The CERES Competitive Difference

Ceres is a secure, customizable website that helps businesses educate and serve their employees in the areas of benefits and other human resources programs. Ceres takes the burden off of HR staff by giving employees the tools to manage their own benefits and HR information online. This frees up HR personnel to focus on advocacy and strategic issues that can positively impact their company’s bottom line.

Ceres enables organizations to reduce the costs associated with benefits administration and employee relations while providing additional value through effective employee self-service and information exchange. The site can be accessed through the Internet with specialized logons and passwords, or directly through an employer’s intranet using a secure, embedded password system. Employees can access – any time, from anywhere – clear, accurate, up-to-date information about their benefits and other HR issues.

Employers can customize their Ceres site to include retirement plan information, HR-related forms, information about insurance costs, health care options, drug encyclopedias, corporate newsletters, links to provider lists, mail-order pharmacy refills, and much more. Ceres sites are client-branded and customized to reflect a company’s unique culture and image.

Some of the features that make CERES a competitive difference are:

• Ceres sites are scalable and can accommodate forms, calculators, links and other tools and information that are not necessarily benefits-related.

• Ceres sites are created by human resources and benefits experts, not by web developers who aren’t trained in the unique nuances of benefits administration.

• Ceres site updates are real-time and are done by a Tompkins’ representative who is familiar with the client’s specific benefits and HR needs.

And example of an employee's homepage on CERES: