Cascade’s core Human Resources module is at the heart of our HR software. It is a strong and powerful platform on which to build you future HR systems. Personnel database management, employee record keeping is the basis, and this is further strengthened by a simple and easy to use report writer and ad-hoc query tool. All data changes are audited and previous values of any changed data is kept. Data screens are fully user definable, and even these user defined fields and screens are fully audited too. When choosing a new HR software system, you owe it to your employees to ensure that their confidential employee data is key safe and secure, any changes being fully traceable on the audit.
Our HMRC Accredited Payroll software ensures we can provide a unique solution to our clients. As we own both our human resources software and our payroll software when you partner with Cascade you have the added benefit of a single contract and single service level agreement. It also means that our systems are developed in synchrony for our clients so when we add new powerful features to our HR system, we add complimentary features to our Payroll system. Our Payroll includes full integration of payroll and HR information that is backed by more than 20 years of experience in designing and supporting software for payroll departments. All of the reporting needs you may have are catered for in Payroll and all statutory forms and reports are also included. Single entry between HR and Payroll also ensures minimal administration.
Our dynamic Recruitment solution is part of our HR Software range and is fully integrated to both HR and Online Recruitment. Recruitment offers a full solution for Recruiters with Vacancy Management, Applicant Management, CV Searching, Talent Pool, Skills and Competency matching, facilities to upload vacancies to Online Recruitment and Job Description bank. Add to this the facility to convert successful applicants to HR with a single click which automatically converts them and starts your new starter process and Recruitment delivers the most easy to use, pro active and cost saving solution available today. Online Recruitment adds online vacancies, a user definable website with an easy to use Content Management solution and even CV Parsing so that when applicants apply, they can upload their CV and it will be read by the software and their application form completed for them.
Training your staff is a vital aspect of the success of your organisation. Well trained staff who have undergone effective learning and development will provide a more efficient service to your target audience and ensure maximum cost effectiveness for the employer. Being organized is a key factor when training your workforce so Cascade’s Training system will manage courses, scheduling, budgets, online course evaluations and course documentation. We haven’t forgotten other features such as a training dashboard, matching courses to skills and vice versa, providers, course scheduling, workflows that manage the lead up to courses, delivery and post course activities and a course planner. Fully integrated to L&D aspects of HR we ensure that employees are trained efficiently, accurately and effectively so you get the best from them and they get the best from their careers.
A key part of HR and Training managing the learning and development of your staff is a priority. Cascade offers a comprehensive and insightful solution which proactively helps you deliver the right training to the right people at the right time. Each employee has a Training Plan which collates needs from appraisals and reviews, outstanding needs carried forwards, needs relating to a post or user defined profile such as “Induction” or “Health and Safety” and also allows ad hoc L&D needs to be added. Costs are tracked and can be analysed and matched to budgets. A detailed and informative course diary is provided which shows a range of activities including scheduled and recurring courses . Training workflows will manage invitations, documentation and even course evaluations and surveys.
Cascade’s HR Self Service solution is completely unique in its design. Unlike traditional systems we don’t offer a Windows based HR system that has all your functionality in it and a separate browser based self service system that has a defined set of features. Instead we let you choose who uses what by making our system 100% browser based. That means your employees and managers, or anyone else, can do what you want them to do, not what a supplier has guessed you might want to do. Set up any authorisation route you can imagine from holiday requests and training requests to change of details requests. Let Managers run localized reports for their team. Provide online Organisational charts or phone lists through self serve or even through your intranet direct from Cascade with no updating required. Cascade allows you to do what you want, for the users you want, how you want it.
Our HR Software provides features for HR Management that make a real world difference to what you do. HR Manager Dashboards ensure you are informed the instant you log in. The facility to have up to 6 roles through one login means you can be a HR Manager, Line Manager, Employee and First Aider as well as a recruiter without logging in and out. Workflow processes ensure you know what is happening across the business without relying on colleagues remembering to tell you. Our Company Documents feature ensures that your staff know how to apply best practice and processes can ensure that they adhere to them. Understanding the data your workforce is creating couldn’t be easier than with our HR Management Query Builder and Office Reports. Charts, graphs and pivot tables are automatic and you can even take action with global and individual actions and processes with a single click from a report’s results.
Our reporting tools are just that. Ours. At Cascade we believe we should develop a complete system for HR and Payroll people. We don’t “glue” on other people’s systems that were never designed with our software or clients in mind. So we worked with our clients and developed a range of reporting tools for HR and Payroll that report on HR and Payroll. We made them easy to use, powerful, flexible and above all, useful. Whilst we provide for graphs and charts, filtering and sorting, exports to MS Excel and printing as you would expect we have also included some really innovative features. Have you ever completed a report and then wanted to take action on the people in the report? Maybe you wanted to write to them all or email them? Maybe you wanted to add them all to a training course or something similar? Well with Cascade you can do just that, in fact that and many other things.
Cascade’s reporting features are designed to deliver knowledge. When we developed them, in conjunction with our clients, we didn’t set out to create a mass of standard reports, although we now include many. We set out to create analysis tools that were useable and functional. We wanted you to be able to analyse your information without the need to refer to I.T. or a reporting expert. We wanted, in fact our clients wanted, to be able to report when they wanted, how they wanted. We’ve provided flexible tools that automatically create graphs and charts, deliver pivot tables that you can use without knowing how to build them. You can publish report templates and because they are part of our standard system, no matter who uses them, they can only see what their core security profile allows them to see. That means one report fits all, regardless of role.
Processes are everywhere. Nearly everything we do at work is part of a process. Making sure that processes happen and that they happen on time, with the right people, using the right resources and following prescribed best practice is probably the most fundamental thing any business can get right to ensure success, efficiency, effectiveness and results. Cascade’s HR Workflow tools, just like everything else in Cascade, are developed using Microsoft .Net. They are used extensively by our clients and they are used, more notably, by our client’s HR teams. Be it a new starter process, leaver process, a guide for line managers for how to add an absence or gain authority to recruit or a simple holiday request Cascade HR Workflow will present the right mail merge email, mail merge document, online form, screen, decision, notification, check box task, online survey or a myriad of other task types at the right time, to the right person, in the right format. All defined by you, controlled by you, changed by you as needed.