Cegid, an international group and France's leading enterprise software provider, has released its online service, DSN Link, the market's first SaaS-mode solution specifically designed to help companies and accounting firms manage nominative employee filings.

"DSN", the requirement for employers to file nominative employee statements, is a key measure of France's national program for growth, competitiveness and employment, initiated by the French government in 2012. Its aim is to harmonize all payroll-related filings, which in concrete terms means replacing more than a dozen administrative procedures and simplifying data exchanges between companies and social welfare agencies.

"With just a few months to go before certain companies must comply with this new requirement, those companies must be in a position to transmit reliable and consistent information on time every month, reflecting the exact state of payroll. To this end, we need to enable them to implement a solution rapidly and without increasing the payroll department's workload. This was our guiding principle as we built DSN Link, and has been Cegid's approach since 2013 in offering support services, in particular for SMEs and accounting professionals", explained Nicolas Michel Vernet, director of the HR IT systems business unit.

Cegid has been committed to implementing IT solutions for nominative employee filings since June 2013. Having signed a charter for HR/payroll software providers with GIP-MDS-the public interest group for the modernization of employee filings-the release of DSN is the latest illustration of Cegid's aim to best support its customers in navigating this latest requirement. In this context, Cegid proposes a comprehensive, integrated solution for secure, automated management of employee filings.

Presented on November 14 at "Cegid HR rendez-vous", Cegid's meeting with its customers, DSN Link optimizes and secures the processing of monthly employee filings and signals important events.

This fully SaaS-based web service is part of our MoBiCloTM strategy of innovation, combining Mobility, Business Intelligence and the Cloud to help companies perform better and respond to their needs in terms of increased security.  DSN Link leverages the expertise Cegid has developed in HR Cloud, a private cloud hosted by IBM France.

DSN Link also draws upon Cegid's extensive experience in the electronic processing of tax-related data via the online filing portal www.etafi.fr , an equivalent of the Web Services solution in the area of tax filings.

(1) The decree of 24 September 2014 requires certain companies to comply with the regulation to submit nominative employee filings earlier than other companies.

A closer look at Cegid's Yourcegid DSN Link solution

DSN Link, a 100% SaaS-based solution integrated into the company or CPA firm's payroll management system, ensures:

• Increased productivity through automated processes
Keeping to its promise of simplification, the nominative employee filing solution offers a high level of automation of controls and corrections that are transparent to users, enabling them to abandon their former practices for processing official documents (manual filing of IT documents and online input of payroll data). DSN Link offers all processing tasks - verification, correction and transmission by EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) - with M2M interoperability and the least amount of work required from the user.

• Traceability with monitoring and management of filings
DSN Link provides access to information on employee-related filings, specifically to the processes of submission, receipt and validation by the various social welfare agencies, via dashboards directly integrated into the payroll management solution.

• Security with the power of Cegid Cloud
Data is hosted in highly secure data centers in France, guaranteeing security and confidentiality. Regular and redundant backups eliminate any risk of losing information.

DSN Phase 2, a step forward in simplification:

With phase 2 entering into force, nominative employee filings will replace another set of filings, including DUCS Urssaf. Cegid is enabling its medium-to-large customers using Yourcegid HR to start preparing right now for this new step, which must be approached methodically because it requires calculating and paying employment taxes.

DSN the Cegid way: support programs and services 

Adopting nominative employee filings is a challenge for all market players, including companies, CPA firms, software providers, public authorities and social welfare agencies.

Back in 2013, Cegid introduced a program aimed at raising awareness among its customers of this new legal requirement. With just a few months ago before all companies must adopt this procedure, over 1,100 companies and CPA firms have taken part in a training and support course on the subject, the majority of which are medium-to-large firms.

* GIP-MDS (Groupement d'Intérêt Public pour la Modernisation des Déclarations Sociales) is a public interest group for the modernization of employee filings, coordinating the initiative across France.

To learn more about nominative employee filings, visit http://www.cegid.fr/rh/dsn-declaration-sociale-nominative/37-903-11.aspx For more information on Yourcegid Human Resources solutions, visit http://www.cegid.fr/rh/saas-logiciels-paie-et-rh-en-ligne/r2-38.aspx (in French)

About Cegid   

Cegid is the leading French enterprise software provider, supporting businesses as they undergo digital transformation. Its 2013 revenue was close to €260 million.
Cegid addresses the management needs of companies and organizations of all sizes, in the fields of finance and tax management, human resources, and vertical business solutions (manufacturing, trade, services, retail, accounting profession, small companies, and public sector). Cegid's technological innovation strategy integrates the new ways in which people use software. Its MOBICLO concept combines MObility, Business Intelligence and the CLOud with " On Demand " solutions adapted to the industry-specific needs of each user. With more than 2,000 employees, 28 locations in France, and 13 international subsidiaries, Cegid Group (listed on Euronext Paris) serves more than 110,000 clients and 400,000 users.

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