User experience – what is it and why does it matter?

When building Engage, we took a leaf out of consumer product developers’ book and focused heavily on user experience. User experience is a term you can’t miss in the tech world these days. TechCrunch defines it as ‘how “sticky” an app is: how easy it is to use, how engaging it is, how relevant it is […]

New Holiday Management tool

Engage recently saw the online subscriptions open to business. We haven’t been resting on our laurels since then but busily preparing for a new feature to manage holidays.

New ‘Schedule Absence Review Meeting’ task

Many of our users have been asking us to improve the way we handle the Absence Review Meeting task and we listened. There is a new 2-stage workflow that will reduce unnecessary email reminders and make the system work better for our users.

Cloud computing in HR

Engage is an example of a “cloud” application. But what does that mean? It means that the cogs and wheels as well as the data itself are stored remotely in a data centre rather than in your office. Each user accesses the software and their own segment of the data via the Internet using an Internet […]