18-11-2004

UK partner, KCS, wins Payroll Awards

Mark Information's UK partner KCS wins Pay Magazine's Payroll Software Provider and Payroll Outsourcing Provider Awards

For the fourth year running, KCS Management Services has won the Payroll Software Provider award; in addition, the picked up the Payroll Outsourcing Provider of the year award, and KCS customer Specsavers won the Payroll Manager of the year award. The 2004 Pay Magazine's Payawards took place at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on 15 November 2004.

Winning Payroll Software Provider of the Year award for a record fourth consecutive year prompted this comment from Anna Scott, editor of Pay Magazine, the organisers of the awards. "KCS made a very strong entry and demonstrated to this year's new panel of judges a really happy customer base, plenty of new functions and perhaps most importantly, that they really do listen to their customers and respond to their demands." Runners up in this category were Access Accounting and Iris Software.

KCS also won Payroll Outsourcing Provider of the year for the first time, beating last year's winner, Cintra Payroll Services who slipped into the highly commended category alongside Access Accounting and The Accounting Centre, who use KCS to operate their bureau business. Finally, Heather Hughes, payroll manager at KCS' customer Specsavers, won the Payroll Manager of the year award.

Alan Snell, Managing Director of KCS Management Systems Plc, is 'over the moon' with four consecutive wins: "I'm extremely proud of everyone at KCS who works so hard to maintain our winning position, which is so dependent on providing excellence in customer service, software functionality and listening to the needs of the market. Winning Payroll Outsourcing Provider of the year is particularly pleasing in recognising the lead we have taken in delivering our software as a service."

KCS is a leading supplier of Human Resource data solutions to medium and large organisations. KCS has been supplying software for over 30 years and currently has a client list of 550 public and private sector organisations of up to 50,000 employees.
KCS develops its software using Progress application and development tools.