NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX for personnel management

NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX is building block solution on the Microsoft Dynamics AX platform.

A system - the complete solution with managerial functionality for maintaining the HR policy which specialists of NORBIT develop under specific objectives of the client. The new modular approach implemented by developer company is intended for personnel management process optimization in the large organizations, holding structures and also dynamically developing medium-sized companies.

On August 21, 2014 the NORBIT company announced an exit of a HRM system of NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX, implemented on the basis of the solution for business. The product helps HR divisions to automate personnel management according to the local purposes and tasks of business. Modular approach and a flexible license policy successfully solve key problems of HR divisions, increasing business performance.

According to developers, modular approach allows to collect the effective configuration considering requirements of HR division for each specific company and it is possible to select only those functions which are necessary for business:

• search,
• selection,
• training and adaptation of personnel,
• budgeting and formation of KPI.

As a part of a product instruments of operational data analysis and acceptance of effective management decisions.

Alyona Gekler, the director of Microsoft Business Solutions in Russia, noted: "A subject of human capital management – one of the most important in any business as the personnel is the most valuable company asset. We congratulate the NORBIT with solution development implemented on our Microsoft Dynamics AX platform whose wide functionality could satisfy all needs of the customer".

Requirements and functions

In the organizations any instrument of business process automation in HR, as a rule, is already used, and quite often employees work in the systems of personnel records and personnel management untied with each other or just fill forms in Excel. In these cases there is a repeated duplication of manual entry of information, accumulation of intermittent errors and decrease in efficiency of HR department. The problem of expansion and integration with other business processes turns out difficult for a set of solutions while customers want to receive result without essential labor costs and expenses.

Having analyzed a situation, specialists of NORBIT decided to develop the, essentially new approach to automation of HR, within already created and working corporate environments. Building block solution of NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX for personnel management based on Microsoft Dynamics AX opens for customers new opportunities, providing single input and automatic data transmission from one module in another. Also there is an ability to integrate with external IT systems, for example, of 1C, SAP, E-Staff that allows the customer not to change already available business processes.

Experts recognize that the modular architecture allows to develop more simply and more effectively modern practices of work with personnel structure, implementing such subsystems as – the automated payroll calculation, search and selection of candidates, personnel records, personel assessment. Modules of training and a personal account of the employee and also other components are easily connected to a system. Thus, the HR department can gradually increase the opportunities, just connecting add-on modules in already installed system.

Conveniently as at "office"

The first advantage of the solution of NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX for personnel management which users note in practice is simplicity of management in the interface, familiar and intuitive for most of PC users Microsoft Office. The basis of Microsoft Dynamics AX already contains integration modules with Microsoft SharePoint Outlook Word Excel, Lync and other components of "office suite". One of distinctive features of industry solution of NORBIT is existence of flexible mechanisms of setup of templates of mailing of email, formats of reports and other HR - processes in the organizations. Thus, right after installation of the solution of NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX for personnel management can get to work, using the business processes which are already available in a system.

Initially adapted to the Russian conditions the solution of NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX for personnel management supports all requirements of the Personnel legislation and regulated accounting in the organizations. The solution is integrated with 1C and other means of corporate management and accounting, popular in our country, and also with the large industry systems, for example, SAP. At the same time any completions of modular architecture due to ample opportunities of the platform on expansion of standard functionality can be implemented in a short time and with small labor costs at the request of the customer.

At last, the modern architecture allows to get access to industry solution from NORBIT in the form of SaaS service, using resources of a reliable and productive cloud Microsoft AZURE. And the specialists of NORBIT having wide experience of maintaining projects in different regions of Russia provide the round-the-clock maintenance of a system in mode 24х7. Existence of such set of flexible opportunities became a powerful argument for a number of the companies, as a result industry solution of NORBIT: Microsoft Dynamics AX for personnel management is used by the companies from the different industries - LANIT Group, NEO Center, the Skolkovo institute and others.