HR Web Builder need proprietary database to create Intranets - WorkWise HR Web Builder software

HR Magazine, March, 1997 by Roderick Munn

Comprose Inc. of St. Louis has a new module for its Procedure WRITE 1.6 database: the Export Gateway, designed as a practical, easy, affordable and quick way to create sophisticated web pages on any standard Windows operating system or network. The gateway uses automated HTML coding, an Index Page, e-mail boxes and other features to put the procedures and information employees need into a form accessible by any standard web browser. (800) 348-8211.

Information Management Inc. of Atlanta offers a packaged human resource solution for intranets. Intranet. HR is an interactive system giving employees self-service access to current HR information such as personalized benefits and payroll data, corporate policies, directories and online reports. The program consists of eight modules: administration, payroll, benefits, personnel, employee relations, employee information. corporate communications and employee education. (800) 377-4626.

The Employee Service System (ESY) from Edify Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., is the company's first fully integrated application for direct employee access to corporate information and services via an intranet. ESY uses interactive media, such as web browsers, with telephones, e-mail, kiosks and fax machines to automate common and time-intensive human resource transactions with employees. The system can be customized to the organization's needs and coordinated with the existing human resource information system using pre-built modules for leading HRIS vendors. (800) 944-0056 or (408) 982-4114.

Editor's note: Inclusion in this sampling of products does not necessarily imply endorsement SHRM or HRMagazine.

Compiled by Alice M. Starcke, associate editor of HRMagazine.

Roderick Munn, manager of HR systems at Parker-Hannifin Corp. in Cleveland, is chairman of the HR Technology Management Committee, a joint committee of SHRM and The International Association for Human Resource Information Management.