Islamic Relief upgrades with Sage HR & Payroll

Islamic Relief, the international relief and development charity, has upgraded its HR software from Sage HR & Payroll, to improve information management of 2000 employees across 38 countries. It is also set to roll out Sageís online recruitment module.

Usama Bastawy, HR Manager for Islamic Relief, comments: ìWe chose to upgrade with Sage because we felt the new features could really impact HR processes in a number of areas. We have always had good experiences with Sage, in particular through its helpdesk, who are always professional and friendly and quick to respond to our queries.î

Islamic Relief will be upgrading its recruitment; personnel; training & development; performance management and self-service modules from the Sage software suite, SnowdropKCS. A link will also be set up between SnowdropKCS Personnel and Islamic Reliefís time & attendance system. This is geared towards improving absence management through regular absence updates into the personnel module.

In the upgraded software, online appraisals have been updated to make it easier to combine assessments, personal development plans and appraisals and look at year-on-year individual progression. This will help Islamic Relief to promote manager buy-in to the appraisal process and increase compliance with staff reviews.

The online recruitment module will also assist the HR team in saving time, through easy publishing of vacancy details to its website. Online recruitment also ensures simple capture of applicant details that are fed directly into the windows recruitment system – freeing up HR resource.

Overall, Islamic Relief hopes to further smooth process management to allow a better focus on core HR activities.