Optimum Solutions HRIS (discontinued)

We use Optimum Solutions in our Payroll/HR department to manage our employee information as well as for weekly hourly, semi-monthly salaried, commission and bonus payrolls. Currently only our Payroll/HR department utilizes the software but we are in the process of rolling out portions of the software to be used by employee supervisors and their employee self-service module that the employees will use to view/change their personal information as well as selected deductions.

Optimum Solutions works very well for all our payroll needs. We run payrolls weekly, semi-monthly, monthly and yearly. The end of year process is lined out very well and webinars are available to go over any new regulations required.
We haven't utilized the HR part of the software as much on the iSeries but are planning on changing that once we get converted to the Windows version later this year. The main reason for this is the HR part of the software on the iSeries is separate from payroll.

Optimum HRIS is the human resources and payroll software used by the account department. All departments in the organization use Optimum HRIS for time and attendance management. Optimum HRIS allowed West Virginia Media to bring payroll back in house to save time and money, while increasing the amount of control over taxes and reporting that was lacking from using a third party payroll administrator.

We use Optimum HRIS in a very small department and generally only one person is working in the database at a time. I would be curious to know how effective Optimum HRIS is at handling a larger number of users modifying the database on a regular basis. For our small shop, Optimum HRIS works beautifully.

We implemented Optimum solely to support our HR department which consisted of 4 Generalists, 1 HR Administrator and a Director of HR in order to support a population of 500 employees. Optimum was implemented to be used as a HRIS where we could track all employee data, changes and to generate reports based on employee data. In today's business environment there are so many managers making arbitrary decisions without notifying HR, so Optimum was our way of controlling information and ensuring that these decisions were tracked.

I would ask myself what data am I looking to house in this system before implementing. It is a very robust system so using Optimum to say only track employee personal information such as address and phone number would be a complete under utilization. I feel Optimum is best used for keeping records on employees, training records, OSHA and workers comp.