New company HR system has me worried?

glenimp617

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We have tendered for a new company HR system which is to be outsourced and externally managed.

I've not had anything to do with the project so far, but just been asked to cast my eye over the proposal.

I'm a bit worried to be honest. It looks like the HR software runs on windows server, connected to a windows SQL server. Access to be done over RDS. This strikes me as being a bit year 2000. I've nothing against windows at all, don't get me wrong. Just seems very strange our users are logging in to another domain over RDS to access the HR system.

Surely these days the backend is stuck on azure/aws app and storage pools and users just connect in via a browser.

Maybe this is the norm? just strikes me as being a bit odd is all.

If this is what it is, we might as well host it ourselves.
 
Hyburnate said:
A tender for a system that relies on IT, carried out and awarded without IT involvement... this sounds very public sector.
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it is :D

It does make me wonder considering we already have our own decent infrastructure with RDS (inc MFA on it), why we don't host the damn thing ourselves.

The document even had pages all about windows updates and when they rebooted the servers. It all seemed very strange indeed.
 
ok, so small update this morning already. Despite my email yesterday, the contract has just been signed and I have to now get involved to ensure it's all ok.
 
Hyburnate said:
All of our thoughts are with you at this time.

For what it's worth, 99% of HR systems are awful. In fact most things that aren't related to IT are awful, we had a system our accounts used to transfer payroll data without MFA??
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our finance system runs on JAVA 6. They won't upgrade it either.
 
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