Number of employees 9000 Business Sector Manufacturing Location Chester, Cheshire Product Used Open Options - Time and Attendance

		Summary

When BAE SYSTEMS, Airbus, manufacturers of wings for the European Airbus consortium, invested in a company wide NT environment in 1998, it provided the opportunity to remove their 'long-in-the-tooth' time and attendance systems in favour of a single, more user-friendly Windows-based software package.

		Background

"We had different systems at our sister sites. At Broughton, near Chester, the approach centred on old mainframe systems and at Filton in Bristol, the system was predominantly manual," recalls Peter Hulse, IT Project Manager. "Components at each site were not Year 2000 compliant, and were becoming increasingly unreliable and expensive to support." "We wanted a modern, user-friendly system which would run in our NT environment and would be capable of meeting both current and future needs. It would also need interface to our existing SAP, HR and Unipay Payroll applications. We selected Crown Computing's Open Options software which met our criteria, and gives us People Performance Management statistics on over 5,000 employees, as well as providing essential input to payrolls."