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Human Capital Management:
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HCM Solutions

How HCM can help your business thrive

Understanding HCM

Unsure exactly what HCM is?

Human capital management, or HCM, describes the many different processes a business like yours uses to recruit, manage and then develop their staff so they in turn enhance the company’s productivity.

Other names for HCM

Other names for HCM

HCM software is often called a Human resources management system (HRMS) or human resources information system (HRIS). It replaces separate manual processes for HR, payroll, time and attendance. Now, teams in the business can use just one system of record, with easy access to an HR management system that automates all HR processes from hire to retire, including:

  • Hiring and talent management
  • Managing employee data
  • Running payroll
  • Paying staff benefits
  • Tracking time and attendance
  • Organising training
  • Delivering employee engagement

What are the benefits of human capital management (HCM)?

Business ambitions

Improve operational efficiency - Invest in people - Enhance technology

Finance

Improve financial performance

Realise better revenue growth and profit, by streamlining payroll and enabling a seamless integration across systems, to increase productivity and reduce risk of compliance error.

HR

Improve people knowledge and uncover workforce insights

Realise better revenue growth and profit, by streamlining payroll and enabling a seamless integration across systems, to increase productivity and reduce risk of compliance error.

Employees

Increase the engagement and productivity of your people

Allow them to input their own data to increase accuracy and reduce errors, while creating a culture which fosters flexible, innovative working and increases the opportunities for their personnal development.

Business leaders

Give your managers access to insightful and actionable employee information anywhere, any time

Empower them to solve critical business challenges and provide more strategic input.

IT

Enhance technology and easily integrate systems - from finance to payroll and HR

Ensure your organisation can adapt rapidly to meet its goals. Buil resilience with the right security, online and off, to protect the business.

HCM benefits in detail

Self-Service-iHCM

Enabling self-service on any device

Employees and managers can stay productive and informed 24/7 from any device.

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Ensuring compliance

With regulatory monitoring, and automatic updates your system keeps compliant and up-to-date.

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Reducing admin complexity

Boost business efficiency with automated tasks for new talent onboarding and reviewing employee data.

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Integrating payroll and HR data in one system

Accessible pay and HR analytics and data helps you make more informed business decisions.

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Managing your talent more effectively

One simple, user-centric system helps you recruit and manage talent across the business.

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Delivering one payroll solution, via two service options

Use Processing Services if you need a hosted application, while Managed Services takes care of all of your payroll.

Why your business needs an HCM solution

Why your business needs an HCM solution

  • Are you trying to reduce your HR costs using an outdated payroll or HR system?
  • Is your organisation trying to transform digitally and looking for a flexible, cloud-based solution to evolve at the same pace?
  • Perhaps you’re keen to streamline all HR processes with an all-in-one solution spanning payroll, time, talent and data analytics
  • Maybe your employees have embraced remote working, and your teams need a solution that’s fully accessible across mobile devices, so that they can connect anywhere, anytime using self-serve functionality.

These are all compelling reasons why businesses turn to using human capital management solutions, and the many benefits they can bring. Automate and streamline your HR and payroll processes onto one cloud-based system of record. You’ll avoid long-term complexity, cut costs, boost team productivity and collaboration, and that’s just for starters.

How ADP works with others like you

“We looked at many other solutions, but at the end of the day, ADP’s iHCM was the only solution that met our requirements and delivered the best solution for our needs.”

Graham Pugh, Group Payroll Manager, AO/AO World

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ADP iHCM: one HCM platform for payroll and HR

Our HCM solution is called ADP iHCM. It integrates payroll and HR in an all-in-one cloud solution. Are you a mid-sized organisation with between 50 to 999 employees across multiple industries with local or international offices? Then ADP iHCM could be ideal.

We’ve specially designed iHCM to provide great value for money, with one system of record removing the need for costly integrations.

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How ADP iHCM works at each stage of your digital transformation

How to transform your business in three steps using ADP’s iHCM solution:

Early stages of digital transformation

Start with Payroll

All you need to run accurate, automated payroll.
One simple, efficient and robust solution to process your payroll on time:

  • Payroll expertise to keep your company up to date with regulations
  • One single view of your workforce
  • Stronger security and privacy

Middle stages of transformation

Pay + HR

Bring together payroll and HR to manage the complete employee lifecycle more efficiently.
Avoid costly, complex and time-consuming integrations so you can:

  • Streamline end-to-end processes to boost productivity
  • Deliver a reliably consistent employee experience
  • Better support new ways of working and more dynamic workplace structures

Advanced stages of transformation

Pay + HR + Talent + Analytics

Create better-performing teams by integrating analytics and talent management with other HR functions and payroll.
It empowers you to improve:

  • People engagement by creating a more transparent and collaborative environment
  • Matching skills gaps with learning opportunities for greater people performance and development
  • Attracting talent by growing the right culture and opportunities

What does ADP’s iHCM solution give your business?

