Microsoft’s vision for Dynamics 365 Talent is to balance operational excellence, organizational agility, and the employee experience to create a workplace where people and the business thrive.

To help customers achieve this mission, Microsoft invests heavily in its core HR capabilities. Today we’re excited to announce that Microsoft has procured the rights to strategic solutions from FourVision to accelerate HR operations innovation within leave and absence, time and attendance, and sickness management.

Strengthening workforce practices for a connected workplace

Within today’s business climate of constant disruption, HR organizations must be agile to develop a workplace and workforce that can support the organizational mission. Core HR capabilities within Dynamics 365 Talent help organizations meet these objectives by centralizing workforce data and driving operational excellence across HR programs. As people resources are the most expensive part of operating expenses, the imperatives of efficiency and cost reduction have always been a part of the HR mandate. However, when workforce practices are disconnected and lack a cohesive strategy across the company, the result is high turnover rates, longer hiring cycles, and lower employee engagement. This can impact the organization through a lack of product innovation, expensive operational errors, less satisfied customers, and ultimately, suboptimal financial results.

Microsoft Core HR FourVision functionality

Continued innovation through strategic investments

Microsoft continues their innovation in strategic investment by making their core HR solution even better with our functionalities. Microsoft has acquired the licensing rights to FourVision’s HR solutions covering leave and absence, sickness management and timesheet. These solutions will be incorporated natively within Dynamics 365. These new capabilities will greatly enhance Microsoft’s ability to help HR teams drive operational excellence across these critical employee experiences:

Leave and absence

Managing leave and absence plans is critical for employers to ensure business coverage and provide time away benefits to their employees. Leave and absence plans vary greatly in the rules that govern eligibility, accruals, limits, usage, and carry over. This is further complicated by complex laws that many countries enforce on these types of entitlement programs. Microsoft’s investment in this area will enable an enhanced set of capabilities for leave and absence plans, including programs such as family and sick leave to help HR better manage the numerous complex laws and bargaining agreements enforced on these types of entitlement programs.

Time and attendance

Tracking the actual attendance and time away of employees via timesheets is critical for many operational processes such as payroll, benefit, and pay eligibility. Microsoft’s investment in this area will enable organizations to support the complex policies that vary greatly by country, industry, and organization for tracking time worked. Manufacturing, retail, and professional services organizations now have the ability for simple, quick, and accurate time entry integrated with leave and absence.

Benefits management

Organizations need to develop and manage highly competitive benefits programs to competitively attract and retain employees. Managing these programs requires highly configurable systems that also bring intuitive and modern self-service capabilities for employees to understand and manage the benefits available to them. This key investment will help Microsoft’s customers manage complex benefit programs, including tiered benefit rates, and eligibility. The new capabilities will have a configurable self-service enrollment process that is flexible to allow for benefit groups, hierarchies, flexible credits, and auto-enrollment. Microsoft will also be providing benefit managers with the ability to integrate employee and enrollment information with their benefit providers.

These new strategic investments will enable HR to operate with the dexterity and speed required by the rest of the enterprise and enable employees to self-serve their critical HR tasks. Optimizing HR operations also frees up teams to better advise, consult, and innovate with their C-suite stakeholders.

Core HR and Dynamics 365 Talent

As part of the Dynamics 365 portfolio, core HR helps power your people process through the Common Data Service and integrations with other Dynamics 365 applications such as Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.

Over the last year and a half, customers across retail, nonprofit, manufacturing, and professional services industries have been selecting the core HR capabilities within our Dynamics 365 Talent application to accelerate their digital transformation of human resources and Microsoft’s usage continues to double every six months. With these additional strategic investments, Microsoft’s customers will be able to tackle workforce transformation even faster.

Digital transformation is all about organizational change. With this collaboration, we have strengthened workforce practices for a connected workplace. We are proud to be the development and HR knowledge partner for Microsoft to extend the capabilities in the HR domain. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent helps organizations to drive operational excellence and get the best out of people. #Itstartswithyou #togetherweachievemore’, said Bert Stegeman, Co-owner FourVision.

About FourVision

FourVision is Microsoft’s leading HR and Talent implementation partner worldwide.

FourVision has successfully implemented Microsoft Dynamics HR platforms in a variety of industries and across multiple Microsoft environments for over a decade. We currently support clients on Microsoft including Dynamics 365 and the most recent version of Microsoft Dynamics AX. FourVision also delivers an extensive suite of Web Apps that enhance Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent.

FourVision extends the platform in areas such as Succession Planning, Performance management, Payroll, Leave, HR Document Management, Health & Safety, and many more.