Human Resources Information System (HRIS)

A human resources information system (HRIS) enables you to keep track of all of your personnel and their personal data. It is typically carried out in a database or, more frequently, a network of linked databases.

These systems include the employee name and contact information and all or some of the following: 

·      department

·      job title

·      grade

·      salary

·      salary history

·      position history

·      supervisor

·      training completed

·      special qualifications

·      ethnicity

·      date of birth

·      disabilities

·      veterans status

·      visa status

·      And many more

Human resource management (HRM) and information technology are intertwined through the use of human resource management systems (HRMS, EHRMS), human resource information systems (HRIS), HR technologies, and HR modules. 

In contrast to how the planning and programming of data processing systems evolved into standardized routines and packages of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, it combines HRM as a discipline and in particular its fundamental HR activities and processes with the information technology field. In general, these ERP systems were developed using software that unifies data from several applications into a single global database. 

The most significant difference between this software application and its individually and privately produced predecessors is the linking of its financial and human resource modules through a single database, which gives it both rigidity and flexibility.