Partnership combines best-of-breed workforce management technology from Emerald Software with comprehensive HR strategy, compliance, and management services from Stonehaven.

Emerald Software Group, LLC (Emerald Software), a world leader in workforce management technologies, and The Stonehaven Group (TSG-HR), a leading international human resources strategy services firm, announced today that the two companies have entered into a strategic partnership. Under the partnership the two companies will offer joint clients both the comprehensive strategic services of TSG-HR and Emerald's workforce management software, particularly the cost and compliance benefits of Emerald's Universal Onboarding platform.

Emerald Software's AllegroHR Suite is a web-based workforce management suite that includes new employee onboarding and acculturation, employee materials requisitioning, and personnel action notices. The entire AllegroHR suite leverages Microsoft(r) .Net technology, providing functional efficiency for the workforce, resulting in a significant return on investment through business process improvement; the AllegroHR suite is enabled by true Business Process Management (BPM) technology.

The Stonehaven Group, led by former VP of HR North America for Coca-Cola Scott Williams, is an international HR consultancy focusing on employment law, benefits cost management, compliance, labor management, and human capital management strategy. The company represents and services clients in more than 30 countries around the globe, and helps save clients money through proactive compliance and optimzed business practices and active representation in employment related litigation.

"Compliance, and specifically offering technology to HR professionals that ensures perfect compliance," says Chuck Ros, President of Emerald Software Group, "is the principle value objective we offer our clients. Our Universal Onboarding platform offers perfected compliance in the critical hiring phase of the relationship between employer and employee, but the landscape is constantly changing for our clients. Our partnership with Stonehaven will offer our clients a complete technology and services offering that keeps our clients not only on the cutting edge of technology, but also in compliance with the increasingly complex myriad of regulatory constraints."

"The events of the past year have changed the business community and the HR function, forever," said Stonehaven President Scott Williams. "While technology played an important role within the HR function, it is now the life blood. HR professionals not utilizing Emerald's technology are not affording their company the full benefit and cost savings Emerald can bring to the table. I trust Emerald for my international firm and so do our clients. I highly recommend Emerald's products to any HR professional wanting to make a positive impact to their functional and company bottom line."

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