| 10 | Fisheries | DPI seems to have slowed to a crawl with their redevelopment of the SIR fishing database into an Oracle application - target date was some years ago but now Jan 2011 - Unless Spatial Vision start making some progress soon this doesn't appear likely. Meanwhile the SIR application keeps chugging along with little effort. |
| 10 | World Vision SIR apps | World Vision now have their casuals and call centre staff using the GryTNA system which is now being considered for audit reporting on the payroll. |
| 10 | QLD Health | QLD government and Auditor General has blamed IBM for the incompetent way they went about implementing the SAP payroll system. The government is now looking for replacement software to implement a hub approach to payroll. So at last some sanity has prevailed - Pity they didn't think of putting in a system that works by people who know what they are doing to start with. |
| 10 | Cabrini Elsternwick Live | Gryphon has modified its GryTNA input to accept clockings from Kronos clocks and has live T&A from Elsternwick. A new set of shifts were required along with some changes for Uniform allowance. |
| 10 | RDNS Go Live | RDNS is live without the RosterOn interface because of the risk involved. RosterOn and the administration of RosterOn in RDNS presents a significant risk to payroll (see QLD Health) |
| 10 | Paul Boyes | One of the Frontier consultants we have worked with at a number of sites has left Frontier to join Grocon as their Remuneration Manager. We wish Paul every success and hope to catch up with him sometime in the future. |
| 10 | WVA Call Centre | The GryTNA system is being modified to process the 140 member Call Centre at World Vision following the move to Modern Award compliance. |
| 10 | Cabrini Acquires Elsternwick | Cabrini has another campus to integrate into the Gryphon TNA solution, this time using Kronos clocks. Mario Sanchez, ex Frontier has been appointed systems administrator at Cabrini. |
| 10 | Mediation | Gryphon has been busy this month with a number of mediations and investigations. |
| 10 | Queensland Health Shows What Not to Do | After 5 payroll cycles there are still people not paid or paid incorrectly according to Payroll News. This will have to go down as case study on what not to do - Unfortunately for SAP they have a number of these situations over the years. The head of payroll has gone but still no word on what actually went wrong - parallel runs, poor methodology, etc. Difficult to believe that something so fundamental can go so wrong - looks like wrong products, wrong implementers, wrong staff and wrong decisions. |
| 10 | RDNS Continues to roll on | Gryphon has been assisting with project consulting and staff training but all is going well and still ahead of schedule apart from the RosterOn testing which has taken much more time and effort than it should.
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| 10 | Cabrini Developments | While Cabrini decides on what they want to do about HR systems (Liz is assisting them directly) the Kronos implementation was put on hold and a new tender released so the replacement of the GryTNA may be even further delayed. In the meantime we have added enhancements following the differing needs outlined by Epworth. |
| 10 | Pete Gason Resigns | Pete Gason, our fisheries expert has decided to call it a day and do other things with his wife Anne who recently retired from DPI. We wish them both the very best for their new future and thanks for the contribution made by Pete. |
| 10 | Epworth GryTNA Demo | Gryphon provided Epworth with a demo of the GryTNA system resulting in a number of enhancements being implemented in the base product. |
| 10 | Queensland Health | Monumental SAP payroll stuffup in Queensland Health has resulted in large numbers of people not being paid or paid incorrectly. KPMG has been brought in to determine who gets the blame - SAP, IBM, bureaucrats, consultants. No prizes for guessing who will get shafted - it won't be SAP or IBM! The project management appears to have been deficient? - parallel runs? Test plans? A million questions remain. Shows what happens when you listen to the big end of town with these implementations.
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| 10 | World Vision chris21 | An enhancement to the chris21 audit files has been undertaken for WVA so that managers can monitor changes to the database. |
| 10 | MHPN Investigation | Col attended a Mental Health Professionals Network meeting for the purpose of finding parties to whom clients can be referred and to gather further information regarding mental health operations. |
| 10 | TTA Survey on Hold | Transport Minister Martin Pakula has sacked the head of the TTA agency in charge of myki. Chief executive Gary Thwaites has been dumped in favour of Bernie Carolan, the head of Metlink. "I am firmly of the view that new leadership is needed," Mr Pakula said. Surprise surprise - new minister - new CEO. Lets see what changes this time.
