Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions Announces Special Offer: Free HR Software With Purchase of Global Payroll Services

RALEIGH, NC and SALISBURY, UK--(Marketwire - April 13, 2009) - Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions, a leading global HR and payroll software and services business delivering expert solutions to clients in more than 160 countries, today announced that it is offering its global standard HR software free to those organizations electing to sign up for Patersons International Payroll Management solution. The offer includes Patersons standard HR suite, Document Manager and standard HR reports, enabling organizations to manage their employees with ease. Included with the free HR solution is Patersons 24-hour online access and 24-hour support across the globe.

"We wanted to provide new customers that haven't tried our global solutions with the opportunity to get our HR software for free, so that they can experience the benefits of a consolidated global management system that can remove the vast administrative burden of HR and payroll processing. The depth and knowledge contained within our team of experts means that we are able to take full responsibility for our clients' HR and payroll needs. With our solution, companies are presented with extremely clear information quickly and easily in real-time," stated Martin Stockton, Group Vice President of Patersons Global Business Development.

Patersons global payroll solution provides a fully outsourced payroll service with the flexibility for companies to bring payroll back in-house at any time. Patersons three-tiered approach -- totally outsourced, partially outsourced and in-house -- offers a customized payroll service tailored to meet the unique and changing needs of each individual organization. This unique and flexible solution covers more than 160 countries worldwide in more than 30 languages, using one Software-as-a-Service-based system (SaaS) under a single global contract.

Using the Patersons on-demand solution, payroll and HR data is uploaded locally or centrally. Patersons full reporting suite allows the appropriately authorized users to drill down into this global data to view details from corporate level down to individual level anywhere in the world. Financial and payroll data can be consolidated into the currency of choice to meet global workforce reporting requirements. To meet growing concerns about regulatory and risk issues, the solution is also Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.

New customers interested in the Patersons Payroll Solution system and the free global HR software offer should visit www.patersons.net/freehr.

About Patersons HR and Payroll

Headquartered in Salisbury, U.K. with offices in the U.S., central Europe and Asia, Patersons HR and Payroll is a leading global HR and payroll software and services business delivering expert solutions to clients in more than 160 countries. The Company's secure Internet-based software as a service is multi-currency and multi-lingual (covering over 30 languages), features an easy-to-use interface, supports fast implementation times and facilitates integration with existing systems. Patersons HR and Payroll differentiates itself by: one contract, one software solution, one enterprise interface and one cohesive system approach. As a result, Patersons has proved the impossible by being able to run multi-jurisdictional payroll rules for multiple clients on one database and one instance of source code worldwide. More information and contact details can be accessed at www.patersons.net.