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Ascentis (discontinued)

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.

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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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  • 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.

7.1
Avg 7.9

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

7.8
Avg 8.1

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.

7.8
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

7
Avg 8.1

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.

5.8
Avg 8.0

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

6.3
Avg 7.6

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.

5.1
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

7.2
Avg 8.0

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

6
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

5.9
Avg 7.8

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.

5.5
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is Ascentis (discontinued)?

Ascentis was an a-la carte full suite workforce management (WFM) technology platform and human capital solutions. Ascentis WFM provided time and attendance solutions that provided clients with scheduling, compliance, complex calculations, and time collection options. The HCM suite, included a fully a-la carte solution.

Ascentis was acquired by UKG in March of 2022. The service will be discontinued.

Ascentis (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Access all of your details including, paychecks, personal file, timeclock, etc via our mobile app.Screenshot of Punch-in and punch-out on the go.Screenshot of Centralized location for everything related to a user or admin.Screenshot of Every employee has access to their personal information in one location.Screenshot of Pre-built reporting along with Ad Hoc reporting gives you the ability to understand your business as a whole.Screenshot of Benefit enrollment made easy for your employees.Screenshot of Manage your employees schedule, PTO, accruals through our best of breed timekeeping system.

Ascentis (discontinued) Competitors

Ascentis (discontinued) Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

UKG Pro, Paylocity, and Paycom are common alternatives for Ascentis (discontinued).

Reviewers rate Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Ascentis (discontinued) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Ascentis Self-Service has saved me hours of work!

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 21, 2018
JL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ascentis (discontinued)
1 year of experience
We use Ascentis HR across the organization for our permanent employees. Our employees have been happy with the switch to Ascentis, as they can now see and print their pay stubs from the self-service [portal], change personal information (address, W-4, etc.) as well as see their accrued PTO in timekeeper.
  • Benefit enrollment through the self-service portal has been extremely helpful and saved lots of time.
  • The report wizard is wonderful! What a breeze running the annual EEO-1 report!
  • The ability to change managers for an entire department with one entry vs. individual entries for each member of that department saves is a time saver.
Cons
  • I found building the benefits for open enrollment to be quite confusing. This may get easier with experience, but I found it to be difficult.
  • Although employees have access to their pay stubs in the self-service portal, it would be helpful for their manager to have access to their stubs as well.

The Employee Self-Service portal has been a huge time saver for our company.

Open enrollment was much easier than ever before with the online access and options.

As a staffing company, we do our own payroll and tax reporting. For this reason, we did not purchase the tax portion of Ascentis, and we have had trouble running some of our quarterly tax reports that we were able to run with our prior software vendor.

Ascentis Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 16, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ascentis (discontinued)
1 year of experience
[It's being used for] human resources, payroll and manager/employee self-service.
  • HR records management
  • Benefits records management
  • HR system flexibility
Cons
  • Payroll system is ancient and report writer is really bad in the payroll module
  • 0-500 employees.
  • Larger would most likely want a better looking user interface.
  • HR only where payroll is done by another provider.

Overall a great product

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 01, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ascentis (discontinued)
2 years of experience
It is used across the organization HRIS, Performance Mgmt, Employee Self Service, Recruiting ATS, Onboarding.
  • Recruiting ATS works very well
  • Onboarding is awesome
  • HR database
  • All three are easy to use.
Cons
  • I would like to see the core HR function house address history.
  • The performance management system runs slow almost all the time. Needs to be faster.
  • Wish offer letters for onboarding had a little more room for customization.
It is great for handling recruitment function, even for government contractors. The onboarding portal is easy to use. The performance management system could use some improvement in the way it is designed.

Reveiw of Ascentis

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 23, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ascentis (discontinued)
1 year of experience
Ascentis is being used by our whole organization, for the employee's complete life cycle. We are using the applicant tracking system, onboarding, employees self service, payroll, time and attendance, benefits (carrier connect), and termination and archiving. We are not using the COBRA function, as this is being handled by one of our carriers. It addresses all issues connected with employee information tracking, reporting, payroll, and benefits administration, as well as recruitment for our internal job opportunities.
  • The Employee Self Service tool through Ascentis is very clean and uncluttered compared to our previous system. Our employees seem to appreciate the streamlined nature of handling their time and paycheck transactions through ESS.
  • Carrier connect feeds the benefits information to the carriers electronically, so that I do not need to enter data into each carrier's website for new hires, adds, terms and Open Enrollment.
  • For the most part, there is a seamlessness and flow through the modules, so that your candidates can apply, be hired, then on boarded, and the information will flow directly into HR and payroll.
Cons
  • We were told during the sales process that our current performance management tool could be customized and implemented within the system. When we followed up after purchasing the products, we were told that our tool could not be implemented the way we had understood.
  • Some of the information gathered during the application process (such as education) does not flow into Ascentis HR, and very little information flows to Novatime. Our payroll administrator is responsible for populating many of the fields, but many fields also remain blank, since they are redundant with Ascentis HR.
  • We previously had Benetrac for our benefits administration and carrier connect. Benetrac was full service, meaning that I supplied the information, and Benetrac built our system based on our benefits structure. Ascentis is not like this at all. Implementation meant that my payroll administrator and I spent countless hours entering data and building the structure of our system. For example, with benefits, I was shown how to enter the information for each benefit, then allowed to proceed on my own. The info I entered was never checked for accuracy. I am now encountering endless problems with benefit effective dates and employee start dates as a result of not knowing what I did not know. My Ascentis support team is extremely patient as we try to unwind my errors, but the credibility I am losing with my employees who bring the errors to my attention is beyond infuriating.

Some key questions to ask during the selection process are:

  • How much time will be required of me during implementation? What can I expect during the implementation process?
  • Aside from our initial investment, what types of customization are available, and what will be the cost to our organization?
  • How much time will it take for the carrier connect process to be completed? How will the transition work with my previous benefits administration system?

Be sure to understand how the timing of implementation of each module will affect your workflow, and what you will need to do doing the transition process to keep your business running smoothly.

We love Ascentis

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 06, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ascentis (discontinued)
12 years of experience
We use it for our HR Department as our HRIS and payroll/timekeeping system. We also use the Employee Self-Service across the company.
  • It is highly customizable - something we needed for our organization.
  • It is easy to use/learn
Cons
  • We don't like NovaTime (timekeeping system) as much as our old system but we are getting used to it.
Smaller companies (we have 200 employees), companies that need an HRIS solution but do not have huge budgets. We are integrating the Applicant Tracking System as well and have been happy with that progress.
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