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  28/05/2004  
   
  PIC Senpro chooses Efficient People Solutions.  
   
 

PIC Senpro in Merksem is the European section of the Texan company PIC. In the United States and in Europe, Pic is active as a designer and a manufacturer of diaphragm seals for the industry of process (food, petrochemistry, chemistry). PIC is one of the most important actors on this market.

Over 18,000 variations of diaphragm seals are manufactured since 1987. Patented and patent-pending designs are available only from PIC.

On-time delivery and meeting our customers' needs for rush orders are the priorities at PIC.

For this project, Captor ensures on one hand the renewal of an existing time and attendance system and on the other hand the installation of an access control system thus guaranteeing a better protection of the buildings.

For more information about PIC Senpro, please visit the web site :

www.senpro.org
 
   
   
  25/05/2004  
   
  The municipality of Londerzeel (Belgium) trusts Captor again with its e-HR solution for Time and attendance.  
   
 

After the building of the firemen, the administration of the municipality of Londerzeel trusts Captor again for a time and attendance management solution for the whole of the administrative staff. The e-HR time and attendance solution of Captor manages 4 different departments: the administrative center, the old town hall, the sport hall and the department in charge of the territory.

For more information about Londerzeel municipality, please visit the web site (dutch version) :

www.londerzeel.be
 
   
   
  13/05/2004  
   
  The industrial bakery Maître Paul in Tilburg (Netherlands) chooses Captor for a solution in Time and attendance and for access control.  
   
 

Over the years, Maître Paul has developed into one of the largest industrial bakeries for frozen patisserie. With a market share of well over 45%, Maître Paul is market leader in the Dutch retail market. There are more than 400 employees working for Maître Paul. The core values of Maître Paul are: the attention to bring to the customers, the innovation, a high quality, a strong marketing and a motivated staff.

Due to the complexity of working schedules and plannings, Maître Paul already used since many years a time recording system. The evolution of the needs and the fact that the existing time recording system was getting old, led the launching of a project to replace these time recorders by a much more advanced time and attendance solution. One of the most important requirements of Maître Paul organization was to have the possibility to choose the best system able to integrate and respect completely the regulations defined by the collective agreement of the bakery's sector. One of the other requirements was to enable a perfect integration to the existing payroll system.

For these various aspects, Maître Paul organization found in Captor a solution answering perfectly to its requirements in term of functionalities and budget of investment. To complete this solution, Captor has been also chosen for the installation of an access control system for the various buildings of Maître Paul.

Captor is proud of the choice of Maître Paul organization for Efficient People Solutions and its confidence in a pleasant and efficient collaboration.

For more information about Maître Paul, please visit the web site:

www.maitrepaul.nl
 
   
   
  23/02/2004  
   
  Mansfield Pollard and Co. (UK) chooses Efficient People Solutions.  
   
 

Established in 1866 originally to serve the Bradford woollen industry, Mansfield Pollard has become one of the UK's leading providers of ventilation solutions.

Mansfield Pollard are unique within the ventilation industry being able to offer a complete design and build package, including the manufacture of air handling units and associated products. They pride themselves in providing Total Solutions - Individually designed bespoke products for specific project solutions required for the total ventilation package.

Two divisions of the Mansfield Pollard Group, Mallard Air Systems and Euroair Systems have recently supplied air handling units to the Open University in Milton Keynes being specified on two separate projects by different consultants. Mallard also supplied 16 air handling units to the Wythenshawe Forum in the south of Manchester, famous for its use as a boxing venue for the Commonwealth Games, as part of its £20 million redevelopment programme.

Another division of the Mansfield Pollard Group, VAC, supplied noise attenuation for seven 1250 kVA standby generators mounted in the basement 20 metres below the river Thames of the prestigious Canary Wharf Plaza. Due to the close proximity of Hotel and apartment complexes the whole project needed to be attenuated to extremely low levels.

The philosophy of Mansfield Pollard is to maintain a high standard of workmanship, providing products and services that give good value for money.

It is for these very reasons they have chosen Captor's Efficient Time, Labour and Cost Project recording modules to providing accurate and timely information of the management of information at their Bradford and Birmingham manufacturing plants.

For more information about the Mansfield Pollard Group, please visit the web site:

www.manpo.co.uk
 
   
   
  23/02/2004  
   
  Press release: As an answer to the market trends in e-HR, CAPTOR France launches Efficient, the 100% web HR software suite.  
   
 

Paris, on 18th february 2004 : Beyond the legal land administrative management of the working time, the management of human resources becomes today a need for all the companies. As an answer to this requirement, Captor France announces Efficient, a complete and 100% web HR range.

Today, the management of human resources via the Intranet and Internet infrastructure of the company has a deep influence in its organization. Moreover, the role of the HR Managers is changing as they need to combine with the difficult economic context and the objective to optimize the human resources. The management of this rare resource requires to go beyond a purely administrative task and to impose tools justifying the investment.

Moreover, the HR Managers must offer added value services: the self-service (for the employees) and the self-management (for the managers) are more and more present and they contribute in reducing to a significant degree the costs of the staff management.

As an answer to these market trends in human resources, Captor France is clearly positioned on the field of human capital management and launches Efficient, a complete and 100% web software suite for time and attendance and activity management in professional environment. This flexible and easy-to-implement solution that can be tailored to the needs of each organization has been developed by Captor Group.

The modular concept of Efficient includes ten complementary modules such as:

Efficient Time : this comprehensive time management module used as the basis module, is able to record attendance and absence. Efficient Time makes it possible to answer the whole of the constraints in HR (vacation, absences, attendance, flexible work schedules...).

The advantages of this solution:
  • easy-to-use with its 100 % web user-interface,
  • the scheduling and the complete management of work schedules,
  • easy adaptation to the current calculation rules as set out in legislation and employment regulations,
  • the shared management in administrative tasks, the self-service mode.

Efficient Personal : this self-service module enables the employees to manage their working time and to give them more responsibility in their area of work.

This solution offers:
  • an individual and secure access (login and password),
  • a local and remote access,
  • a capture of daily clockings,
  • a real-time follow-up of absence requests with e-mail alert facility,
  • a facility to view in real-time individual benefit and cumulative counters (vacation, flexi balance...).

Efficient Access : this module provides a broad range of access control functions on its own or in tandem with Efficient Time.

Efficient Access module enables:
  • an effective management of access to the company premises,
  • a unique platform combining access control and time and attendance data registration,
  • one single badge that can be used for several applications (access control, time and attendance registration...).

Efficient Planner : this planning module enables to manage human resources according to the company workload.

This advanced planning tool enables:
  • the management of employee skill sets,
  • the use of search or selection filters on skill criteria,
  • the identification of understaffed shifts,
  • a graphic planning presentation offering a better view.

Efficient Project : this module enables an analytical management of activities and projects and offers:

  • numerous possibilities for activity time capture,
  • a full integration with Efficient Time,
  • a single and common data source for time and attendance managment and activity management,
  • a real-time follow-up of the project status.

Efficient includes also the following modules : Kiosk, Phone, Fire, Visitor and Link.

The Efficient range is already available in Captor and Captor's partners.

Few words about CAPTOR France :

As a subsidiary of the Belgian CAPTOR Group, CAPTOR France provides global HR solutions dedicated to time and attendance and human resource management for large companies, SMEs and administrations. In terms of HR solutions, the offer of CAPTOR France is articulated around the modular application Efficient, based on web architecture, and a complete range of data collection terminals. CAPTOR Group (120 people, 12 M Euro of sales turnover in 2003, 5 000 active customers, 350 000 terminals worldwide) is also present in Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom and has a network of 80 VAR's and OEM's customers and distributors.

Press contacts :

EuroTandem
Cécile Bazin / Rémy Debrant
Email: c.bazin@eurotandem.fr

The specialized press wrote about it:

Categorynet.com : the portal of journalism, the media and press relations
Le journal du Net
 
   
   
  10/02/2004  
   
  Redman Fisher Engineering (UK) chooses Efficient People Solutions.  
   
 

Redman Fisher Engineering Limited is a world class manufacturer of high quality Industrial Flooring Systems, Grating, Handrailing, Stairtreads and Ladders.

