and user-friendly HR software that simplifies transition of
employee information and reports from spreadsheets and other paper
forms to a single cloud-based hub
• Automates common HR workflow and leaves HR professionals with more
time to perform more value-adding activities
• Dynamic mobile accessibility provides employees and management the
ability to track relevant information while on the go
• Supports all popular local currencies and six languages
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built in-house
Benefits
Employee Profiles: Managers can keep track of all employee history and
recent information. Employees can update their own data. Co-workers can
search the directory and discover each other's profiles.
Applicant Tracking: Create job posts and track applications as they come
in. Share and comment on resumes and add star ratings to candidates’
applications.
Time-off Management: Employees can request time off, view the company
calendar and track their holiday/ sick days. Managers can approve time off
and see time off reports.
HR Reports: Access pre-built reports or create custom reports on all kinds
of data, from EEO-1 reports to age and gender profiles. Export reports to
Excel, PDF & CSV.
Alerts: Set up email notifications to go to any member of staff to remind
them of birthdays, benefit eligibility, license expirations and upcoming
reviews.
Custom Permissions: Decide who has access to what within the system by
giving specific access permissions to managers, admins and employees.
Globally Compatible: BambooHR supports payroll data in multiple
currencies and six different languages.
GetApp Analysis
BambooHR is an online HR software that provides human resource
professionals with the necessary tools to successfully transition from
manually tracking employee information in paper forms and spreadsheets
to managing it with personalized HRIS (human resource information
system), leaving them with more time to perform more value-adding tasks.
Especially created for small to medium-sized businesses with employee
count ranging from 10 to 500, BambooHR’s main features include time-off
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levels, customizable fields and reports, and usability for global companies.
Pros
Easy UI (user interface). Inexpensive. Quick password changing/finding
tool. Rating stars 1-5 is good. Can sort by date, stars, status, name, etc.
Quick link to Linkedin profile (an absolute must), allows companies to write
their own email templates. Works much like
Cons
Limited. Can't move candidates to another role (Change from Project
Manager to Project Analyst, for example). Can't archive: don't want to see
all those folks who don't even meet the minimum qualifications for the role.
Company is NOT open to adding or updating features. We wrote to them
and got a canned answer back from the engineering team via our
customer service rep. A company that doesn't take advice from its users
isn't going to make it in this highly competitive industry for very long.

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iCIMS Talent Platform
Software
iCIMS offers an online applicant tracking and recruiting solution for hiring
managers and recruiters to streamline the recruiting activities. Their
flagship product, iCIMS Recruit helps to store and track recruitment
information at a central location and allows recruiters to post job opening
details on multiple online job portals. The solution also offers an interactive
dashboard for scheduling and coordinating with all recipients as well as
monitoring key recruitment metrics. Candidates can also configure their
dashboard for tracking job openings, application status, and interview
schedules among others.
iCIMS Connect is a candidate relationship management software which
helps in improving the interactions with the candidates and tracking
candidate engagement levels during the recruitment process. iCIMS
Onboard is an onboarding software which assists recruiters in automating
onboarding process of new hires. The solution also allows recruiters to
design tasks for new hires, assign task due dates, and set automated
reminders to ensure successful onboarding of ever new hire. Through its
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework, UNIFi, iCIMS also offers
customers the ability to connect all of the talent acquisition systems under
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iCIMS ATS meets our needs for a Technical College and gives our
candidates a good customer experience. I highly recommend exploring its
capabilities!
iCIMS is a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business
platforms for the mid-market. We are dedicated to solving corporate
business issues through the implementation of easy-to-use web-based
software solutions.
iCIMS’ applicant tracking software is a web-based HR software platform
for organizations of all sizes, in any industry, worldwide. iCIMS provides
recruiters and HR professionals with the collaborative tools that enable
them to attract, screen, hire and retain the best talent, giving them an edge
over the competition.
iCIMS holds the belief that a product is only as strong as the service
behind it and, as a result, is committed to the ongoing pursuit of 100%
customer satisfaction. iCIMS’ industry-leading customer support teams
serve clients 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. From hosting and migration
services to best practices and consulting engagements, iCIMS provides
the value-added support that many competing solution providers simply
cannot offer.
Pros
The social media sharing tools make it easy to advertise your positions.
The resume parsing feature saves valuable time for candidates filling out
the application.
Cons
The onboarding module may require Custom iForms.
Advice to Others
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You can make it as easy or complex as you want.

