ADP Announces ADP Pro, a New Initiative Linking Midsized Companies with Subject Matter Experts

New Initiative Combines Professional Certification, Webinars and Personal Access to Experts

ROSELAND, N.J. ADP, a leading provider of human capital management services, today launched ADP Pro, an educational program specifically designed to give midsized companies multiple opportunities to engage with ADP subject matter experts on a range of human capital management issues, learn industry best practices and expand their professional credentials.

Midsized businesses face new and unique challenges everything from increased government regulation to the growing cost of healthcare, said Regina Lee, President, Major Account Services, National Account Services, GlobalView and ADP Canada at ADP. ADP Pro takes our superior client engagement to the next level by linking our deep roster of subject matter experts with clients to learn how unified human resources management tools can dramatically impact business performance.

ADPs professional certification is a key component of the ADP Pro program. To date, more than 2,000 payroll and human resources professionals have earned this credential, which many see as an employment differentiator. ADP certification is offered twice a year during the Spring and Fall. The program includes virtual test preparation classes and requires an in-person exam at one of Pearson VUEs more than 200 national testing centers. Candidates who complete ADPs test preparation classes earn Continuing Education (CE) Credits at the rate of 1.5 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Credits, 1.5 Recertification Credit Hours (RCH) or 0.2 Continuing Education Units (CEU). Payroll and human resources professionals at midsized companies will have access to ADPs growing list of certification areas, which includes ADP Workforce Now, the companys primary human resources management solution for midsized companies.

The ADP Pro program also features ongoing training opportunities through a new series of webinars that are free for clients. Running twice a month, these webinars will showcase best practices across a variety of topics from healthcare reform and risk management to navigating the social media landscape. The ADP Pro webinar series offers clients another way to earn Continuing Education Credits and can be accessed via ADPs client portal. The first webinar will take place on March 13 and will focus on empowering a mobile workforce. On March 27, another webinar will take place focusing on the U.S. Affordable Care Act.

ADP will also offer in-person access to ADP Pros at their semiannual regional User Group Meetings. At ADPs User Group Meetings midsized businesses will be able to receive one-on-one insights from the companys internal experts on timely business issues while receiving training on ADPs ever-evolving product set.

By offering convenient training opportunities that yield continuing education credits and provide direct access to experts in areas like compliance, ADP Pro will help my organization take a best practice approach to workforce management, said Roslyn H. Schaffer, SPHR, Director of Human Resources at The Barnes Foundation, a major institution that promotes the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts with campuses in Philadelphia and Merion, Pennsylvania and an ADP client.

About ADP

ADP, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP), with more than $10 billion in revenues and approximately 600,000 clients, is one of the worlds largest providers of business outsourcing and human capital management solutions. Leveraging over 60 years of experience and a global footprint spanning more than 40 countries, ADP offers a wide range of human resource, payroll, talent management, tax and benefits administration solutions from a single source, and helps clients comply with regulatory and legislative changes, such as the U.S. Affordable Care Act. ADPs easy-to-use solutions for employers provide superior value to companies of all types and sizes. ADP is also a leading provider of integrated computing solutions to auto, truck, motorcycle, marine, recreational vehicle, and heavy equipment dealers throughout the world. For more information about ADP or to contact a local ADP sales office, reach us at 1.800.225.5237 or visit the companys Web site at www.adp.com.

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Artprice : The Art Market 2012 - a dialogue between East and West