It is one of the very few grating companies approved to ISO9001-2000, and has experience of exporting to over 40 countries and working to international standards including ASTM, BS, DIN and JIS.

Redman Fisher's 13,500 m2 production facilities are equipped with state of the art CAD/CAM and profile cutting equipment to ensure that even the most complex shapes are manufactured to the finest tolerances and that bespoke designs, and any changes their customers may wish to make can easily be accommodated.

To complement this investment in technology Redman Fisher Engineering has chosen Captor's Efficient People Solutions to help manage Employee Time and Attendance and, accurately cost Project Labour in their manufacturing plants at Tipton and Telford.

For more information about Redman Fisher Engineering, please visit the web site :

www.redmanfisher.co.uk
 
   
   
  23/01/2004  
   
  The Greenery organization in Netherlands trusts Captor by choosing Efficient People Solutions.  
   
 

The Greenery B.V. is one of the leading concerns in Europe in the vegetable, fruit and mushroom sector. The company has a turnover of circa 1,6 billion Euros and has 2,200 employees, 1,800 of whom work inside the Netherlands, and 400 outside - mainly in Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom.

For all required sites, Captor installed and integrated Efficient People Solutions for a complete time recording and time management as well as for access control.

For more information about the Greenery, please visit the web site:

www.thegreenery.com
 
   
   
  23/01/2004  
   
  Polynorm Bunschoten (Netherlands) has chosen Captor for a solution in Time and Attendance and for Access control.  
   
 

Polynorm is a leading Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry, specialising in project management, design, engineering, development and production of pressed class - A body panels and components applying advanced steel, aluminium and plastic materials. As such, the company is able to complement automobile manufacturers with its competence in this field.

For Polynorm, Captor integrated the solution Efficient Time for recording and managing the presence and absences of the personnel as well as the solution Efficient Access for the access control. Moreover, each employee using Efficient Personal solution is able to get access to his personal data. A complete interface has been achieved with the Personal Management Solution from with LogicaCMG.

For more information about Polynorm, please visit the web site:

www.polynorm.com
 
   
   
  23/12/2003  
   
  Captor is proud to announce that Efficient Phone has met the Cisco AVVID Partner Program.  
   
 

Efficient Phone enables instant access to the company's Efficient Time Software solution through Cisco IP phones, reducing the need for separate network hardware and offering alternatives to manage and track time by means of a clock or PC with an Internet browser.

Efficient Phone has met the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice and Video Integrated Data) Partner Program test criteria for interoperability with the Cisco IP 7900 Series.

The Cisco AVVID Partner Program sets criteria for interoperability testing and helps leading product and services firms to deploy innovative business solutions. The program provides enterprise customers with information regarding Cisco AVVID partner products and services that the Cisco AVVID partner believes meet the program's criteria for interoperability with Cisco networking technology.

For more information : Features of Efficient Phone
 
   
   
  10/12/2003  
   
  Newsletter Winter 2003.  
   
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  01/12/2003  
   
  Hospital Logistics in Aarschot (Belgium) has chosen Captor for time recording.  
   
  e-RH solution for time recording through a clocking terminal connected to the Ethernet network and communicating with Efficient Time software. Management of 50 people (workers and employees) with a direct link to the payroll through Acerta. Hospital Logistics is a division of the Louvain's hospital and it takes care of all the logistics of other various hospitals. For more information about Hospital Logistics, please visit the web site: www.hospitallogistics.be  
   
   
  01/12/2003  
   
  Purna Pharmaceuticals in Puurs (Belgium) has chosen Captor for time recording and access control.  
   
  e-RH solution for time recording and access control for this company in phase of expansion, transformation and renewal of the buildings. In addition, Captor provides a direct link to the payroll through SD as well as a report of those who are present in case of emergency evacuation (Efficient Fire). For more information about Purna Pharmaceuticals, please visit the web site: www.purna.be  
   
   
  27/11/2003  
   
  The beef producer Verbist (Belgium) has chosen Captor for time recording and access control.  
   
