The strategic value of Hubdrive
for the CEO

Hubdrive positioning

• Hubdrive is a complete solution for human resources management based on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Platform. The entire employee lifecycle is supported – from recruiting and employee administration to employee development.
• Hubdrive HR differs from other HR systems through its deep integration into the Microsoft ecosystem, providing your organization with significant advantages in implementation, maintenance and scalability.
• Leverage further digitalization of your HR department and free yourself from additional IT silos. Benefit from greater employee convenience, higher levels of automation, improved efficiency and stronger data protection compared to traditional HR systems.

Key benefits at a glance for the CEO

Hubdrive HR is strategically relevant because it can transform HR management from a cost factor into a competitive advantage.

• For investment security, Microsoft leadership has made a long‑term commitment to the Power Platform – the platform on which Hubdrive HR is built and which Microsoft positions as the foundation for the future of its business applications.
• Hubdrive delivers a return on investment within 4 to 6 months, compared to 18 to 24 months for traditional HR systems.
• With Hubdrive, organizations can immediately leverage Microsoft’s AI capabilities – quickly and securely.
• A significantly higher level of integration and broader organization‑wide automation reduce stress across HR and the entire company.
• Employees prefer working in a modern, fully integrated and automated environment. Organizations are perceived as innovative employers.
• Greater use of the existing Microsoft platform results in measurable efficiency gains.

Hubdrive HR is the strategic choice within the Microsoft ecosystem

Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President for Business Applications at Microsoft, confirmed at Hubdrive’s Annual HR Management Conference Microsoft’s strategic commitment to invest heavily in the Power Platform, as it represents the platform of the future.
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Business solutions such as Hubdrive HR, which are built entirely on this platform, offer CEOs four key advantages:

• Strongest investment security – Microsoft consolidates its innovation on the Power Platform
• Maximum innovation – you immediately benefit from all new features
• Lowest total cost of ownership – modern development environment, wide choice of Microsoft partners and up to 70% cost savings
• Maximum flexibility – changes can be implemented in weeks instead of years

As the only fully comprehensive HR solution built on the Microsoft Power Platform, Hubdrive HR represents the most future‑proof option for organizations with a Microsoft strategy. You are not only investing in HR software – you are investing in Microsoft’s full innovation capability for the years ahead.

Strategic use of emerging AI potential

• With Hubdrive HR, your organization can leverage Microsoft AI capabilities for HR as well. You can get started immediately. Activation and configuration of Microsoft Copilot take only a few hours.
• Security is ensured by the Microsoft platform. AI can immediately use authorized data to deliver intelligent responses and enable powerful automations.
• Through an existing Microsoft standard interface, additional AI solutions can also be integrated within a few hours while maintaining security.
• By choosing Hubdrive, the long‑term strategic use of both current and future AI potential is ensured. This is essential to guide your organization successfully through the increasingly dynamic environment ahead.

Reduce stress levels in the HR department by eliminating major time drains!

• With Hubdrive and Microsoft, stress in the HR department is significantly reduced.
• Hubdrive enables company‑wide automation, not just within the HR department. In addition, automations can be adjusted flexibly and independently.
• Overall, the level of automation increases by approximately 42% compared to traditional HR systems.
• As a result, you save a substantial amount of time and your processes become more reliable and secure

ROI within 4 – 6 months

Hubdrive HR is one of the most cost‑effective HR solutions for many organizations. Hubdrive delivers ROI within 4 – 6 months, compared to 18 – 24 months for traditional HR systems. This is primarily driven by four key factors.

• For customers with a Microsoft strategy, the required IT infrastructure is already in place. This results in up to 74% lower total cost of ownership for implementation and operation compared to traditional HR systems.
• Hubdrive achieves higher efficiency through organization‑wide automation beyond the HR department. IT leverages existing Microsoft automation tools and is not limited to proprietary automation within the HR system.
• Employees can make adjustments themselves quickly and easily using drag and drop without external support. This protects budgets.
• Employees can also configure automations themselves with ease, which in practice leads to up to 37% less manual routine work. Efficiency increases further.
  
  

Leverage unmatched organization‑wide transparency as a competitive advantage

The combination of Hubdrive and the Microsoft Power Platform expands the view from a purely HR perspective to the entire organization, creating a level of transparency that traditional, isolated HR solutions cannot provide.

