Case Study: City of Milwaukee achieves streamlined online payroll and significant cost savings with OpenText Analytics

City of Milwaukee Moves Payroll System Online with Actuate e.Spreadsheet

The City of Milwaukee needed to replace a voluminous, paper-based timekeeping system with a web-based payroll solution that could be rolled out quickly across departments. The resulting intranet application, CityTime®, was deployed on more than 1,600 computers and processed over 49,000 records in its first two weeks, highlighting the scale and urgency of the modernization challenge.

Developers used Actuate e.Spreadsheet to recreate familiar paper-style timecards on the web, enabling rapid development, minimal user training, built-in validation and seamless transfer of hours to the payroll system. The solution shortened development time, improved accountant usability through Excel compatibility, and delivered measurable benefits—significant time savings, lower labor costs and greater management efficiency—while proving fast and reliable in production.

City of Milwaukee

Dale Klein

Project Architect, CityTime