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GetApp Analysis
iCIMS is a feature-packed talent acquisition software that aims to simplify
the way modern recruiters attract, screen, and onboard top talents in their
fields. Equipped with a comprehensive tool suite to recruit, connect with,
and transition applicants to new hires, iCIMS enables organizations to
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Designed with the recruiter’s unique needs in mind, iCIMS combines real-
time requisition performance reporting with modern recruiting tools that
include social job post distribution and job board postings, so recruitment
is less time-consuming and more efficient. Some of the app’s core features
include iCIMS Recruit, iCIMS Connect, iCIMS Onboard, and its attracting
and screening tools.
What is iCIMS Applicant Tracking System?
As the war for top talent becomes increasingly intense, HR departments
and recruiting professionals are moving towards a more streamlined
recruiting process versus old methods where numerous documents, files,
folders, and spreadsheets are needed to accurately pinpoint the best
possible candidates for an open job position.
And then, there’s the similarly important new hire onboarding process that
can potentially strengthen or cut short a new employee’s ties with the
company, depending on how they’re treated on their first day on the job.
It’s no surprise, therefore, that an all-in-one applicant tracking system like
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iCIMS’ numerous tools reside in one centralized hub, so information
access and review is faster and easier, allowing recruiters to engage the
right candidates and ultimately hire the right people for the right jobs.
Main Features
iCIMS Recruit
iCIMS Recruit is a configurable and easy-to-use solution that allows
recruiting professionals to optimize their hiring processes and choose the
most fitting candidates from a pool of qualified applicants. iCIMS Recruit
carries a dashboard that consolidates everything – calendars, tasks,
appointments, applicant files, reports, communications, and more – in a
single screen.
Other features that make iCIMS Recruit a vital component of the hiring
process are key metrics, candidate management, searches, role-based
user assignments, job management, career portal, and reporting.
iCIMS Connect
There are two types of job hunters - those that are proactively looking for a
new career opportunity and those that are looking around but aren’t yet
ready to take the plunge, also called passive candidates. Passive
candidates may not be your target group for currently open positions, but
nurturing relationships with them can reap dividends for your company in
the long run.
This is where iCIMS Connect steps in. iCIMS Connect is a recruitment
marketing automation system that aims to engage passive candidates who
are open to exploring career opportunities with your company in the future.
It communicates job opportunities and career paths with them, among
other things, to keep them interested in a position with your organization
when the time is right. This all begins with the candidate clicking on a “Not
ready to apply?” option where they’re taken to a branded and mobile-
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resume or social media account. A login is created for them so they can go
back to the portal at any time.
iCIMS Onboard
You don’t want to give your new hires the wrong impression about the
company on their first day on the job, especially since it’s only natural for
them to expect the same level of attention they received during the
recruitment phase.
Coupled with iCIMS Recruit, iCIMS Onboard makes it easy for the hiring
department to transition recruits from applicants to new hires.
Administrative functions are facilitated through auto-populated employee
fields and task suggestions. New hires are then invited to log in to an
onboarding portal where they can update their profile information,
complete forms, familiarize themselves with company policies, and so on.
The iCIMS Onboard reporting functionality generates high-level reports on
the new hires’ task completion statuses. Where tasks aren’t yet completed,
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Applicant Attracting Tools
To hire the best people in your field, you have to attract the best possible
candidates. To reach out to the best, you have to be where they are.
iCIMS is equipped with various business tools to help you do just that. The
iCIMS Social Distribution tool allows organizations to instantaneously
connect to scores of potential candidates by allowing their employees to
automatically post and share new job openings with their social networks.
iCIMS also has a pre-built integration with JobTarget’s OneClick Job
Distribution tool, which saves companies tons of time through automated
job postings to over 14,000 online job boards. The iCIMS Career Site SEO
tool enhances your career sites’ search visibility so you get the attention of
candidates looking for jobs via the search engines.
Applicant Screening Tools
To further simplify the screening process, the iCIMS Video Screening tool
enables candidates to upload a short personal video using the webcam on
their computer or mobile device, explaining why they’re the best fit for a job
position. Recruiters and hiring managers review the uploaded videos to
help them decide who advances to the next phase of the hiring process.
Also, the iCIMS I9 and E-Verify tools ensure hiring professionals don’t
unnecessarily expend time and energy screening and interviewing
applicants who may ultimately be unable to render service to their
company because of employment eligibility issues (e.g., foreigners without
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Integrations
Aside from a REST API that developers can use to make information flow
between iCIMS and their current business systems more seamless, iCIMS
integrates with 125+ apps like SAP, ADP, Kronos, Ceridian, Paychex,
Oracle, Orange Tree, PeopleAnswers, PeopleSoft, Kenexa, Workday, and
EmployeeScreenIQ.