The announcement follows yesterday’s meeting Mr Pakula had with John McCain, chief executive of Keane, the American parent company of Kamco. Kamco is the company that has the Government contract to introduce the myki system. (herald sun) |
| 10 | Mediation | More bullying and grievance investigation leading to mediation undertaken for Healthscope in the past few months. Emphasis on the importance of intervening early. |
| 10 | TTA Survey | Transport Ticketing is to undertake another staff survey - last one in 2008. This time we are using Lotus database for data capture which will feed a SIR analysis system for longitudinal reporting. |
| 10 | DPI CANDE Continues | Spatial Vision is still battling with the conversion of the SIR database to Oracle. The obstacles are the corrections and remapping of the raw data hard coded into SIR over 25 years of regulatory change. Gryphon continues to assist by explaining what the code in fact does. 90% of reports are derived from corrected data - SV would prefer to bring across just the raw data. |
| 10 | RDNS Chris21 | Frontier have all but finished the RDNS configuration but testing is held up by RosterOn which apparently is having some difficulties with interfaces. We are hoping to have made some progress by mid February. There is still plenty of time for the July 1 go live but it is disconcerting to suffer unexplained delays. |
| 10 | GryTNA Enhancements Continue | More changes have been made to the GryTNA application such that alterations at the payroll end (new starters, change of cost centre, etc) are seamlessly passed thru to the clocks avoiding the necessity to log onto the clock and duplicate the activity. With the exception of registering a finger or proximity card all other operations are at the payroll end - compare this to other systems requiring clock administration intervention.
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| 10 | Jenny Grey to Join Cabrini | Jenny Grey has been active at Cabrini for some time and with the departure of Vicki Hedger and Michelle Webb she takes over running the payroll. Congratulations Jenny - lots more to do in fully implementing HR, payroll efficiencies and Kronos. Meanwhile the Gryphon TNA solution rolls on without a hitch providing public holiday penalties. Recent changes included a new shift for Communications staff and the exclusion of certain staff from both public hols. |
| 09 | Ruby Touzeau | Ruby Miles Touzeau - born 22 December 2009 |
| 09 | RDNS Makes a Start on chris21 | RDNS has commenced the implementation of chris21 and RosterOn with plenty of time for go-live of July 2010. |
| 09 | World Vision Enhancements Continue | WVA have found more opportunities to improve their GryTNA application by having the system withhold action for unauthorised transactions and pre-dated transactions. Currently looking at passing Extra Pay transactions via the TCB file. |
| 09 | RDNS Completes IPS | RDNS and Frontier have completed the IPS with very few issues being identified that will cause a problem later on. |
| 09 | Adesse Disappearance | It looks like adesse, the Dean Phlean, Abdel Alzenaty partnership has disappeared off the HR scene. |
| 09 | GryTNA Application | The TNA application developed by Gryphon passes another milestone at Cabrini and is now live at World Vision. In both cases the system automatically handles elementary award interpretation and file creation for chris21 payroll. |
| 09 | Healthscope National Christmas Holidays | This year Boxing Day is on Saturday - what this means for Christmas penalties has been compiled for national use. |
| 09 | Gryphon Fish | Gryphon has completed an exhausting study into the business rules operating in DPI. This required the reverse engineering of the SIR code that currently administers all commercial fishing.
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| 09 | RDNS Begins chris21 IPS | RDNS commences the IPS which will probably only take a couple of weeks as a result of the excellent work already conducted by their in-house staff. |
| 09 | Healthscope Making Progress with PayGlobal | A new version of PayGlobal appears to have overcome Healthscopes problems and things are looking up for the beleagured payroll system apart from a reputed loss of a significant contract.
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| 09 | More Mediation Please | Gryphon has again been called upon to resolve a series of bullying complaints local and interstate. |
| 09 | Dangers in Implementation | Gryphon has been asked to assist in an implementation that has gone bad - a reminder that there is risks in using inexperienced people. Employing professional project management firms does not ensure an efficient and competent implementation - it often just adds significantly to the cost. |
| 09 | RDNS Chooses chris21 | RDNS, after an exhaustive analysis of their needs and what the market offers has decided to implement an ASP configuration of chris21 from Frontier. Talent2 came second largely because of cost, being Oracle based, and perceived weakness in reporting.
