Optimum Solutions HRIS has the best customer service
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Optimum Solutions in our Payroll/HR department to manage our employee information as well as for weekly hourly, semi-monthly salaried, commission and bonus payrolls. Currently only our Payroll/HR department utilizes the software but we are in the process of rolling out portions of the software to be used by employee supervisors and their employee self-service module that the employees will use to view/change their personal information as well as selected deductions.
Pros
- First and foremost in my opinion Optimum Solutions has great customer service. We are assigned a specialist and can work with that person for every issue or question that arises. The specialist becomes familiar with our company and processes which makes interactions with them faster.
- Optimum Solutions knows our business and offers helpful ways for us to work with their software to achieve our goals.
- The turn around time for any question or issues is usually 2 hours or less. If our specialist doesn't have an answer they will work diligently with other employees with the company to provide us an answer in a quick amount of time.
- Everyone I've dealt with at Optimum Solutions is friendly and knowledgeable . You can tell they love what they do and are always willing to help. Most employees have been with the company for a long time which tells me it's a great company to work for.
Cons
- We are currently using the software designed for the iSeries but are moving to their Windows platform. We are moving to the Windows platform to gain some functionality in terms of a robust Employee Self Service module.
- In the iSeries software the Payroll and HR functions are separate which makes it a little more difficult to see the whole picture of the employee record. In the Windows version the Payroll and HR functions work as one.
- The security for the iSeries side is a bit cumbersome in my opinion but we hope that is not the case in the Windows version of the software. We are planning to open up parts of the Windows version to the employee supervisors.
Likelihood to Recommend
Optimum Solutions works very well for all our payroll needs. We run payrolls weekly, semi-monthly, monthly and yearly. The end of year process is lined out very well and webinars are available to go over any new regulations required.
We haven't utilized the HR part of the software as much on the iSeries but are planning on changing that once we get converted to the Windows version later this year. The main reason for this is the HR part of the software on the iSeries is separate from payroll.
