What is HRM software?
A human resource management system is the system of record for employment. It holds employee data, contracts, and org structure, and typically adds attendance and leave, payroll, performance management, and reporting on top of that record. The defining characteristic is that other systems, finance especially, depend on it being correct.
How is this different from the HR module in your ERP development service?
Scope and starting point. Our ERP work delivers HR as one module inside a wider suite that also covers finance, inventory, and operations, and it makes sense when you are replacing or building that whole estate. This page is for a standalone HR system, which is the right choice when your finance and operations systems are staying as they are and only HR needs building. If you tell us which situation you are in, we will point you to the right one rather than sell you the larger scope.
How is this different from your employer of record and payroll service?
That service is operational and this one is software. Under employer of record we act as the legal employer in Vietnam and run payroll for you as an ongoing service. Here we build a system that your own HR team operates, on your own infrastructure or cloud account. Some clients use both, with us employing a Vietnam based team while separately building the HR system their head office runs.
Can you build payroll for our country?
We build payroll calculation engines and have done so against several statutory regimes, but we do not claim standing expertise in every jurisdiction and we will not pretend otherwise. The workable approach is that you or your local advisor supply the authoritative rules and a set of worked examples, we implement and test against them, and a parallel run proves the result before go live. Where a country has a mature local payroll provider, integrating with it is often the better answer than rebuilding its logic, and we will say so.
Should we build or buy?
Buy, if your processes are close to standard and an existing product covers them. The honest position is that a configured product is cheaper and faster whenever it fits. Custom development is justified when your pay or leave rules cannot be expressed in a product, when you need integration a vendor will not provide, when multiple entities have to operate under one system with genuinely different rules, or when per seat licensing at your headcount exceeds the cost of owning the software. We are willing to tell you a product would serve you better.
Can it integrate with the systems we already run?
That is normally the point. Common integrations are the general ledger for payroll journals, identity and directory services so joiners and leavers drive account provisioning, benefits and insurance providers, and the bank for payment files. Where a target system has an API we use it; where it does not, we work with scheduled file exchange in the format it accepts.
How do you handle the sensitivity of HR data?
Role based access with field level restriction on compensation and personal data, audit logging of reads as well as writes on sensitive fields, encryption in transit and at rest, and retention rules configured to what your jurisdiction requires. We ask your compliance or legal function to review the access model during design, because the correct boundaries are a policy decision rather than a technical one.
How long does an HRM build take, and how is it phased?
It depends on scope, and anyone quoting a duration before seeing your policy is guessing. What we can describe is the shape: employee records, org structure, and self service first, because they deliver value early and establish the data model; attendance and leave next; payroll after the record is trustworthy, with a parallel run; performance and analytics last. Each phase goes live rather than waiting for the whole system.
Do we own the code?
Yes. You receive the source code, database schema, deployment configuration, and documentation. There is no runtime license owed to us and no technical obstacle to you continuing with your own team or another vendor.
