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An SDMS Autumn Programme of Seminars and Product Presentations for Learning and Staff Development Managers and Personnel Administrators As part of our autumn programme of getting in touch with Customers – Current and Prospective - we have launched a programme of three major Product Seminars in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Scottish SDMS Product Presentation Seminar: EdinburghVenue: The Knowledge Business, Research Park North, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, Thursday 2nd October 2008, 2.00pm – 4.30pm The Northern Ireland SDMS Product Presentation Seminar: BelfastVenue: To be announced – call or email for latest news, Wednesday 8th October 2008, 2.00pm – 4.30pm The Welsh SDMS Product Presentation Seminar: CardiffVenue: To be announced – call or email for latest news, Wednesday 22nd October 2008, 2.00pm – 4.30pm To Book Your Place Simply call Sales and Business Development on 01952-201563, email: sales@sdmsltd.com and indicate which session you would like to attend.
Link to Product Webinars and Seminars Page
SDMS V Charting Module with OrgPlus7® Professional Released for both Staff Development and Personnel Systems
Charting and Visualisation of Training and Staffing Data for SDMS V Staff Development and HRPersonnel Solutions
We have now released SDMS V Charting: OrgPlus® Professional to provide organisational charts for HRPersonnel and Staff Development products. This is an optional module provided with Connectivity Kit, Starter Charts and Support. OrgPlus® intelligent organisational charting, data visualisation and workforce modelling solution extends the value of our Staff Development and Personnel solutions by providing users with easy and secure access to Graphical Views of Employee Information, Organisational Structures and Directories. These may be published via a web browser. By providing complex information in a visualised form SDMS V Charting: OrgPlus® aids Information Sharing, Empowerment and Manager and Employee Involvement in the work of the business. This added capability with OrgPlus® will assist Training and Personnel Managers to plan and execute workforce management tasks such as: Succession Planning, Skills Development, Budgeting for Training and Staffing, Development of Qualifications Profiles and communicating a Corporate Employee Directory. David Stevens, Managing Director, SDMS Ltd; “We provide Staff Development and Personnel Administration Systems at all levels in the market – from organisations with less than 50 Staff to organisations with 5,000. They all have a need for data presented in an easy to digest and share form as well as the need to produce Standard Organisational Charts. Our approach is to provide them with OrgPlus® and a set of starter prewritten Charts and Data Views. The ability to go beyond charting and the many new features of the latest OrgPlus® will I’m sure provide our Customers with the tools they need now.” Useful Links Colleges: Latest SIR (Staff Individualised Record) Requirements Incorporated into HRPersonnel ahead of Schedule!
With the 2008 data collection process for the College Staff Individualised Record (SIR) not due to begin until August 1st and with Colleges required to ensure that its SIR has been approved by LLUK Ltd by 1st November, SDMS Ltd is well ahead of schedule. We have just released in May 2008 the latest changes required by LLUK Ltd for the SIR 16. This will allow College Users ample time to review any changes in their own personnel data collection and recording processes to ensure a trouble free and minimum cost SIR submission in 2008. These changes have been built into the fully integrated SIR Module of SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: College Edition. Useful Links SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: FE Edition Page SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: FE Edition SIR Module Page
SDMS Rostering Software Now Released! SDMS Addresses the Need to Ensure the Right Staff are in the Right Place with the Release of - Staff Scheduling and Rostering Module for HRPersonnel for Windows
Making sure that we have the right Staff in the right place at the right time is of course one of the main jobs for all Team Supervisors and Managers as well as departmental or Corporate HR. But in many situations the demands of the business go way beyond this generalisation. Whether you have the correct number of Staff with the specific qualifications and experience doing a specific job can effect the very survival of the business – current legislative and inspection regimes for many businesses demand that this can be evidenced. Staff Scheduling and Rostering for SDMS V HRPersonnel: Care Edition has been developed in close partnership with a group of four Midlands Hospices. Their exacting demands for a product which can assist the day by day Rostering Job of Nursing Staff, Kitchen Supervisors and Organisers of Volunteers as well as the needs of Hospice CEO's for the best solutions in Staffing has been now delivered in a module of HRPersonnel.
