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Copanion has simplified its user-interface to support greater ease of use, which the company says will enable the workflow package to be implemented rapidly across a firm. The application has an expanded rights management that provides for the selection of multiple administrators and accounts in a firm.

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Paychex has agreed to acquire SurePayroll, a Chicago-based provider of Internet-based payroll services, via a merger valued at roughly $115 millon. SurePayroll will operate as a subsidiary of Paychex and will continue to be led by its president, Michael Alter. The companies said SurePayroll has about 30,000 customers.