The first challenge many businesses face when embarking on a journey to being able to use their people data to make better people and business decisions is that people data resides in a variety of disparate systems (including payroll systems, manual spreadsheets and finance systems). While data from the payroll system is usually sufficient for very basic reporting, challenges arise when trying to form trends (i.e. viewing and analysing data over different time periods) or when trying to combine more detailed employee data such as learning records, performance, leave etc. Having your people data stored in a secure, cloud-based environment that is specifically designed to house all the various aspects of your people data is the first step towards being able to use this data to solve a variety of business and people challenges.
Signify is a South African based company that has developed a modular, cloud-based HR information system (HRIS) with an embedded learning management system (LMS) that covers the entire employee lifespan. The power of their system lies in its modular design, allowing full flexibility in choosing modules that are suited to your business. Implementations can be done on specific modules through a detailed project plan to ensure the smoothest possible implementation. The system design is intuitive and with just a few hours of training and testing, most users are able to perform the majority of standard tasks that may be required without having any prior HRIS experience. For more advanced users, almost all aspects of the system are customisable, giving flexibility where this may be required to meet your specific needs. In our view, the Signify system is on par with other HRIS’s in the market, and is superior in many respects, notably in terms of ease of use.
Click on the link below for a snapshot of the module options on offer in the system.
As part of the internal QED People Analytics journey, we have embedded the Signify HRIS within our organisation, enabling us to have the same first-hand experience that you as our client would have in dealing with Signify. We are not simply a reseller of the Signify system, we believe in walking the journey with you as you embark on the process of organising and analysing your data to help you make better people and business decisions. While the experts at Signify will assist you with the implementation of the system, the QED team will stay close to the process with our first-hand experience as a client of Signify to assist you to have as smooth an implementation as possible. We can also assist with resources to get the data cleaned, verified, sorted and ready for input into the system, as we know few HR teams have significant spare capacity to take on system implementations!
Through the report-builder module in Signify you are able to view data from the system in various forms, according to your requirements. To enhance this reporting, and through our value-added partnership with Signify, we continue to explore ways to extract more data from the system (using API’s where possible) to enable you to consider more advanced analytics and automated reporting.
In summary, we believe Signify should be included in the conversation if you are on the hunt for an HRIS and/or LMS or if you are keen to explore the first steps in your people analytics journey. It has as number of key strengths and some differentiators from other systems, including:
- Ease of use
- Competitively priced
- Adaptable to African markets
- Automated payroll integrations
- API access for data to be used in analytics/reporting
- Cloud-based and secure
If you are ready to take the first steps in your people analytics journey, want more information or would like to arrange a free demo of the system, feel free to reach out to us at people.analytics@qedact.com or visit the Signify website www.signify.co.za.
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