1. Home
  2. HR Management Software
  3. UKG Pro Reviews
  4. User Review of UKG Pro
UltiPro and U! It's a partnership
Updated May 25, 2016

UltiPro and U! It's a partnership

Trey Teich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Worplace

Modules Used

  • CORE
  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding
  • Talent Management

Overall Satisfaction with UltiPro

Our company uses UltiPro to manage all of our departments and contracts. We use it for payroll but we do not use their timekeeping system. Through the use of the optional modules (recruiting and onboarding), we have the entire employee life cycle automated with UltiPro. We chose UltiPro because of their level of support and because it allowed us to integrate all our HRIS functions in one system. We had been using multiple systems to manage the same functions, and that became an operational challenge for us, with interoperability and support.
  • The implementation team is amazing in coordinating the transition from a legacy system. There is a well-developed implementation plan.
  • Ultimate becomes a partner with you in your work and they are always interested in how they can support you. They have continually refined and improved their support model.
  • They are committed to making UltiPro interoperable with other systems. Their latest project has been a relationship with Informatica to make integration a user-achievable goal.
  • Product updates are driven my customer response. They have a voting system for requested changes. Twice a year, the product receives a significant update. Not all customer requests are implemented each cycle, but they do evaluate them.
  • One area is already being addressed is the interfaces of the optional recruiting and onboarding modules. These are currently products not developed by Ultimate, so the operation is not standard across them. However, they are bringing these products in-house.
  • We just went through open enrollment, so this is foremost in my mind at the moment - open enrollment sessions are difficult to configure and copy from a prior year.
  • It would be great to have a sandbox for testing. Such an environment is available, but the commitment is for a year and the price is somewhat high. Barring access to a sandbox, extending testing capabilities to other program areas would be useful.
UltiPro is well suited as an integrated environment. Consider the timing of the conversion effort to make sure that your company has internal resources sufficient for the effort and that it integrates with your financial year. Decide if you want to purchase the optional products and consider the timing for the deployment of them in your project plan. Consider your potential growth in planning for the implementation and the cost.

UKG Pro Feature Ratings

9.1
Employee demographic data
9
Employment history
8
Job profiles and administration
10
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
10
Organizational charting
9
Organization and location management
8
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
10
9.8
Pay calculation
10
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
9
Direct deposit files
10
Salary revision and increment management
10
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
9.6
View and generate pay and benefit information
10
Update personal information
10
View job history
9
View company policy documentation
10
Employee recognition
9
6.0
Tracking of all physical assets
6
10.0
Report builder
10
Pre-built reports
10
Ability to combine HR data with external data
10
Integration with other HR capabilities ()
Not Rated
9.0
Performance plans
9
Performance improvement plans
9
Review status tracking
9
Review reminders
9
Multiple review frequency
9
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
9.5
New hire portal
10
Manager tracking tools
9
9.0
Corporate goal setting
9
Individual goal setting
9
Line-of sight-visibility
9
Performance tracking
9
9.3
Job Requisition Management
9
Company Website Posting
10
Publish to Social Media
10
Job Search Site Posting
9
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
9
Applicant Tracking
9
Notifications and Alerts
9

Using UltiPro

All of our staff, representing all of our business functions, use UltiPro. Our employees use it for self service and for the intranet function. Our HR folks use it for recruiting, onboarding, HR Management, talent management, and offboarding. Our payroll staff uses it for payroll processing.

UltiPro Implementation

The implementation project is aggressive but achievable. Ultimate provides great support for this effort. Consider the project plan and make sure you have the internal resources available to support it before you begin. Consider the timing of the implementation plan. If you purchase optional modules, consider taking a break after CORE implemenentation before beginning another activation project (to give your staff time to recover). Consider the deployment timing to coincide with the beginning of your fiscal year (it is not required but it will make some balance-forward calculations easier). For now, consider deploying the optional modules after Ultimate has finished bringing them in-house. Engage your benefits vendors early in the process to allow time to develop the automatic feeds from Ultipro.
  • Vendor implemented

Integrating UltiPro