Empower business booms for MIS in the west

June 2007
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West Australian enterprise software specialist Management Information Systems is winning major businesses over to the benefits of Empower-HR.

Resource sector labour hire company Brunel Australia, seafood supplier Kailis Bros and disability support organisation Rocky Bay are among the WA organisations that have recently selected Empower-HR to manage their people.

Management Information Systems (WA) General Manager Chris Wallace said the strong West Australian economy was creating a lot of demand. “Many businesses are growing rapidly, so they need the best people management system,” he said.

“In such a tight labour market, it is critical that you manage your people well. Businesses need to look after employees beyond simply financial compensation – it’s their perception of the value you place on them and recognition of their individual contributions to the organisation.

“To attract and retain employees requires an investment in the professional development of personnel through creating a corporate culture that engenders fairness, caring and recognises employees’ contributions. While the corporate culture provides the warm and fuzzies, organisations require good management systems to rise above the day-to-day operational processes of personnel management.

“Managers like Empower-HR because it makes their lives easier. Empower-HR is an active HR system, which puts it head and shoulders above passive systems that simply store HR data. Empower-HR turns that data into valuable information to assist managers in driving their business.

“Empower-HR can be educated about the issues important to your business, becoming an active member of your HR team, and automatically advising you when an action needs to be performed. Whether it is monitoring your key performance indicators, contract or skill expiry, or a broad range of other events, with Empower-HR you can simply set and forget – Empower-HR will let you know when some action is required.”

Management Information Systems (MIS) is a Perth-based company with 10 staff that sells Australian-developed enterprise software, including Empower-HR, develops its own software and delivers maintenance services for its customers.
Three recent successes demonstrate the diverse application and flexibility of Empower-HR.

Brunel Australia provides recruitment services to customers in the international oil & gas, petrochemical, power generation and construction industries. The company employs more than 1600 people, including subcontractors, throughout South East Asia. Its Australian workforce of 400 is going live with Empower-HR in July, with New Zealand and other parts of South East Asia following.

Kailis Bros is one of Australia’s largest and most awarded family-owned seafood and food organisations. With more than 550 employees in the peak season, the Perth-based company has a Melbourne office and an extensive network of national and international affiliations.

Rocky Bay, formerly the Western Australian Society for Crippled Children, employs about 350 people to provide care and support for people with disabilities, such as muscular dystrophy, muscular atrophy, spina bifida, cerebral palsy and those with an acquired brain injury.

Rocky Bay received the Empower-HR software as a pro bono donation, joining Perth’s Institute for Child Heath Research (which has used the software for more than six years) as a beneficiary of Empower Masterpay and MIS’ charters of social responsibility.

Mr. Wallace said: “MIS wins many of the opportunities it pursues with Empower-HR because of Empower-HR’s functional richness, ease of use, advanced Self-Service capabilities and market-leading facilities such as the ad-hoc Query Manager, Event Notification, web-based Organisational Charting, and KPI monitoring”.

“That combination of rich functionality gives us a compelling offering in the WA HR market.”

For more information about Empower-HR in WA, contact Chris Wallace on (08) 9221 9221 or email chrisw@miswa.com.au.

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