Crocus Consulting's first in depth exposure to PeopleSoft's Global Payroll product came in the Autumn of 2000. At that time, two of the Crocus directors were acting as principle instructors at Peoplesoft's Training Centre in Reading, transferring skills and knowledge to PeopleSoft’s own consultancy team on the Global Payroll Core Engine and Global Payroll UK Rules courses.

Crocus Consulting’s first hands-on customer project experience came at Marsh UK Ltd, the world's leading risk and insurance services firm based in Witham, Essex. Crocus had made a bid for the entire project and, although unsuccessful, sufficiently impressed the management team at Marsh to be invited back to work alongside PeopleSoft, the successful consultancy. Crocus Consultants supplied key skills in the areas of payroll functionality and technical resources to augment and work in partnership with the PeopleSoft lead consulting team.

Crocus Consulting won a Global Payroll project outright in 2001 at Bovis Lend Lease
(BLL), one of the world's leading project and construction management companies. Crocus worked alongside the BLL team, directly involved in functional and technical design phases right through to testing of the systems and live implementation. BLL and Marsh both went live in April 2002.

The third company to go live with Global Payroll was Unilever where Crocus played another key role through their affiliate partnership with PeopleSoft. Crocus supplied consultants to work on the project in the name of PeopleSoft, complementing their own resources.

Other Global Payroll projects where Crocus has played a role are:

• Dixons Stores Group
• Abbey National
• Six Continents (via partnership with Peoplesoft)
• Guinness (Proof of concept with Xansa).

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