The Kronos Cloud Tour. Andrew Manos Director Cloud Services Dan Rooney Cloud Principal

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1 The Kronos Cloud Tour Andrew Manos Director Cloud Services Dan Rooney Cloud Principal March 26,

2 Kronos Services Commitment: Deliver the Experience You Expect Strong Start, Early Success Delivering Continuous Value Helping You Work Smarter Implement Educate Support Manage Optimize 2

3 Agenda and Discussion Topics 1 Why it Makes Sense to Consider the Kronos Cloud 2 How the Kronos Cloud Stacks Up 3 Getting Ready to Move to the Cloud 4 Questions 3

4 Accelerate Your Return on Investment Kronos Customer Needs Reduce Costs Speed Time to Value Improve Reliability 4

5 Are You in One of These Situations? Upgrading to a new version of Kronos software IT department overwhelmed Corporate mandate to outsource Acquiring or divesting new company or division Using a 3 rd party provider but not satisfied Having issues with the hardware/software procurement process Multiple Kronos products 5

6 The Kronos Private Cloud 6

7 What Cloud Services Can Do Kronos Cloud Cloud Hosting IT Service Elements On Premise Application Management Physical IT Infrastructure Servers & OS Database Management Application Upgrades & Service Packs Disaster Recovery Application Configuration 7

8 Cloud Hosting Complete support of the entire IT infrastructure Installation of new technical software, application-level patches, service packs, and legislative updates Dedicated cloud customer manager Guaranteed service level agreements 8

9 Flexible Application and Database Management Offerings Application Updates Application Configurations Database Management 9

10 KPC Diagram: High Level Traffic Flow Customer Locations Primary Data Center Disaster Recovery 10

11 Enterprise Class Infrastructure: The Pod Design Disaster Recovery Pod Services Pod Dev/Test Pod 11 Customer Pod(s)

12 Cloud Strategy Part of our corporate strategy Incorporated into all product decisions InTouch time clock Workforce Mobile Workforce Tablet New features are designed with the cloud in mind We are staffed and equipped to support the cloud 12

13 Security Policies and Processes Managed security program in place Physical and Logical Access Controls utilized Two-factor authentication Security awareness training Employee background checks SSAE 16-compliant data center with multi-level physical and logical security features 13

14 Availability World class data centers Fully redundant architecture Full disaster recovery (DR) capability Follow the Sun hosting operations Dedicated customer relationship managers 99.5% uptime service level agreement (SLA) 14

15 Performance Scalable architecture allowing for growth Metrics Flexible and extensible architecture 15

16 Expertise Infrastructure management Operations management Architects are on staff Experts are on staff One stop for everything 16

17 Cloud Services Team Global Centers of Expertise 100 resources primarily based in US and Bangalore with augmented resource support in Canada, UK, and Australia 24 x 7 x 365 operation Kronos Application / Database, and Network Engineers PMI Certified Project and Program Management Microsoft Certified DBA, MCSE Oracle OCP Certified Database Administrators Citrix, Firewall, Switch, Router, Network Certified SSO, LDAP, AD authentication experience Kronos Global Implementation and Management Experience 17

18 Cloud Benefits Summary Eliminate hardware, operating system and database costs Re-focus IT staff on core business projects Minimize risk of downtime Ensure optimal system performance and availability Minimize compliance risk Move from capital to operational expense Reduce support staff costs 18

19 Moving to the Kronos Cloud 19

20 The Process of Moving to the Cloud Discovery survey and sizing exercises Load database into staging environment in the Kronos Cloud Upgrade is performed Test and validate in the production environment Schedule switch over to the Cloud Upload current data Go live in Cloud Ongoing management performed by Kronos 20

21 Cloud Discovery Examples What products are being installed? How many environments? Dev, test, QA, training What interfaces and frequency? Custom reports Any customizations or application extensions? 21

22 Managing Your Cloud Experience Customer Manager Cloud Solution Design Cloud Build Incident Management Infrastructure Operations/ Application Management 22

23 Upgrade to the Kronos Cloud Avoid internal disruption and get current Proven upgrade and migration methodology Discounted Professional Service Fee for Upgrade Let Kronos be responsible for system management moving forward 23

24 Network and learn at a city near you - FREE! Space is limited at this FREE customer event, so register now! Tue Apr 30 New York, NY Thu May 2 Atlanta, GA Tue May 7 Bethesda, MD Thu May 9 Charlotte, NC Tue May 14 Boston, MA Thu May 16 Philadelphia, PA Thu May 16 Rochester, NY Tue May 21 Detroit, MI Wed May 22 Milwaukee, WI Thu May 23 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Tue Jun 4 Columbus, OH Wed Jun 5 Phoenix, AZ Thu Jun 6 Chicago, IL Tue Jun 11 Portland, OR Thu Jun 13 Bellevue, WA Tue Jun 18 Pittsburgh, PA Thu Jun 20 Denver, CO Tue Jul 9 Orange County, CA Thu Jul 11 San Ramon, CA Tue Jul 16 Houston, TX Thu Jul 18 Dallas, TX Tue Jul 23 Overland Park, KS Wed Jul 24 St. Louis, MO Thu Jul 25 Minneapolis, MN

25 Questions? 25