Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for configuring a payroll system. The method identifies a subset of rules from a group of payroll rules. The subset of rules correctly correlates payroll input data to payroll output data for a legacy payroll system of an organization. The method translates the subset of rules into a group of policy configuration options for a group of payroll policy templates. The method receives a selection from the group of policy configuration options to create a policy instance for the payroll processing system. The method configures the payroll processing system according to the policy instance.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for configuring a payroll system. The method identifies a subset of rules from a group of payroll rules. The subset of rules correctly correlates payroll input data to payroll output data for a legacy payroll system of an organization. The method translates the subset of rules into a group of policy configuration options for a group of payroll policy templates. The method receives a selection from the group of policy configuration options to create a policy instance for the payroll processing system. The method configures the payroll processing system according to the policy instance.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for running a payroll. The method identifies a policy instance for an employee by a computer system, wherein the policy instance includes a group of execution units in the computer system that implements a group of rules for a policy with respect to running the payroll for the organization. Further, the method identifies data for the employee by the computer system. Yet further, the method processes the data in the group of execution units in the computer system to run the payroll for the employee, wherein the group of execution units is configured with instance-specific information for the policy instance to process the data for the payroll using the group of rules for the policy.