Payroll Update Presented at Ascender User Conference

Manager Business Systems Development—MIS&SS  branch Mr. Richard Awok providing an update on the payroll upgrade at the Annual Ascender Pay Group User Conference held in Alotau Miline Bay Province from the 11th—12th July, 2024.
 

The Department of Personnel Management’s Management Information Systems & Support Services Branch- MIS&SS presented an update on the  version upgrade undertaken by DPM at the annual Ascender User Pay Group Conference hosted by Concept Group PNG, in Alotau Miline Bay Province, this month.

Manager Business Systems Development Mr. Richard Awok who delivered  a presentation at the conference said, it was a good opportunity for users to participate in the conference as it was very informative, to have other users to be able to share some valuable insights with us on the usage of the Ascender Payroll system.

Mr. Awok stated in his presentation  that the current version of the Ascender Payroll system is obsolete which means production is running on an older version while version 18 and the higher version of the Ascender pay has some new features that can solve some shortfalls experienced in the system.

He said currently, the version 22 has been installed on the training and development environment of the DPM’s local area network meanwhile data cleansing and training for users on the version 22 have already begun.

Mr. Awok  also emphasized that version upgrade will enable the improvement of service delivery, improve governance and control, improve human resource management, increase agency accountability and responsiveness and increase cost savings and enhance HR capacity.

Furthermore, he added that the Conference was more about bringing Ascender users together to bring forward their challenges and issues they are facing so that their experiences of using the HR/Payroll systems for the Vendor representative to address the issues and challenges.

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