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Innovation is key in the IT industry. As consumer needs and wants change with time, businesses are always looking for new ways to satisfy the market. As 2013 comes to a close, FingerTec Worldwide is looking forward to release four new additions in the next year to our current line of software; HR Module for TimeTec Cloud, the Android TA project, advanced time & attendance functions for Ingress, and Ingress Web & Mobile clients. Read on for a preview of what’s in store for 2014. |
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The powerful cloud-based solution for automated Time & Attendance is expanding its horizons with the planned release of a HR Module to handle six different aspects of human resource management (HRM). This module is designed to help organizations further reduce their administrative costs by significantly decreasing the time spent on previously manual HRM practices. |
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| The following list shows the six distinctive features included in the HR Module: |
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Leave Management – For handling self-online applications and configuring leave balancing, accrual, & restriction settings |
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Employee Management – For handling inter-department transfers, appraisals, promotions as well as disciplinary actions |
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Recruitment – For handling job vacancies, candidates resume repository, interview scheduling and many more |
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Performance – For management of key performance indicator (KPI) including employee appraisal and review process |
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Training – For management of employee training courses while giving employees better career succession planning |
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Asset – For management of company resources assigned to employees and company asset information like brand, vendor & warranty |
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Android TA is an ongoing project by FingerTec to develop a simple-to-use Android app that provides API for clocking data collection from fingerprint, password, near-field communication (NFC), or face recognition verification stations. The soon-to-be-named app will be supported by all Android-based tablets, and includes four main utilities. |
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| The following is a list of the four main functions in Project Android TA: |
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Attendance – For generating, viewing & editing attendance data with multiple filter options and a summary of attendance data |
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Scheduling – For managing weekly schedules with up to six clocking columns as well as configuring overtime and break time rules on top of other scheduling functions |
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Duty Rosters – For setting up group or personal duty rosters and managing holidays & staff leaves |
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Reporting – For generating up to 15 different types of comprehensive reports on attendance data which can be directly printed via wireless printer or exported into PDF format & emails |
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Ingress Advanced Time & Attendance |
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The advanced access control system, Ingress, will be getting a major upgrade with the inclusion of comprehensive time & attendance functionalities. Previously focusing on access control, the addition of the new features will enable users to configure schedules, job costing and other advanced attendance rules. Ingress will also include multiple user levels for varying access to the software, supports multiple client login as well as provide an operation audit trail for tracking purposes. |
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| Below is a summary of the advanced time & attendance features in Ingress: |
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Scheduling – Supports daily, weekly and flexi schedules with 6 columns of clocking slots, multiple shifts, as well as configurations for rotational shifts, complex work rate calculations, and time rounding features |
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Job Costing – Supports unlimited clocking data entry & its editing, advanced work hours calculation logic, is fully integrated with FingerTec devices’ work code feature, and comes with the API for integration with third party payroll software |
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Report Generation – Provides a total of 30 time & attendance reports, including attendance listing & analysis, terminal analysis and duty schedule listing, which can all be exported into PDF, DOC, XLS or CSV formats |
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Report Scheduling – Provides recurring automated interface to email reports to users on a periodic basis without having to login to the software |
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Ingress Web & Mobile Client |
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To promote easier usages of the Advanced Access Control System, Ingress, FingerTec will be releasing Ingress Web and Ingress Mobile to provide remote access from web browsers or mobile devices like Android tablets or iPads. The mobile-friendly look, feel and interface as well as its easy deployment & installation helps to enhance user experience. The web and mobile clients will be fully integrated with the Ingress server and uses 128-bit AES encryption for secure communication between servers and clients. |
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| The list below summarizes the functions and features available in Ingress Web and Ingress Mobile: |
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Monitoring – Provides real-time door & alarm event monitoring to receive & acknowledge alarms anywhere a wireless connection is available, with flexible event filter options |
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Door Control – Provides real-time status display of doors with remote operation functions such as locking or unlocking a door |
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Users – Enables editing users from the Ingress client and remotely uploading or downloading users to or from devices |
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Access Levels – Enables configuration of user access levels and door & time zone settings |
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Reports – Generates reports off-site when required, with in-depth info of devices & users listing, access level and event log which can be exported or emailed in PDF, DOC, XLS or CSV formats |
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System Settings – Enables remote configuration of system parameter settings, alarm priority levels, alert sounds, email recipients as well as group and user login privileges |
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