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VISION33 LIMITED

BambooHR

BambooHR is a complete HR suite, it contains all the functionality that a company needs to run a highly efficient HR organisation including Recruitment, Onboarding, Employee Management, Learning and Performance management, Succession and Compensation, Workforce Management, Time Clock and shift scheduling, BambooHR is incredibly flexible and offers cost effective capability.

Features

  • Work the Way You Want
  • Get running quickly and stay ahead of your competitors
  • Manage your teams skills to make they are utilised properly
  • BambooHR will increase retention and deliver succession plans
  • Realtime reporting using preconfigured adaptable Business Intelligence
  • Designed to be easy to use and learn
  • On demand solution delivered as software as a service
  • Manage by exception helps ensure you don't miss something important
  • Key Performance Indicators and Dashboard Management
  • Integrated to SAP ByDesign (BYD) NetSuite and other cloud solutions

Benefits

  • Take advantage of seamless integrations to Business ByDesign and Netsuite
  • Peace of mind easily adapt when your business changes
  • Work the Way You Want
  • Keeping business on the right track with accurate information
  • Manage proactively and keep executives abreast of operational performance
  • Increase team utilisation by using comprehensive skills management features
  • Plan with confidence by knowing the availability of you team

Pricing

£6 to £10 a user a month

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

3 3 6 2 7 1 7 9 5 5 8 0 6 0 3

Contact

VISION33 LIMITED John Palmer
Telephone: 07771964312
Email: john.palmer@vision33.co.uk

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
The solution is fully integrated to SAP Business ByDesign (BYD) and NetSuite.
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
No
System requirements
  • Access is through an internet browser
  • Mobile solutions are included and downloaded from relevant Appstores
  • Maintenance included within annual subscription fee
  • Security, privacy and compliance included
  • Integrated to SAP Cloud Analytics, Business ByDesign and Netsuite
  • Online Training included in annual subscription fee

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
Vision33 is able to deliver a configured support arrangement to meet the organisations requirements. Standard support is delivered UK Time 08:30 through 17:30.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
No
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Vision33's Success Assurance Service was conceived as a solution to support our customers needs to ensure successful stress free usage of BambooHR, as well as make sure service availability remains at a level where a return on Investment, data quality and adoption remain high. For customers interested in a more personalised engagement, Customer Success keeps you running at peak performance and gives you more time to strategise for innovation.

Success Assurance Service costs an additional 25% of the subscription fee with a minimum fee of £6,000.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
BambooHR is a self-documenting solution with extensive in-built help, community forums, blogs, wiki entries, BambooHR YouTube channel for guidance videos, as well as online user guides and administrator guides.

The Help section within BambooHR is also customisable, meaning that a company can add in their own documents and content, including videos.

This is of particular use when it comes to on-boarding of new staff; not only can users add their own notes for specific sections, but authorised users could add specific content, such as a job description/duties, or even a "How to Video" for specific roles and functions within that role.

A typical implementation will not require additional user documentation, but will include "train the trainer" sessions to key users who co-ordinate the delivery of training to the user base. However, at customer request training can be provided to end users and additional documentation can be provided.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Data held within BambooHR may be exported by:

* Mass Data Maintenance functionality
* Open APIs that are standards-based Web Services
* Reporting, dashboards and analytics
* Excel from all results lists, where permissions allow this

BambooHR has a native link with MS Excel in order to utilise the power of that solution - so any report that can be created, against any of the data in the solution, can then easily be passed into MS Excel.
End-of-contract process
As a SaaS based offering, BambooHR provides full technical support and maintenance of the systems within their data centres. This includes all upgrades (performed on a quarterly cycle), bug fixes etc.
An exit plan will be determined on a case by case basis, with steps and charges discussed and mutually agreed.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
The HTML5 UI delivers the same functionality look and feel across any browser.

Mobile apps ensure that your managers, staff and time writers can always work, enter their data and perform important tasks.

The Mobile Apps are available for the following devices: iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
As part of the standard UI it's possible to register a service request.
Accessibility standards
WCAG 2.1 A
Accessibility testing
Definition tests etc
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
BambooHR currently provides integration scenarios with multiple Web Service API's to enable the standard integration of on-premise, cloud-based, and third-party solutions.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
User interface can be corporately branded by an administrator. Role-based authorisations determine the screen layouts, views and access for each user, as defined by an administrator. Fields, screens, components and objects can be extended (standard)and created (bespoke) by a developer using the software development kit (SDK) based on Visual Studio shell. New fields can be created, existing fields can be relabelled and hidden by an administrator or authorised key user. Administrators and/or key user can create data sources, reports, report views and selections based on standard and bespoke business objects.

An administrator or a developer can create and amend PDF output documents. User interface can be personalised by end users, such as resizing and reordering results columns, saving search queries and setting these as the default query for a particular view. End users may add additional fields to results lists and so on through personalisation, where the fields have been made available by an administrator.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Combined with virtualisation, decoupling hardware from the operating system and applications, multi-tenancy occurs when many customers are served on one instance. Virtual machines (VMs) share the hardware environment, and one system can accommodate more than 100 tenants.

