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Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today that Ultimate’s UltiPro delivered through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has won first place in the People’s Choice Stevie® competition for Favorite New SaaS Product, sponsored by the American Business Awards SM .

More than 100,000 votes were cast over in 12 People’s Choice categories including Favorite

New SaaS Product, Favorite Entertainment/Media Product or Service, Favorite Gadget, Favorite Telecom Product or Service, and Favorite Smartphone/PDA. In addition to Ultimate, some of the other People’s Choice winners were Apple, Hulu.com, Mozilla, Symantec, and Quicken. Other companies competing in the best new SaaS solution category were Salesforce.com, Cisco WebEx, Citrix Online, NetSuite, and Peopleclick. The nationwide online vote was open to the public.

For businesses of nearly all sizes, Ultimate provides payroll, human resources, benefits management, business intelligence, and a portal for conducting business functions conveniently – and provides strategic talent management solutions like recruitment, onboarding, performance management, salary planning and compensation, and career planning – all through SaaS. Ultimate’s newest HCM solution, UltiPro. NET, delivered as SaaS, reinvents the customer experience with a redesigned enterprise-wide portal that allows businesses to streamline management of a global workforce while putting individual users in control, based on their personal preferences. In addition to social networking integration with sites such as Facebook to promote team collaboration, the new SaaS solution also includes multiple languages, many convenience shortcuts, and dashboards. More than 1 million employees across North America are being supported in Ultimate’s SaaS environment.

Winners of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards will be presented their awards at the 7 th annual American Business Awards banquet in New York on Monday, June 22.

“Businesses need every dollar spent to count in order to be successful in a highly competitive market,” said Scott Scherr, president, CEO, and founder of Ultimate Software. “Without requiring organizations to invest in hardware or dedicate internal IT staff to manage systems, Ultimate’s SaaS solution helps businesses achieve their goals to align performance, compensation, and human capital management to ensure that they acquire and retain the best talent to drive business success.”


About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.

Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com : .

About Ultimate Software

A leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources : , payroll : , and talent management solutions : , Ultimate markets its award-winning UltiPro products as on-demand services through software-as-a-service : (SaaS) and as on-premise software. Based in Weston, FL, the Company employs more than 900 professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality products and services. In 2008, Ultimate was the first HR/payroll SaaS provider to be audited and awarded the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Certification for security management, was named the #1 “Best Product Development Team” in the nation by the American Business Awards, and was ranked the #1 best medium-size company to work for in America by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Ultimate has more than 1,700 customers representing diverse industries, including such organizations as The Container Store, Elizabeth Arden, Major League Baseball, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, Nintendo of America, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and Sony Music Entertainment. More information on Ultimate’s products and services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com : .

UltiPro and Intersourcing are registered trademarks of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.



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