
Understanding key issues
CHALLENGES
Rigid technology that doesn't support future growth
Systems are outdated and don't offer the flexibility and scalability to enhance the employee experience and lighten the burden of HR teams.
Can't easily access and report on employee data
Your current system doesn't offer insight into employee sentiment, flight risks or internal mobility.
HR staff are overwhelmed with admin tasks
You have limited or no self-service capabilities within your existing solution, and HR teams spend the majority of time taking enquiries from employees.
You have a large and diverse workforce
Employee expectations are changing and vary across different departments. Your current solutions aren't robust enough to handle this.
Your system isn't designed for your business
Tasks and processes require a lot of extra manual work, creating inefficiency and wasting time.
Employees require mobile and remote access to systems
With employees spending more time working from home and out of the office, you don't have the technology to support the changes in working patterns.
79% OF OUR CUSTOMERS REPORT INCREASED EFFICIENCIES
63% OF OUR CUSTOMERS FIND IT EASIER TO REPORT ON EMPLOYEE DATA
78% OF OUR CUSTOMERS FIND IT SIMPLER TO COMPLY WITH LEGISLATION
How our HR Software can help you
FEATURES & BENEFITS
-
Advanced Virtual Assistant (AVA)
Your HR team didn't take up a career to complete manual tasks, and your people just want to get the job done. That’s where AVA comes in. AVA takes care of the repetitive – letting your employees focus on getting the job done.
Making work easier
AVA can surface the information your HR team needs, as they need it. Spend less time searching and more time doing.
Boost employee engagement
65% of people within the organisations are either keen to adopt, or open to discovering, new technology. The time has never been riper to adopt new tech.
Eliminate business distractions
With repetitive and manual tasks taken care of, you can focus on strategy and making a difference to your people and business
-
Employee Management
Our mission is to help HR teams invest time in people, not admin. Take a look at how our solution can enable you to reimagine your employee experience.
Appraisals
Store all appraisals within Cloud HR, making it easier for employees to see progress and track their development without asking the HR team.
Salary, compensation and benefits
Empower your employees with complete visibility of their salary, compensation and the benefits available to them.
Absence management
Easily track and keep records of all absences so managers have one version of the truth, while reducing paper and inconsistencies.
Track turnover and stability
Get insights into turnover in specific teams and departments to help you predict why and when employee churn may occur.
Starters and leavers
Cloud HR holds all information on current employees and those who are leaving, becoming the single source for HR teams and managers.
Self-service and workflow
Empower employees and managers with self-serve capabilities on mobile devices and desktop. Input data with ease and see one clear view of all employee information. HR teams also have the power to create their own workflows to fit around your organisation's processes.
-
Training Management
Invest in your people through integrated training management, enabling employees to have access to courses and modules that will enhance their development and skills.
Delegate booking
Employees can book themselves onto courses directly from Cloud HR.
Facilities and resource management
View which venues and rooms are available on specific dates, making course planning stress-free.
eLearning
Direct access to eLearning, ensuring employees can easily undertake training with little effort and at a time that is convenient for them.
Skills and competency tracking
Track employees' skills and competencies within Cloud HR, allowing HR, managers and staff to see exactly what they need in order to progress or change role.
-
Applicant Management
Manage the full employee lifecycle from the very beginning with applicant management integrated into Cloud HR. Reduce paper and ensure there is one version of the truth.
Applicant records
Store all applicant records in one place, making it easy for talent teams to get a view of the volume and details of applicants for a particular role.
Offers/Contract management
Make an offer to an applicant directly from Cloud HR, with contract and associated information attached.
Vacancy records
Store all vacancies in the solution, with the applicant links and data pulling straight back into Cloud HR.
Applicant tracking
Track the status of each applicant's journey and their position in the process.
CV/Document eLearning
Store applicants' CVs and application information in order to keep them on record for future roles.
-
Dashboards and Reporting
Our dashboards and reporting functionality delivers new ways of understanding your workforce, talent and prospective talent pools - empowering your HR teams to make data-driven decisions. Dashboard types can include the following:
Personalised dashboards
Our dashboards are flexible to your reporting needs, enabling HR teams to get a clear view of accurate information at a glance.
Workforce diversity
Filter reports to view age, gender, ethnicity and more detailed employee analysis.
Training
See outstanding requirements, completed courses, feedback and investment for every employee.
Payroll
View employee costs and overtime costs in one simple dashboard.
Recruitment
See the average time it takes to recruit people, current vacancies, recruitment costs, turnover and retention of employees.
Absence
Take a look at planned and unplanned absences, absentee rate and the most popular reasons for employee absence to help understand risks and trends.
Advanced Virtual Assistant (AVA)
Your HR team didn't take up a career to complete manual tasks, and your people just want to get the job done. That’s where AVA comes in. AVA takes care of the repetitive – letting your employees focus on getting the job done.