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| 09 | DIIRD After Assistance | Jenny Grey has been recommended to assist DIIRD payroll on a short term basis. She is helping out part time for a few months
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| 09 | DPI Looks at data conversion | Spatial Vision is now looking at CANDE reporting and data conversion - workshops to resolve remaining problems have occurred. Meanwhile the SIR application hums along. |
| 09 | ConnectEast Considers GryTNA | ConnectEast is considering the GryTNA system for a cost effective method of avoiding timesheets taking feeds from their phone system and rostering to feed chris21. |
| 09 | RosterOn T&A for RDNS | RDNS has a quote from RosterOn to develop the required award interpretation for 3 awards to feed the payroll system (being selected). |
| 09 | World Vision Parallels | The Gryphon web timesheet (Replicon) to chris21 payroll interface has passed the first parallel run. The interface does the award interpretation and compares claimed wage rates with award entitlements. Fine tuning and documentation to follow. It is a variation of the GryTNA system developed by Gryphon |
| 09 | RDNS Implementation | Processes have commenced for the selection and implementation of either Talent2 or chris21 for RDNS. Bids are in - awaiting a selection decision |
| 09 | More on Clocks | CSTime clock has passed 90% of our testing while CHD (the budget model from China) has failed miserably. A replacement OC200 also from China performs well but accepts only 2 digit cost centre overrides - their OC500 takes up to 6 so another set of testing is planned. The CSTime interfaces directly with our GryTNA application. Significant cost and development effort has been devoted to this exercise. |
| 09 | Pete Gason joins Gryphon | Pete has supported the SIR DPI databases for many years. The data going back to 1978 includes all fish species caught by commercial fishers in Victorian waters. His expertise will be useful in a number of Gryphon areas of operation as we continue to develop solutions using SIR/XS. Initially he will concentrate on the support for the Cande database. |
| 09 | Clocks | We are now in the final phases of testing two clock varieties - a budget clock sourced from china and a more sophisticated clock sourced from South Africa. Both provide the functionality that we are looking for when interfaced to our SIR T&A application |
| 09 | T&A Research | Gryphon has invested in purchasing some time clocks so that we are able to provide a total solution in respect of award interpretation, time and attendance monitoring. |
| 09 | Healthscope | Payroll team development using MBTI as the vehicle for gaining better cooperation and communications. Healthscope Drug & Alcohol program set to expand. |
| 09 | Clive Peeters | Mediation in HR and payroll |
| 09 | RDNS | Royal District Nursing Service is looking to replace their HRIS - Gryphon has commenced assisting them in the selection of the best product.
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| 09 | Cabrini Support Continues | Minor alterations to the T&A system. HR reporting assistance. |
| 09 | Healthscope Activities | Col continues to be involved in staffing investigations and mediation at various Healthscope hospitals. |
| 09 | DPI Cande Database | Gryphon is providing a description of the fisheries database - about 200,000 lines of code - the data capture, validation prototcols, summarisation processes, fish pricing algorithms and reporting. A largish undertaking but assisted by the developer of the database mr Pete Gason.
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| 09 | Laminex New Payroll | Laminex Industries is implementing chris21 as a replacement for the Neller Preceda system. Gryphon is involved in assisting with this task which is being managed from NZ. |
| 08 | World Vision Australia | We have had discussions with WVA to explore the interface of a web based timesheet capture to chris21. This can be achieved relatively cheaply using the sort of technology employed by Gryphon at Cabrini. |
| 08 | Jenny Grey back at Cabrini | The appointment with Inzenious didn't work out for Jenny - she is back at Cabrini working a couple of days a week. Some people will be amused that Inzenious is one of the companies associated with SIAG and Brian Cook. |
| 08 | Transport Ticketing Authority | Gryphon has commenced putting together a workforce planning process for the TTA. Assistance provided using a Gryphon database for analysing staff survey information. |
| 08 | Cabrini Payroll Live | Gryphon has chalked up another successful chris21 implementation at Cabrini Health although it wasn't easy this time. We came in on budget and on time with little room for mistakes - live on 28/9 while the contract with the previous supplier terminated on 1/10/08. The Gryphon costs also included an unbudgetted development of the T&A front end which has been more successful than expected. The success of the payroll implementation was largely due to the work done by the Frontier consultants (Paul Boyes and David Walsh) and Gryphon staff over the past many months.
