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View the essentials on a customisable HR dashboard

View the essentials on a customisable HR dashboard

By Colin Lalouette

Published: 23 April 2025

Managing a human resources department is not a priority when you work in a small organisation. However, whatever the size of your business, HR dashboards are powerful and essential tools for anticipating problems and resolving them effectively.

Whether you're managing expense claims, time and attendance, holiday pay, training, remuneration or contracts, you need a solution that's intuitive, optimised and proactive. Let's take a look at HRIS...

How do you manage human resources simply and effectively?

Of course, Excel is the first software that springs to mind. It's a very powerful spreadsheet, provided you've mastered it and can programme it to meet your needs.

It takes time... precious time that a business owner, or any HR manager could spend prospecting, building customer loyalty, improving or building a better strategy, and completing other tasks.

So you need quick access to information, support monitoring and a personalised dashboard.

The answer is simple: you need intuitive, modular HR software that lets you tailor an HR dashboard to the size of your business and the data you need to manage it quickly and optimally.

Why invest in high-performance, customisable HR software?

HR software is perfectly suited to the needs of small and medium-sized businesses. More flexible than Excel, in any case!

There are many advantages to investing in suitable HR software:

  • Saving time: you don't have to waste time programming functions in Excel to achieve your objectives. The software is already ready to perform the functions essential to the smooth running of a human resources department. The software's HR dashboards are specifically designed to meet your direct management needs.
  • Productivity gains: HR software is intuitive, easy to configure and parameterise, and this flexibility saves you time, enabling you to manage smoothly and quickly. What's more, good software is easy for everyone to access, including employees who will have to enter certain data themselves, such as timesheets or expense reports.
  • Easy management of human capital: in a small or medium-sized business, you can't waste time desperately looking for a document in the files, even if they are well organised in filing cabinets. Software is a tool that can be used by employees themselves. They can access the documents that concern them directly online. No need to wait for a reply to a simple request (number of days of CP remaining with status, bonuses, etc.) that doesn't require any intervention. Invest in human capital, because you'd be surprised at how committed your employees are to understanding and learning how to use these intuitive tools.
  • Greater flexibility: if you have to choose a software package, opt for one that allows you to build your own tools within the software itself. Reporting is an important element, because it gives you an instant view of one or more elements. You can track changes in salaries over time, manage collective and individual skills - Nicoka HR offers this function in the form of tags, which is very visual and gives you a precise idea very quickly) - or manage individual training. HR dashboards then become real decision-making tools for a manager.
  • Security: all data is entered and saved. This can be done on an internal or external server, provided it is properly secured. Using HR management software means that employee data is securely stored in several places, so that precious data never gets lost. The software provides access to a complete history for both managers and employees. What's more, different user profiles are often available to restrict rights depending on the work to be carried out.

The benefits of investing in a high-performance HR solution are obvious. There are many software packages on the market, but the one you choose must meet a number of conditions. The first is flexibility, and that often means a customisable HR dashboard.

Why build an HR policy around software?

Let's take a concrete example: Nicoka HR software. This modular software has been specially developed to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses.

It is flexible and easy to adapt thanks to widgets, but also thanks to a very specific function: reporting.

Nicoka HR Intuitive drag & drop and a tool box at your disposal

Nicoka HR is human resources management software (HRIS). Its primary aim is to relieve the HR department's workload by optimising certain tasks to save time and increase productivity.

All the elements are centralised in a single piece of software, managed efficiently by an HR manager. A tool box is a tool that facilitates the creation of HR dashboards.

It lets you configure a certain number of elements. For example, Nicoka HR lets you configure input fields, tables and data validation levels almost entirely. The drag and drop function makes it easy to move fields and tabs around when configuring each element.

It's intuitive and very easy to use. So you can quickly create your tables, save them and feed them with ease. The Nicoka HR advantage: a ToDo widget is also available to the HR department. This widget provides a detailed list of all the points to be checked on a daily basis. It can be activated or deactivated as required by the manager.

Tools for managers and employees

The principle behind the software is to optimise management for everyone in the company. On the one hand, this increases the level of involvement and, on the other, it makes management easier for the HR department.

In this way, the company can combine the natural involvement of employees with the company's objectives. Gone are the long hours spent entering expense claims, time sheets and holiday pay dates.

Management is made much easier because everyone in the company can interact, taking the burden off the manager. As a result, the role of HR manager takes on a whole new meaning.

The HR dashboard is a complete, customised tool, because Nicoka HR is completely modular, both in terms of the dashboard itself and the reporting that goes with it.

So why build an HR policy using software? Quite simply, to facilitate exchanges between all the players in the company, to get a global view of human capital thanks to a personalised HR dashboard, and to easily analyse the heart of the company.

All these elements are essential to the smooth running of a small or medium-sized business, and enable sound, objective decision-making.

To conclude on the use of software offering a customisable HR dashboard

Whatever the size of your business, HR management software is essential. But to be effective and, above all, profitable, it must meet a number of criteria, such as ease of use and configuration, ease of input, secure storage of personal data, and overall management of the department.

To be fully operational, a software package should offer a customisable HR dashboard (and the possibility of reporting is even better), simple and intuitive day-to-day management and interesting modularity.

The HRIS responds to the strategic and human challenges facing the company in a constantly changing world.

Article translated from French