With its easy to use worksheet style Rostering screen it allows Team Leaders to prepare Weekly or Monthly Staff Rosters just by entering the Work Type Code with immediate visual feedback through Colour Coding, Cell Letter Codes, Tool Tips and Detail Drill Downs. Utilising Roster templates and copy facilites from previous months HRRostering can be used completely independently of HRPersonnel, massively reducing the time and cost of preparing Rosters. Furthermore, given its full integrations with HRPersonnel its allows data, such as Staff Details, Work Patterns, Absence, Holidays etc. to be loaded into draft templates for minor modification and preparation of the finalised Roster. And, in setting the Roster the various Work Types or Absence entered in the Roster can be actualised and copied into the Personnel Data files for individual members of Staff. When taken with the ability to make on the hoof adjustments to the Roster to account for Staff no shows, or emergencies, the System closes many of the gaps between planned Staffing and what actually happens.
Useful Links SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: Version 5 SDMS V HRPRostering for Windows
City Staff Services Adopts SDMS V NVQ/SVQ Learning and Skills Manager for Windows City Staff Services is a highly innovative recruitment providing a range of services in the Engineering and Industrial Sectors of the Economy. It has recently purchased and implemented SDMS V NVQ Administration Software for Workgroups - an offering designed for a maximum of 5 users and the Smaller Business. City Staff Services - Lee Moody, Managing Director, explains why he chose SDMS and his experience so far: “SDMS’s software for controlling and monitoring of our NVQ processes is an ideal tool for City Staff Services to manage its quality systems for the delivery of NVQ’s.
We are providing Security, Care and Cleaning NVQ’s across the UK and this system allows us to administer the whole process centrally keeping track of learner targets, assessor workload and quality control of our service delivery.
Customer satisfaction is vital to the success of our Company and we are confident that the use of the SDMS’s software will underline our commitment to quality with our clients.
The system implementation went very smoothly with training carried out over a web link which allowed us to quickly get to grips with the basics and start using the system more or less from day one, support is always available at the end of the phone”. Useful Links:
SDMS V NVQ/SVQ Learning and Skills for Windows
Bethesda
Hospice Implements SDMS V
HRPersonnel for Windows - Version 5
Bethesda is a unique Institution. The Hospice
provides for the physical and the spiritual needs of its patients, with
comfortable, spotlessly clean (yet homely) rooms and large beautifully
landscaped gardens. “Bethesda Care Home and Hospice have chosen SDMS Ltd to provide its HR Management Information System (SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows). As a major provider of Hospice Care in the Hebrides we are faced with the increasing challenge of maintaining Personnel information to satisfy Statutory Requirement Inspections, as well as our own internal needs of day to day management. Our research of the Market, led us to SDMS Ltd who could meet our needs with a proven, highly professional and cost effective system. Importantly we were able to talk directly with one of the Hospices they have been working with for several years. Training and Support have been provided On Line given our physical location and SDMS Support has been very helpful at all stages of implementation. We are sure that as we progress with its use SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows will provide us with the means to extend our day to day Personnel practice and we look forward to the introduction of the Staff Rostering and Scheduling Module which we feel will allow us to improve the management of what is continuously a complex problem of maintaining the right staff in the right place at the right time”. Useful Links: SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: Version 5
From
the very first release of SDMS V Staff Development the Software has not
only addressed the Central Training Administration Needs of users but
also addressed the related Workforce Management Issues - such as the
production of Staffing Return SD0001 and other Work Force Data issues
such as those defined by LGMB Workforce Analysis requirements in the
early 1990s.
This release of SDMS V Staff Development for Windows: Social
Services Edition has been the result of several years development -
responding to and working with the request and perhaps demands of key
Social Services Clients. The new release includes:
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to read more about SDMS V Staff Development for Windows Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Child Board Decides to Stay with SDMS V Staff Development for Windows - Version 5 Nottinghamshire
Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB) exists to protect all children
from abuse and to provide the highest standards of practice towards
the safeguarding of children by delivering a wide variety of Training
Courses on Safeguarding Children to all Staff and Agencies who have a
role in this within Nottinghamshire. "As part of Nottinghamshire County Council we have used SDMS Software for many years and have come to rely on it as our main Software System in the delivery of our training programmes. Following recent organisational changes within the Council we were faced with a decision: do we stay with SDMS Software or move to a new system with all the issues involved in such a decision? Following discussions with SDMS Senior Staff and an On Line Presentation (which we found very useful by the way) of the latest version - we had been using Version 3, we have decided to continue to use SDMS and upgrade to SDMS V Staff Development for Windows - Version 5.
