Clearwater, FL – May 18, 2009 – Dresser & Associates has implemented Sage Abra HRMS for GEI Consultants, an engineering and consulting firm headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, providing an HR, attendance, employee self-service, and payroll processing solution for the firm’s 400+ employees. In addition to the Sage Abra solution, Dresser & Associates provided an integration tool that seamlessly links Sage Abra with BST Enterprise™, GEI’s project management software.

For years, GEI has successfully run its accounting and project management operations using BST Enterprise from BST Global. The company’s HR tasks, however, lacked the benefits of automation. Rapid growth and a distributed workforce were making the manual system of spreadsheets, used to track the company’s generous benefit packages, unmanageable. GEI begin looking for a full-featured Human Resource Management Solution (HRMS).

BST Global referred GEI to Dresser & Associates, a premier Sage Abra HRMS partner. Dresser & Associates has developed a link between BST Enterprise and Sage Abra HRMS. The link transfers employee time sheet data from BST Enterprise to Sage Abra Attendance and Payroll modules, and returns updated employee information to BST Enterprise. As a result, customers benefit from an integrated, end-to-end project management, accounting, and HRMS solution.

“Once we realized we could integrate our HR and payroll data with our business operations system, we didn’t look further than Dresser & Associates and Sage Abra,” said Judy Eburn, GEI’s controller. “We were impressed by Dresser’s product knowledge and expertise in HR and payroll.”

Thanks to the efficiencies provided by the integrated solution, GEI saves more than 16 hours of labor each payperiod, and has eliminated potential sources of data entry errors because time sheet and employee data is entered only once, at the source. The Sage Abra Employee Self Service module saves GEI’s HR staff additional time by empowering the company’s employees to review and change their personal information through a self-service portal. Eburn added, “With BST Enterprise and Sage Abra, we have two powerful purpose-built tools that deliver the data that we need to run our business. There are so many positives. We are saving on staff salaries, eliminating redundancies and overhead, and have access to better, more timely data. The solution has paid for itself many times over.”

About Dresser & Associates

Dresser & Associates was founded in 1991 as a management consulting firm and became a Sage North America business partner in 1997. Headquartered in Scarborough, Maine, Dresser has regional offices in Georgia, Florida and Kentucky. Dresser is one of the leading National Partners for Sage with customers in 38 states offering Sage Abra HRMS (formerly ABRA Suite), Abra HR, Abra Learning Action Compliance, payroll software and HR software from Sage North America. They have been named to the Sage Chairman’s Club for four consecutive years. Dresser also offers on-going human resource management services on a consultant or outsourced basis, providing consulting services to improve operational and management performance. Dresser is dedicated to the continuing professional success of its customers and business partners. Learn more at www.dresserassociates.com or by calling (866) 885-7212.