User Experience
Through the continual and relentless evolution of social and consumer-driven web technologies, such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Twitter, users are expecting an equivalent experience in their place of work to transact business.
From its inception, elementsuite was built using approaches and methods to respond to this:
“Mobile First”
The world is now “Mobile-First”, and historically dominant vendors have struggled to adapt to the re-platforming and re-architecting challenges of the new world.
elementsuite has been designed and developed using a “Mobile First” methodology to sure that our application is built and tested using mobile devices first, before working back to more traditional laptop and desktop devices typically used by superusers. The application is responsive and adaptive to different devices and browsers to ensure a frictionless mobile user experience.
Embedded Branding
elementsuite’s unique layered architecture means that the branding of the application can be highly customised for each customer, whilst still maintaining the benefits of running on a single SaaS codebase. The importance of treating employees as “brand ambassadors” for your business is well documented – benefits include higher engagement and retention, and lower absenteeism.
The customisable interface and flexible configuration switches enable a high level of tailoring the user experience. We’re not just talking about a logo change in the top right hand corner, but ensuring that the very essence of your brand – its colours, images, culture, terminology, and tone are deeply embedded into the product and therefore into the user experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
Deep Configuration
User experience is more than just mobile readiness and brand configurability. To differentiate your business, you need a strong value proposition and uniqueness of policy for your talent. It’s necessary to offer flexibility to support uniqueness of process and policies.
Whilst of course you’ll want to make use of the best practice offered by the elements of our application modules, we also recognise that your processes, policies and workflow are what make your organisation unique. It’s no longer acceptable to change your processes to fit a bland and un-differentiated system. Whether calculating accruals and pay, configuring wage banding, validating a right to work, driving compliance through e-Signatures or defining security and workflow – we recognise that it is the unique set-up of the elements of your business that drive your success.
It’s difficult to make these things simple. But elementsuite achieves this through deep configurability of parameters and feature switches that can be assigned at various levels within your organisation – from market-level through to specific positions or even at person level.
elementsuite can be likened to your company DNA – the same code runs in different ways for different purposes to achieve specialisation of function, and fine tuning of your business processes.
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Full Suite vs Best Of Breed
For many years the best of breed paradigm has been promulgated as an acceptable (and often preferable) approach to procuring HR software. The concept that specialist vendors can offer specialised function to differentiate and add value to business performance is of course difficult to dispute.
EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) promised to solve the problem of integrating best of breed applications – but these concepts and technologies are rarely implemented cost effectively. The complexity and ongoing cost of ownership of integrating separate applications is often vastly underrepresented and understated.
Whilst we don’t actively encourage a Best Of Breed strategy (except for certain specialised scenarios), we are able to support it using our advanced integration techniques – and we can absorb data from your disparate systems to make it accessible for analytics.
Are you “AI-ready”?
One of the key benefits of a single HR data source is that it makes you “AI-ready”. In order to implement an effective HR AI strategy, you need to have your data in a state where it can be processed and analysed (the latest term for this is a “data lake”). As a single source of your HR data truth, elementsuite inherently supports this, and we are continuing to evolve our offering to make use of the latest emerging trends in machine learning, deep learning and neural networks.
How we deliver your project
As well as an enterprise-class Software as a Service, we pride ourselves on our implementation tooling and experience. As part of any elementsuite implementation we provide access to our “Product Hub” which contains a full list of our modules, features, project tasks and implementation resources. We believe in providing complete transparency of our delivery plan and approach, to provide assurance of successful project delivery within the project boundaries of scope, cost and timelines. Our implementation method is truly unique, and seamlessly embedded into the elementsuite application – enabling us to implement enterprise or mid-market projects in aggressive timeframes.
How Product Hub works
By selecting a module within Product Hub and then the features within that module, this builds up a number of project related tasks and test cases that have allocated measurable estimations attached to them. Via a few simple clicks our combined project delivery team can automatically construct and visualise a tailored and transparent delivery plan with accurate time costing, milestones and test cases to ensure that the team knows exactly what is needed from them and when it is required.