Frequently Asked Questions
- How will Advanced HR software benefit my business?
Our HR solution, Cloud HR, takes care of the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment to retirement. Through a combination of core HR functionality, instant online access and an all-inclusive reporting suite, Cloud HR delivers unrivalled maintenance of your organisation’s full employee lifecycle. Cloud HR is designed to be flexible to the needs of your people, empowering employees to self-serve and access the system anytime, anywhere. Cloud HR reduces the administrative burden on HR teams, so you can focus on investing valuable time into activity that is going to enhance the employee experience and increase retention.
- Who will benefit most from HR software?
Cloud HR software is beneficial to everyone in the business. It means HR teams can invest more time in activity which is going to improve employee satisfaction and make your business a better place to work. Employees will also benefit from being able to self-serve information, such as easily booking annual leave or looking up policies, allowing them to get on with their main activities.
- What key features should I look for in HR software?
Solid HR software must be able to look after the entire employee lifecycle. This includes features that support all elements of employee management such as absence management, appraisals, starters and leavers, self-service and workflow, salary and benefits. Ideally, HR software should also have integrated training management, applicant management, reporting and payroll to enable HR teams to have all elements of people management in one place.
- How can I improve the productivity of my HR team?
Managing sickness and absence, appraisals, training, recruitment and starters and leavers can become really complex when information is either paper-based, kept in spreadsheets or on disparate systems. Providing one central system for both HR teams and employees to record information is critical to removing admin headaches and increasing productivity.
- How do I calculate ROI from an HR system?
You can calculate your return on investment (ROI) in an HR system in many ways. The first is from the increased time savings and efficiencies in your HR team. How many minutes and hours are being saved by automating tasks and having less admin to do? Over time, this makes a huge difference to the capacity of an HR function. You can also measure ROI in employees retained as a result of having an HR team more focused on their people. The cost of recruitment and churn of employees is extremely high - being able to retain engaged employees is a huge cost saver for businesses.
- How much does HR software cost?
At Advanced, we work on a per employee per month (PEPM) Software as a Service (SaaS) price model. This makes the cost of Cloud HR easier to manage and means you can scale up as your business and workforce grows.
- What is the advantage of using Cloud-based HR software?
The events of the past few months have shown that Cloud-based software is now not a desire but an absolute ‘must have’ for HR teams. HR teams need to be able to report on employee trends and understand workforce data, and employees want to be able to self-serve with ease, wherever they may be. Using Cloud software simplifies processes and makes it quick and simple for all teams to access tools.
- How secure is my data in Cloud-based HR software?
Using Cloud-based software is actually much more secure than on premise solutions. Cloud HR is backed up in our Tier 3 data centres, meaning your data and system has one of the highest levels of security possible.
- Can Cloud HR software be implemented remotely?
Yes. The beauty of Cloud HR being a Cloud solution means we can implement it for your whole business remotely without setting foot in your office, removing health and safety headaches and allowing you to get up and running as quickly as possible.
- Does Cloud HR work on a tablet or mobile?
Yes. Cloud HR is a true Cloud solution and is available anywhere, anytime on any device. All you need is connection to the internet and a browser.
- How does Cloud HR software optimise workflow processes?
Cloud HR streamlines processes for HR teams, making it easier for them to report on employee information across the board. Having one solution covering the whole employee management landscape means that information is collected in one place in a standardised way, so your teams have a clear view of trends.
- Is Cloud HR part of MyWorkplace?
Cloud HR is launching on MyWorkplace this year.
- Is Cloud HR software customisable?
We understand that all organisations are different and structured in a variety of ways, so Cloud HR is flexible to your individual business needs. Unlike many other Cloud solutions, with Cloud HR you have the ability to customise the solution without any training, assistance or consultancy costs from Advanced. The system is easy to use and very flexible, and changes can be made by you quickly and easily.
Explore our range of additional Human Capital Management solutions
Payroll Software
OPENPEOPLE
OpenPeople is our fast and accurate payroll processing solution that gives you all the tools for full payroll parameterisation.
Learn morePayroll Outsourcing
MANAGED PAYROLL
Our payroll service delivers the flexibility, compliance and payroll support you need, so you can focus on what matters most.
Learn MoreDedicated Support Team
24hr Customer Portal
Regular Product Updates
97% Project Delivery Score
Additional insights to help you transform
RESOURCES
-
Cloud HR Overview Webinar
Join this short webinar to learn how our Cloud-based software frees up the time spent on paperwork and admin, enabling you to get the best from all your people throughout the employee lifecycle.
View webinarWebinar
-
Guide: Challenges facing HR in 2021
Read our guide on how you can overcome the challenges facing HR in 2021
Read guideeBook
-
Cloud HR
Factsheet Read factsheet -
Adopting the digital workplace
Whitepaper Read whitepaper -
Workforce 2020: attracting and retaining talent in the digital world
eBook Read eBook -
Elevating HR to the board
Webinar Watch on demand
Ongoing software innovation and developments
PRODUCT UPDATES
We are always improving and innovating our products to deliver the best experience for our customers. Here are a selection of the latest updates to our HR Software.
- Cloud HR
- Built on a user friendly and intuitive UX and UI
- Secure Cloud environment within Amazon Web Services
- Support and updates included
- Fully configurable
- Support and updates included
- Available anytime, anywhere
- OpenHR 9.2
- New Case Management module
- Extended platform support
- ICS attachments now available on all system generated emails
- OpenHR 9.1
- New GDPR module for automating the management of your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data
- Subject Access Request workflows
- Subject Access Request reporting
- GDPR Management Reporting Packs
- Revisions to system and workflow email generation including HTML support
- Ongoing software compliance i.e SQL 2017 support
- OpenHR 9.0
- Updated modern look and feel to self-service landing pages
- Full mobile 'adaptive' content for self-service and workflow
- Extension of Test to Live for screens/tables/calculations and views
- Multi-record workflow capability (e.g. expenses or worksheets)
- Windows Server 2016 support
- 29 customer satisfaction items
- OpenHR 8.3
- New organisation reporting
- Platform extensions
News & Opinions
Was your organisation prepared for remote working?
by Mark Dewell, Managing Director - Public, Private & Third Sector

Advanced's Picks
Business as unusual

Flexible Working – the new normal

Five signs your HR software isn't working for you (and how t...
