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Cezanne HR announces a new interface for a fresher, faster user experience

Cezanne HR has this week announced the arrival of a modern new interface for it’s HR software. Reflecting extensive research and usability testing, the updated design introduces clearer screens, simpler navigation and more options for HR to own-brand the system.

The new design underpins an exciting program of new releases planned for the second half of 2020. These include new options for the home screen, updated reporting dashboards and an advanced analytics module.

“The Cezanne HR system is growing incredibly quickly, and the navigation was struggling to keep up”, explains John Hixon, Director of R&D at Cezanne HR. “With more modules and features in the pipeline, we felt the time had come to review the whole user experience. We wanted to bring more clarity to the system and boost efficiency, especially for HR administrators, while enabling further changes in the next months.”

Fresher look and feel

All the Cezanne HR modules now have the fresh new interface, with a modern design, smarter use of screen space and streamlined navigation, making for a clear, efficient and up-to-date user experience.

Smoother navigation, faster journey

The screen layouts have been rethought to bring key information closer to the surface. The side bar has been decluttered, and a new header bar introduced with tabs and breadcrumbs. Line managers and HR have a new navigation pane that makes exploring different aspects of an employee’s data effortless.

Easier access to configuration tools

The system set up and configuration tools have been given their own space, with a dedicated Administration screen that provides a more direct route to these key parts of the system. Frequently used features can be pinned to the side menu of the home screen, allowing HR administrators to personalise their system, so they can focus on what matters most to them.

Customised colour options

Instead of selecting from one of Cezanne HR’s pre-defined themes, HR administrators now have the freedom to define the colour of the header bars, so they can exactly match their company colours.

Spotlight on actionable events

For employees and managers, there’s a new ‘Reviews’ option that takes them straight to the activities likely to be high on the list of their priorities, including Goals and Check-ins from the Performance module, and Checklists from the Onboarding module.

Additional new features also include requests from customers, such as the option for HR to be able to tailor the ‘Person’ header to include additional information, such as location, company, job title, position or contact number.

Full details of the new release together with explanatory videos are available to customers in the support portal.

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Wrike Launches Next Generation of Work Management Tools

Wrike this week unveiled Wrike Analyse, Wrike for Professional Services and Wrike for Professional Services Performance designed to address the growing demand for end-to-end work management solutions that measure the impact of effort and cater to specific use cases.

“Organisations are drowning in an ever increasing amount of digital work, and need new ways to gain visibility into their operations, focus on the most important work, and increase their business velocity,” said Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev.

“Wrike Analyse now makes it possible to connect projects and workflows to business KPIs, so leadership and individual contributors alike can derive insights in real-time and allocate resources to activities with the highest ROI. These new capabilities fuel the next generation of work management solutions that we are launching for high performance marketing and professional services organisations, enabling them to drive more growth for their businesses.”

Today’s announcements include:

  • Wrike Analyse is an advanced analytics and reporting add-on that improves visibility into and management of portfolios, projects, and unique business KPIs. The tool is both powerful and easy-to-use for business users. It comes with pre-built dashboard templates, including project portfolio and project status overviews for quick report creation, as well as a wide-range of widgets, filters, and options to enable organisations to visualise data in the way that works best for individual use cases. Once created, custom dashboards and reports can be easily shared with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Wrike for Professional Services helps organisations increase on-time project delivery, profit margin, and client satisfaction by providing visibility into all stages of a project life cycle, empowering them to optimise resource utilisation and automate repeatable processes. This solution enables organisations to meet increasing demands, while simultaneously scaling the business.

This announcement underscores the company’s commitment to developing a platform and a suite of tools that help organisations work more effectively, become more agile, and not only achieve desired outcomes, but analyse efforts against results to calculate return on initiatives in real-time.

“We’ve spent more than a decade building the most versatile collaborative work management platform available and today’s announcements not only illustrate that versatility but also mark a big step forward in the depth and variety of use cases that the Wrike platform supports,” added Filev.

Wrike for Professional Services is available today. Wrike Analyze will be available for Business, Enterprise, Wrike for Marketers, and Wrike for Professional Services customers as an add-on feature in Q4 2019. Wrike for Professional Services Performance will also be available in Q4 2019.

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Cezanne HR continues to scale with strong first-half results and international demand for its Cloud-first HR system

Cezanne HR, the Cloud-first HR software platform for mid-sized UK and international organisations, today announced a +40% increase in its 2019 month-on-month subscription revenue compared with the same period in 2018.

This significant growth has been driven by the combination of a rapidly-expanding customer base and existing customers extending their use of the Cezanne HR system.

The platform’s onboarding and performance management modules have seen particularly high uptake throughout this period, and other new features designed to ensure customers can easily configure the product to reflect their company’s culture and ways of working are also proving very popular. Cezanne HR continues to appeal to organisations across a wide range of geographies and sectors, from technology and finance to distribution and not-for profits. New customers signed in H1 2019 include Age UK Oxfordshire, Smiffys, CreamFinance, DisplayLink, Solevo, Message Media and Emplas Windows.

To further support the company’s growth trajectory and strong customer acquisition, Cezanne HR has grown headcount at both its London and Glasgow offices, and relocated its London team into new office space in Southwark.

Investment in product development continues to be a major focus for the company, with a significant list of new features added in the first half of the year. Cezanne HR’s new GDPR capabilities, for example, empower HR teams to set policies within their system so that data can be automatically deleted or anonymised in line with legislative requirements. This not only reduces HR admin, but also ensures GDPR compliance. In addition, the Cezanne HR team continues to extend the configuration options in its system to give the HR department more control, allowing them to map the system to their culture and requirements.

H1 2019 has also seen notable industry recognition for Cezanne HR as the company was shortlisted in three prestigious award programmes. Specifically, as a finalist in:
• The CIPD’s People Management Awards for ‘Best HR Supplier’ for the digital HR project with ASL Aviation Group;
• The Southwark Business Excellence Awards for Best Business for Customer Service and Best Business for Tech & Innovation; and, most recently,
• Cezanne HR’s customer OpenGi was shortlisted 2019 Personnel Today Awards in its ‘Excellence in HR through Technology’ category.

Cezanne HR has also seen an expansion of its partnership and integrations, with new integrations including international payroll system iiPay, and Earnie and Star, and a partnership with Perkbox – the UK’s leading employee experience platform that supports employee’s financial, physical and emotional wellbeing – in the pipeline.