Overview
What is Ascentis (discontinued)?
Ascentis HR uses web-based management programs to help automate complex HR processes. Ascentis’ other services included customizable payroll, time and attendance and recruiting modules. Ascentis was acquired by UKG in March of 2022, and will be discontinued.
Santis offers you everything in the sales call and delivers only a part of it. Implementation and often is unavailable to communicate with you at all for a long time
Ascentis HR is where you want to be with your firms HR offering if you want a local company that cares about what they are selling.
Ascentis HR - It just works!
One and a half years in.
User friendly software in a hard times industry
New User w/ Honest Feedback
Medium Product
HRIS and Payroll System Excellence
Ascentis is great and could be even greater with a few tweaks
Short, Sweet and Simple, Sincere Review
More bang for your buck! And great support to boot!
Technical System View
Ascentis--once you get past the learning curve, it's great
Ascentis - Cost Effective HRIS for Smaller Firms
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Popular Features
- Update personal information (151)8.686%
- Pre-built reports (142)7.575%
- Employment history (140)7.373%
- Report builder (144)7.070%
Pricing
What is Ascentis (discontinued)?
Ascentis HR uses web-based management programs to help automate complex HR processes. Ascentis’ other services included customizable payroll, time and attendance and recruiting modules. Ascentis was acquired by UKG in March of 2022, and will be discontinued.
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- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Human Resource Management
Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.
- 6.7Employee demographic data(137) Ratings
Administrators have the ability to enter detailed demographic data for each employee.
- 7.3Employment history(140) Ratings
Employment history is the ability to track previous positions held.
- 6.9Job profiles and administration(128) Ratings
Job profiles and descriptions can be created and edited.
- 6.7Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.(126) Ratings
Employee move workflow provides the ability to move employees to different positions and apply pay raises.
- 5.2Organizational charting(90) Ratings
Organizational charting is the ability to create hierarchical charts.
- 8Organization and location management(109) Ratings
Organization and location management allows employees to be managed across multiple geographical locations.
- 8.8Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)(102) Ratings
Compliance capabilities ensure full compliance with federal workplace regulations by capturing required data in central database.
Payroll Management
Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.
- 7.1Pay calculation(115) Ratings
Pay calculation provides for computation of employee pay with state and federal deductions.
- 6.1Support for external payroll vendors(62) Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors is the ability to integrate with 3rd-party payroll services.
- 8.3Off-cycle/On-Demand payment(28) Ratings
Provide employees access to wages accrued during the pay period before the end of the pay cycle.
- 6.7Benefit plan administration(108) Ratings
Benefit plan administration is administration of health insurance plans and 401k plans, and other benefits.
- 9.2Direct deposit files(100) Ratings
Direct deposit is the ability to electronically transfer pay to an employee’s personal bank account.
- 8.6Salary revision and increment management(92) Ratings
Salary revision is the ability to modify individual employee pay.
- 8.8Reimbursement management(51) Ratings
Reimbursement management provides cash reimbursement for employee expenses related to business travel or other.
Leave and Attendance Management
Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.
- 7.9Approval workflow(99) Ratings
Approval workflow is the process for approving employee paid time-off requests.
- 7Balance details(99) Ratings
Balance details is automatic updating of paid time-off balance to reflect time taken.
- 8.4Annual carry-forward and encashment(84) Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment enables unused paid time-off days to be carried forward to new year, or paid in cash.
Employee Self Service
Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.
- 7.8View and generate pay and benefit information(138) Ratings
Employees can view pay and benefit data and print pay stubs.
- 8.6Update personal information(151) Ratings
Employees can update personal profile with change of address, dependents, or other personal data.
- 5.4View company policy documentation(110) Ratings
Employees can review company handbook, and corporate policy documents.
- 6Employee recognition(61) Ratings
thank a team member
- 7.3View job history(108) Ratings
Employees can view all positions held at the company.
Asset Management
Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.
- 5.8Tracking of all physical assets(33) Ratings
Tracking of track laptops, pagers, phones, and other company equipment.
HR Reporting
Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.