What does ADP’s iHCM solution give your business?

Your teams can use ADP iHCM to:

  • Simplify and streamline processes for payroll, HR, time and talent, providing insights across them all
  • Deliver a flexible solution with different Editions and optional modules from payroll to HCM, which can be expanded via its open platform ecosystem
  • Provide a mobile-optimised solution, enabling staff and managers to collaborate remotely so that flexible working becomes more productive.
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Why trust ADP with your HCM?

Unsure exactly what HCM is?

We’ve been innovating payroll and HR for over 70 years. Over one million customers in 140 countries worldwide trust us because our experience, analytical insights and cutting-edge technology have transformed payroll from a back-office function into a strategic business advantage. .

Awards and recognition

NelsonHall Research: Next Generation
HCM Technology NEAT 2023 Assessment

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Leader Multi-Process Human Resources Outsourcing

10 consecutive years

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FAQs
Your HCM questions answered

What is Human Capital Management?

Human Capital Management (or HCM) is how an organisation manages and develops its people to coax the best out of them, enhancing their value to the business. HCM includes hiring the right talent in the first place, and having the appropriate skill sets in employees, to managing these employees effectively and increasing their productivity.

How does HCM work?

At ADP, we offer HCM solutions to help business leaders with one integrated, cloud-based system that automates previously separate manual HR, payroll, time and attendance processes.

What is an HCM solution?

An HCM solution uses mobile and cloud-based technology to process data, run reports and create a smoother experience for staff. Using HCM software can reduce employee management costs, help the business stay compliant and reduce manual input errors.

Who needs HCM?

Are you trying to reduce your HR costs using an outdated payroll or HR system? Maybe your organisation is digitally transforming and is looking for a flexible, cloud-based solution to evolve at the same pace? Perhaps you’re keen to streamline all HR processes with an all-in-one solution including payroll, time, talent and data analytics.
These are all compelling reasons why businesses turn to using HCM, and its many benefits.

What are the benefits of ADP’s HCM solution?

ADP’s HCM solution is called ADP iHCM. It simplifies and streamlines processes for payroll, HR, time and talent, providing insights across them all. It delivers a flexible solution with different editions and optional modules from payroll to HCM and can be expanded via its open platform ecosystem. Plus, it provides a mobile-optimised solution, enabling staff and managers to collaborate remotely so that flexible working becomes even more productive.

Why is HCM important?

HCM is important because payroll and HR cross every functional area of your organisation and affect every employee. Using HCM can improve workforce productivity and help HR managers hire, engage and retain employees. In an integrated HCM solution with unified HR services, your teams can eliminate costly redundancies and synchronise data into a trusted source of decision-making.

Why choose ADP?

We’ve been working with one million clients of all shapes and sizes, from start-ups to enterprises, for over 70 years. Despite what the competition says, we truly are innovators, as we were one of the first to pioneer a cloud-based payroll solution.

We offer a combination of experience, cutting-edge software with inbuilt compliance, and 1,500 payroll and HR professionals to answer your questions. Our market-leading HCM solutions can be tailored to your individual requirements.

How to choose HCM software?
  • Build a requirements checklist, outlining the business goals dependent on HCM, and the impacts of not achieving them
  • Evaluate HCM solutions that best meet your needs
  • Create an action plan including project scope, resources, budget and team leaders
  • Identify internal stakeholders most affected by the project and update them regularly
  • Familiarise yourself with your company’s approval process
  • Secure stakeholder approval by highlighting the business, financial and end user benefits.
Will ADP’s HCM integrate with my current system?

Yes, just head over to the ADP Marketplace, Developers Toolkit for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help you connect your application to ADP’s HCM system, which is called iHCM.

Using these APIs will provide instant, automatic data sharing so you can easily integrate your applications with ADP iHCM. Once deployed, you’ll have access to more accurate data from one system of record, providing better data analytics for more informed decisions.

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