Select HR, one of the UK’s dwindling band of independent HR software houses, has become part of the Essex-based business software group Access.
The Select team will remain in Canterbury and operate as Access Select, a division of the wider group. The plan is to integrate the web-based Select HR suite with the accounting products in the Access portfolio.
The “solid, web-based” Select application would deliver real customer value by extending the Access portfolio, according to Access chief executive Alistair O’Reilly. “We’re now able to provide a complete HR, payroll and online recruitment solution to our customers that includes everything from absence, timesheets and expenses to dashboard and headcount reporting,” he said.
Select is the latest HR specialist to succumb to advances from the financial software industry, following the example of Snowdrop which became part of Sage in 2007 and ASR, which was acquired by COA Solutions the following April.