Throughout this process SDMS was keen to address our needs – both in terms of the need to upgrade, a price that could fit within our very tight budgets and in offering additional services”. Useful Links:
NSCB Website Christ the King Sixth Form College Praises SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows Christ the King Sixth Form College is a Catholic College
dedicated to the Education and Development of the whole
person, so that all Students can realise their full
potential. To achieve this as a community they provide the
highest standards of Teaching and Learning, Provide equality
of opportunity with mutual respect and positive
encouragement, build and further develop a partnership
with Parents, Schools, Parishes, Higher Education and the
Local Community and value Staff and support their
Professional Development. “Christ The King Sixth Form College has been named by Ofsted as being outstanding in its prestigious Annual List. As the College's needs for improved management information became a vital component of our operating criteria the purchase of a suitable Personnel Administration System to support the ongoing development of the College’s HR Function became an essential. After careful consideration of our current needs at the time and with an eye to future developments we chose SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows and have now been using the Software for some 3 years. We have been impressed by the scope of SDMS Ltd’s HRPersonnel System and the Training and Support offered by the Company. The combination of these has proven a wise choice.” Useful Links:
Christ the King Sixth Form College Website
Coleg Powys Implements SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows - Edition for Welsh Colleges Coleg Powys is the
latest college in the further education sector to purchase SDMS software
confirming the benefits to our customers and prospective customers of
the company’s long history of working with colleges in England Scotland
and Wales. The FE Edition of SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows provides the
specific staffing returns for England, Scotland and Wales.
“We
spent time in researching the best provider for our needs and after
thoroughly validating a number of prospective suppliers, we found that
SDMS Staff were highly responsive to our needs and provided us with high
quality information, professional presentations – both On Line and
face-to-face and positive reference sites, which helped is in making
this choice.
Coleg Powys Website
SDMS
Progresses in the Care Sector Reflexion
Care is a leading provider for young people of specialist dedicated
services in the Care Sector. It has some 11 homes across the UK caring
for young people between the ages of 11 and 16 years ranging from single
Intensive Care Units to Community Homes of up to four residents all of
which meet Local Authority Requirements.
(Reflexion Care Website) SDMS V HRPersonnel Care Edition Earnie Executive SDMS Software Available for Windows Vista Microsoft has recently launched the latest version of its Windows Operating System - Windows Vista. Available in several Editions – Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate as well as Enterprise Editions. Vista provides higher security, enhanced multimedia capacity and a new look and feel for Windows. SDMS Ltd’s Software Quality and Support Team have completed their release testing of all SDMS Windows Products on Windows Vista as well as our Web Products on Internet Explorer 7 supplied with Windows Vista. Workflow and Mailmerge have been tested on Vista with Office 2003 and for future announcements on Office 2007 keep in touch with our website or contact SDMS Support at Support@sdmsltd.com. SDMS Software is available for all Versions of Windows from Windows 98 and above. SDMS Ltd adds another Module to its Adviser and School Support Software Addressing Essential Requirements in Education and Children’s Services Management
Integration and Synchronisation Module for MS Outlook™
The need to systematically record the time spent by Advisers and other LEA Staff in supporting or providing services to Schools combined with the ability to assemble this data into Corporate views and report on it is hard to find. But perhaps the main difficulty is one of finding cost effective solutions which bring together what Advisers want - when it comes to recording how they spend their time supporting Schools - and what central Education Department Administrators and those with the need for strategic analysis of this activity want.