Pricing
The iCIMS pricing model is subscription-based and the dollar value
depends on the final product that’s customized according to your
company’s unique applicant tracking needs.
Bottom Line
• Comprehensive talent acquisition solution that simplifies the oftentimes
tedious process of attracting and screening applicants, and onboarding
new hires
• Offers mobile-optimized career portals so candidates can perform job
searches via any mobile device
• Seamless transition of applicant data to employee database once hired
• Allows relationship formation with applicants and passive candidates via
social media, job boards, and fully branded career portals
Fully brandable and can be customized to suit your business goals and
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THE RESUMATOR NOW CALLED AS JAZZ
SOFTWARE
Jazz is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applicant tracking system.
Founded in 2009, Jazz provides recruiting and hiring software accessible
to businesses of all sizes. Jazz’s sourcing tools enable users to post jobs,
mirror any internal approval processes and syndicate jobs to numerous
free and paid job boards from one spot. Users can list jobs on a hosted
careers page, add jobs to the company’s careers site or build a custom
careers page from within Jazz.
Features include sourcing and applicant tracking. Users can also manage
the entire interview process within the portal, create and send out offers
and onboarding paperwork, and setup customizable reporting.
Jazz also has tools for social recruiting and employee referrals which
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Questionnaires
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• Send an email

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• Job posting
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• Source by quality of source
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•
• Hiring stage
• Interviews
Supported Operating System(s):
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS, Linux, HP-UX, AIX,
Solaris, Unix, IBM OS/400, Web browser (OS agnostic), Windows 2000,
Windows 8, Windows 10
JazzHR exceeded our expectations in every respect. User interface is
intuitive and well thought out which made it easy to get our 1st hiring
project live within hours of activation. Functionality of JazzHR rivals that of
well known enterprise ATS platforms. The success team has been very
proactive and helpful when assistance was needed. JazzHR offers a
wealth of live and on demand training webinars for the systems more
advanced functions and integrations. Most valuable feature: JazzHR’s
frictionless one click apply experience improved our overall click to apply
ratio which ultimately maximized results with job board syndication and
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Pros
(1) Robust tools in a simple UI
(2) Automation and Pre-Screening Capabilities. (Improve applicant
experience and reduces phone screen cost/time
(3) One Click Apply (Improved our click to apply ratio which ultimately
maximizes CPC spend when applicable)
Cons
One minor annoyance: When placing jobs into a "closed" status the default
message an applicant sees when clicking on a link for that job reads as
"Hiring for this position has been put on hold at this time." - For our
purposes there is a difference between an "On Hold" job and a "Closed
Job". Work Around; Deleting or moving a job to "filled" status does
appropriately close out the job - but there are times when we close a job
without it being filled for one reason or another and may not wish to delete
the job while we explore alternatives for any applicants in the queue.
How does it work?
Bringing new employees onto a team forces managers to judge a mix of
mandatory skill sets and intangible personality traits. In Silicon Valley —
home base for tech giants Apple, Google and Twitter — that process has
resulted in a workforce of thousands of highly skilled, innovative and loyal
workers, most of whom happen to look remarkably similar.
Earlier this month, Apple reported that its global workforce is 70 percent
male — a figure that mirrors Google and Twitter’s overall workforce.
A breakdown of racial demographics proves even more significant, with
Apple reporting its U.S. workforce as 55 percent white, 15 percent Asian,
11 percent Hispanic and 7 percent black. At Twitter, the U.S. workforce
was reported as 59 percent white, 29 percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic
and 2 percent black. Google’s U.S. workforce was 61 percent white, 30
percent Asian, 3 percent Hispanic and 2 percent black.
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weeks, raised eyebrows among industry insiders and sparked initiatives
within all three companies to try to balance the scales.
The situation made Promise Phelon, chief revenue officer of West View
recruiting software company The Resumator, briefly consider if the issues
raised in Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book “Lean In” —
specifically about how more women need to step up to leadership roles —
played a part in the situation.
But then, Ms. Phelon settled on the most important consideration: that this
discussion offers an opportunity for her company to present a solution.
“When I saw those numbers, I asked myself two questions. Is this a
systematic thing or is this about the point Sheryl was making about
[women] getting a seat at the table? My conclusion was it actually doesn’t
matter [how it happened]; it’s about breaking patterns,” said Ms. Phelon.
Shifting the paradigm that drives hiring decisions has been The
Resumator’s primary mission since it was launched in 2009, said founder
and CEO Don Charlton.
