Managing Employee
Earnings Statements:
PAYSTUB 3.0
A centralized, intranet-based application used
to view employee earnings statements online
Published: April 2003
Solution Overview
Situation
● At Microsoft, processing paper-based earnings statements involved costly postage fees
and employee time.
Solution
● PAYSTUB is an intranet-based application that enables employees to view their earnings
statements over the Web from anywhere at any time; The solution saves Microsoft the
costs of manually processing, printing, and mailing paper-based earnings statements.
Version 3.0 represents an architecture based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and other
Microsoft technologies.
Benefits
● Enables employees to immediately view earnings statements upon the completion of
payroll processing.
● Provides employees with a central location to view current and historical earnings
statements.
● Eliminates the need for paper earnings statements, saving Microsoft $250,000 a year in
fulfillment costs and over $2 million a year in employee productivity; These and additional
savings total $2.5 million a year.
● Using the .NET Framework to build the latest version saves hardware costs and provides
an intuitive, unified user experience across the Microsoft employee population.
Products And Technology
● Microsoft .NET Framework
● Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
● Microsoft ASP.NET
● Microsoft ADO.NET
● Microsoft Windows 2000
Advanced Server
● Microsoft SQL Server 2000
● Microsoft Internet Explorer
version 5.5 or later
● Microsoft Application Center
2000
Technology Description
● Centralized location for
viewing earnings
information
● Intuitive UI
● Contains complete
records of employee
earnings
● PAYSTUB UI includes
detailed Help text and
links to other human
resource applications Earnings statement in PAYSTUB 3.0
.NET Framework-Based
Solution Overview
● ASP.NET compiles code, caches for future use
● ASP.NET string manipulations faster than with
Active Server Pages (ASP)
● The .NET Framework provides strong
security model
● Modular implementation means future reduction
in development time
PAYSTUB Architecture
Request – Windows 2000 Advanced SAP DCOM Microsoft
HTTPS/SSL Server Cluster Transaction Server
Windows 2000
PAYSTUB
Windows XP Application Center 2000 DCOM Objects
Secure Sockets Layer
IIS 5.0 COM+ Server
.NET
PAYSTUB PAYSTUB
Web DCOM
Response –
Application Proxy SAP Production
HTTPS/SSL Stubs Server
SAP R/3 v4.5
(Payroll Data)
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
SQL Server 2000
HR Master PAYSTUB
Data UI Data
PAYSTUB Architecture
User-Specific Earnings
//PAYSTUB
Web Server
Server checks location of user
and loads menu commands from SAP
Internet SAP payroll
database
Explorer data
Data is pulled from ADO.NET
Menu SAP into an record
ADO.NET record set set
SQL Server
User’s ADO.NET record Earning User data
earnings set is converted to XML s data is loaded
information XML from SAP
displayed
as HTML
XML data is
formatted through XSL
XSL to create
HTML for the page
Business Benefits/Metrics
● Eliminates the cost of printing and mailing
earnings statements twice per month
● Microsoft saves about $250,000 a year in
fulfillment costs and over $2 million a year in
employee productivity
● The .NET Framework enabled Microsoft to
offer a high level of application performance
and reduce need for servers
For More Information
● Additional content on Microsoft IT
deployments and best practices can be
found on http://www.microsoft.com
● Microsoft TechNet
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase
● Microsoft Case Study Resources
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies
● E-mail IT Showcase
showcase@microsoft.com
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