Freedom4 is a joint venture between Freedom4 PLC and Intel Capital (The Intel Corporation’s technology investment fund). Intel is a global technology giant and is one of the key investors in the WiMAX technology and has committed and continues to commit billions of dollars in investment. There are two types of WiMAX technology, fixed (i.e. the signal is received at a static receiver typically within your home or place of business) and mobile WiMAX.
It makes personal broadband available to both businesses and consumers at affordable prices. WiMAX provides fixed, nomadic, portable, and eventually mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight to a base station.
The amount of time and effort required to manage something as simple as new starter inductions, holiday requests and sickness reporting can be crippling for a business experiencing accelerated growth. Often the original processes were not designed to scale and would require an HR department twice the size of the sales team - not a good situation to be in. Freedom4 bypassed these problems by engaging Adepteq to design scalable HR processes and implement a SharePoint solution to deliver them. With the custom workflows in place far less time is now spent on HR management, reducing costs and making the whole company more efficient.
Staff inductions now take place almost entirely online with electronic user acceptance, holiday requests are created in SharePoint and the workflow solution ensures that it is routed to the appropriate manager for approval before ending up in the HR department. The solution also allows managers to easily capture sickness absence which is then routed to the HR department.
As with all SharePoint solutions, the platform now in place will enable other areas of the business to be improved, particularly where staff need to collaborate towards a common goal such as Project Management, HR, Finance & Sales Process Automation.
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