Payroll and HR software developer PayGlobal Limited is launching a ground-breaking global payroll solution called GlobalPay this weekend at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in Toronto, Canada.

PayGlobal chief executive, Donald Hastie, says the new payroll product, which has been built using Microsoft .NET, is believed to be the world's first fully scalable payroll designed to work in multi-geographies from the same database.

Mr Hastie says in many ways a global payroll solution similar to the new GlobalPay product has been seen as a "holy grail" for payroll software development companies.

"Due to the tax complexity of running payrolls in various locations - whether it's more than one country or more than one state - organisations typically need to run more than one payroll application.

"However we have designed our new global payroll product so that an organisation only needs to run one application with one database rather than multiple applications with multiple databases."

Mr Hastie says that most payroll software available today, although written using modern software techniques, is based on business logic that is over 30 years old.

"These don't cope well with the modern requirements of global companies."

GlobalPay is described as a "middleware" product that can be integrated into any user interface.

"Due to this middleware approach, the processing of payroll transactions can be housed locally or within a BPO (Business Process Outsource) environment, giving ultimate flexibility to clients and providers on what parts of the payroll process they choose to outsource," Mr Hastie says.

The first application will be as an add-on module to Microsoft Business Solutions - Axapta, which is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution from Microsoft.

PayGlobal says it is in the final stages of negotiating a partnership agreement with Microsoft.

Tuesday July 06, 2004