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Which firm created Commonwealth Bank's new
Employee Management System? SSW
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20
th
February
2007
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SSW shows its true talent and expertise in its field
by completing a long-term, major project for one of
the leading banks in Australia
Sydney, Australia-
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has chosen SSW to
develop a custom Employee Management System to manage
the daily activities for thousands of their employees
Australia wide. SSW's previous consulting experience
for clients as diverse as Westbus, Ernst and Young and
City Rail assured CBA that they were in reliable and
reputable hands.
CBA's first contact with SSW was through the Sydney
.NET User Group, which is a monthly event jointly
hosted with Microsoft. " I have been attending SSW's
monthly .NET User Groups for a very long time and can
honestly say that they have an unsurpassed technical
knowledge, experience and standards that they
consistently adhere to, so as to make every project
right,".
The combined "CommTrack" time sheeting and "MIS
Toolbox" management system, recently completed inside
its 2 year schedule has contributed significantly to
the ease of operation at CBA, and allowed for a 360
view of employee performance. CommTrack application
provides the front-end data capturing tool that all
employees need to use in order to provide information
about their daily activities; whereas the MIS Toolbox
provides the enterprise management system for
CommTrack.
Adam Cogan, Chief Architect at SSW and Microsoft
Regional Director said: "The combinations of CommTrack
and MIS Toolbox, allows a small number of business
performance managers and system support personnel to
adapt quickly to changing business requirements and
structures." This meant that a process of adapting to
change which previously took 3-4 months and long term
planning, can now be accomplished in just 1-5 days and
can be easily implemented in parallel to the time the
change is occurring in the business itself.
The results were evident. These tools effectively
improved CBA's management of their staffing time
sheets and allowed HR to better track employee
performance and work expectations for their
Performance Division. Simon Renton, CBA Manager
Finance and Modelling, further added: "The application
is getting very good reviews from the user base and we
have a queue of people lined up nationally wanting to
get on and use it."
Since then, the application has scaled up to 3000
users, with 9% CPU utilisation. It can scale up to
20,000 users without extra hardware. SSW Project
Manager, Tim Kremer mentions: "In an industry
suffering hugely from slipped deadlines, and failed
projects, we are delivering successful projects year
after year. We don't lose projects to India based
outsourcing firms because our close customer
relationships and best practices ensure a superior
quality in our solutions".
Adam reinforced this positive change by concluding: "The
project was a challenge, however knowing that we made
such a positive and a much needed difference is what we
had strived for. It was a pleasure to work for CBA."
About SSW
Established in 1990, SSW is a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner, specialising in building, implementing and
maintaining "rich-client" and "browser-based" database
applications using Microsoft technologies. With proven
expertise in Access, Visual Basic, VB.NET, ASP,
ASP.NET, SQL Server and Exchange Server, SSW offers
comprehensive solutions required for projects - from
strategic planning of systems and solutions,
architecture, development and implementation.
We also look after clients long after the project is
finished, offering hosting, support and upgrading
services. SSW has worked with distinguished clients
including Cap Gemini, Accor, Media Monitors, Woven
Image, Magna Data, and also run the Sydney .NET Users
Group in co-sponsorship with Microsoft. Adam Cogan,
Managing Director of SSW, was appointed as one of only
two Australian Microsoft Regional Directors in 2000.
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Tim Kremer
+61 2 9953 3000
Acknowledgements
Adam Cogan
Tim Kremer
Adel Helal