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HR-XML Consortium Works to Standardize Payroll Transactions

Payroll Providers Invited to Participate in Standardization Effort

CHICAGO — (BUSINESS WIRE) —July 24, 2000 —The HR-XML Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to human resources (HR) data exchange, announced the formation of a new workgroup to standardize payroll transactions using XML. The first priority of the workgroup will be to develop a set of XML schemas to standardize communications between HR and payroll systems and also between payroll systems and third-party (e.g., 401K plan) administrators. Payroll providers, employers and HR companies are all encouraged to take part in the development of the new standards.

"Right now, there is no consistent way that payroll transactions are handled. Every employer, every payroll provider and every third-party administrator uses their own conventions for communication," explained Jeff Bonar (Ultimate Software), member of the HR-XML Consortium's Board of Directors. "While many companies are successfully using XML messaging to transfer data back and forth, it's still on an exclusive, one-to-one basis between users and suppliers. With no industry standards for payroll transactions, organizations are forced to create custom imports and exports to deal with this information every time a new payroll system is implemented."

"People on all sides of the industry are voicing the need for payroll transaction standards," added Shelly Sprague (Simpata), chair of the HR-XML Payroll Workgroup. "We are excited to have representatives from many of the leading industry players on our workgroup. We strongly encourage payroll providers, employers or any company that will be affected by the outcome of our work to participate in the development of the standards."

Membership in the HR-XML Consortium and participation in the Payroll Workgroup is open to anyone involved in the payroll and/or HR industries, employers and vendors alike. Since the announcement of the workgroup at the HR-XML members meeting in Chicago last week, more than 20 HR and payroll providers came forth to contribute to this effort. Organizations and individuals interested in joining the Consortium, should visit http://www.hr-xml.org/join.html.

"Payroll providers, HR companies, employers and benefit providers clearly have much to gain from the HR-XML work," said Chuck Allen, director of HR-XML. "Building and maintaining interfaces between products will require much less time and money when we all follow the same standards."

About HR-XML

HR-XML (http://www.hr-xml.org) is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to enabling e-commerce and inter-company exchange of human resources (HR) data worldwide. The work of the Consortium centers on the development and promotion of standardized XML vocabularies for HR. HR-XML's efforts are focused on standards for staffing and recruiting, compensation and benefits, training and workforce management.

HR-XML members include: Adecco Corporation(1), Aetna US Healthcare, AppliedTheory(1), Authoria(1), Best Software, Inc.(1), BISNet, Burning Glass Technologies, Business Engine Software Corporation, Business Logic Corporation, CareerBuilder, Inc., Careerstream.com, CareerPath.com, CDI Corp/MRI(1), ChangePoint.com, Charles Schwab, CIC Applicant Background Checks(1), Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Human Resource Management, ComputerJobs.com, Concur Technologies, Inc., Crestone International(1), Cross Current Corporation, Deploy Solutions, Inc.(1), Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Digital Discoveries, Inc.(1), Directfit.com(1), E-Cruiter.com Inc.(1), Employease, Inc.(1), EmployeeMatters(1), Enwisen.com(1), Evolve, Fidelity Investments(1), Genesys, HeadHunter.net(1), Hewitt Associates LLC(1), Hire.com(1), iBenefits, IBM(1), Icarian(1), iClick, Inc.(1), Industry Canada, Interactive Search, Inc.(1), International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM), IQXchange.com,Inc., iTango Software, itiliti(1), J.D. Edwards(1), jobs.com(1), Kadiri Inc.(1), Kelly Services(1), kforce.com(1), Korn/Ferry(1), Lawson Software, Liquid Software, Main Sequence Technologies, Manpower, Inc.(1), MDTSC, Meta4, modis, Inc.(1), Monster.com, Nitorum Corporation, Novient, Inc., Online Benefits, Inc.(1), Opus360, Oracle(1), Pentawave, Inc., peopleclick.com(1), PeopleSoft(1), Personic(1), ProBusiness Services, Inc., Randstad Holding(1), Raymond Karsan Associates, recruitsoft.com, Resumix(1), Robert Half International Inc.(1), SAP(1), Simpata, Inc., SkillsVillage.com(1), SmartChannels.net, Snelling and Snelling, Inc., Spherion Corporation(1) (formerly Interim Services), techies.com(1), Total Employment Company, Inc., Towers Perrin, Ultimate Software(1), Vivant! Corporation, Volt Services Group(1), Watson Wyatt Worldwide(1), Webhire, Inc.(1), White Amber, and WorkLife Solutions, Inc. (1) indicates "Charter Member" status).

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