Sage HRMS vs. SilkRoad Life Suite

Sage HRMS might be great for a smaller company under 1,000 employees. I would not recommend it for larger companies. It becomes too burdensome because many processes still have to be manual and reports take forever to process if you have too many records in your system

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SilkRoad Life is well suited for hiring new employees and bringing them onboard quickly.

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• Reporting - there are three levels of reporting - 1. Standard Reports 2. Query Tool - users can create very simple list with some filtering functionality 3. Crystal Reports - user can create very simple to complex report pulling data from multiple table, calculated fields, etc.
• Benefit Tracking - benefit plans are setup utilizing rate tables therefore rate changes are updated globally
• Payroll - everyday payroll processing and tax filing that is very user friendly

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• Onboarding - easy process. easy to move around in. Always get high marks from new hires on the process
• Redcarpet helps to manage tasks related to all departments involved in the new hire process
• Openhire - online application easy to use.
• Openhire - easy to search resumes and select candidates.

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• It is sometimes hard to identify parts of competency/compensation history. We built tables to store this data but it is not laid out well on the screen.
• Sometimes, even when you tell the system to "Add to History" it doesn't update so there is history missing. This impacts someone that relies on history for troubleshooting and reports.

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• Fully understand their customers needs before selling!
• Reduce the number of people for implementation

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I do not work with this software anymore, and I am not involved with the renewal of it. However, if I were, I would still suggest using it unless something better was introduced

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Our HR Director is looking to go with another company.

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Excellent onboarding tool. Easy to set up

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Sage HRMS is popular and it's used in most organizations due to the reputation of Sage in coming up with popular and reliable business softwares. The software is not that expensive and after learning how to use it, everything becomes smooth and perfect. It's ultimate strength lies in payroll management and helping in applicant tracking capabilities

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SilkRoad is very far behind PeopleSoft!

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• Sage HRMS allowed us to manage payroll in house.
• It was disappointing that we had to use an outside vendor to file and pay our withholding tax.
• Ultimately, the decision was made to outsource payroll after using HRMS for 3 years.

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• Increased employee efficiency
• Departments are now held accountable if a certain task was missed
• Time saver

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