- 7Report builder(144) Ratings
Report builder allows custom reports to be created using a GUI.
- 7.5Pre-built reports(142) Ratings
Pre-built reports is the provision of a variety of canned reports on employee retention, and other key metrics.
- 4.6Ability to combine HR data with external data(73) Ratings
Ability to bring data from external systems like CRM and combine with HR data.
Onboarding
Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.
- 5.3New hire portal(98) Ratings
New hire portal eliminates printing and mailing with a personalized portal of all required reading, corporate information, and all forms and other paperwork, online.
- 4.9Manager tracking tools(76) Ratings
Tracking tools allow hiring managers to check status on individual hires for all onboarding activities.
Performance and Goals
Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.
- 6.7Corporate goal setting(43) Ratings
Corporate goal setting is the ability to define corporate goals, and/or vision statements in the system.
- 7.6Individual goal setting(53) Ratings
Individual goal setting is the ability to define individual goals that align to organizational and subordinate goals.
- 7.1Line-of sight-visibility(38) Ratings
Line-of-sight visibility is the provision of line-of sight visibility for each goal to see how goals support overall corporate objectives.
- 7.2Performance tracking(50) Ratings
Performance tracking allows managers to track individual progress against goals as a component of overall performance.
Performance Management
Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.
- 5.6Performance plans(59) Ratings
Supervisors have ability to build individual performance plans including, goals, competencies, etc..
- 5.6Performance improvement plans(50) Ratings
Supervisors can track disciplinary actions such as performance improvement plans.
- 5.8Review status tracking(57) Ratings
Supervisors can monitor and track review status completion with dashboard showing milestones and status.
- 6.5Review reminders(55) Ratings
System can generate reminders to ensure review completion timeliness.
- 6.6Multiple review frequency(50) Ratings
System supports multiple review types including annual, quarterly mid-year and anniversary reviews.
Succession Planning
Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.
- 6.4Create succession plans/pools(21) Ratings
Managers can create and manage pools of potentially high-performing individuals.
- 6.4Candidate ranking(21) Ratings
Candidate readiness for key business positions can be ranked and assessed.
- 5Candidate search(27) Ratings
Candidate search provides search capabilities for potential candidates based on attribute or other profile data.
- 5.8Candidate development(23) Ratings
Candidate development is the ability to assign learning and development goals.
Recruiting / ATS
Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.
- 5.5Job Requisition Management(85) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 5.2Company Website Posting(79) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 5.7Publish to Social Media(59) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 5.8Job Search Site Posting(71) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 5.6Duplicate Candidate Prevention(57) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 5.7Applicant Tracking(83) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 5.3Notifications and Alerts(69) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
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What is Ascentis (discontinued)?
Ascentis was acquired by UKG in March of 2022. The service will be discontinued.
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(323)Attribute Ratings
- 6.3Likelihood to Renew12 ratings
- 6.7Availability5 ratings
- 7.1Performance4 ratings
- 7.6Usability44 ratings
- 8.2Support Rating150 ratings
- 8.3Online Training4 ratings
- 8In-Person Training1 rating
- 8.3Implementation Rating5 ratings
- 9Configurability1 rating
- 6.7Product Scalability4 ratings
- 3Ease of integration1 rating
- 9.6Vendor pre-sale3 ratings
- 9.6Vendor post-sale3 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 157)The Good and the Bad!
- Not sure yet. We have struggled with Ascentis the last two years. It has taken much longer to get it up and running than we thought it would've. We are much further behind in getting our modules up and running than we thought we would be.
- Negative impact on available data tracking
- Positive impact on the employee self service and reducing time for others to train
Ascentis HR is where you want to be with your firms HR offering if you want a local company that cares about what they are selling.
- One major positive impact has been employees ability to request and review their own leave. This has made our company seem more professional (by offering this service) while lessening the load on HR to maintain that information.
- Having all of our data stored off site, albeit with possible security issues not that we have faced any yet, has positive effect in that wit lessens our burden of keeping local data backed up.
