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Symphony Webinar: Tips and Tricks for Year-end Payroll: How to Be Proactive, Not Reactive
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Join us for this free webinar and find out how to prepare for year-end payroll
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 2:00PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Common year-end payroll mistakes can quickly multiply your headaches during an already busy time. To ensure a smooth year-end transition, this webinar will guide you through the steps to preparing for year-end payroll. Let Symphony – the SAP HCM experts – teach you key strategies to put into action to streamline the year-end payroll process and prepare for the upcoming year. Kathy Morris, a Senior Consultant at Symphony Management Consulting and former SAP “Year-end Tax Angel” will discuss best practices for year-end payroll and provide tips on:
· How to get your system ready and perform configuration updates
· Ways to approach YE processing to ensure success
· What tools are available to assist with YE closing
· How to create an annual project plan and check list
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/784467408
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Symphony Webinar: Achieving a Higher ROI on SAP ERP HCM Investments
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Join us for this free webinar and find out how to achieve a higher return on investment (ROI) on SAP ERP HCM Investments
Many organizations are eager to add functionality that tracks and maintains employee data. Often, the human resources department is tasked with this responsibility and can struggle to provide an effective business case to their executive team for approval.
Let Symphony provide an overview and critical advice on how to effectively identify strategic returns on investment (ROI) when communicating with executive leadership. We will point out some areas that executives look at in order to measure the need for an HCM solution for attracting, developing and retaining the right employees. Not only will we discuss some examples where Symphony has assisted clients to present a business case to their leadership, but you will also learn how to ask for and receive approval for the funding of a state of the art HCM environment.
What you’ll take away:
- How to properly assess SAP ERP HCM functionality in order to attract, develop, and retain the right employees.
- How to align functionality with corporate objectives to meet your organization’s unique needs.
- Proven advice to prevent common pitfalls that can drive up costs in SAP ERP HCM projects.
- Ways to measure the key personnel-related factors that can make or break the ROI for your SAP ERP HCM project.
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Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/985159681
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
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Symphony co-hosts upcoming webinar with Symmetry
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Wednesday, June, 16 2010 at 2:00 pm EST
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/750333336
Many organizations struggle with decisions on how to best incorporate SAP HCM into their technical environment. The question that often arises is whether or not to implement HCM on a separate landscape. This consideration is a key concern for smaller organizations that cannot afford the financial burden of an additional landscape. In the end, many companies do choose to maintain a separate HCM landscape however, issues such as data security and privacy concerns do not have to be the driving factors in making this decision.
Let Symmetry - the SAP security experts; and Symphony - the SAP HCM experts, walk you through some of the most common misconceptions about HCM security before you make that critical decision and spend money on a new environment.
In this free session Kellie Fitzpatrick (Symphony) and Scott Goolik (Symmetry) will discuss the pros and cons of implementing HCM on a separate instance and why data security and privacy issues should not be the only deciding factors when implementing HCM.
Attendees at this expert led session will be able to:
-Review general concepts of SAP HCM authorizations; how they are used, how they are different, and some of the critical “gotchas.”
-Learn methods to effectively manage HCM security in a shared environment.
-Determine when you should consider a separate landscape and when you should consider a combined landscape.
-Understand the limitations of implementing on a separate instance and the level of maintenance required.
-See real-life examples of companies that have implemented on separate landscapes, those that have implemented on the same landscape, and why that decision was right for them.
-Take home action-items to follow up on in your environment:
- Details of specific Authorization Objects that require restrictions.
- Techniques to protect data in non-Production systems.
- Review of available Authorization Model monitoring tools that
guarantee against security breaches.
Date: Wednesday, June 16
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Central / 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Cost: Free
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We had a great time at HR2010!! Thanks everyone
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
The HCM2010 show was another great success for Symphony Management Consulting. This year we saw more attendees and vendors than we have in recent years, surely a good sign that organizations are looking at implementations, enhancement projects and new technologies to improve the processes and efficiencies of their HR systems. This conference is an exceptional venue to educate yourself through the seminar series, see demo’s of the newest enhancements and meet the experts that provide the solutions for your next project.
