SaaShr Gives Resellers New Tools to Take On SMB Market

Not without reason is the small business market called one of the biggest drivers of the American economy. Its close cousin, the medium-sized business market, has plenty to say about the course of American business as well, and that makes the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market one of the biggest prizes around for business sales. SaaShr, meanwhile, is looking to hit that market particularly hard with some new tools to make the business of finding, keeping and firing employees a smoother and better-organized process.

The new tools in question came in the form of platform updates, which in turn offered an array of new features to augment SaaShr's capabilities and make it more useful in the field. For instance, the program now offers a set of standard HR actions and enhanced workflow tools, including access to HR actions and benefit enrollments by a mobile device, the ability to send notifications through standard workflow processes, and to perform critical functions immediately including hiring, firing, re-hiring, and inside-the-company status changes like promotion, demotion and transfer.

Additionally, there's now room for premium calculations within the tool itself, and a new set of standard reporting capabilities to help make it clear just where an employee is in the overall enrollment process for benefits. Additionally, there's a tool specifically geared toward leave of absences, showing at a glance how much time said employee is entitled to at any point. This also comes with the Leave of Absence Calendar, which can not only be reached through employee self-service means but also through a mobile app, allowing for an easy check on time ranges during which an employee may be on continuous leave or on intermittent leave.

There's a projected hours mechanism that allows for easier tracking of labor costs and projected overtime, if needed, as well as integration with company policies on the subject, along with calendar integration tools that allow companies to quickly blend calendars from places like Google (News - Alert), Outlook, or Yahoo for maximum ease of use in managing workforce points, and even support for multiple Employer Identification Numbers (EIN).

That's a pretty wide variety of useful tools, and a variety that should improve SaaShr's value with smaller-sized firms who might need a bit of extra help more readily managing employee bases. It's a problem that needed addressing, as far as research from Aberdeen (News - Alert) Group's Human Capital Management practice indicates. Aberdeen Group vice president and principal analyst Mollie Lombardi pointed out that SMBs were “...49 percent more likely to cite time spent on manual transactions as a critical challenge driving their focus on workforce management.” Additionally, Lombardi noted “These organizations are turning to cloud-based delivery models to enable workforce management automation and integration. Success for these organizations is about implementing the right functionality to help drive organizational productivity, without creating additional burden for HR and IT departments.”

SaaShr has a great proposition here to work with: it wants to take a function that's proven difficult for a lot of SMBs out there and turn it into a more automated, more transparent process that's easier to work with. That's a hard prospect to turn down, and one that will likely prove to add plenty of value to operations. Adding value to operations is generally an attention-getter, so SaaShr is likely to net plenty of traffic with this new set of tools.

Edited by Stefania Viscusi

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