With the release of SDMS V Integration and Synchronisation System for MS Outlook™ offered as part of Adviser and School System for Windows SDMS Ltd offers such a solution. To book your On Line Tutor Led Presentation Click here or Read more SDMS Ltd offers a product to help LEAs address their changing role in Tony Blair's latest Education and Inspection 2006 Bill
SDMS V e-Adviser helps monitor LEA Support to Schools SDMS Ltd is absolutely sure that Chief Education Officers and Directors of Children’s Services are not planning the abolition of LEAs with the publication of Education and Inspections 2006 Bill. Whatever the final formulas arrived at as the Bill wends its way though Parliament it is clear that the vast majority of schools in the vast majority of LEAs will still wish the LEA to provide a wide range of Support, Consultancy and Training Services. We are sure they will do so. And it is this that leads us to offer a new web product to the market. SDMS V e-Adviser for Web and Intranet Access provides LEAs with a browser based method of recording Adviser and Officer Support to Schools - including details and reports of On-site Visits. SDMS V Adviser and School Support for Windows with SDMS V e-Adviser Version 5 provides an extensive Adviser Diary and School Visit Recording System with Web and Intranet Access for Advisers and other LEA Staff providing support to Schools. Fully integrated, this System significantly extends the capacity of LEAs to support Schools by a simple easy to use Web-based System recording School Visits and Adviser Diaries. Massively reducing time-consuming paperwork, the simple process of recording appointments and School Visits leads to a comprehensive profile of support provided to Schools by the LEA - by all types of Staff, Subject or Business Area, Service Type, Date and by School and Phase. Read more... SDMS Ltd Awarded Investor in People Award As a Company SDMS Ltd has always been committed to the Training and Development of its Staff. Employee Training is a regular part of the weekly experience of all Staff working in the Company. In October 2004 we decided to gain external recognition for our internal Employee Development Processes and Practice and registered for IIP. We are pleased to announce that we were awarded Investor in People in December of 2005. SDMS Ltd Provides Industry Standard Audit Module for all its Products - February 2006 Increasingly Human Resource Managers in the modern Organisational environment have to pay attention to the requirements of Data Protection Legislation and Data Control. With the optional Audit Trail Module SDMS V Staff Development for Windows and SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows now ensures that the Personnel and Training Function is able to account for all changes to its Personnel and Establishment Data. The module tracks all changes to the Personnel and Training Data, when the change was made and by whom, thereby providing full Traceability, Accountability and Security. Read more: Data Protection and Audit with SDMS V Staff Development for Windows ~ Audit Trail Module .... Data Protection and Audit with SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows ~ Audit Trail Module .... Release of the Version 5 Generation Products May 2005 marks a special month in the life of SDMS Ltd with the release of its Version 5 Generation Products. With new interface and enriched functionality these products are based on several years’ detailed development with key Customers. Version 5 Generation Products are a simultaneous release of the Company’s products for Personnel, Staff Development, NVQ Management and its specialist Staff Development products for Training Needs, Appraisal, Evaluation and IIP Planning. It addition the release also includes a new release of its Advisor and Schools Support System for LEAs. To accompany this Company has also released its Version 5 of its e-Training Software for Web and Intranet Training Management. SDMS Ltds Development Manager, Alina Charcinski said “Our new product releases are a platform for the next stage in our product and technical development strategy, enabling us to address increasingly the demands emanating from the market place today and in the future”. Four Midlands Hospices Join SDMS Ltd Development Group Committed to providing specialist editions of its products SDMS Ltd has joined with a group of four Midlands Hospices to extend and develop its leading Personnel Software to meet the unique and demanding requirements of Personnel Management in Hospices and the Care Sector. The Hospices are actively involved in deciding the requirements for enhancements to the software and this has already led to the development of a CRB and Professional Registration Module as well as providing Line Manager Access to Employee Records to fit the management style of the Hospice Sector. The work of the project is guided by a Hospice Steering Group. Its next set of concerns is to finalise the design of a new Staff Rostering Module for HRPersonnel planned for release in the autumn. NVQ Laptop Assessor To complement SDMS V NVQ/SVQ Learning and Skills for Windows we have now released the Laptop Assessor Module which allows NVQ Assessors to dock out Candidate Records and Portfolios, conduct Assessments - paperlessly if required - and dock in the information and updated portfolios on return to base. SDMS Ltd Involved with NHS Scotland National Data Set
As a provider of Personnel Systems to Shetland Health Board SDMS Ltd has been asked to provide Data Export routines to support the collection of data on Employees working in the Health Service in Scotland. It appears that this is an increasing number of Projects with a similar theme – to support Organisational change by better Workforce Planning and Employee Data. Social Services Minimum Data set
Latest Seminars
To support the launch of Version 5 Generation Products a series of Launch Seminars have been announced for the next 6 months across the UK as well as in SDMS Centre Telford.
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