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• Global Payroll Update from ADP: What to Expect in 2024

  Feb 12, 2024, by Elizabeth Rennie

    ADP's annual global payroll customer event took place in London recently, bringing together 224 decision-makers from some of the world's largest companies, representing ~20m employees. The event featured a global economic update, ADP's strategic vision, and product development updates. The event also included a "round the world" experience sharing insights into [...]

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• SD Worx Maintains Strong Pan-European HR Growth & Targets Further Expansion

  Nov 18, 2022, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Last month, NelsonHall participated in the SD Worx Analyst Day, which included an update on key milestones since Kobe Verdonck took the reins as CEO in September 2019. The last three years have seen SD Worx supercharge its European growth and intensify its focus through achieving: Geographic expansion from 10 to 23 countries in Europe, where it utilizes its own IP in 17 of thes[...]

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• Neeyamo Event: Payroll Beyond Borders

  Jan 24, 2022, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Last week marked Neeyamo's Payroll Beyond Borders' virtual global payroll industry event. The keynotes were delivered by payroll industry leaders Dan Maddux, Executive Director, American Payroll Association, and Ken Pullar, CEO, CIPP. The event had around 1,200 participants from around the world and was the first global coming together of global payroll industry experts [...]

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• CloudPay NOW: Global Earned Wage Access Without Borders

  Jul 20, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This past week, CloudPay announced the launch of CloudPay NOW, its latest offering focused on modernizing the way workers are paid globally. The employer-integrated Earned Wage Access (EWA) solution is a key addition to CloudPay’s offering that pairs its unified database and technology-enabled operating model, with its deep global treasury capability to offer one of the most[...]

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• Futureproofing Payroll Services, Part 3: Managed Payroll Services Market Outlook

  Apr 14, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This is the final part of a three-part blog series covering my perspectives on the payroll market based on NelsonHall’s latest annual market analysis, Payroll Services: Globalization and Digitalization. Part One features the payroll buyer perspective, with Part Two looking at the managed payroll service providers currently pushing the pace of innovation. Here I focus on the out[...]

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• Futureproofing Payroll Services, Part 1: Buyer Perspectives

  Apr 01, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

  NelsonHall has published its annual payroll services market analysis, Payroll Services: Globalization and Digitalization. The report includes an analysis of two dozen payroll vendors, their offerings, and their buyers' perspectives. The project provided 'behind the curtain' access to many of the major payroll solutions enabling the market today and shaping its path forward. This[...]

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• HR Trends & Outlook 2021, Part 1: Core HR

  Jan 12, 2021, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Part 1 by Pete Tiliakos & Liz Rennie This is Part 1 of a 2-part blog presenting an analysis of key trends from NelsonHall's HR Technology & Services team. Part 1 looks at the key outsourcing trends around core HR functions, including cloud HR transformation, payroll, and benefits administration services. Cloud HR Transformation Services The drive to digital has k[...]

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• SD Worx’s HR Vision Post-COVID

  Oct 13, 2020, by Elizabeth Rennie

  Like many HR service providers, SD Worx has been supporting its clients over the last six months by continually making updates to the changing legislation and dealing with client queries and operational challenges. SD Worx also launched a study to better understand changing market needs, the findings of which have just been published. The SD Worx study was one of the most extensive European HR[...]

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• Ceridian Fuels International Growth Plans with Acquisition of Excelity Global

  Jul 06, 2020, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Since its IPO in early 2018, Ceridian has remained focused on reaching its goal of achieving $1bn in revenues. A key pillar of its growth strategy toward achieving that goal is the continued adoption of its Dayforce HCM platform by large multi-national buyers across key verticals, and expanding its adoption globally by enabling and offering integrated core HR, workforce management, p[...]

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• Leading in a Pandemic Recovery World: How ADP is Supporting its Clients

  Jun 25, 2020, by Elizabeth Rennie

    Earlier in the month on the NelsonHall HR Quarterly Buyer Market Round-Up session, many buyers agreed that compliance is going to be a bigger issue in 2020 and beyond than it was before.  Before it was just table stakes, now it is about survival, and with the new WFH (Work from Home) structures, the risks are higher. I had this in mind when I joined ADP’s Analyst Day la[...]

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• Payroll Services a Gateway to Broader HCM Tech & Service Adoption by U.S. Small Businesses

  Apr 21, 2020, by Elizabeth Rennie

    NelsonHall recently published a new U.S. SMB Payroll Services marketing analysis specifically focused on how HR service and technology providers are meeting the increasing demand for technology-based payroll and HR solutions from emerging small-mid sized businesses (<250 employees). The SMB picture Payroll services adoption remains steady amongst buyers of all sizes and stil[...]

