It’s no more an era for desktops, laptops or smart phones, the technology landscape is changing, with the “new thing” that is BOTS. And as it happens with every new technology coming our way, there is so much of a hullabaloo made with everyone talking about this, however, very few have actually seen bots impacting their life.
The challenges of today’s volatile business world leave HR professionals scrambling to find enough time in their days to manage and respond to the attendance related queries. Moving away from manual or spreadsheet-based time and attendance tracking makes sense for organizations of all sizes.
Further, keeping track of manual leave and attendance records eats up as much as 50% of their total time.
What is design thinking? And more importantly, what is it doing on an HR guy’s blog. We as a generation are standing at the cusp of a huge opportunity, whereby we can create the deepest impact on the HR fraternity by creating a cutting-edge versatile product- a product that communicates with businesses today.
Since HR applications falling under SaaS umbrella have a presence in industries where just a few years ago either traditional software models were used, or no digital solution existed, you need to ensure that the HR solution you’re considering can deliver 24/7 service with high performance and availability.
While measuring the performance of any HR SAAS based product, you should be able to find the answers of the following:
Does it provide speed & longer usage?
To be scalable a SaaS based HR software should be deployable over a wide range of scales to include number of users and nodes, data storage quantity, processing rates. In simple words “Scalability means not just the ability to operate, but to operate efficiently and with adequate quality of service, over the given range of configurations.”
We know the criticality and confidentiality of the people data that PeopleStrong Alt interacts with. So we provide world class security features in our cloud infrastructure. We ensure compliance with all data privacy and security regulations, undergo regular security audits, and support multiple levels of access controls and data handling procedures that maintain data integrity and prevent misuse.
Configuration is the key approach for successfully implementing a SaaS based HR solution particularly those that are delivered in a multi-tenant model, as a single code base has to serve for multiple customers. The configuration approach doesn’t involve source code changes. It only aims to give each customer the ability to modify its system according to their needs in a pre-defined options and variations.
Whenever you are stuck to make a decision on SAAS based HR software, one attribute that you should definitely consider is Availability, whether users have access to data and applications 24/7 from around the globe. While measuring the availability of any HR SAAS based product, you should be able to find the answers of the following:
What is the infrastructure layer?
One might be forgiven to think that payroll teams have the most monotonous or clerical jobs, spending most of their time manually updating all the payroll related details, recording employee bank account and PAN details, keeping track of investment details and proofs provided by employees, configuring CTC based on grade, month and department, sending pay slips and form 16s to all employees etc.,