Compensation and benefits.

PeopleSoft Inc. has developed and released the new software PeopleSoft HCM Payroll Process Integration Pack. It is designed to help employers integrate payroll, compensation and benefits data easily and efficiently with vendors that provide payroll and benefits outsourcing support to an organization.

The new software tool can reduce implementation times for support programs or new compensation procedures from months to weeks by efficiently providing multiple levels of data integration. In addition, the Process Integration Pack includes data transformation, routing, cross-reference maps, connectors and adapters that can ease integration across business processes--especially complex human resource functions.

My Play Music Inc. has launched a discount music club that employers can offer to employees as a new low-cost benefit. Employees who join the club will receive access to more than 14,000 titles from a wide range of musical styles. The My Play Music club was created specifically as a new benefit tool for HR professionals who are seeking low-cost options to enhance their organizations' benefits plans. With My Play Music, employees will have access to an easy-to-use and secure online shopping site. The special discounts and sale prices offered on the web site are exclusive to partieipating organizations and their employees and are not available to the general public.

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