How businesses can find the streamlined path to delivering software updates

Pages96-97
Published date10 April 2017
Date10 April 2017
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-12-2016-0109
AuthorDavid Woodward
Subject MatterHR & organizational behaviour,Employee behaviour
How businesses can find the streamlined
path to delivering software updates
David Woodward
David Woodward is Chief Product
and Marketing Officer at the SD
Worx, Farnham, UK.
Across the globe, the
popularity of cloud-based
payroll is on a rising
trajectory. In fact, market analyst
Technavio has predicted a very
impressive compound annual
growth rate of nearly 7 per cent by
2020 for the cloud-based payroll
market. In its report, Technavio
noted that the benefit of cloud over
on-premises solutions is a “key
factor leading to the moderate
growth of this market over the next
four years”.
Typical arguments against bringing
a new form of technology into the
workplace, namely adoption and
operational costs, are completely
null in this case. The introductory
cost for investing in a cloud-based
payroll system, as well introducing
and maintaining one, is almost
universally lower than investing in a
similar local system.
Aside from the obvious and
undoubtedly valuable cost benefits,
there are a range of additional
benefits that can be achieved by
operating payroll in the cloud.
Among these benefits are the
principal gains that can be achieved
in the ability for elasticity and
scalability. For example, if your
business acquired a new company,
along with all of its staff members,
and it suddenly found a need to
expand its total data capacity to
store this newly acquired
information, utilising a cloud-based
system would provide your company
with the necessary flexibility to
increase capacity on a server nearly
instantaneously and without any
additional resources required from
your internal IT team.
Greater accessibility is another key
benefit. As long as users have
internet access, they can work from
anywhere to access a cloud-based
solution. With the increasing use of
mobile devices and applications to
perform HR-related tasks such as
viewing payslips or requesting
holidays, a cloud-based solution is
invaluable. It can be mission-critical
during bad weather. With employees
struggling to reach the office during
winter snow and ice, for example,
the ability for the payroll team to
access the network from home –
securely using the right password
and authentication, for example, is
invaluable.
Slashing bureaucracy and driving
innovation
Many of the above arguments have
already been made, of course.
However, one of the less-heralded
consequences of migrating to cloud
payroll is bringing vendors and end
customers benefits that one could
argue as being just as significant
and far-reaching.
The move to the cloud has freed
vendors from the complexity of
having to deliver multiple upgrades
of their on-premise payroll software
e-HR
PAGE 96 STRATEGIC HR REVIEW VOL. 16 NO. 2 2017, pp. 96-97, © Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 1475-4398 DOI 10.1108/SHR-12-2016-0109

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