| Integrated HR and Payroll Software - Say Goodbye | | | | True integration involves the HR and Payroll |
| to Duplicate Entry of Data | | | | department sharing a common database source, |
| If the time has come for your organisation to search | | | | ensuring that there is a free flow of data between |
| for an HR and Payroll solution, and you are looking for | | | | both sides of the system. The integrated system will |
| a system that is fully integrated, make sure you fully | | | | give management greater control and much greater |
| understand what this really means. The word | | | | flexibility within their departments. |
| 'integrated' is very often confused with what should be | | | | Real time data transfer means that it does not matter |
| termed as a 'single database' or a 'unitary database.' | | | | who enters the information and that it will be possible |
| The HR and Payroll software market is becoming | | | | to view the data entered anywhere in the system. For |
| more and more complex. It is therefore imperative for | | | | example HR may enter a new member of staff, this |
| any organisation looking for a new HR and Payroll | | | | can then be immediately picked up by the payroll |
| system to find out if what they are being offered is | | | | department, and will be seen in real time. Only a true |
| what they really want. For example if information must | | | | single database integrated system will be able to do |
| be immediately available throughout the whole product, | | | | this. |
| subject to security constraints, an HR and Payroll | | | | If you are in doubt that your chosen HR and Payroll |
| software system with a single database is required. | | | | system is operating off a single database, it is |
| Be aware that sometimes 'integrated' is not always | | | | advisable to ask. If the supplier has a truly integrated |
| 'integrated!' | | | | solution with a single database then they should be |
| Some companies offer an 'integrated package' but this | | | | able to demonstrate this to you. Make sure 'integrated' |
| does not mean necessarily that it has a single | | | | is what you are really going to get. It will pay off |
| database. What it usually means is that you then have | | | | spending extra time checking that your new system is |
| to press a button to transfer the data to another | | | | exactly what you need and that you are getting the |
| system, it is not done automatically. The only way it will | | | | best solution for your organisation. |
| be done in real time is if you have a single database. | | | | |