One-stop shopping. One of the most frequently mentioned advantages of an HRIS is that you enter information only once for many HR-related employee tasks. And, similarly, you need to update only one place when employee information changes.
Integration of data. Furthermore, different parts of the system can “talk to each other” allowing more meaningful reporting and analysis capabilities, including internal evaluations and audits and preparation of data for outsiders.
Accuracy. Improved accuracy is likely assuming data are entered and manipulated correctly.
Self service. This feature can be a great timesaver for HR. Employees may enter the system to change data (for example, change their own addresses) and managers and supervisors may enter the system to enter data (for example, performance reviews) or to retrieve data without bothering HR.
Automated reminders. Systems can schedule events, such as performance appraisals and benefit deadlines, automatically notifying and nudging if actions have not been performed.
Hosting of company-related documents. The system can host such materials as employee handbooks, procedures, and safety guidelines. The materials are easily updated in one place.
Benefits administration. This could include enrollment, notices, changes, and reporting.
Recruiting management. This may include applicant tracking, management, and reporting.
With the pass of time technology keeps improving, allowing entrepreneurs to find loop-holes or ways of creating/using new systems to improve service and productivity. For years restaurants have been doing business the same way. It's time to improve this, by allowing certain "gadgets" and systems to facilitate both, your job (as owner) and employees. The previous article mentions POS integration as a "must-have" in restaurants. Although it helps the operating side and the customer-facing side, it takes time and money to allow the integration between systems. The new issue is that before an integration was merely impossible, since the API's didn't communicate well or at all with other systems, thus restaurant owners had to stay with the same vendor because the system only worked with them. It was less the hazzle than trying to find/have different vendors for each aspect. Nowadays, API's are commonly known to synchronize well with others, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, among others. Having said that, large POS companies believe this change, of public API's, will make them change their business to allow what newer companies are already doing. Lastly, cloud technology has allowed for this integration to be successful, since it's "making the prospect of integration easier for operators as more owners are looking to above-property hosting systems", because of its "one-point contact" with other systems (all in one, with less than half the time and work than before).
