Friends, as promised, I am writing a mini-report about the choice of HRIS system. There were about 30 systems in the longlist, which you advised or which got into different ratings, including those from Bersin and even those advised on Quora.
My shortlist included:
My shortlist included:
- keka
- zoho
- namely
- cezanehr
- hrwize
- hibob
- bambooHR
- small-improvements
- peopleshr
- corehr
- cake.hr
- simlify
- betterworks
- jell
- latticehq
- hoshin
CornerStone and Workday were not included because of their focus on large companies.
I registered on the sites, tried the test drive, watched the videos.
The ones I liked the most were:
I registered on the sites, tried the test drive, watched the videos.
The ones I liked the most were:
- zoho
- hibob
- bambooHR
- small-improvements
All the others are either not that versatile or a completely clumsy interface.
Now I'll go through each of them:
1. Zoho - it's not bad, lots of features and customisations, but it's Android. Interacting with it technically solves problems, but does not bring joy and pleasure
2. HiBOB - the most potential system. I chatted with the creator and he promised there would be a Performance review module, which there isn't yet and even showed it. It's very sexy. But also there is no ATS yet and there won't be, they offer integration with other systems, that didn't work for me. But I will be back to them in a year for sure
3. Small improvements - good system, but also doesn't solve 100% of our needs.
4. BambooHR - proved to be the most suitable for all our needs. I lacked the flexibility of Performance review - no cascading of goals, no ability to make them public, but everything else is top notch. We were already using this system, but I decided to check analogues and came to the conclusion that today they are better (but very closely on their heels is HiBOB).
Now I'll go through each of them:
1. Zoho - it's not bad, lots of features and customisations, but it's Android. Interacting with it technically solves problems, but does not bring joy and pleasure
2. HiBOB - the most potential system. I chatted with the creator and he promised there would be a Performance review module, which there isn't yet and even showed it. It's very sexy. But also there is no ATS yet and there won't be, they offer integration with other systems, that didn't work for me. But I will be back to them in a year for sure
3. Small improvements - good system, but also doesn't solve 100% of our needs.
4. BambooHR - proved to be the most suitable for all our needs. I lacked the flexibility of Performance review - no cascading of goals, no ability to make them public, but everything else is top notch. We were already using this system, but I decided to check analogues and came to the conclusion that today they are better (but very closely on their heels is HiBOB).
I will recall my system requirements and conduct an evaluation of BambooHR:
HRIS requirements:
HRIS requirements:
- Inbuilt ATS +++
- Publication of vacancies on a separate page +++
- Collecting responses from different websites +++
- Status on candidates +++
- Automatic sending of letters +++
- Access for manager +++
- Linkedin connection (possibility to reply with Linkedin profile) +++++
- Performance management: +++
- Cascading of targets -
- All goals of all employees are visible to all -
- 360 appraisal on defined competences +/-
- 9 box matrix (potential/performance) +
- Possibility to conduct checkin on goals on a regialr basis (mark progress towards goals, write comments on goals during 1:1 +++ +++
- Automation of onboarding and onboarding - sending emails, checklist +++ +++
- Employee self-services - holidays, remote working days, time off +++++
- Payroll calculation - payroll accounting, exit date tracking (proration), history of salary revisions, salary forks or comparatio to market salary +++(separate module)
- Merit increase / performance based pay - possibility to plan salary revision by company, calculation of bonuses, work with budgets ???. (I have put this issue aside for now
- Employee development management - ability to record skills & competences, their development level, ability to specify employee level (junior, middle, senior) -
- Succession planning - ability to assign saxers to employees, ability for employee to plan career development -
- Exit management - sending questionnaire, checklists +++
- Company's organizational structure with possibility to display matrix structure (when there are 2 managers) +\-
- reporting +++
- engagement management module - regular questionnaires, team reports, access to reports for managers +\-
- Preferably - peer2peer recognition +\-
- Slack support would be a plus -
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