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| 08 | Mediation at Healthscope Continues | Healthscope mediation and investigations have continued at various hospitals throughout Australia. |
| 08 | Staffing Changes | Di Gregory has returned to RWH to assist with payroll and administration as a part time employee. Jenny Grey has taken up a full time appointment running payroll in the hospitality industry. Liz, Netta and I wish them both well with their new endeavours and thank them for their efforts over the last 2 years. |
| 08 | Gryphon T&A System | The T&A system written in SIR and to be used by Cabrini in conjunction with the new chris21 payroll due to go live by 1 October works. The TCB file loaded into chris21 during the parallel runs has been deemed acceptable and in fact has enhancements that were never envisaged. |
| 08 | Liz Returns | Liz Gillespie returns to Gryphon in time for the parallel runs with chris21 at Cabrini. Liz is concentrating on payroll process and change. The implementation remains on target and budget but the problems encountered have been significant. Jenny Grey has been propping up the Hopetoun payroll while looking after the data conversion there. |
| 08 | Changes at DOI | DOI has restructured and changed names - something to do with Transport - we're hoping that the changes will see the return of Liz Gillespie. Fran Boyd moves to DPI. |
| 08 | Gryphon to Support the DPI Fisheries Database | DPI has approached Gryphon for support of the Catch and Effort database located at Queenscliff. This is a very important database as it records fisheries catches, regulates commercial fishing licences, provides a research data source, etc. The SIR database is about 20 years old and is expected to be converted to Oracle over the next couple of years.
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| 08 | More Cabrini | The idTec clocks are now working and contracts signed for Cabrini to implement chris21 to replace Affinity (The Pay Office) and Logtronics (Matthew Earl). Gryphon is providing software that will serve as an award interpretator written in SIR.
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| 08 | Cabrini Considers chris21 | Cabrini is exploring the chris21 product after rejecting the PayGlobal alternative. The T&A component missing from chris21 will be examined as a separate exercise with Kronos, eTivity and Rosteron being considered at this early stage. Gryphon will produce an interim award interpretation front end in the meantime. |
| 08 | Liz Gillespie Quits | Liz has taken up a contract with DOI to assist in implementing the Oracle HRMIS and support corporate HR reporting. We wish her every success. |
| 07 | PayGlobal Fails to Impress | Cabrini has decided not to proceed with PayGlobal following the IPS and identifying problems with performance, functionality and support from Eclipse. |
| 07 | IDTEC Clocks Fail Again | The Cabrini iDtec clocks have failed to operate correctly when modified to validate cost centre overrides. We are already using a work around in order to be able to delete entries from the system. A 2 week project is now approaching 1 year largely due to the questionable support provided for the clocks and the less than robust database infrastructure. |
| 07 | More Cabrini Health | Gryphon manages Cabrini payroll following resignation of Payroll Manager - Jenny and Di are assisting the payroll personnel to improve and keep the processes running. A scoping study for a new payroll has been completed leaving many questions unanswered. idtec clocks prove unreliable - rather the software controlling the clocks has not delivered satisfactory operation. Work arounds have been devised.
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| 07 | HealthSmart Seminar | Gryphon, representing RWH, presented an overview of the successful chris21 implementation to Finance/HR Managers in an attempt to cajoule remaining hospitals to change from SAP to chris21
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| 07 | Cabrini Health | Cabrini commences a HRMIS needs analysis. |
| 07 | PayGlobal Changes (again) | PayGlobal is restructuring again - this time by hiving off the Australian sales and support to Eclipse Computing, one of Geoff Lords stable of companies (board includes Geoff Cosgriff. Ron Zammitt, Kingsley Culley - MITS, Chris Nicolli - DEC). Chris Radley has taken over as CEO of PayGlobal and will now concentrate on product development only. |
| 07 | RWH Activity | Gryphon remains employed at RWH doing final cleanups and reporting activities while RWH commences the implementation of a Power Health exec and clinical reporting system (datamart style product). The medical admin and archiving is still being worked on but with the switching on of HR21 Frontier's and our work is complete. |
| 07 | Jenny Grey joins the Gryphon team | Jenny Grey, late of Epworth has joined Di Gregory, Liz Gillespie, Netta and Col at Gryphon and will be involved in payroll/HRIS implementations, data quality audits and award interpretation activities. |
| 07 | Epworth | Epworth is another large multicampus private hospital network which will be considering options for a new HRMIS in the next 6 months. Gryphon has assisted Epworth with a template RFI for their entry into the market. The project is not likely to commence until early 2008.
