2012 doesn’t just represent a significant milestone for the Queen and Britain’s hosting of the Olympics – it is also the year that Cascade celebrates 20 successful years of business.

Alan Jones, Cascade HR, Managing Director reflects, “If we look back at how far we have come, how much our reputation has grown, and how our technology has continued to innovate the industry, there’s a lot to be proud of. But as much as our 20th birthday signifies how well established we are within the HR and payroll software arena, this isn’t just a time for reflection. Because if we look ahead at what we’ve got in the pipeline for the company, we can’t help but get incredibly excited about the next 20 years too.

There’s so many things planned for the next 12 months alone, we’ll be 21 before we know it! Keep in touch with the Cascade team via our website, our Twitter, by seeing us at leading industry events, or by coming to the offices to say hello. And find out for yourself just what is in store for Cascade in 2012 and what exciting things are planned for clients – after all they are at the heart of everything we do.

Long may our organic and independent growth continue, and a huge thank you to everyone who has played a part in helping us reach our 20th birthday.”

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Alwen Hough Johnson (AHJ) is an independent privately-owned broking company transacting reinsurance and insurance business from across the world. Over the past four decades they have established themselves as a company which provides a high quality service – advice, analysis, placement and administration – delivered in a friendly but professional manner by teams of the highest calibre with a proven track record as market leaders in their chosen sectors.

They are headquartered in London and are proud of their close connections with the Lloyd’s market with its record of delivering innovative solutions to meet insurance and reinsurance needs wherever they arise. They also trade with reinsurers across the global landscape, accessing capacity from London, Bermuda, Europe and, increasingly the Far East, amongst other markets.

As a company they take great care of their clients and also take great care to run a healthy business with strong solvency and no debt, an ethos which is mirrored by Cascade HR.

AHJ is the latest organisation to start using Cascade’s award winning HR software.

Cascade will implement its innovative HR software, developed using the very latest Microsoft .NET technology, which has been designed from the outset to span a whole organisation and not just provide functionality for HR departments. It has also been developed to engage employees and managers throughout an organisation to ensure best practice, efficiency and open communication.

The removal of paperwork and desktop delivery of actions and decisions, without any need for searching or technical expertise, has transformed the way that more than 340 Cascade clients manage their staff.

AHJ will implement the following combination of fully integrated, flexible modules; HR, Self Service and Workflow, backed with key functionality such as reporting and analysis features and integrated organisational charting.

This will provide a comprehensive technical foundation to AHJ HR functions, as well as allowing managers to effectively communicate with their employees.

Cascade look forward to working with Alwen Hough Johnson who join Cascade’s growing client base of over 340 clients across a variety of sectors, from independent reinsurance and insurance broker Alwen Hough Johnson to retail firm Hotel Chocolat and educational organisation Kumon Education.

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Established in 2005, Acorn Care and Education is fast becoming England’s premier provider of education and care for the most vulnerable and hardest to place young people. Their specialist professionals provide the highest standard of education and care for over 500 children and young people with challenging and complex learning difficulties in well resourced schools and high quality residential settings.

Having identified a need for HR & Payroll software, Cascade’s award winning software will support Acorn Care and Education’s HR processes and assist them achieve their business objectives.

Cascade’s core HR solution will provide Acorn Care and Education with a huge amount of standard functionality and key features such as Attendance and Holiday Management, Organisational Charts, Reporting and a whole host of other features.

Acorn Care and Education will also implement Cascade’s fully integrated Self Service, Workflow, Training, Recruitment, Online Recruitment and Expenses modules in addition to Cascade’s HMRC Standard Payroll application.

Cascade’s Training module will enable the organisation to accurately measure their return on investment, in the shape of on-going workplace evaluation. This will allow them to see just how training has changed the individual’s ability to carry out their role and motivate people to put their newfound skills into practice.

Acorn Care and Education’s employee expenses have now been made even easier to process.
All expenses and mileage claims can be submitted online and paid through payroll, saving time and increasing efficiency within the organisation.

Cascade’s Recruitment modules deliver a comprehensive and powerful recruitment solution which will assist Acorn Care and Education in reducing administration and ensuring best practice is followed, whilst maximising their opportunity to recruit the very best staff available.

For more information on Cascade’s full range of flexible and intuitive modules click here

Cascade continues to expand its client base with over 340 clients across a variety of sectors, helping to maintain its status as the number one .NET HR and HMRC Standard Payroll provider.

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The Royal Air Force Club was founded in 1918 as a place where serving and ex-serving officers could meet, and in 1922 it was formally opened by HRH The Duke of York.

The bedroom and public room facilities at the Club are similar to those offered by other traditional, high-quality London establishments, but with many additional services and amenities for members who may wish to spend just a few daytime hours in its pleasant and stylish ambience.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) Club are the latest organisation to make Cascade the number one choice for HR and Payroll software!