With Hubdrive HR and the Microsoft platform, you can easily create reports and dashboards with organization‑wide connected data yourself at any time using drag and drop.

With traditional HR systems and IT silos, such a request to IT can take days or even weeks.

Added value of organization‑wide data centralization

• With Hubdrive, you establish a centralized data foundation across your organization, where HR, sales, project and finance data are brought together consistently and silos are eliminated.
• This gives you a clear and unified view of your organization – from profitability by team and capacity planning to identifying skill gaps – instead of relying on fragmented and inconsistent reports.
• End‑to‑end processes across all functions become significantly more streamlined, as everyone works on the same data and duplicate data entry as well as disconnected processes are eliminated.
• Your IT landscape becomes simpler and more cost efficient, as you build on the existing Microsoft platform and reduce integration, maintenance and licensing costs for isolated specialized solutions.
• Overall, you improve ROI, transparency and controllability at the same time – while creating a noticeably more modern day to day work experience for employees and managers.

A dedicated Customer Success Manager with Hubdrive HR – at no additional cost

• By choosing Hubdrive HR, your HR leadership and IT leadership receive a permanent personal point of contact – completely at no additional cost.
• One of our Customer Success Managers supports you in achieving measurable improvements in HR management.
• They provide reliable support from resolving initial challenges quickly to fully realizing the digital potential of Hubdrive HR and AI in the HR environment.

Attract and retain talent with innovative, familiar software that employees value and trust!

• Hubdrive may be one of the most innovative HR solutions available today. It is the only solution that allows both managers and employees to complete their HR tasks not just in a browser, but natively within familiar Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft To Do – making a clear contribution to employee satisfaction.
• Your employees work within a fully integrated Microsoft environment: data is entered once, automations run end‑to‑end and system silos and disconnected solutions are eliminated. This leads to noticeable relief in day‑to‑day work, higher satisfaction, stronger retention and a genuine sense of pride in working for an innovative organization.
• IT benefits as well: by relying on familiar Microsoft technology instead of additional specialized systems, organizations avoid unnecessary infrastructure and significantly reduce operational overhead.

The 10 most important cost savings achieved with Hubdrive HR compared to traditional HR systems

Hubdrive HR stands apart from traditional HR systems through much faster deployment, higher time savings in daily operations and a faster ROI. Depending on company size, ROI is achieved in 4–6 months instead of the industry-standard 18–24 months.

• 81% less time spent on HR administration compared to traditional HR systems due to better integrated and more automated processes.
• 62% faster deployment by using the existing Microsoft platform and Best Practice implementation.
• 62% lower training effort because employees can handle HR tasks and self-services not only in the browser but also in familiar Microsoft apps like Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and more.
• 78% fewer IT islands thanks to a stronger reduction of duplicate entries and media breaks across the entire employee lifecycle through higher company-wide integration.
• 74% less inefficiency by reducing duplicate data entry and system silos across the entire employee lifecycle through stronger company‑wide integration.
• 62% faster turnaround times for approval and HR workflows, further reducing processing costs.
• 72% lower project and consulting costs through drag-and-drop customization, extensions and automations on the familiar Microsoft Business Platform.
• 68% less maintenance effort for the HR solution. Many IT departments already have the skills to operate and customize the Microsoft Business Platform.
• 64% lower integration costs for ERP, payroll and third-party systems due to higher availability of proven standard connectors.
• 54% lower support and change costs because relevant self-services eliminate many standard requests.

Largest global network of implementation partners

With Hubdrive HR, organizations benefit from the largest global network of implementation partners.

• There are more than 17 million experts within the Microsoft partner ecosystem worldwide who are familiar with the Microsoft Business Platform.
• Because Hubdrive operates entirely within the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 platforms, Microsoft partners do not need to learn any additional technologies and can immediately deliver implementations, customizations and extensions for their customers.
• Organizations do not need to wait for available capacity from a single product vendor or accept high consulting rates. Due to the strong competition within the Microsoft partner ecosystem, companies benefit from more competitive day rates.
• Vendors of traditional HR systems outside the Microsoft ecosystem cannot offer this level of reach.

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