Lufthansa Systems Indonesia to integrate standalone HR solutions in one common platform

October 2007, Jakarta – DataOn announces that PT.  Lufthansa Systems Indonesia will replace their currently multiple HR solutions for different administrative tasks with SunFish HR. This step will allow the company to not only operate their HR activities from one single platform but also to transform their HR management to go beyond pure administrative tasks.

Lufthansa Systems Indonesia is a Joint Venture between Global Aviation IT provider Lufthansa Systems and Garuda Indonesia. It was founded in 2005 with the purpose of developing the market of IT solutions for the air traffic industry in south-east Asia.

Lufthansa Systems Indonesia is specialized in software development and providing high-quality data center services for regional customers. As regional systems development and operating center, Lufthansa Systems Indonesia is focused on providing integrated IT solutions for all airline core processes. This ranges from reservations, inventory, check-in, network optimization, revenue management, pricing, and scheduling, to integrated operations control and crew management solutions. In addition to core processes, the joint venture provides a 24/7 help desk, local training, and infrastructure services for airports.

Although an IT developer and provider, Lufthansa Systems Indonesia’s portfolio did not include an integrated HR solution to manage their employees. The company had locally developed several individual systems to conduct different HR activities. However, maintaining multiple solutions at the same time meant too much time being spent on repetitive data entries and ensuring the same data were available in all systems. The HR department was therefore limited to core HR functions such as payroll and employee information gathering. It became clear very quickly that this situation had to change and a fully integrated and automated HR solution was needed. As HRM software wasn’t the company’s area of expertise, Lufthansa Systems Indonesia preferred a system provided by vendor specialized in HR systems.

The company’s IT background and strong domestic IT policy with additional corporate requirements from overseas led to a long and very thorough vendor evaluation process. Lufthansa Systems Indonesia decided for SunFish Enterprise not only because it is fully integrated HRM solution that intertwines and automates all HR aspects and activities but also because of the wide satisfaction of many different types of customers with SunFish and the services DataOn provides. The company trusted SunFish to best support them with proper payroll and tax calculation, quick and timely analytical reports generation, and additionally to become the basis for taking on more strategic HR responsibilities, which according to the corporate target is to develop and retain skilled employees, thus decreasing turnover problems.

Once SunFish is implemented, data collection, payroll and other administrative and reporting/ analysis tasks for Lufthansa Systems Indonesia’s currently 250 employees can be handled a lot easier and speedier, giving the HR department finally the time to concentrate on developing necessary skill profiles, comparing employee competencies with skill sets and implementing farsighted career development concepts as well as optimizing their recruitment strategies in order to achieve their corporate HR objectives.