Cascade’s core HR solution will provide The RAF Club with a huge amount of standard functionality and key features such as Attendance and Holiday Management, Organisational Charts, Reporting and a whole host of other features.

The RAF Club will also implement our fully integrated Self Service, Workflow, Cascade Mobile and HMRC Standard Payroll Module.

Cascade Mobile will allow the HR team to engage even further with their employees, users can now access their tasks, book holidays and check their payslips ‘on the move’ with a web-enabled mobile device.

The RAF Club will experience a range of benefits from Cascade’s Payroll module such as simplifying and standardising their payroll processes. Full integration means that payslips can be displayed online for self service users and that double keying is eliminated. Checks and measures are user definable and ensure that you can authorise changes you want to and allow other changes to process automatically.

Supported by a dedicated Project Manager and committed Client Services team will ensure Cascade is configured to both The RAF Club’s requirements and business objectives.

Cascade continues to expand its client base with over 340 clients across a variety of sectors, helping to maintain its status as the number one .NET HR and HMRC Standard Payroll provider.

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Blue Print is the latest organisation to implement Cascade’s Award winning HR software.

The Company behind Blue Print is Automotive Distributors Ltd (ADL). Starting life as part of Mazda Cars Ltd, the company has grown over the last 20 years to become a totally independent, multi million pound international business.

This success has been a result of the creation and development of the UK’s leading brand of quality replacement parts for Japanese and Korean vehicles – Blue Print.

The Blue Print strap line – Right First Time – encapsulates the ethos of the Company. The values of accuracy, integrity and innovation are prized above all others and guarding these principles has been the reason for the Company’s huge success in recent years.

ADL is a dynamic but stable operation that has consistently returned substantial year on year growth, even when industry trends have suggested a declining market overall.

Cascade will provide a dynamic, process driven solution for ADL professionals through an innovative and flexible browser interface.

ADL can expect a range of benefits from our award winning HR software. Cascade’s core HR system together with our flexible and intuitive Workflow module will provide a comprehensive and powerful management tool that will improve communication and encourage employee engagement throughout the business.

Our Self Service module guarantees best practice and is one example of why Cascade has a 100% success rate in rolling out Self Service to anything from 25 to 10,000 employees across single and worldwide site.

Like all Cascade’s flexible and intuitive modules the Training module has been designed to cut down on administration, whilst providing open channels of communication with the workforce. The Training module will allow ADL to build a comprehensive database and training programme for all job roles.

Cascade continues to expand its client base with over 330 clients across a variety of sectors, from automotive organisation ADL, Retail business Hotel Chocolat, Premier League football club Manchester City and legal organisation Field Fisher Waterhouse.

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Banishing the Monday blues

Emma Jones from the Cascade Marketing Team talks about banishing those monday blues! “The ‘most depressing day of the year’ is allegedly only a couple of weeks away. The gloomy weather, post-Christmas lull, financial worries and a struggle to get re-motivated after the festive period all apparently contribute to what is now commonly known as ‘Blue Monday’. So with more people expected to be absent from work on the 23rd of January than any other day this year, why not consider how you could improve your organisation’s approach to absence management?

The implementation of a proactive and intelligent software solution can in fact remove a lot of the headache for the HR team. Not only are processes fine-tuned and streamlined as a result of best practice workflows, but software can bring about subtle cultural changes that indirectly impact positively upon workplace absence.

When you introduce self-service functionality amongst your line management and wider workforce, employees know that information relating to absences and the ways with which these absences are handled, is much more visible. This slowly affects – even if subconsciously – organisations’ absence quotas. Cascade client Wakefield and District Housing for example experienced a decrease in sickness absence levels across the organisation following the introduction of manager self-service for sickness reporting – the absence rate average per employee fell from 10.5 to 9.75 days, a noted improvement.

As an employer, you should be aware of the cause of absences as part of your duty of care to employees, but it is also important to consider the undesirable pressures that may be placed on individuals who are in work and are struggling with an increased workload due to missing colleagues.

Of course, if you do suspect that your staff are in need of a boost, you could also have a think about what simple steps you could take to lift their spirits…

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Network Mapping is the latest organisation to implement Cascade’s leading HR solution!

Network Mapping is a leading provider of tailored LiDAR survey acquisition and processing solutions that meet your exact project requirements.

A UK-based company with worldwide experience, Network Mapping has the in-house skills and equipment to provide a full range of services from high resolution LiDAR and ortho-rectified imagery collection to delivery of end-user engineering products.

Network Mapping makes use of the latest surveying technology and can fully combine aerial LiDAR, terrestrial LiDAR and conventional survey for a complete survey and engineering solution.

