Sage Pastel, a global business solutions provider, has developed a new mobile-based human resource solution called Sage VIP it says is set for launch in July in Nairobi, Kenya.
Sage VIP will help subscribed firms’ employees view their pay-slips on the mobile phones as well track salaries. This will complement the company’s current solution that offers e-payslip alerts via email.
According to Sage Pastel’s managing director Steven Cohen, the continuous need for mobility and the ability to access and send information on the go led to the invention of the application.
“The opportunity for business owners to simultaneously cut costs and extend their reach is huge. Our survey found that 76 percent of businesses are ready and willing to use the software that would enable them to transact over the Internet,” Cohen said.
Smartphone and tablet users will apply the version Pastel Evolution Mobile for payroll, leave application, recording overtime hours, updating personal employee information integrated with a feedback mechanism between employers and their staff.
Sage Patel said it is currently developing an SMS-based app as well as solutions compatible with operating systems for mobile devices such as Android and Windows for its pay-slip solutions that will enable employees to access their pay statements via mobile phones.
The mobile-based Human Resource application, Sage Pastel says, will also have a smartphone and an iPad version out in October.
Sage Pastel is a global business solutions company specializing in business application software. The firm began operating in Kenya in January this year due to what Cohen says, the high Internet penetration in the country.
“We believe that the Kenyan market has been ready for this technology, which is why we have to adapt to market changes, customer requirements and technology,” a representative of the firm said.
Cohen had earlier said that the growing number of Internet users in Kenya was like a green light for the company to start Internet business.
CCK statistics show Kenya has some 28 million mobile subscribers. Majority of the subscribers use mobile phones to access the Internet making it critical for firms to come up with applications that enable working remotely.
Cohen also banks on a another survey done by Sage and KPMG, the Kenyan Top 100 Mid-Sized Companies Survey (Kenyan top 100 survey), which showed that 95 percent of Kenyan businesses use computers and the Internet infrastructure for daily transactions and business management.
Sage believes that as 4G sets in Africa more business will be willing to use online applications for Customer Relationship management (CRM), business Intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) to ease their processes.
Recent accounting solutions milestones developed in the country such as Uhasibu has been offering a subscribe-only cloud software exclusively for accounting purposes. Sage’s Human Resource app is hence the first of its kind in Kenya.
