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2001 News Archives NIH Selects Mind
Over Machines to Complete Time & Attendance System Baltimore, MD - October 29, 2001 - Mind Over Machines, an e-business professional services firm, announced today that it has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to complete its Integrated Time and Attendance System (ITAS). ITAS serves 18,000 employees at NIH’s 27 research institutes and centers. NIH’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, will eventually roll out ITAS to nearly all of its approximately 63,000 employees. Originally designed as a traditional desktop application, ITAS has been ported to the web for two of four categories of users. "Our job," explained Tom Loveland, Chairman of Mind Over Machines, "is to finish moving the application to the web, address pent up demand for enhancements, and accommodate legislative changes in federal timekeeping regulations." Over the years Congress has layered new leave laws on top of existing ones, and now more than 40 types of federal leave exist. "There is no more complex time arena than the federal sector," said Richard Drury, NIH’s director of human resource technologies. "If you can put those rules in software so that people don’t have to carry them around in their heads, you automatically improve the quality of the system." The upgraded ITAS helps managers deal with complicated federal timekeeping rules and respond more quickly to employee requests. And it gives employees easy access so they can verify time sheets, review sick leave and vacation, and request time off. "Mind Over Machines has been delivering time-tracking and other complex web-based systems to many businesses," said Loveland. "We’re thrilled the NIH has given us the opportunity to bring our experience to bear on ITAS." |