Browse Listing of HR software companies in alphabetical order by their names.

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Popular HR Software Companies(paid):

• Simply Personnel: Company from UK offering HR software solutions to meet the needs and requirments of companies of all sizes helping them with the management of entire spectrum of HR challenges, from recruitment, personnel, pay and flexible benefits, to e-HR, training & development and succession planning.
• Ceridian Employer Services :Source for outsourced and in-house HRMS solutions. The Ceridian Source product suite includes payroll outsourcing, HRIS, employee self service, tax filing services, and time and attendance solutions.
• StarGarden: StarGarden provides 'enterprise strength' Payroll/HRIS/Scheduling software for automating complex pay and benefit issues found in hospitals, school boards, colleges, cities, counties and unionized industries.
• Propath: Propath has been built to meet the challenges of successful organizations and the demands of forward thinking HR professionals, including accurate reporting on key productivity factors such as staff turnover, absence, skills gaps and employee development. By sharing information effectively across the organization, and including features which engage line managers, other department and front line employees alike.
• Frontier Software: Frontier Software is one of the world’s leading payroll and human resource management software providers with a user base of more than 1300 clients in 12 countries spanning all industry sectors. In addition to the development, marketing and end-user support for the product, Frontier Software also provides a payroll bureau/outsourcing service in each country of operation.
• Northgate HR: With over 30 year’s experience, Northgate HR is a leading supplier of HR & Payroll solutions and services to more than 2500 organisations. Northgate HR’s solutions were developed to provide maximum flexibility and seamless integration and can cater for the diverse requirements of HR, payroll, benefits and pension management across all market sectors. With an unrivalled suite of products combined with unparalleled levels of expertise, Northgate HR can fulfil its vision to provide products that simplify key tasks and deliver direct business benefits to customers, helping them to provide vital human capital information to assist in decision making and management strategy.
• Spectrum Human Resource Systems: Spectrum Human Resource Systems is a leading provider of human resource information systems. founded by a team of HR professionals with a total of over 300 years experience in HR, they continue to focus their attention on meeting the needs of their clients, HR professionals. Dependable technology is critical to the success of any HR software company. Spectrum is the only best-in-class human resource management software provider to be a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider Partner since 1992.
• Youmanage: Youmanage is the online HR software toolkit for managers. Youmanage delivers all of the tools, data and guidance that line managers and HR users need - in one easy-to-use system. The Youmanage service offers a suite of modules covering all key people management processes combining workflow tools, guidance notes, standard HR documentation and a comprehensive employee database tailored to reflect your own branding, policies and procedures a hosted service – meaning easy implementation and low costs.
• Knowledgepoint: Developer of human resource management software. Range of products include automated performance review systems to "intelligent" software for writing job descriptions and personnel policies.
• HR Online Inc:HR Online Inc. is an International software company that specializes in enabling Performance Development disciplines through our web-based technology. Our modular application is seamless and snaps onto an organizations existing ERP or HRIS. The HR Online Performance Development Smart Suite™ enables Job Descriptions, Performance Plans and Assessment, Competency Assessment (includes self assessment to 360), Employee Development, Career Development, Succession Planning (Talent Management) and a robust Reporting service.
• Hr Software Yahoo Directory: Find links to quality websites from UK selling HR software.

What is a HR Software Intranet?

You maybe wondering what a HR software intranet system is?

read on!

HR software intranets are known by many different names, employee self-service, employee desktop, employee portal, and so on! So don’t get confused when you shift through the marketing hype and see all the strange and wonderful names, they all basically mean the same thing.

HR software intranets can allow employees to access and update personal data, in a secure easy to use way. By allowing employees to view and maintain their own data, HR software intranets can eliminate errors, increase employee satisfaction, and provide you with more time to focus on important tasks.

You may remember the term “paper less” office, it goes back to the early 70’s, a great vision, just imagine no more stacks of papers, no more lost forms or chasing people for absence reports!

With the emergence of intranets the promise of a paper less office is now one-step closer.

Image you have a new starter Joe Mckenzie. After Joe accepts his job you push the new employee button on your HR system, this in turn sparks a sequence of events, which is unique to your company:

a) Payroll receives Joe’s details via email.
b) The computer department are informed that a new desk and PC will be required.
c) On arriving Joe is directed to the HR web page where he is provided with the latest company handbooks and policies.
d) He then checks his personal details and corrects his phone number and next of kin details, these are automatically corrected in the HR system and e-mails are sent to the pensions company notifying them of an address change.
e) Joe’s business cards are ready and on his desk a week later.
f) Joe submits his expenses, which get automatically routed to his manager for approval and then are paid promptly.
g) And finally Joe remembers he needs to take a holiday, so he checks his holidays entitlement, fills out a request, which is sent to his manager for authorisation – all this without one piece of paper or involvement from HR.

Just imagine!

Why do Companies Implement HR Software Intranets?

