Cloud Services
Let Kronos manage, support, and host your solution. Focus on growing your business and let us handle the technical issues of managing and hosting your Kronos solution. You maintain complete control of all your workforce management functions, while we keep your workforce management solution running smoothly and cost-effectively with our Cloud Services.
Easy to Deploy. Easy to Manage.
Your Kronos solution can be deployed at your location or hosted in the cloud at one of our secure offsite facilities. We can also be your single point of contact for software upgrades, support, and maintenance. You stay in charge of your solution, but we handle service packs and upgrades, and take responsibility for keeping the application up and running.
How do you know if Cloud Services is right for you? One or more of these common scenarios may indicate Cloud Services is the right choice.
Cloud Hosting
Outsourcing your solution to Kronos is a great way to increase your efficiency and free up your IT resources to concentrate on projects important to your strategic goals. You'll also avoid the costs associated with procuring hardware, operating system and RDBMS licenses, and you'll benefit from having knowledgeable Kronos consultants keep your system backed up and up to date with service packs.
Kronos can also have a temporary test environment available for your use when you're just getting your project going or when you are facing delays in the hardware procurement process. There is no long-term commitment, and when you no longer need the environment it simply goes away as do the associated expenses.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
With our SaaS subscription model, Kronos can host and manage your solution in the cloud where users can access the application(s) over the Web at anytime, from anywhere — all for a fixed per-employee monthly subscription fee. It’s the ideal choice for organisations seeking to achieve their workforce management goals without exceeding their capital equipment budgets or placing additional demands on their in-house IT staff.
Managing Your Application
Let Kronos Cloud Services proactively manage your Kronos application so your IT department doesn’t have to. The size of your organisation, the complexity of your needs, the availability of your IT support staff, or the number of license agreements you hold isn’t an issue when you have Kronos Cloud Services on duty. With Kronos Cloud Services Essentials, we'll work diligently to understand your business and proactively meet your needs. We can provide:
Application Updates: Kronos installs application updates, service packs, new software versions, and legislative updates (if applicable). These services enable your organisation to take advantage of the latest software features, enhancements, and fixes while minimising your risk of noncompliance with ever-changing federal and state regulations.
Application Configuration: Kronos will make, test, document, and implement a predefined number of changes to your existing configurations, including interfaces, Workforce Genies®, HyperFinds™, and labour levels, on a quarterly basis. The number of configuration changes included can scale over time to accommodate increases in employee population or configuration complexity.
Database Management: Kronos installs database-level patches and service packs and performs regular system health checks with tuning recommendations. These proactive checks are designed to identify potential issues so they can be resolved before they affect system users.
Application Management: For organisations that need a more comprehensive solution, this offering provides essentials services such as updating applications and installing services packs and new software versions. And we provide a dedicated program manager who'll work with you to proactively review productivity indicators, performance trends, and adherence to service level agreements.
Application Monitoring
After careful analysis of your infrastructure and processes, Kronos consultants can design, test, and deploy custom-built monitors in your environment. These monitors will alert you to error conditions in your system and work flows, providing specific information you need to correct the issue quickly and efficiently.
Kronos can also cover all the tasks related to routine maintenance, emergency response, disaster recovery, and also analysing usage patterns and system resource utilisation to proactively ensure ongoing system performance. These services are available on a per-project basis, or as an ongoing monthly agreement.