- While we are not using the built in hooks into our benefits provider, as of yet, once we do bring that on board it will surely have a another positive ROI in lessening our HR staff burden even more. In fact, unfortunately to some, it could help any company offer similar services prior to using Ascentis with less HR staff.
Ascentis HR - It just works!
- It projects a level of professionalism to staff and third parties. Many of our 'sister-agencies' do not have HR software at all.
- As stated - we were excited about the idea of scheduling through NovaTime but it became a costly venture to customize - and there were a lot of grey promises on both sides.
One and a half years in.
- With bio-metric authentication, there is less time theft.
- But, the cost of clocks is high for what they are.
User friendly software in a hard times industry
- We are able to have all locations doing the same process even from other states.
- We spend less time making sure everyone knows when a change has happened for the alerts do this for us.
- Spend less time trying to look in a file to find any number of items of information on an employee when trying to make decisions, for the information is at your fingertips.
- Open Enrollment alone was the easiest it has ever been due to ease of enrolling, and ease of tracking who needs to complete the enrollment by the deadline.
New User w/ Honest Feedback
- Being able to print off-cycle checks instantly and complete all reporting and tracking within the system is much better than manual calculations that cost more and risk more error.
- Overall, the cost of using Ascentis vs. doing everything ourselves manually saves us money.
Medium Product
- None at this time
HRIS and Payroll System Excellence
- Not number specific, but for roughly 120 employees, payroll and timesheets can be completed in a matter of hours instead of days.
Short, Sweet and Simple, Sincere Review
- It has saved me time. I went from having to deal with 4 vendors to one.
- We're actually paying more for Ascentis, but we're getting a return on the investment.
More bang for your buck! And great support to boot!
- Positive by the hours report. We pull everyday for the previous day.
Technical System View
- It has streamlined our hiring process and training initiatives.
- It has created extensive administrative time because there are system tweaks that should be made to update for today's market.
Ascentis--once you get past the learning curve, it's great
- I think the employees like this system. It is fairly easy to use.
Ascentis - Cost Effective HRIS for Smaller Firms
- Positive - Reduced the manual tracking of data or using Excel.
- ACA - a time-consuming task that has taken my benefits manager away from working on more strategic valued added work.
Ascentis works for mid-sized manufacturing HR needs
- Diminished need for staffing in HR department
- Compliance management in onboarding
- Still working through learning management; possible ROI there, but not fully realized
Great value for money
- I believe it has had a big ROI on our overall business.
Ascentis--Adequate
- Uncertain at this point; we've only had the system around one year
My Ascentis Review
- Negative ROI
- Terribly inefficient
Employee Friend HRIS!
- This has helped streamline the length of payroll processing tremendously saving so much time for other duties.
- It has been great to have all of our employee information in one central location, easy access and that the modules communicate/link together. If I change something here, it gets "pushed" to all other modules.
- I do not maximize ESS, particularly posting information on the home page because it is so TEDIOUS.
- LOVE the app, would love for it to be easier for employees to reset their password to whatever they want vs. the system generated password.
A product that helps manage time efficiently
- Helped to manage time better for employees and their supervisors.
Ascentis has helped us help ourselves!
- Ascentis gives us the ability to manage our payroll and HR processes on our own without having to contact them for every little thing. Resources, training and the ease of use make this possible. Previously, we would have to submit every change in deduction, direct deposit, etc to our payroll vendor for them to enter into the system. The amount of time and errors that came of that was astonishing.
Some good, some not-so-good.
- It's wasted TONS of time during installment of the review module
- It's still costing too much time to use HR (desktop)
- Payroll is working well and has a positive impact.
Ascentis = BEST HRIS System Around!
- HR DPT. is much more effective, as we can assess any employee information no matter where we are, etc. This helps to provide information immediately when requested!
- Employees have access to Ascentis, and therefore to their timecard, open enrollment, etc., from anywhere at any time!
- Time, PTO requests, employee goals, and evaluations can be approved from anywhere at any time!
- Recruiting can be accessed any where at any time, and this helps with hiring, internal communication, etc.
User-Friendly Product with Great Support
- User Friendly