What Is Human Resources Management Software

What is human resources management software, and is it different from an HR system? In vendor usage the terms are interchangeable. In practice the distinction is worth keeping.

Software is the product. It ships with capabilities, a permissions model and a set of assumptions about how work happens.

The system is that product plus your configuration, your data, your processes and the habits of the people using it. Two organisations running identical software have very different systems.

This matters when a project disappoints. The usual conclusion is that the software was wrong. More often the configuration encoded processes nobody had agreed, or the data went in dirty and never got cleaned.

Changing product rarely fixes either of those problems, and it will cost you the better part of a year to find that out.

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See Sentrient’s HR software and HR management system.