Most software companies trying to sell you HR software intranets systems will tell you that HR software intranets reduce the amount of time HR departments spend on administrative tasks, which then leaves them free to concentrate on more strategic tasks. Yes it is true that many HR departments are looking at HR Intranets as a way to reduce tremendous amount of time spent on updating and maintaining employee information, in fact some company’s change so rapidly that it can become nearly impossible to keep employee data current. However recent research conducted by impartial research companies and not software companies provides a more accurate answer.

Of the top three reasons given by companies why companies have or are thinking about implementing a HR software intranet systems, number one was the need to improve employee communications and information sharing. This was closely followed by the need to streamline processes and thirdly to reduce the amount of paper flying about. In fact over 90% of respondents to one particular survey sited improved communications, streamlined processes and reduced paper transactions as the top three reasons for implementing a HR Intranet system. According to other recent research nearly half of UK companies will be switching to HR software intranet self-service applications within the next 12 months, while a quarter say they already allow employees to access their own staff information.

What HR Software Intranet Systems are Available?

Here is where we get a little technical. It is important that you understand the different type of HR software intranet systems that are available, because when you come to chose and implement a system you will need to decide which is best for you and your company. You also need to be confident that your IT department will deliver the underlying infrastructure, and your supplier will deliver the system that can grow with your requirements.

Before we decide which system is best for you, let’s take a look at what’s on offer. By the way, if you find the information below a bit technical don’t worry! It may take a little bit of time for you to absorb the ‘lingo’, give it time, but don’t give up.

To help us understand the current HR software intranet systems available, we can divide them into 4 categories, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation.

1st generation HR Intranet sites display information for viewing purposes only, their audience is any employee of the company. They are usually built by IT people with very little input from the HR department, in many cases HR will not even know that they are there.

These types of sites are generally let down by limited and out of date information, because no one is tasked with posting new details and keeping the site up to date. These sites do not get many visits from staff (hits). The only real advantage these sites provide is that they are easy to set-up and can be used as a good starting point for a wider project.

Like the 1st generation sites, 2nd generation HR Intranet sites display information for viewing purposes only, their audience is any employee of the company. They are usually built by IT people with quality input from the HR, in some cases a ‘net savvy’ HR person may of have actually designed the site and got assistance from the IT department to publish it.

The sites will generally be visited by employees looking for procedures and policies, for example to correct method of filling out expense claims, or printing blank holiday request forms, or copies of the company handbooks for new starters.

2nd generation sites do not reduce paper, HR may not now actually need to send the paper document to an employee, however in the end the forms still need to be printed, completed and posted back to HR. These sites suffer from regular updates, because HR underestimates the amount of time and resource needed to keep information upto date.

Generally most 3rd generation sites are purchased from external software suppliers, unlike 1st and 2nd generation sites are usually produced by the company’s IT department or HR department. All 3rd generation sites contain active content, which means that the information shown is linked to a ‘back-end’ database. These ‘back-end’ databases are usually part of industrial strength HR systems, which contain comprehensive data and functionality.

These sites can significantly reduce HR administration, improve communication within the company and reduce the amount of paper flying about. They can become very popular with employees and will register many hits.

The employees’ role determines the type information that can be accessed and updated; this allows sensitive information to be restricted and particular functions made available only to certain employees. For example employees can apply for leave, book courses and review and apply for internal vacancies. Managers can authorise leave, record absences and conduct performance and pay reviews.

With power comes a price! Security is a key issue that must be addressed, even though the site may be certified as secure by the supplier, you need to make sure it is! These sites are often very difficult to extend over the Internet, for home and tele-workers. Employees who do not have access to a PC get no benefit from a HR software intranet, so you will still need the paper forms and HR administration support for these people. Because these sites are supplied by 3rd party suppliers and they are often very difficult to tailor and will not integrate with any of your other back-office systems.

4th generation sites focus on the individual, as opposed to 3rd generation sites that focus on a role like employees or managers. These sites integrate many different back-office systems so that people can access and update information from one integrated environment. 4th generation sites emphasis knowledge management – the ability to get the right information to the correct person so that they can act upon it quickly. 4th generation sites are sometimes known by the name “Employee Portals”.

Which one is best?

This question should be which one is best for you? Depending upon your current requirements your need for an intranet system will be different. To find an answer to this question you need to define your requirements, goals and objectives, for the short, medium and long term The next section will describe some of the benefits and pitfalls that a HR software intranet system may provide and cause; this is then followed by some guidelines that may help you define your requirements.

What benefits will a HR Software Intranet system provide to you?

In a recent survey many respondents stated that the primary benefit of Internet/intranet systems for communicating with employees was the immediacy of information. Internet/intranet information can be easily updated by HR and easily accessed by employees 24 hours a day. In the same survey people indicated that company communications overall have been improved by HR software intranet systems. By enabling your employees to directly control such processes as entering address changes and making and changing retirement investments, you can put the responsibility directly into the hands of the people most motivated to act. Self-service administration of benefits enables HR staff to spend more of their energy and strategic personnel issues such as recruitment and training.