Product Vision

StarGarden is the enterprise-wide answer for trouble free administration of your Payroll and Human Resources business processes and data. StarGarden minimizes administrative overhead by delivering HR services directly to line managers and supervisors. StarGarden provides the freedom to quickly and easily respond to organizational and legislative changes while providing administrators with full automation and managers with the unlimited decision-support information they demand.

Figure 1: StarGarden Layers

We work directly with you to help you improve your business through better management and control of your most business-critical asset - your people. We provide more automation, more efficient HR processes and more accurate payrolls, but our biggest contribution will come from better information for better planning. Better planning comes from better information, and the best information is a by-product of a well-structured record-keeping and administrative system.

Record Keeping

No system can meet your needs if it does not capture, store and manage the information critical to your HR and Payroll processes. StarGarden comprehensive database and record keeping functions are the foundation from which the advantages of the StarGarden solution result.

Capturing data close to its source maximizes accuracy. To encourage this method of data input, the StarGarden system distributes data entry to the users who are most closely involved with the data. For example, assistants in remote offices can capture leave and vacation information, while supervisors can have access to the data for review and adjustment purposes.

StarGarden's record keeping functions are designed to eliminate data input and processing redundancies, and to maximize the efficiency with which your HR and payroll data are handled. The system operates online with real-time data file updates. This means that when information is added or changed, the new data is immediately available to everyone with authority to access it. Each piece of information is edited and validated as it is entered, ensuring consistent data integrity.

Automated Administration

StarGarden's administration functions provide statistical reports that assist with the day-to-day management of your organization's human resources and payroll. These reports, including payroll run reports, EEO reports, employee profile reports and others, are essentially the system outputs: what you need to get out of the system on a daily basis for your HR/payroll management.

A truly effective HR/Payroll system should also output management information to support executive decision-making. The StarGarden system has been designed to deliver management information as a by-product of administrative functions. No need to create a separate data warehouse. The StarGarden database accurately simulates the organization to ensure that reports are accurate.

Management Information

With the StarGarden system, reporting on these trends can be accomplished easily, even by non-IS staff. The desktop query tool, Impromptu, enables the creation of sophisticated database reports with a few clicks of the mouse. A single, integrated view of your data is presented to users. Via the browser interface, StarGarden displays columns of data requiring no knowledge of tables, joins or other database structures.

Planning

Most of the IT budget in public sector organizations today is spent on infrastructure and record keeping systems. The record keeping systems have a high operational burden and many are not even updated on a real-time basis and therefore do not provide current information. Very little investment is put into planning systems which are systems designed to make sure that resources and activities are best optimized to meet the organization's objectives.

The worst offender in many organizations is the financial system which is designed to provide expenditure analysis but usually lags by one or several weeks. Managers who must approve proposed future expenditures are often 'on their own' for predicting end-of-year budget outcomes.

Labor is normally a major but poorly managed cost. Is each employee doing exactly the right thing in the most optimized manner. NeoPath provides internet-based collaboration tools which, with an understanding of purpose, allow better optimization of assignments of employees and other resources. The transparency provided by an internet-based collaborative process allows more people to question the priorities leading to better outcomes.

With the StarGarden system, reporting on these trends can be accomplished easily, even by non-IS staff. The browser-based query tools, enable the creation of sophisticated database reports with a few clicks of the mouse.