Mr. Charlton, a Masontown native who grew up steeped in the culture of
coal mining, envisioned The Resumator as a way to help small- to
medium-sized businesses level the playing field with large corporations
when it comes to attracting top talent. After an independent launch, he
teamed up with Pittsburgh startup accelerator program AlphaLab. Within a
three-year period Mr. Charlton was able to raise $3 million in outside
funding.
The Resumator’s offerings of job boards, referrals, questionnaires,
interview management and custom assessments for hiring have so far
helped more than 70,000 companies find more than 2.5 million candidates
for various job openings. The suite of products and the data contained
within them help the company streamline the job search process in ways
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The small business engine has also catered to some of the nation’s
biggest players. Its portfolio of clients ranges from Major League
Baseball’s MLB.com to the 2012 presidential election campaigns of
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The company does not
publicly disclose its financials, but a company spokeswoman said it has
generated millions of dollars in revenue.
After adding Ms. Phelon as its chief revenue officer in December, the
company opened a Silicon Valley office in March to keep close to West
Coast investors. It embarked on an aggressive fundraising campaign in
June that set an eight-week time limit to meet the $15 million mark.
That push paid off this week, with a goal-matching investment led by
Boston-based Volition Capital and supported by Tucson, Ariz.-based
Rincon Venture Partners, South Side-based Birchmere Ventures, New
York-based Blue Cloud Ventures and Riverfront Ventures, an investment
firm run by South Side-based Innovation Works.
Hiring a team of data scientists and looking for a new space for a staff
expected to grow from around 60 to 100 by next year top a list of priorities
to be addressed with the new funding. With eyes on Downtown, Mr.
Charlton hopes to work with city officials to address parking concerns and
find an appropriate space.
Mr. Charlton, who envisions the company becoming a household name
among small business recruiters, believes having The Resumator’s name
shining within the city skyline could be a win-win proposition.
“We have a strong desire and belief that the recruiting software industry,
especially catering to small- and medium-sized businesses, is emerging,”
he said. “We have a leadership position. We have the data and resources
now to take that position and become a dominant and fast player.”
Capitalizing on those data — a set of more than 1 billion points compiled
over the course of the company’s five-year existence — will be a key factor
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hiring decisions, said Ms. Phelon.
Not only that, the method of screening applicants through algorithms
comes with the bonus of weeding out biases within the hiring process.
“The Resumator is at a stage where we’ve got millions of resumes,
hundreds of thousands of hiring decisions,” said Ms. Phelon. “We can
actually reverse-engineer what success looks like inside a company and
allow organizations to look at candidates irrespective of anything besides
what their skills are, what they’ve done.
“And we can give people data-driven, evidence-based decisions on the
candidates they should be considering, and quite frankly I think that would
remove a lot of natural biases that exist in the hiring process.”
Besides letting data dictate hiring, Mr. Charlton said tech and other
industries seeking to diversify their forces could also make sure positions
that don’t require advanced degrees are as heavily promoted among
minority and women as skilled positions.
Diversity within Apple, Google and Twitter is slightly better for nontech
positions in the U.S., but the majority of those positions are still held by
white males in Google and Apple. Twitter did not have information about
the number of women working in nontech positions in the U.S. immediately
available, but reported a 50-50 split between men and women in the
positions globally.
Noting that secretaries and customer care workers cashed in on Twitter’s
$24 billion initial public offering just as easily as executives, Mr. Charlton
said tying a lack of diversity solely to a lack of STEM — science,
technology, engineering and math — training among women and
minorities was a “red herring scapegoat” that could delay action for
generations.
“One of the things I think a lot of minorities don’t know is that personal
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— occurs when you join very early companies that have a high probability
of failure,” said Mr. Charlton.
“You don’t have to be a computer scientist or engineer to be in tech. We
have plenty of women and minorities in our company right now who
wouldn’t know how to code if their life depended on it but they feel just as
much involved in tech as we do, every single day.”
Calling themselves capitalists in the purest sense, Mr. Charlton and Ms.
Phelon said opening doors to new faces in the workforce isn’t about charity
so much as a means of maximizing options for quality talent.
Within a tech company founded by a black man that boasts a 40 percent
female executive board, standing out as the new face among industry
counterparts is a reality. On the other hand, so is standing out for being
exceptional.
“The best way to break patterns is to shape the pattern,” said Mr. Charlton.
“We believe by us focusing on building a really great business and this
happenstance of what our demographics are, it will all play out in the end.”

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