UKG Expands Strategic Collaboration with Microsoft
September 13, 2021 at 12:00 pm EDT
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The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft that can enhance the employee technology experience at thousands of organizations globally running on UKG and Microsoft solutions. Presently, the collaboration is focused on four strategic areas; Providing Faster Access to Answers: Through a UKG chatbot in Microsoft Teams, employees can ask for time off, check their pay information, search for contacts within their organization, and complete a variety of other actions usually performed in UKG Pro directly from Teams. The chatbot is adding new capabilities regularly, Creating More Connected Employee Experiences: In addition to bringing together relevant actions, company news, communities, and resources, Microsoft’s employee experience platform Viva will surface relevant updates from Pro and UKG Dimensions, such as key to-dos, the ability to view schedules and paychecks, and the option to request time off " creating a one-stop shop for critical information within Viva Connections, a gateway for employee engagement, Offering More Seamless Onboarding: HR managers can quickly and easily provide new hires a Microsoft Windows 365 virtual cloud PC from within Pro immediately upon hire, eliminating manual requests between HR and IT, ensuring every new hire has a fully provisioned virtual cloud PC with access to necessary business applications ready for their first day of work and Simplifying Business Insights: By automating the synchronization of payroll data between Dimensions and Microsoft Dynamics 365 without the need for custom interfaces, business intelligence teams have up-to-datetimekeeping data and workforce analytics for deeper organizational insights, and finance teams have an even more accurate view of the General Ledger.
Microsoft Corporation is the world's leader in the design, development and marketing of operating systems and software programs for PC's and servers. The group also builds and sells computer equipment. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of operating systems and application development tools (47.9%): primarily for servers (Azure, SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, GitHub, etc.) and (Windows);
- development of cloud-based software applications (23%): programs for productivity (Microsoft 365; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access), integrated management and customer relationship management (Dynamics 365), online file sharing and management (OneDrive), and unified and collaborative communications (Skype and Microsoft Teams);
- sale of video gaming hardware and software (7.3%) : mainly Xbox;
- enterprise services (3.6%);
- sale of computers, tablets and accessories (2.6%);
- other (15.6%).
The United States accounts for 50.4% of net sales.