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• Alight Solutions Boosts Global Presence & Cloud HR Capability with Acquisition of NGA HR

  Aug 30, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This past week the payroll services market experienced yet another consolidation of major vendors, with Alight Solutions (‘Alight’) announcing its intent to acquire multi-country payroll specialist NGA HR. Although the deal terms were not disclosed, once approved (expected by Q4, possibly Q1 2020 at the latest), the acquisition will bring together two leading HR BPaaS [...]

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• Safeguard Global Fuels its Future with Acquisition of Workfor

  May 08, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This past week I had the opportunity to attend a private event hosted by Safeguard Global at Crewe Hall in the U.K., where the company celebrated its continued success in the global payroll space and made a major announcement that aims to fuel the company’s continued growth and support its vision for enabling simplified, compliant global expansion for multinational businesses. [...]

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• CloudPay: Changing the Performance Mindset with Payroll Efficiency Index

  Apr 24, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This past month, NelsonHall published its annual Next Generation Payroll Services report, which found that buyers and clients of managed payroll services are keenly focused on engaging ‘next generation’ technologies that can enable payroll operating model transformation. Thus, organizations are increasingly seeking out managed payroll services providers that can provide a[...]

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• Excelity Global’s Digital HR Plans for 2019

  Mar 21, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie

    With the digital economy pushing businesses to pivot and reimagine the way they operate, HR is under considerable pressure to support new business models and shifts in strategic direction.  Further, the workplace and the way we work is rapidly evolving, adding to the complexities and challenges HR must navigate to compete for today's top talent. As a result, organizations of[...]

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• Global Payroll Steals the Show at ADP rethink 2019

  Feb 01, 2019, by Elizabeth Rennie

    This past week I had the opportunity to attend ADP rethink, its global HCM client event in Berlin, where the theme was "Transforming the Way the World Works." With many organizations undergoing massive change and transformation brought on by digitalization, the selection of Berlin as the backdrop seemed fitting given the deep history and massive change the city has experien[...]

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• HCM & Payroll Integration: A Look at CloudPay Connect 2.0

  Oct 09, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie

    As organizations of all sizes continue to re-evaluate and address legacy HR and payroll systems and processes en route to enhanced digital operating models, cloud-based applications are increasingly being selected as the vehicle for HR transformation. With the introduction and increasing prevalence of advanced APIs, buyers are being afforded the ability to leverage a “best of c[...]

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• Payroll Services Clients’ Transformation & Innovation Expectations Not Being Met

  Aug 21, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie

    As part of NelsonHall’s recent Next Generation Payroll Services market analysis, in addition to interviewing 20 of the leading payroll services providers globally, our research extended to a survey of the vendors’ clients. We met clients of different sizes, from a variety of geographies and industries, and covering a range of services in-scope and levels of payroll sourci[...]

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• SGWI’s GEO Employment Model: Enabling Agile Global Expansion

  May 22, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie

    As businesses today are increasingly operating at a global level, they face inherent complexity and compliance hurdles. Indeed, a recurring finding in NelsonHall’s annual payroll market analysis is that compliance is a key driver for organizations outsourcing payroll. And new regulatory directives such as GDPR are placing yet more compliance pressure on the HR and payroll leade[...]

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• CloudPay’s Automation Roadmap for Optimizing Global Payroll

  Mar 07, 2018, by Elizabeth Rennie

    NelsonHall’s most recent Next Generation Payroll Services market analysis reveals that payroll service buyers are focused on access to transformation-enabling technology. The use of automation has become commonplace, with payroll vendors leveraging RPA, AI, and machine learning capabilities to eliminate manual effort in the payroll process. And payroll service providers are inv[...]

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• Excelity Enhances APAC Payroll Capability with Automated T&A Tracking and Cognitive Chatbots

  Dec 21, 2017, by Elizabeth Rennie

    A key finding from NelsonHall’s recently published Next Generation Payroll Services market analysis is that buyers are now much more focused on automation and other forms of transformative technology that will drive digitalization of their HR operating models. In payroll, as elsewhere in HR, this increasingly takes the form of automating manual transactional tasks and[...]

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• Neeyamo Driving Innovation to Bridge the Gap Between Global & Local Payroll

  Nov 22, 2017, by Elizabeth Rennie

    As globalization of the workforce continues its evolution, HR leaders today face the challenge of managing a more diverse, dispersed, and technology savvy human capital environment than ever before. Thus, acquiring, integrating, managing, and paying a borderless workforce is a major challenge for many multinational organizations today, driving the need to transform and digitize globa[...]

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