In today’s global business landscape, HR teams are faced with diverse regional challenges that often cannot be addressed by one-size-fits-all HRMS solutions. PeopleStrong’s innovative low-code/no-code Builder platform is empowering organizations to build custom apps tailored to their unique processes and policies. Let’s explore two powerful use cases from the Middle East region where Builder is driving digital HR transformation.
Effortless Visa Management for a Mobile Workforce
The Middle East region has a sizeable expatriate population, which creates complex visa processing requirements for employees and their families. Managing this critical function through manual methods leads to inefficiencies, compliance risks, and disruptions to operations.
PeopleStrong’s clients in the region have developed comprehensive Visa Management apps on the Builder platform to streamline and automate the entire process. From initiation to approval to renewals – everything is seamlessly digitized.
Through intuitive forms and workflows, employees can initiate visa requests for themselves and eligible family members. The app automatically enforces visa eligibility criteria based on the organization’s policies around tenure, grades, citizenship, dependent criteria and more.
As the request moves through a customized multi-level approval workflow, the application transparently tracks its progress across all stages – documentation checks, approvals or visa authority submissions, status updates and renewal reminders.
The visa app integrates visa process data with the core PeopleStrong HRMS, automatically fetching and updating relevant employee information. It can also connect to government portals or other third-party systems through APIs for submissions where required.
By digitizing this critical process, HR teams have saved countless hours of effort spent on coordination, documentation, and follow-ups. They can effortlessly remain compliant while delivering a seamless visa experience to their workforce.
Rewarding Excellence with a Custom R&R Platform
Employee rewards and recognition programs are a strategic investment for driving engagement, motivation and retention. However, integrating third-party R&R tools requires extensive implementation efforts and costs.
PeopleStrong’s clients in the Middle East have leveraged the powerful capabilities of the Builder platform to develop robust in-house R&R apps tailored to their unique culture, policies and branding. Over 100 organizations have implemented low-code/no-code R&R solutions on Builder!
These apps empower employees and managers to nominate colleagues for rewards through simple forms and customized nomination workflows. Leader boards, point tracking mechanisms, and multi-level evaluation committees can be easily configured without coding.
The apps integrate with PeopleStrong HRMS data like employee profiles, organizational hierarchies and rules around tenure, grades and achievements mapped to reward policies. Rewarding moments are automatically shared through notifications, gamified experiences and social updates within the app.
Organizations can set up their own reward catalogues and automate reward disbursement integrating with systems like payroll, gift card vendors and more through secure APIs. Real-time analytics provide insights into top contributors, rewards trends and program effectiveness.
With these custom-built low-code apps, HR teams have been able to roll out best-in-class rewards and recognition experiences at a fraction of the cost of third-party tools while fully aligning with their unique culture and policies.
The Driving Forces Behind Transformation
Both these innovative use cases were made possible due to the powerful capabilities of PeopleStrong’s Builder platform, including:
- Simple drag-and-drop interfaces for building custom forms, workflows, approval hierarchies
- Ability to define complex business rules, eligibility criteria and calculations
- Seamless data integration with PeopleStrong HRMS and third-party systems via APIs
- Automated notifications, reminders and escalations
- Robust security, mobile-enabled experiences and real-time reporting
Most crucially, HR teams were able to take a business-led approach to application development without heavy reliance on IT resources or coding skills. This allowed them to rapidly digitize and transform processes aligned with their unique regional and organizational needs.
The Future of People Innovation While these use cases showcase the power of low-code for HR digital transformation, they are just the tip of the iceberg. PeopleStrong’s Builder platform has enabled clients to develop a wide array of purpose-built employee apps for travel, leave, disciplinary actions, query management, asset tracking, and much more!
As the future of work continues to evolve, HR technology needs to become hyper-personalized, agile and continuous. Low-code/no-code empowers HR teams to drive this innovation by rapidly developing apps that elevate employee experiences, increase productivity, ensure compliance, and deliver strategic business value.
With platforms like Builder in their arsenal, HR leaders can truly become catalysts for high-impact digital transformation within their organizations.
