Best Practices

10 Reasons HR Loves Organizational Charts

You know those organizational charts you use to visually show the structure of a company, its departments and its employees? What happens if you add additional information to your charts like performance data, work flow, or job responsibilities? Let’s look at ten ways enhanced organizational charts can help HR manage employees, make decisions, and plan for the future.

Managing HR in the Construction and Real Estate Industry

Human Resources departments in the construction and real estate industries face specific challenges. Whether it’s extreme diversity and mobility of the workforce, high turnover rates, or managing employees on multiple locations and projects, these complications place increased demands on HR personnel. Why not streamline HR tasks by using a comprehensive electronic human resources management system (HRMS) along with add-on modules designed specifically for your type of business?

Your Company’s Life Cycle and Why You Should Care

Every living thing, from the simplest organism to human beings, has a life cycle. The pattern is familiar: moving from simple to more complex, from beginnings and rapid growth to maturity, decline, and death. Each stage requires specific types of nurture before moving to the next. You may not think of companies as having life cycles, but they do.

Selecting the Best Tool to Migrate from Abra Suite to Sage HRMS

Deciding what tool is right for your migration project – either the Automated SQL Migration for Abra Suite tool or the Upsize tool – depends on your needs. There are 6 decision points you can consider when selecting the best tool for migration.

9 Reasons to Move from FoxPro to SQL: Abra Suite to Sage HRMS

In the 1980’s, Sage Software (formerly known as Best Software) launched Abra Suite – an HRMS for small to midsize businesses based on FoxPro, a file-Server application that was introduced on the DOS operating system. Now, more than 30 years later, Abra Suite users have the opportunity to migrate to Sage HRMS – based on Microsoft SQL Server. Here are 9 reasons why this infrastructure upgrade alone, going from FoxPro to SQL Server, is worth putting on your technology roadmap.