An award for SMEs who are using ground-breaking (or innovative) HR practice to support business growth is being sponsored by leading Cloud HR software provider Cezanne HR.
The 'SME Initiative of the Year' award is aimed at companies with between 50 and 250 employees who are transforming the way they deliver HR in order to build sustainable company performance. It is one of the categories in the 2013 CIPD People Management Awards, which recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements in people management and development.
Cezanne HR Marketing Director Sue Lingard says: "We are delighted to be supporting an award that recognises HR best practice in SMEs. Small and mid-sized businesses contribute a huge amount to the UK economy and to local communities. They are responsible for some 50 per cent of GDP and employment and it is widely recognised that their successful growth is critical to rebalancing our economy."
"It is also the case that SMEs are often the most willing to embrace entrepreneurial practices when it comes to people management - taking innovative approaches that larger organisations could learn from. These awards provide the perfect forum for giving SMEs the recognition they deserve," she concludes.
Cezanne HR was set up in 2013 by the founders and former majority stakeholders of Cezanne Software, following the sale of the part of the Cezanne Software business focused on servicing larger enterprises. The new business is entirely focused on promoting a pure SaaS-based HR software solution, Cezanne OnDemand, which was first released in the summer of 2011.
The company already has an impressive customer base of small businesses and mid-sized enterprises, many of whom are well-known brands and innovators in their own markets. Customers that have signed up to use the online HR service from the UK in the last few months include Think Jam, Ward Williams, Evolving, Intelliflo, Core Technology Systems, Invitation Digital and Howard Hutton. The company also has offices and partners supporting customers in mainland Europe and elsewhere.
“Our focus on the SME market, both through direct sales and by partnering with HR service providers like Ward Williams and Deminos, means that it felt absolutely right to support these awards, Sue explains. “We’ve had first-hand experience of working with SMEs and the companies that support them, and we’re more than aware of the challenges they face.”
The award for SME HR Initiative of the Year is now officially open for entry. More information and entry forms can be found here http://www.cipdpmas.co.uk/enter-now.
About Cezanne HR
The new company is focused on promoting its Cloud-based HR software system, Cezanne OnDemand which provides SMEs with a powerful yet quick to implement online HR software solution to help streamline people, absence and performance management, improve employee collaboration, and gather better HR intelligence to support planning and decision making.
The system is the first HR software solution to be offered on a pay-as-you-go basis, with monthly fees being adjusted up – or down – to reflect the average number of employees being managed each month. It is also the first to include, at no extra cost, an innovative employee portal that enables HR to easily share company information and documents and includes social features that encourage employees to work together more productively. Pricing is just £2 per employee per month for companies of between 50 and 500 employees for HR and absence management, with performance management costing an extra £1. Special discounts are available to registered charities and not-for-profits.
Cezanne OnDemand is delivered in the Cloud, on a Software-as-a-Service basis, which means it is hosted and delivered online via a secure server, with updates automatically provided to clients as they are released as part of the subscription fee. There’s no need for SME businesses to continually invest in their own hardware or software, or in installing updates. They simply log on via the Internet and have immediate access to the latest version of the system from wherever they are.
