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Corporate benefits portal case study

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Employees who understand their benefits have higher employee engagement and feel more valued, but a recent survey from Maestro Health shows one-third of employees don’t understand their benefits. Sanger & Eby created a custom benefits portal to help a client bridge the gap and deepen employee engagement.

Challenge

With benefits, human resources, and payroll information existing in three separate systems with different user experiences and separate logins, our client’s employees struggled to find and correlate the information they needed. With multiple hosting solutions in place and third-party tools required for integration, syncing and maintaining data was also a challenge.

The global organization had experienced extensive growth through acquisition of other companies, which meant benefits and policies varied across divisions and geographies. This also made access management even more challenging. The company’s HR teams were flooded with information requests from frustrated users who either couldn’t find the data they needed or needed help correlating differing data across systems.

Clearly, the company needed a better solution.

Services:

Information architecture development User experience planning User interface design Responsive website design & development Custom application development CMS customization & implementation SSO implementation Systems integration

Employees who understand their benefits have higher employee engagement and feel more valued, but a recent survey from Maestro Health shows one-third of employees don’t understand their benefits. Sanger & Eby created a custom benefits portal to help a client bridge the gap and deepen employee engagement.

Services:

Information architecture development User experience planning User interface design Responsive website design & development Custom application development CMS customization & implementation SSO implementation Systems integration

Challenge

With benefits, human resources, and payroll information existing in three separate systems with different user experiences and separate logins, our client’s employees struggled to find and correlate the information they needed. With multiple hosting solutions in place and third-party tools required for integration, syncing and maintaining data was also a challenge.

The global organization had experienced extensive growth through acquisition of other companies, which meant benefits and policies varied across divisions and geographies. This also made access management even more challenging. The company’s HR teams were flooded with information requests from frustrated users who either couldn’t find the data they needed or needed help correlating differing data across systems.

Clearly, the company needed a better solution.

Login screen to the benefits portal
Three screen displays of portal pages. My Information, HR Policies, and mobile Home screen
Detail view of editing employee information on the portal

Strategy

Sanger & Eby developed a unified, secure HR Portal incorporating benefits, HR, payroll, and information alerts in a single, responsive intranet site complete with:

  • Single Sign On (SSO) to simplify user experience and achieve security requirements
  • Drupal content management system (CMS) was used to manage content, documents and links
  • Access managed through a custom PeopleSoft integration

The new portal utilizes the same design framework as the careers website, also created by Sanger & Eby. This approach creates a consistent experience for users as they transition from candidate to employee – important in driving deeper engagement, encouraging retention, and reinforcing the client’s engaging employment brand.

The responsive website is accessible to users anywhere across any device and users are able to quickly and easily access the correct information, boosting productivity and creating peace of mind for employees around the world, while maintaining a high level of security.

Tech stack

The following languages and platforms were used to bring this project to life:

Languages

PHP
HTML5
CSS

Frameworks/tools

Bootstrap
SASS

CMS

Drupal

APIs/integrations

PeopleSoft Web Services
External SAML/SSO Integration
Custom Drupal Modules

Results

Streamlined processes and real-time access to information has had many benefits for our client:

  • Reduced volume of questions to HR
  • Higher productivity (less time searching for information)
  • Increased user satisfaction (all information located in one place for employees)
  • Optimized resources
  • Decreased dependence on third-party tools
  • Heightened level of security of sensitive information

 

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