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| 07 | Cabrini Health | Cabrini Health, a 3500 employee healthcare group is looking at their options for a HRMIS. Gryphon have been approached to assist in the implementation of a new HRMIS including time and attendance integration. Gryphon is project managing activities there |
| 07 | RCH chris21 Implementation | RCH has signed up for the IPS stage of the chris21 implementation. Gryphon is continuing to provide data cleansing support to the Project Manager while the Gippsland Alliance are midway through their IPS. The other public health agencies, notably Eastern, Bayside, Peninsula, Lodden and Melbourne (inc Northern and Western) continue to resist the change from SAP in spite of the arguments supporting SAP being demonstratably wrong. That hasn't stopped the public hospital sector bureaucrats before and it probably won't again. |
| 07 | Healthscope Mediation | A bullying complaint has again been successfully resolved using Col as a mediator and cousellor. |
| 07 | RWH Implementation Latest | The RWH implementation started on 23/3/07 and went live on 29/6/07 - about 3 months elapsed time. The costs (including Gryphons charges, Frontier and William Buck) were well below budget as a result of Gryphon negotiating an arrangement with Frontier and limiting the WB activities. The methodology applied and the reasons for such a successful implementation will be published in the future. Suffice to say the costs involved were about a tenth of Southern and a quarter of Austin. This was the first of the SAP payrolls so, while it is fair to say that the RWH is smaller, it also had the same unknown problems that the initial 4 hospitals had with TSS.
The main reasons for success were our project management and technical knowledge, a very competent and experienced Frontier consultant (Erin O'Connor) and an experienced Payroll Manager (Chris Stewart). |
| 07 | HRMIS Audit | RCH is preparing for the introduction of a new HRMIS by commencing with a clean up of their data - Gryphon has been engaged to assist. |
| 07 | SIR/XS | Sir Australia has released the new long word version of SIR - XS which has been in beta for a couple of years. See features on the www.sir.com.au website. |
| 07 | Heartbase USA Conference | Chicago will host the 2007 user conference with 2 days set aside for papers and 1 day training in report writing. |
| 07 | RWH Chris21 IPS Comes in Below Budget | The RWH Chris21 IPS has been completed on time and under the DHS contracted price. A six week delay obtaining funding for the next stage has put pressure on the go-live date but we are confident we can meet it.
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| 07 | DOI Uses SIR for Workplace Reporting | Gryphon has constructed a SIR database that allows the department to produce workforce statistics in a fraction of the time required in the past by dumping data from Empower. |
| 07 | Award Information System | The AIS is being re-designed to comply with the requirements of Healthscope and will be launched in January. Similar features to those previously available will be provided including the IR news, variations service, and interpretation. |
| 07 | Southern Health HR | The implementation of Chris21 HR modules (HR21) is being examined by Southern Health. The lead agencies (Southern, St Vincents, Austin and Grampians) have almost concluded the common design allowing progress on implementation. Gryphon argues the merits of critically assessing the need for the modules and the degree of support for them before implementing. |
| 07 | Heartbase Seminar | Nick Gawrit, the CEO of Heartbase will be discussing the benefits of heartbase, the USA registries and the design of cardiac patient systems at a Melbourne seminar in January sponsored by Gryphon. |
| 07 | Eastern Health Mediation | Col has again been engaged as an independent investigator and mediator by Box Hill Hospital to resolve a staffing situation. |
| 07 | RWH Chris21 Implementation | We have been appointed Project Managers of the Chris21 implementation at RWH. This project is expected to continue to mid 2007. |
| 07 | Gryphon appointed Distributor of TestPro
| Gryphon has been appointed a distributor of TestPro8 by Atrixware a USA company specialising in elearning software development. Gryphon has taken on the product because, value for money, it is the best product available for developing on-line tests and its companion product WebLearning is also a cost effective LMS (Learning Management System). Apart from the cost aspect Atrixware provides excellent documentation, is a breeze to use and has more functionality than most systems for less than 1/10th the price.
