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Ultimate Software customers represent diverse industries
and include such organizations as The Container Store, Elizabeth Arden, The
Florida Marlins Baseball Team, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, Nintendo of
America, Ruth's Chris Steak House, and SkyWest Airlines. Workforce
lifecycle management solutions are providing a framework for
management to retain, manage and develop their top talent much more
effectively.

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"We wouldn't have had the opportunity to tackle new projects like
automating our training and career planning programs if we hadn't started
moving away from managing paperwork in HR.
The report also predicts strong and ongoing growth for the WLM
market. The anticipated 17% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is
driven by more effective approaches to the management, monitoring,
measuring and development of an organizations workforce, with
completely integrated offerings from onboarding to succession
planning, combined with an on-demand delivery model that makes it
easier and more affordable to implement.

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The company helps businesses understand the
opportunities, risks, and competitive pressures of developing,
deploying, and consuming products and services that drive
communication or information exchange.

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Yankee Group is the global leader in communications and networking
research and consulting.

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More than I imagined, our
people really enjoy having access to their own benefits, payroll, and other
information 24-7.

"This year's open enrollment using UltiPro went extremely well and didn't
require the paper pushing typically needed," said Cindi Hayes, director of HR
for American Trim.
"HR departments are witnessing a rapid shift from tactical,
transaction-focused HR solutions, toward more strategic value-added
components within their organizations," said Jason Corsello, senior
analyst at Yankee Group.

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With
each document or process that Hayes's HR team moves onto UltiPro, additional
time is available to focus on core HR projects designed to enhance service to
employees and improve the company's bottom line. They could also see and compare current benefit prices with the
costs of new benefits and make elections for the coming year online. "An integrated WLM approach is fast becoming
a strategic initiative at thought-leading organizations.

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As part of its initiative to use Internet technologies to free up HR staff
from administrative tasks and enable them to focus on more strategic projects ,
the manufacturer moved to a paper-free payroll for salaried staff and plans to
use UltiPro's Internet features for time and attendance tracking as well.

American Trim is a manufacturer that also provides services such as
product design, tooling and process development, metal forming , metal
finishing, and product/component assembly for the home appliances,
transportation, building products, and consumer products industries.

About Ultimate Software
Ultimate Software , a leading provider of Web-based payroll and workforce
management solutions, markets award-winning UltiPro as licensed software, as a
hosted application through Intersourcing, and as a co-branded offering to
Business Service Providers (BSPs) under the "Powered by UltiPro" brand.

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Within two to three weeks of rolling out self-service to
each of our locations, 90% of the employee population had logged onto
UltiPro. They can access the training
histories and reports that are automatically populated with their staff detail
from the UltiPro database, giving them the ability to help their teams with
career planning and prepare them for forecasted organizational changes.

Yankee Group Reveals Workforce Lifecycle Management Market to Exceed $1.4 Billion in 2005; New Market within Human Capital Management to Witness Dramatic Growt

The new report, Workforce Lifecycle Management Is the
New Frontier in Human Capital Management, highlights the rapid growth
of strategic human capital management solutions and current trends,
including the convergence of four key strategic components: talent
management , performance management, incentive management and learning
management applications.

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Calling its portal "Your Employee Service Solution" (YESS), American Trim
is leveraging the functionality to deliver more than a platform for
streamlining procedures -- the manufacturer has elevated the contributions of
its HR staff to a more strategic level and improved service to its employees,
creating a welcome method for consolidating communications and empowering its
workforce.
Overseeing 10 manufacturing locations in 4 states, American Trim's annual open
enrollment was a time-intensive project for HR that the company automated
through the UltiPro portal.

For Sales Information:
Ultimate Software
Phone: (800) 432-1729
Web site: http://www."
To prepare this report, Yankee Group surveyed large enterprise
software vendors and smaller, venture-funded vendors.

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Yankee Group identifies this newly integrated
market as WLM.

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Using UltiPro's eBenefits Enrollment functionality
resulted in significant paper saving efficiencies while giving employees the
option of making choices from home.

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This general category is for integrated HR (ususally database) systems with varying degrees of front-end functionality and integration with other systems (including those systems found in the subcategories of this one).

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-- Kelly Lowell, Vice President of Marketing, 617-880-0332,
klowell@yankeegroup .

Human Resources professionals and line managers use many types of software to facilitate their management duties.

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Regardless of their location, employees
were able to review, elect, and submit their benefit choices online without
paper forms. More information on
Ultimate Software's products and services can be found at
http://www.

NOTE TO EDITORS

For interviews contact:

Jason Corsello , Yankee Group, 617-880-0338,
jcorsello@yankeegroup.

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"Some people think that a manufacturing environment is not conducive to
self-service, but our employees have embraced it," said Hayes.com

CORPORATE CONTACTS

-- Stacy Santo, Vice President of Marketing, 617-880 -0333,
ssanto@yankeegroup. Now in its fourth decade,
Yankee Group is based in Boston with offices throughout North America,
Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim.

This category is for that type of software which is neither industry nor process specific, but simply used to perform common tasks in any organization that has employees.

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Employing approximately 500 professionals who are focused on developing the
highest quality products and services, Ultimate Software was named the 2005
Payroll Provider of the Year by the Human Resources Outsourcing Association
and listed among the 2005 Top 25 Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work for in
America by the Great Place to Work Institute and the Society for Human
Resource Management.

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Ultimate Software's Workforce Portal Provides Strategic Cross -Organizational Benefits to Manufacturer

Using kiosks in all of its manufacturing facilities, the company
began by rolling out UltiPro's employee self-service functions in September
2005, then included its managers, and has since received very positive
feedback from its workforce. We're committed to continuing to
take advantage of UltiPro's rich functionality for the betterment of our
employees , supervisors, HR department, and American Trim as a business," said
Hayes. This shortened the time our HR team spent on open enrollment, once
again reducing our tactical workload, and we were also able to improve the
accuracy of our benefits data."

"American Trim's enthusiasm for UltiPro 's Web functionality is inspiring,
and we are pleased that the company has achieved business value that exceeded
its expectations," said Greg Swick, senior vice president of sales for
Ultimate Software.com

Yankee Group (http://www.

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UltiPro and Intersourcing are registered trademarks of The Ultimate
Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their
respective owners.

Business Editors/Human Resources Writers

BOSTON----New findings from Yankee
Group 's Employee Effectiveness research reveal that expenditure on
workforce lifecycle management (WLM ) applications will exceed $1. Currently,
Oracle-PeopleSoft is the clear market leader, although the report
details the open market opportunity for vendors of all sizes to
aggressively gain market traction and organizational mindshare,
particularly those vendors embracing on-demand solutions, which speed
adoption and drive faster ROI.yankeegroup.

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Across 10 locations, managers are also participating in the company's
transition to paperless electronic transactions.

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, Ultimate Software
(Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of Web-based payroll and workforce
management solutions, announced today that American Trim, a customer since
2000, is experiencing increased employee service and strategic business value
after recently implementing UltiPro Workforce Management's portal and self-
service functionality. "When our
employees logged onto the UltiPro portal for the first time, they wanted to
see what else they could do with self-service. "Plus, because we didn't have to use hard copy forms for
enrollment, we were not required to manually enter information for benefits
providers . In addition, increasing
growth in human resources and other business process outsourcing (BPO)
contracts are driving license sales of WLM solutions, particularly
where WLM solutions provide lasting value and key differentiators
within HR BPO offerings. Organizations are quickly realizing the value of adopting
solutions that contribute to augmenting employee effectiveness within
organizations.

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