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HR Management Software
The foundation your workforce runs on
HR Core is the unified employee system of record at the heart of the ELMO platform. It centralises employee data, connects your people workflows and turns information into insight and action, so everything you build works from data you can trust.
Trusted by 2,000+ organisations across Australia and New Zealand
Move from chaos to clarity
Connect your people process
Create a connected employee record
Keep employee and profile data centralised, accessible and ready to use across the employee lifecycle.
Cover every worker
Keep one consistent employee record across office, frontline, casual and shift workers, and every site.
Ready for insight
Native AI surfaces current workforce insight in plain language, on the foundation that powers action across the platform.
ELMO HR Core features
Simplify managing people data
Keep a complete, connected employee record from hire to retire
Manage employee and profile data in one place
Keep information accessible and ready to use across the employee lifecycle
Support connected workflows across the employee lifecycle
Reduce fragmentation across separate people processes
Keep mapped information aligned with supported integrations
Give employees better access to their information
Support employee self-service across the complete platform
Make accurate workforce data easier for HR, managers and employees to find and use
Use native AI to surface current workforce insight in plain language
Move from insight to action in the same platform, not across disconnected tools
Give teams a trusted base for reporting and workforce decisions
Use Single Sign On, Mobile, Survey and ELMO API integrations
Connect information across the wider ELMO platform
Reduce duplicate handling between connected people processes
Improve data accuracy, accessibility and consistency
Support stronger compliance record keeping and auditability
Keep building on the same people-data foundation as your organisation grows
Keep one consistent employee record across office, frontline, casual and shift workers
Maintain connected data across every location, not just head office
Give HR complete visibility of the whole workforce in one place
See the business impact
A single platform for your HR processes
Save 2,184 hours on HR admin*
Simplify manual admin tasks so you can focus on higher-value work.
Cut reporting time by 80%*
Use centralised employee data and live dashboards to produce workforce reports faster.
Build for what’s next
Use structured employee, role and position data as the foundation for building workforce capabilities as your organisation evolves.
Cut task time by 90%*
Reduce the time taken to action HR and Finance tasks, so requests move faster with less manual follow-up.
A foundation you can build from
Frameworks in minutes not months
Use your structured role, position and employee data to build capability frameworks, understand development priorities and support more targeted career development.
Don’t just take our word for it
What our customers are saying
“Before ELMO, we managed eight different spreadsheets just to keep our people data straight. Now it’s all in one place. It’s made our workstreams ten times faster and freed me up to focus on bigger things.”
Rachelle Andrews
Eastland Group
“When you’re looking for a paper employee record from 2007 in a manilla folder, you know you need to do something differently.”
Caterina Davis
BridgeClimb
“We really needed to streamline all of our processes and ensure that we had the right approvals and processes in place to remain compliant, whilst providing a fluid digital people experience.”
Ariauna Sanis
Petsure
ELMO Integrations
Integrate your existing tools with ELMO
Enjoy smoother workflows. Connect ELMO HR Core to Xero, Seek, Indeed, LinkedIn Careers and more.
Faq’s
Find the answers you’re looking for
Frequently Asked Questions about HR Management Software.
Centralising employee data helps to remove fragmentation and data discrepancies. It gives HR teams a complete, connected employee record and reliable source of truth across the full employee lifecycle, from hire to retire. Most importantly, a central source of records gives HR leaders accurate data for compliance record-keeping, reliable reporting, and strategic workforce decisions.
Today’s HR management software should include a system of record that keeps employee and profile data. It should provide automated people workflows, employee self-service, analytic insights and reporting dashboards. HR management software solutions should also feature Single Sign-On (SSO), mobile access for deskless and frontline teams, survey tools, and open API integrations.
ELMO HR Core includes a unified system for centralised employee and profile data management across the entire organisation. It features built-in Insights, Employee Surveys, Single Sign-On (SSO), and API integrations. The software also provides mobile access to ensure connected visibility across office, frontline, casual, and shift workforces.
Standalone record-keeping tools function merely as basic administrative databases or digital file storage for static records. In contrast, ELMO HR Core is a dynamic platform foundation that connects workforce data directly into live operational workflows, learning pathways, and career actions.
The best HR software depends on your organisation’s specific industry, workforce structure, and long-term growth plans. For companies with 200 to 2,000 employees, the priority is generally managing local compliance, multi-site operations, and diverse worker types. ELMO HR Core is designed to support mid-market complexity, providing a unified employee system of record with automated workflows, employee surveys, analytics, and native AI insights.
HR software can help reduce time spent on manual administration. Self-service features allow employees to view and manage their own details, reducing routine back-office enquiries for HR teams. This frees HR professionals from admin work, allowing them to focus on high-impact initiatives and strategic workforce support.
It is the employee system and foundation layer at the centre of The Complete AI Workforce PlatformTM. Rather than acting as an isolated back-office database, it brings together employee data, enables automation of core people workflows and syncs profile updates across the employee lifecycle.
Standalone HR tools generally keep employee data in silos, which could lead to duplicate data entry and disconnected processes. When HR software acts as the platform foundation, a single connected employee record is shared across HR, payroll, and workforce management. This unified data layer is vital because reporting is only as good as the underlying data behind them. A strong platform foundation also ensures organisations can expand into deeper workforce planning as they scale.
Real-time workforce dashboards allow HR leaders to turn connected employee data into trusted insights they can act on immediately. They provide more visibility, strengthen governance, ensure compliance record-keeping is accurate. This gives leadership teams the reliable reporting base required for proactive workforce planning and executive decision-making.
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*Source: Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study, commissioned by ELMO Software. Results are based on a representative composite organisation and are illustrative; actual results will vary by organisation.