Editorial
For this study of the global art market in 2012, Artprice has formed an alliance with Artron, the leading information service on the art market in China within the Greater Asia region, in order to provide the best possible overview of the art auction market.
For years, Artprice has taken the utmost interest in collecting the data of the Asian art market and more especially the Chinese market. However, Artprice was missing a key element: the cultural and sociologic analysis that key actor Art Market Monitor of Artron (AMMA) only could provide, according to Thierry Ehrmann, the founder and CEO of Artprice. With the art market now bipolar, entering into a dialogue between East and West has enabled us to come to an unprecedented cross-cultural analysis of the market.
In fact, we are analysing a bipolar art market that has grown in China and the West and at different speeds in different cultural terrains and according to different standards. In comparison with 2011 figures, released by Artprice in its annual report, those of 2012, co-released by Artprice and Artron, show an increase by 6.1%.
There has of course been a globalisation effect due to the dematerialisation of the art market through the Internet and the nomadic nature of collectors. And of course it is clear that bridges have been built between East and West and that the creation, supply and demand of art sometimes overlap at certain points. But we cannot say that art has become totally homogeneous. On the contrary, the art market exacerbates cultural differences by reflecting the gamut of artistic choices. Chinese collectors are not inclined to buy a Western piece of art that they find is too far removed from their cultural parameters. Instead, they prefer traditional styles, ancient calligraphy and, more recently, contemporary "experimental" ink art. Likewise, Western collectors mainly buy the works of artists who speak their language, including some Asian artists who have assimilated Western art history.
So the idea of a globalised art market should be taken with a pinch of salt. In any case, it is a little premature for Western and Chinese readers to be finding their bearings in an analysis of the global art market that is bent on combining information from East and West at all costs. In order to provide a clear and transparent analysis for our entire global readership, this year our report is made up of an introduction that covers the results of art sales around the world in 2012, followed by two distinct chapters. The first of these concentrates exclusively on the art market in the West and Artprice data, while the second focuses on art in China and Artron data. This fertile relationship between Artprice and Artron has led us both to examine our areas of overlap and divergence and to look at the way a new geopolitics is evolving in the art market of the 21st century.
thierry Ehrmann
For the past ten year, Artprice has published its exclusive annual art market report - available in 6 languages -, which is distributed to over 6,300 media organisations and international institutions every year. Based on 6.3 million auction results from 4,500 auction houses around the world, the report contains macro- and micro-economic analyses providing the keys to understanding the annual evolution of the global auction market. It discusses the major trends in the market, analysed throughout the year on the ArtMarketInsight page of our website, by the Artprice press agency and jointly by the Artprice and the Art Market Monitor of Artron Econometrics Department. To complement this objective appreciation of the art market based on a year of global auction results, Artprice and the Art Market Monitor of Artron also offer numerous original rankings such as the Top 500 artists by auction revenue and the Top 100 auction results of the year.
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About AMMA, a subsidiary of GROUPE Artron
AMMA -Art Market Monitor of Artron- is a subsidiary of GROUPE Artron. AMMA is a research center committed to comprehensive monitoring and in-depth analysis of the Chinese Art Market. The research and advisory services are sourced from Artron's database, recognized as the largest and most credible database on the Chinese art market with more than 2.5 million artworks listed and auction results from all over China. For each artwork listed the database contains high definition images and is supplemented with information from more than 500 auction houses ever since China Guardian commenced auction activities in China in 1993. Using statistical and econometric methodology, AMMA observes the price trends of the Chinese art market as well as the specific movements regarding particular specialty markets, categories or artists. AMMA also provides data analysis, technical valuations and pricing advice. It also organizes seminars for individual and institutional customers
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ARTPRICE has joined the prestigious SBF 120 index. The SBF 120 index is composed of the 120 largest French listed companies, including the CAC 40 companies and the country's 80 most liquid stocks.The current liquidity of the Artprice share is 3.83 million euros per day calculated over 440 trading days (amounting to a total of EUR1.670 billion).
Artprice is the global leader in databank on Artprices and indices with more than 27 million indices and auction results covering more than 500,000 artists. Artprice Images offers unlimited access to the largest Art Market resource in the world, a library of 108 million images or engravings of artworks from 1700 to the present day along with comments by Artprice's art historians. Artprice permanently enriches its databanks with information from 4,500 international auction houses and auctioneers and publishes a constant flow of art market trends for the main news agencies and 6,300 international written media. For its 2.072 million members (member log in), Artprice posts standardized adverts in what is today the world's leading Standardised Marketplace for buying and selling works of art by private contract or at auctions -regulated by French law alinas 2 et 3 de l'article L 321.3 du code du commerce.
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