Using adaptive computing, virtual machines are not shut down to be rescaled or updated, and changes can be made while they are running applications, with minimal downtimes. To enable this, a new VM is prepared and the application is simply “moved” to the new VM. Moving and rescaling VMs dynamically enables resource independence from the demands of other customers using the same service.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Ervice usage metrics are as follows:
* User Subscriptions: Current month and last 6 months
* User Interactions by Day
* User Interactions by Hour
* User Login by IP Address and Performance
* Usage by Screen
* Screen Usage Trend
* Screen Adoption By User
* User Logon Activity
* API Usage Statistics
* SOAP API Usage Statistics
* OData API Usage Statistics
* System Availability: Average Availability by month
* System Availability: Downtime Details (instances)
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
BambooHR

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Staff screening not performed
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Users can export data from the solution in a number of ways:

* All results lists in the solution enable the export of the results to XLSX format, where the user authorisations permit this action
* Key business objects such as customers/accounts and opportunities provide the ability to export a summary to PDF format
* Business analytics enable flexible reporting that can be exported to CSV or XML format, or printed (including to file)
* Administrators can export data sets using the in-built migration tools, to XML format
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • PDF
  • Webservice (JSON, SOAP, REST)
  • XML
  • XLSX
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data import formats
XML

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
System availability SLA is 99.5% system availability during each calendar month for production versions.

Credits are made available 2% of the Monthly Subscription Fees for each 1% below 99.5% System Availability
Approach to resilience
Data centres have the following features to ensure continuity of service:
* Redundant additional power network in case of power outage
* Backup batteries and generators
* Redundant additional coolant systems in case of coolant system failure
* Redundant additional internet connection to guarantee connectivity
* Data stored in backup location to save-guard against natural disasters and malicious attacks
Outage reporting
Where there is a service outage, all affected customers will receive email updates to their nominated IT representative for each of their affected systems.

Details included are the system affected, the date/time of the incident start and when it was resolved, a description of the original issue, details of the root cause, problem resolution and corrective action being taken to prevent repeat occurrences.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
Other user authentication
Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, yet independent, software systems. With this property, a user logs in with a single ID and password to gain access to any of several related systems.
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
SAP has been audited according to the highest standards – SAS70
and ISAE3402(ISO27001) and holds the relevant accreditations.
All datacentres are manned 24×7, 365 days a year.

A biometrics security system restricts access to authorised personnel, and the datacentres are partitioned so authorised personnel can access only their designated areas.

In the datacentres, business data is stored securely. Users who want to access the business data must authenticate themselves, and their identity has to be verified using identity and access management (IAM).
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • Username or password
  • Other
Description of management access authentication
SAP has been audited according to the highest standards – SAS70
and ISAE3402(ISO27001) and holds the relevant accreditations.
All datacentres are manned 24×7, 365 days a year.

A biometrics security system restricts access to authorised personnel, and the datacentres are partitioned so authorised personnel can access only their designated areas.

In the datacentres, business data is stored securely. Users who want to access the business data must authenticate themselves, and their identity has to be verified using identity and access management (IAM).

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
CSA CCM version 3.0
Information security policies and processes
All SAP security policies are strictly aligned to ISO27001 Standards.

Vision33 Consultants access our BambooHR customers' systems via secure https connections that require a unique user ID and password.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
We align our change management processes to the customer's requirements.
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
Vulnerability checks are made constantly and any issues that are identified are eliminated immediately with the greatest priority.
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Data Centres have a Network Operations centre which continuously monitor their networks and communication lines.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
SAP aligns to ITIL incident management processes.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Equal opportunity

Fighting climate change

All of our services support organisations in the quest to deliver a carbon neutral existence by promoting removal of unnecessary infrastructure, remote working and a flexible working environment. Our services are digital with a default paperless principle. As a company, we and have chosen from creation to be a work from home environment.

Covid-19 recovery

Vision33 and our services promote organisations in their digital revolution and this includes supporting organisations in their recovery from the COVID19 pandemic by enabling remote working, remote implementation, remote support and training of business operations. The result of these services supports organisations in a more agile workplace ensuring flexible working arrangements can be fully supported in a post pandemic world.

Equal opportunity

As an organisation we recognise the difference in everyone and support all candidates and employees to fulfil their potential. All employees are supported in training appropriate to their needs through the provision of self paced training and certifications. Our services enable organisations to meet the needs of all employees. As a cloud provider we encourage a flexible employment engagement ensuring that employees can operate flexibly around their needs such as flexible hours, flexible locations etc. All our training materials are self paced and supported by our team ensuring that users are able to realise and be recognised for their potential.

Pricing

Price
£6 to £10 a user a month
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at john.palmer@vision33.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.