Global document management company, Oce Technologies has selected the talent management software from UK-headquartered Cezanne. Oce will use this software for their development, succession planning and talent management.

According to the HR Manager at OCe, the software is expected to help the company identify potential gaps in company-wide talent and accordingly put in place appropriate recruitment and development activities.

As a result of the use of this talent management software, Oce expects to not only boost employee retention and engagement but also help with better decision making for the management with relevant information and HR analytics.

Registered to the international quality standard, ISO9001, Cezanne Software is a leading supplier of HR and Talent Management software systems in the UK with over 20 years’ experience working with global organizations.

In association with the software trade body BASDA, Sift Media, the parent of the HR-focused website, HRZone.co.uk, is conducting an online survey for the Software Satisfaction Awards 2008. The survey is open to users of software applications in several areas including accounting & finance, HR, training and CRM.

ASR, which is now part of the COA solutions group, had been the winner in the 2008 awards in the integrated HR category, while NorthgateArinso  came out tops in the enterprise HR systems category. 

UK Software users can vote here and help other software buyers know about the best products available in the market today.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has purchased an integrated HR and Payroll software from Snowdrop, reports PayPerShop. The purchase is expected to streamline the CIPD’s HR processes and improvement employee data management.

Snowdrop offers seven modules across the HR software spectrum including recruitment, personnel records management, payroll, training administration and online access for line managers and employees. With the Snowdrop software, CIPD employees can view and update key information about themselves for the organization’s records. As a result of employees taking care of these activities themselves, HR staff can devote time to other important activities.

In an article on HRZone, Sarah Oliver of UK HR software and payroll solutions specialist Snowdrop emphasizes on the need for integration of HR and payroll and the challenges to the integration process.

Integrating HR and payroll systems will enable companies to increase operational efficiencies by reducing administrative overhead like repetitive data entry, prevent disasters such as paying employees incorrectly and streamlining of day-to-day activity. She points out that “through sharing data with payroll teams, HR benefits from having confidence in all its data, including vital pay-related information, such as salary and bank details, preventing the potential for misleading information that may cause bad or ill-informed decisions.”

As seen in the case of some large organizations, integration is a sound business practice, with a shared services model being a pragmatic way of solving data management issues and thus creating end-to-end processes.

Some key tips that the author lists when approaching integration of HR & payroll systems:

• Discuss separate list of requirements from the two teams to jointly come up with a requirement list that works.


• Avoid developing functionality purely for the sake of adding functionality and do away with anything that will create information overload.


• Constant communication during the software integration testing process.


• Looking upon one another as each other’s customers rather than colleagues can provide a very good perspective.


• Ensure there is considered planning, consistency and focus for the integration process to work.