  For more than 30 years, Verbist is the beef specialist and supplier to the majority of the main Belgian supermarkets. In the respect of the quality standard defined by Meritus, Verbist guarantees the production of beef, controlled from the field to the plate. Verbist is structured in a vertical way and manages the whole of the processes from the field to the plate of the consumer. Verbist has its own fleet of very recent trucks, as well as very sophisticated machines for the cutting and the packing of the meat. Verbist has chosen Efficient People Solutions in order to manage the working time and the activity of their employees. In addition, the access to the areas of Verbist slaughterhouse is managed by the Efficient Access module. Let's visit Verbist web site: www.verbist.be  
   
   
  24/10/2003  
   
  Captor is expanding its market presence by signing a distribution agreement with Microtis (Luxemburg).  
   
  Captor is expanding its market presence by signing a distribution agreement with Microtis (www.microtis.lu). This agreement allows Microtis to distribute Efficient People Solutions, a complete software suite for time and attendance, access control and e-HR. This agreement is important for Captor as it allows to expand its market presence on the Luxemburg market place with a well known and reliable partner, offering ERP solutions and in particular, payroll and personnel management solutions. For Microtis, Efficient is the ideal complement for it's global offer in a specific market segment, namely the human resources management solutions offering. working with Captor allows Microtis to market a solution, accepted by a lot of satisfied customers over Europe. A first presentation of the solution will be given at the Hotel Royal in Luxemburg on 19/11/2003. Info and registration by Microtis.  
   
   
  23/10/2003  
   
  Efficient Kiosk: to simplify the access in self-service mode.  
   
  Captor is proud to announce the coming launch on the market of its new information solution in self-service mode for your employees. Our RD department, within the framework of a partnership with Microsoft based on Microsoft Empower Program, is about to finalize the development of Efficient Kiosk. The new solution, perfectly integrated into our modular application Efficient People Solutions, is structured in Microsoft SQL database on a Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server platform configured with IIS 5/6. Efficient Kiosk is presented as a touch screen staff information kiosk located on key enterprise thoroughfares. Your employees will be able to register in/out for Time and Attendance, to view their real-time benefit for holidays, to check their time card and to submit their absence and holiday requests. The Efficient Kiosk module thus offers a totally decentralized tool for employees to manage their working time, in particular for those having no experience in using a PC, a keyboard or a mouse. Efficient Kiosk is scheduled for official release at the end of 2003.  
   
   
  22/10/2003  
   
  Captor announces the Omni-Touch terminal with fingerprint verification.  
   
  Captor announces the Omni-Touch terminal with fingerprint verification and a large graphical display. The fingerprint reader is based on technology from Bioscript a leading manufacturer in biometric solutions.  
   
   
  30/09/2003  
   
  The municipality of Meise has decided to implement the Captor Time and Attendance + Access control solution.  
   
  The Efficient software will manage the employees in the town hall of Wolvertem and Meise, the people from the Library and the shed of the workers.  
   
   
  08/09/2003  
   
  The Belgian sales and services division of Tokheim rely on Captor to improve their building security.  
   
  Captor proximity readers will control the access to the main entrances and the front gate. Tokheim s.a.s., based in Paris, France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers and servicers of fuel dispensing equipment. With operations in many countries around the globe, Tokheim offers customers a complete range of fuel dispensers and pumps, retail automation systems, payment terminals, media devices, replacement parts and upgrade kits, and a full range of support services, including service station construction and maintenance.  
   
   
  24/06/2003  
   
  Beschutte Werkplaats Imsir goes for Captor.  
   
  BW Imsir Boom was founded in 1967 by the "Intercommunale voor Sociale Instellingen van de Rupelstreek" and is since 1995 located at the new premises in Boom. About 100 employees will be managed by the Efficient software. The company specializes in metal working, bicycles and manufacturing of wheels.  
   
   
  02/06/2003  
   
  With Efficient 4.1 two new modules are released : Efficient Visitor and Efficient Fire.  
   
  Efficient Visitor : enables the management and monitoring of visitors in tandern with your access control time management solution. Efficient Fire : ensures remote storage and availability of information on all personnel present or absent at a given moment. Essential in emergencies.  
   
   
  21/05/2003  
   
  Newsletter Spring 2003.  
   
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