Cascade’s HR solution including its core HR module will provide Network Mapping with a huge amount of standard functionality and key features such as Attendance and Holiday Management, Organisational Charts, Reporting and a whole host of other features.

Network Mapping’s HR software will also include our fully integrated Self Service, Workflow, Expenses, Cascade Mobile and Group Timesheets modules.

Network Mapping’s employee expenses have now been made even easier to process. All expenses and mileage claims can be submitted online and paid through payroll, saving time and increasing efficiency within the organisation.

Cascade Mobile will allow the HR team to engage even further with their employees, users can now access their tasks, book holidays and check their payslips ‘on the move’ with a web-enabled mobile device.

Cascade continues to expand its client base with over 330 clients across a variety of sectors, helping to maintain its status as the number one .NET HR and HMRC Standard Payroll provider.

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J&E Hall are the latest organisation to implement Cascade’s leading HR software which will provide a comprehensive and powerful management tool and assist them in achieving their business objectives.

As a leading global supplier in the refrigeration and HVAC industries, their key activities include the design, development and manufacture of refrigeration and HVAC solutions.

Through global resources, they are recognised as a leader in system solutions for global refrigeration markets through the quality and efficiency of their products and after sales offering. J & E Hall’s worldwide reputation has been built over many years on their ability to successfully meet customer requirements, however demanding.

As part of the OYL Industries BHD, J&E Hall’s reputation across the world continues to grow as the Company’s expansion into the markets of South East Asia, North and South America and Eastern Europe gathers pace.

Alongside our core HR module J&E Hall will implement a range of flexible modules including Self Service, Workflow and our HMRC Standard Payroll module.

J&E Hall will be able to combine Self Service with Cascade’s workflow features and provide Best Practice Workflows. These workflows are designed in the core Workflow module and will guide users through any given task. This guarantee of best practice is just one example of why Cascade has a 100% success rate in rolling out Self Service to anything from 25 to 10,000 staff across single and worldwide sites.

Our Payroll solution meets the HMRC Standard and is fully integrated, therefore J&E Hall will be able to view their payslips through employee Self Service access. Checks and measures are user definable and will ensure J&E Hall can authorise changes they want to and allow other changes to process automatically.

Cascade is used by more than 320 organisations from 25 to 10,000 employees in the UK and abroad across a wide range of sectors.

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The hosted service is one of two installation options for Cascade’s award-winning HR and payroll software solution. Launched in 2007 it provides an alternative for clients that cannot or do not want to install the software on their own server.

Cascade’s infrastructure manager Simon Blezard explains: “Approximately 25% of our clients opt for a hosted service because of the many benefits that this option brings, not least the increased inbuilt resilience of all data being replicated and located at separate, secure geographical sites.

We don’t believe in a ‘one size fits all’ approach to working with clients, which is why we have worked hard to create a variety of installation options that hopefully ensure we have something for everyone. Our one millionth customer log-in for the hosted system certainly shows that this tried-and-tested service is proving very successful indeed.”

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Sir George Monoux College are the latest organisation from the education sector to make Cascade the number one choice for HR software.

Sir George Monoux College is a Sixth Form College, catering for 16-19 year olds, situated in the North East London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is located on a single 17.5 acre site in Walthamstow. The main building is set back from the road in landscaped grounds, surrounded by two playing fields. The College serves a wide catchment area and approximately half of its students live in the neighbouring London boroughs of Newham, Haringey, Hackney, Enfield and Tower Hamlets. Access to Central London is good via tube, rail and bus links. The College aims to help students reach their highest potential whether it is academic, artistic or vocational.

Cascade’s core HR solution will provide Sir George Monoux College with a huge amount of standard functionality and key features such as Attendance and Holiday Management, Organisational Charts, Reporting and a whole host of other features.

Sir George Monoux College will also implement our fully integrated Self Service, Workflow, Training and Recruitment modules.

Cascade’s Recruitment module will deliver a comprehensive and powerful recruitment solution which will help the college reduce administration and ensure best practice is followed, whilst maximising their opportunity to recruit the very best staff available.

Cascade’s Training module will enable Sir George Monoux College to accurately measure their return on investment, in the shape of on-going workplace evaluation. This will allow them to see just how training has changed the individual’s ability to carry out their role and motivate people to put their newfound skills into practice.

Supported by a dedicated Project Manager and committed Client Services team will ensure Cascade is configured to both Sir George Monoux College requirements and business objectives.

Cascade continues to expand its client base with over 320 clients across a variety of sectors, from educational organisations Argyll College, Trinity Hall and Kumon Education to Housing Associations Wakefield & District Housing, First Wessex and Derbyshire Housing Association.

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