PeopleSoft Cost of System and Training Costs Student Name Course Date Instructor PeopleSoft Cost of System and Training Costs Today, advances in technology means HR work exceeds the administrative tasks the departments initially dealt with. A major additional to HR department work today includes integration of HR applications with payroll. Integrating the payroll and personnel HR functions into a single system has multiple advantages such as efficiency and effectiveness, which might prove beneficial especially given the highly competitive nature of todays market. The personnel and payroll integrated system saves money and also eases the process of accessing and retrieving important management information. Although personnel and payroll integrated systems were initially meant to save administrative costs, todays companies mainly use them for easy access to important management data especially for business guidance, strategy, marketing, as well as strategic planning (Maier et al, 2013). Integrating payroll and personnel system is important as both systems often use the same data. As such, once integrated, the resultant system has worthwhile benefits such as elimination of duplicated data, automatic updating, reduced data entry errors, specialized reports, and single entry of data updates. Additionally, integrated systems enable their companies reduce administration costs almost immediately. Analysis and