Kronos Cloud And Hosted Services: A Case Study

1.1 Introduction to company

The company Kronos was founded on October 31, 1977.The name Kronos comes from a greek word”Chronus” which means time.In 1979,Kronos made a microprocessor based timeclock.In a single day,over 30 million people use Kronos. Organisations in diverse industries including retailers, healthcare institutions, manufacturers, services organisations, transportation and distribution companies, airlines, and government entities, overwhelmingly choose Kronos.Mark Ain is the founder of Kronos and is a world’s reputed university Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT’S) alumnus.Kronos has a mark in more than 60 countries. Some of them includes:

• Ad Opt Technologies

• Principal Decision Systems International (PDSI)

• SimplexGrinnell

This project covers various aspects of Cloud Monitoring and Kronos Private Cloud. Deep study of tools used to monitor health of servers and data center. Handling alerts generated by these monitoring tools with various techniques without breaching the SLA of the customer. Analyzing the root cause of any alert. Alerts received for various servers and devices from tools are critical and needs immediate action otherwise our customer SLA will be

The same was the concept with the Kronos, it started off the idea that there has to be an easier way for employee time tracker. And after that something called “Workforce Management” begun.Kronos application is available for both small scale of company and large scale of company.Kronos have their product called WFR(Workforce ready) for small scale of companies as they have less number of employees.For large scale of companies,Kronos have their product called as WFC(Workforce Central) as they have large number of employees.

In general terms, we help organization to manage their workforce,which is the most valuable,expensive and strategic asset to them.Kronos help organization to control their control labour costs,minimise compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity through tools provided by Kronos. The easy-to-own workforce management solutions from Kronos make complete automation and high-quality information a reality.

Kronos take all the complexities involved in attendance transactions,recording time,scheduling diverse workforce and managing employee absence and Kronos simplify