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| 06 | Gryphon Back in IR Information? | Gryphon has been asked to provide a quotation for industrial information services for Healthscope - The service promises to be improvement on past efforts with the introduction of Liz and Di both of whom have strong health and IR exposure. |
| 06 | WorkplaceLegal merging with VHIA | With the departure of John Douglas, Workplace Legal has been enveloped into VHIA which allows VHIA to operate legitimately in the private health market. Stuart and Maurice will ultimately move offices down to St Kilda Road. |
| 06 | John Douglas Appointment | John has left Workplace Legal and has joined Healthscope as HR Manager alongside Ross Baxter and Nicole Pianta. |
| 06 | DOI Workforce Planning | Gryphon is assisting DOI with the data capture and reporting for their Workforce Planning. The DOI uses Remus Empower as a HRIS and SPSS for analysis. |
| 06 | Austin Health considers Heartbase | Austin Health is considering the merits of the heartbase product for patient management in the coronary care area. |
| 06 | RWH readies for new payroll | RWH is undertaking a number of data cleansing and auditing exercises in preparation for the expected Frontier implementation late in 2006. Gryphon are assisting with LSL audits and implementation advice. |
| 06 | Maurice Addison joins Workplace Legal | Maurice has had many years experience in industrial relations, predominantly in general manufacturing and construction. He has also spent considerable time involved in various industry sectors such as Power Generation, Health, Vehicle manufacture/auto components, etc. He has conducted negotiations, advised and implemented strategies to achieve workplace outcomes, provided representation on industrial matters under awards and agreements including litigating were necessary.
Maurice holds a Law Degree which he completed in 2003. He has extensive experience in the AIRC, the Federal Court of Australia and VCAT and has worked for the AMWU previously. |
| 06 | Royal Women's New Payroll | RWH has embarked on the process of replacing their SAP payroll with CHRIS commencing with presentations and some very early pre-implementation studies. Actual implementation is likely to be the first half of 2007. |
| 06 | Di Gregory joins Gryphon | Di Gregory has joined Liz, Netta and Col at Gryphon and will be involved in payroll/HRIS implementations, data quality audits and industrial support activities. She will initially be involved at Mecwa. |
| 06 | Mecwa Frontier Payroll | Now live - the more interesting aspects being the 4 different means of capturing time and attendance - proprietry rostering, CHRIS rosters, autopays and timesheets. Time and attendance systems being examined for the 2 large residential facilities. |
| 06 | RWH to Implement Komodo CMS | RWH are to implement the Komodo Content Management System for web and intranet content. |
| 06 | DIIRD extends the use of CHRIS21 | DIIRD are extending the use of CHRIS to pick up the 60 or so Local Engaged Staff (LES) located in various overseas jurisdictions each having different local leave and other conditions of service. The local DIIRD intranet is to support leave applications which will be accrued in the CHRIS system. |
| 06 | Gryphon still active in Industrial information | The ability to compare award/agreement rates remains a requirement of industrial negotiators. Gryphon has created an analysis system that compares health rates. Materials that were available on www.employer-hr.info are available now thru the Gryphon web site under the membership login. |
| 06 | SIR Conference in Stratford on Avon, UK | The 2006 SIR conference is in the UK this year following a very successful New York conference in 2005. |
| 06 | CSL PayGlobal soon to go live | Since the recruitment of Jill Stosic the delayed PayGlobal installation at CSL has sped up considerably. Jill was the recommendation of Gryphon while we assisted in the system testing. Live payroll are expected in May 2006. |
| 06 | Di Gregory Joins Gryphon | Di Gregory, ex payroll manager at RWH, has joined Gryphon to help out at Mecwa following some sick leave for Liz. |
| 06 | Mecwa prepares for parallel runs | Mecwa is near to go live stage with most data loaded and checked. Parallel runs will both determine the payroll accuracy and whether the existing procedures will hold up. Mecwa has numerous time and attendance capture mechanisms and award interpretation systems. They are looking at Teleclock as an alternative to the data loggers used in the district nursing area. |
| 06 | Rostering of Hospital Medical Officers | Gryphon is currently working on a sophisticated system for the rostering of Junior Medical Officers, sessional, relieving doctors and senior specialists. |
| 06 | Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries | DPI at Queenscliff are in the process of upgrading their Solaris server and SIR2000. Gryphon is assisting in the SIR translation, a relatively satraightforward task normally. Complications arise because of the size of the databases, much of the SIR code written in SIR3.2 and inconsistent coding the best example being the 'for' statement. SIR2002 doesn't accept concatenated commands on the for statement unless the interval is specified. The databases are extrememly important as they hold all the commercial fishing data in Victorian waters. |
| 06 | Royal Womens Hospital | Payroll improvement - currently outsourced to William Buck and Mantrack. Over 64 improvement projects underway or completed. |
| 05 | Nunawading High School Jubilee - | A web site was needed - using yarratech's Webbench it took less than a day to have the domain registered and site up and running. With a bit of yarratechs help we had photo gallery, bulletin boards, newsletters, etc along with downloadable forms for registrations. Have a look at www.nhsjubilee.com |
| 05 | Heartbase - | Heartbase is a full featured Cardiac Patient Management system. Sitting behind the screens are tens of thousands of lines of code and intellectual property developed over a 20 year period. |
| 05 | SIR2002 Medical Research Databases - Dr Howard Andrews argues the case for SIR | Prof Howard Andrews from Columbia University provides a compelling argument for using the Australian SIR database. He runs over 30 medical research applications.
