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Global Reach Partners appointed by Acrede to power its global payroll solution In addition, intelligent automation elevates IT teams from time-consuming, daily fire drills and manual process patches. Smart automation, can even be supported by a mobile phone app so that IT users can actively monitor and manage business-critical processes anytime, anywhere. There is no need for an alert notification to be missed ever again. Time for Change With plans to digitise court rooms and make the NHS paperless, the public sector has committed to considerable investments in technology over the past few months, as they seek to make the most of the resources available to them. Now it is vital, particularly in light of the South Tees payroll glitch, that it looks at improving the processes that support its critical IT activities. Manually completing repetitive tasks is risky, costly, inefficient and unsustainable. However, when organisations automate standardised processes, they take the best possible route to reduce error, use staff wisely, accelerate processes and improve efficiency. Global Reach Partners Ltd is pleased to announce that it has been appointed payment provider of Acrede HR & Payroll Solutions Ltd. Whilst Acrede firmly remains in ‘The Cloud’, this strategic alliance will ensure safe and secure payments of clients’ staff globally. E xperts in corporate and personal foreign exchange, Global Reach Partners’ online payments platform is able to handle multiple payments across 130 currencies, via its network of global counterparties. Coming together, these companies will be able to offer all clients a completely safe and secure payroll service. Acrede’s payroll solution adheres to Sarbanes Oxley and SSAE16 (formerly SAS70) standards, whilst Global Reach Partners Online uses the latest international SSL protocol, advanced firewall and encryption methods. Acrede’s CEO, Karen Paterson added, “We are very excited by the opportunity to work with Global Reach Partners, who are recognised experts in international payments solutions. This is an exciting time in Acrede’s history and it is through these strategic relationships that we are able to offer our new and existing clients HR and end-to-end Payroll solutions that are continually one step ahead of the game.’ Zeb Bhan, Senior Commercial Dealer at Global Reach Partners commented ‘We are delighted that Acrede has chosen to use our international payment platform to service the payments of their global clients. We have worked very hard to create a robust and powerful solution – which coupled with Acrede’s innovative technology, means that clients are getting the very best solution the market has to offer.’ As with private companies, the public sector has to innovate if it wishes to remain at the top of its game. It’s time to change. Accolade OCTOBER 2013 21