Nordea prolongs and extends Nordic HR Outsourcing deal with Zalaris.

Stockholm, February 4th 2011.

Nordea has prolonged it’s outsourcing agreement with Zalaris HR services for the provision of payroll, time and attendance, travel expense and personnel administration services for Nordea covering more than 30’000 employees in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. 

As a result of the prolonged agreement, Zalaris’ will continue to deliver pan-Nordic HR Outsourcing processes to Nordea covering employee data management, payroll, time and attendance, travel expenses, pension administration and employee help desk. The services are delivered based on Zalaris’ smartHR integrated HR template with web based processes powered by the SAP Human Capital Management (HCM) Solution.  In addition, functionality for SAP Learning Solution and SAP Enterprise Compensation Management (ECM) will be provided as Software as a Service (SaaS) model.  

In 2010 we have extended our agreements with all five customers up for renewal.  Prolonging the agreement with Nordea marks our position as the leading Nordic Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) provider of services based on SAP HR. Our service centre staff and SAP consultants have worked in partnership with Nordea to create one common HR operating model across their Nordic operations. I am therefore satisfied that our effort has resulted in a prolonged and extended agreement says Zalaris CEO and founder Hans-Petter Mellerud.

- We are pleased that Zalaris is adding another proofpoint for the strength of their BPO-services offering “Powered by SAP software” and extend its capabilities with SAP Enterprise Learning Solution and Enterprise Compensation management delivered as a service on the basis of SAP’s solution, says Dr. Christian Baader, vice president of the SAP Outsourcing and On Demand GTM Unit, SAP AG

About Zalaris
Zalaris is a leading pan-Nordic provider of innovative and cost effective HR Outsourcing (HRO), HR Technology and HR Consulting services to large Nordic and international customers. Our smartHR solution powered by SAP HR includes a full service range of comprehensive personnel administrative processes including payroll, employee help desk, talent management and analytics. 

As SAP BPO Partner, Zalaris implement best practice SAP HR web supported cross border business processes that result in tangible business results for our customers, including reduced and variable costs and the ability to focus on strategic HR.

Zalaris delivers services from local language service centers in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania and India.

Please visit us at www.zalaris.com

For more information please contact:
Hans-Petter Mellerud, Zalaris CEO; Tel: +47-92 89 72 76 or via hans-petter.mellerud@zalaris.com