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| 05 | International SIR Conference
Columbia University NYC | Attends NYC for the conference. |
| 04 | Employer-hr.info Services | It has not possible to continue the web based award, agreement, IR news and HR services that Gryphon has provided for the past 18 months. The service, in spite of being more timely and arguably more accurate than others has not been able to gain commitments in respect of subscriptions. Perhaps the future might hold something different. |
| 04 | Liz Gillespie Joins Gryphon | Liz has joined Gryphon to assist with the DIIRD payroll implementation following the development of the business case. |
| 04 | HRIS Installations - | Gryphon has a long association with HRIS installations in the health and public sector utilities. Current projects are in progress at DIIRD, DOI, MECWA, CSL and RWH. CHRIS pay has been selected as the preferred system for Victorian public hospitals. A good choice for simple, cost effective and flexible installations. Besides Gryphon has heaps of experience with Chris. |
| 03 | VHIA | Col departs VHIA as a result of a VHIA winning a contract with Mayne Nick making the support for Healthscope a conflict of interest. |
| 02 | Adesse approaches Gryphon | Adesse has requested that Gryphon join them to offer Healthscope support for IR advice. |
| 02 | VHIA Consulting | Col undertook organisation reviews for various VHIA clients together with surveys and the Nurses vote for their EBA. Established the VHIA IT infrastructure and web site. |
| 01 | VHIA IT Infrastructure | VHIA contracted with Gryphon to set up the IT infrastructure and award information system after others had failed to materialise ($80k spent with nothing to show) |
| 01 | Mercy & WCH Payrolls | Mercy and WCH payroll (TSS) implementations undertaken by Gryphon. |
| 00 | Fortis Insurance HRIS | Fortis investigation for a new payroll system and HR capacity - produced the specs and tender documentation leading to chris21 being selected. |
| 00 | Sir Conference - Colchester | Col attended the SIR conference in Colchester (at University of Essex). |
| 00 | Col Leaves SIAG | Following the departure of Phelan and Lyster SIAG struggles to cope with supporting clients adequately. Col departs and resumes the Gryphon operations of prior to 1996. Douglas departs SIAG. |
| 99 | SIAG - Yellow Pages | Chris5 revamp and incorporation of the Peruse HR system. |
| 98 | SIAG consulting | Epworth and private hospital industrial support including the development of award information. |
| 97 | SIAG consulting | Setting up the SIAG IT infrastructure, Barwon Water chris5 review. Surveys for Armaguard, Epworth, Kingston Council, etc using Gryphon software |
| 96 | Gryphon Invited to Join SIAG | Brian Cook and Dean Phelan have expanded SIAG by taking additional partners including Col, John Douglas and Bill Lyster. Col's role is to establish the IT support, IR and HR systems. |
| 96 | Epworth Hospital | Customising Chris5 payroll and HR |
| 95 | Gryphon Incorporated | Gryphon registered as a pty ltd business with clients of Parks and Waterways (IT), MFB (HRMIS), Epworth, local government (Kingston, Moreland, Port Phillip, Indigo). Attended SIR Conference in Sydney - followed the 89 Montreal Conference while at VECCI. |
| 95 | Europe Visit | Visited Forvus in UK, Paris and London health bodies exchanging information.
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| 94 | Surveys using Gryphon software | Local government staff surveys |
| 94 | Baroner Private Hospital EBA | EBA preparation for Baroner and others subcontracted from SIAG.
SE Water and City West Water payroll advice |
| 93 | Yarra Valley Water | Chris5 implementation replacing Spectrum |
| 93 | Cortex Business Services | Cortex started in May 1993 with about 5 months of SIR software development for survey and training needs analysis databases. Early consultancies in the areas of survey analysis for Rockwell, Laminex, and others |