As in years past, Symphony continues its commitment of educating attendees on a wide variety of HCM topics. The Symphony team leverages our knowledge and experience to deliver information on 7 Tips and Tricks for OM, Leverage Dynamic Actions to streamline HR Data, Best Practices for achieving a higher ROI in SAP HCM, and Proven techniques to properly configure and optimize HCM.
Throughout the show our booth was visited by attendees that sat in our presentations and the common theme of those conversations were “it was a great presentation, thank you for sharing that information for us.” “The presenter was very helpful and was able to answer a lot of our questions.” Comments like these are reminder of why we invest so much into this show and the value it provides. Symphony is committed to helping people better understand and prepare for the work ahead of them.
Due to the success and popularity of the presentations, Symphony will be launching a monthly online HCM workshop where we hit on key topics that will educate, share tips and tricks and answer questions. Look for more information on this shortly.
We’d like to hear from you on what you want to learn about or more information about. We will then incorporate these things into our agendas to give you more of what you need.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by and helped us make this another successful HR2010.
Visit http://www.symphony-consulting.com/saphr2010 or http://www.sapinsiderhr2010.com to learn more about the event.
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Symphony to be a Platinum Sponsor of HR2010
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Symphony will be a Platinum Sponsor of the HR2010 event in Orlando, FL at the Dolphin and Swan from March 16 - 19, 2010.
Symphony will be presenting multiple sessions on Stratic HCM initiatives such as Post-Production Support, Why Organizations implement HCM, Organizational Management, Dynamic Actions. In addition, representatives from Symphony’s expert consulting team will be available at the event, so take advantage of their knowledge and experience. Schedule a time to meet with one of our consultants during the conference and get answers to some of your questions.
As always, meet some of the most highly skilled experts in the Industry today or just stop by our booth to win one of many prizes.
Visit http://www.symphony-consulting.com/saphr2010 or http://www.sapinsiderhr2010.com to learn more about the event.
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Conferences On-Demand - April through July 2009
Friday, May 1st, 2009
SAP insider is providing a unique opportunity for people who were unable to attend the SAP HR2009 Conference in Las Vegas this past March. Conferences On-Demand is a fully interactive virtual tradeshow experience. Symphony Management Consulting is proud to be a platinum sponsor for this 90 day conference event.
During this Conference On-Demand, attendees can view and download company information, powerpoint presentations, expertly written whitepapers all provided by the experts at Symphony Consulting, just visit our virtual booth to get access to all the resources. In addition, attendees that visit Symphony’s virtual booth can enter for a chance to win an iPod touch!
So if you are already signed up or are interested in registering, click here to find out more about the conference.
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Happy Blogging - New from Symphony!
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Symphony Management Consulting is proud to announce the release of an area dedicated primarily to our clients and other specialists within SAP HCM. Many of our clients have expressed a desire for an area where they can reach out, ask questions and update information. Symphony has responded to this request by creating an SAP HCM blog where our team of HR Experts will respond to questions submitted via our Ask the Experts area.
Our goal is to answer our clients and the SAP community’s questions effectively and to provide you with a constant resource where you can turn to for helpful knowledge online. Our experts will do our best to answer the majority of the questions posted – but don’t forget to provide accurate contact information incase we need to reach out to you to find out more about your question at hand and to give you the best answer or approach to your issue.
In addition, our Tips and Tricks section will be updated with common “GOTCHA’S” so our clients are able to take advantage of quick resolutions to common issues.
Don’t be afraid to ask the question! Remember – no question is stupid, the only stupid questions are the ones that were never asked to begin with.
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Thank You for a Great HR2009!
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Symphony Management Consulting would like to thank everyone who was able to attend this year’s HR2009 Conference in Las Vegas.
Many of the presentations that were given by our expert consultants were well attended and we hope you were able to get a glimpse of what Symphony can do for you. We appreciate all the interest in our company and look forward to creating partnerships where we can become your company’s SAP HCM ERP experts.
In addition we’ve posted some photos from the event - take a look!
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