Ascent Technology's innovative workforce management system for the gaming, healthcare, hospitality, and security industries

Optimizes your workforce for maximum efficiency and profitability

With the innovative Ascent WorkZone workforce management system, you can be sure the right workers are in the right places at the right times to handle your workload.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce managment system creates the best plans to meet your forecasted workload, turns plans into active schedules, and assigns tasks to workers in real time. The system lowers your costs by ensuring that the size and composition of your workforce matches the work to be done. The system also lowers your costs by reducing time spent creating plans and managing schedules.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system adjusts active schedules in response to actual conditions. The system identifies worker shortfalls and overages as they emerge and lowers your costs by suggesting worker reassignments, early outs, or minimal-cost overtime.

Ascent Technology's system provides worker-centric self-service tools that enable workers to view work assignments, to swap shifts, and to make work, leave, and vacation requests. The system lowers your costs by automating routine administrative tasks.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system provides powerful analyses and comprehensive reports. The system lowers your costs by helping you analyze past performance so you can improve future performance.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce management system increases efficiency and reduces staffing costs

Scheduling for the bottom line

  • Forecasts your organization's workload
  • Creates plans that cover your forecasted workload at the lowest cost
  • Identifies the best ways to achieve service goals
  • Calculates and compares the costs of what-if scenarios
  • Adjusts active schedules in response to actual conditions in real time
  • Conforms to the way your organization prefers to operate
  • Follows your organization's policies and guidelines
  • Complies with labor-agreement requirements and statutory regulations
  • Interfaces with payroll, human resources, time and attendance systems and other external systems
  • Produces comprehensive management reports

Powerful worker-scheduling tools

  • Ensures work coverage
  • Identifies worker shortfalls and overages
  • Suggests work reassignments and early-outs
  • Tracks worker qualifications and qualification expiration dates
  • Assigns tasks, locations, break times, and meal times to workers in real time
  • Enables workers to clock in and out and to record task completion information
  • Handles leave, overtime, compensatory time, relief, restricted duty, on the job training, and similar assignments
  • Enables administrators to change work and break times and to assign overtime, leave, and off days
  • Identifies workers available to work additional and overtime hours
  • Considers travel time between locations when making assignments
  • Communicates work schedules, work assignments, work locations, overtime needs, and messages to workers

Worker-centric self service

  • Enables workers to preview and request work schedules and vacation periods
  • Awards work schedules and vacation periods to workers automatically or through a worker-centric bid and award process
  • Enables workers to view work schedules and management messages
  • Enables workers to view leave balances and request leave
  • Enables workers to express preferences for workdays, additional work, and overtime work
  • Enables workers to trade work periods

With the Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system, you increase worker-utilization rates, reduce administration costs, improve job satisfaction, and provide better service to your customers, guests, and patients.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce management system: six powerful tools in one seamless solution

The Ascent WorkZone workforce management system gives you the six tools you need to ensure the right workers are in the right places at the right times to handle your workload:

  • The ARIS/WorkModel workload generator determines how many workers are needed to handle the forecasted workload
  • The ARIS/WorkOptimize work-period generator determines the best start and end times of each work period and how many workers of each worker type and hire type to assign to each work period
  • The ARIS/WorkPlan work-schedule generator manages worker, location, and work-line information, creates work lines, and assigns workers to work lines automatically or through a worker-centric bid-and-award process
  • The ARIS/WorkNet bid and trade manager handles the work-schedule and vacation-period bid-and-award process and worker-centric requests to change active work schedules
  • The ARIS/WorkTime workday manager manages worker information and makes task, location, break, and meal assignments dynamically in response to actual conditions
  • The ARIS/WorkRelay task and attendance monitor communicates work-assignment and location information to workers in real time, tracks work-completion status, and collects and monitors time and attendance information.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce management system stores the information it processes, such as the business rules, worker information, work schedules, leave schedules, work trades, worker clock-in and clock-out times, and work-assignment information, in the ARIS/SmartBase database. The ARIS/SmartBase database not only simplifies information sharing among the six Ascent WorkZone workforce management system tools, but, in combination with the ARIS/SmartBus communication manager, it also simplifies importing data from or exporting data to external systems.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce management system provides numerous plots, charts, and standard reports. You can design additional reports using information stored in the ARIS/SmartBase database.

To learn more about how the Ascent WorkZone workforce management system can help you optimize your workforce for maximum efficiency and profitability, call Ascent Technology's sales and marketing department at +1.617.395.4800.