We quote and undertake data Import on a time and materials basis.
Often a simple import will take as little as a couple of hours, typically though an average import will run to a day or two, although we have done imports that have taken as long as 3 weeks (a lot of very complicated data with no supporting documentation!).
In the past, we have imported data from other systems including: Bond Adapt, Voyager, Net Resourcer, Arithon, TriSys, Recruit and many more.
Sure. We have several customers that either run discrete business units, or have several separate recruitment businesses that they want to manage through one system and reports. Please contact our pre-sales team to explain your needs and we can organise appropriately.
We have sold over 1000 licenses to date.
It is.
We have a complete online e-learning system as well as trainers who can coach you in person or in a group online.
Please contact our training suppot team: training@evolvedb.co.uk to book and request more info.
Very likely. We have several data integration options including Data Export and SOAP interfaces and already have standard export formats for popular accounting packages including Sage.
Please contact our pre-sales team to talk further about this.
A great question! We have a ROI calculator available online here.
Sure.
We can take credit (Visa, Mastercard) and debit cards (Visa) no problem at all. Debit cards attract no handling fee, while we charge a 2.5% fee for credit cards unless you choose to pay annually in advance in which case, we will absorb this cost. We use Bank of Scotland as our Merchant Services Provider and partner with SecPay for processing transactions.
We have a fairly constant schedule for new evolve™ setups, training and configuration, but often have as many customers working to a 2 month window as those who need to be up and running in a week.
Depending on your data import / data migration requirements, we can therefore usually accomodate very tight schedules and can get things implemented in as little as a few days. Contact the pre-sales team to talk about your needs.
evolve™ will actually work on a very low spec PC, but for the best user experience, we recommend a modern Pentium 4 with at least .5 Gb of memory.
Similarly the internet connection doesn;t need to be super fast. We have 40 user offices working just fine on 2 Mb connections, but with anything from 8-20Mb ADSL and cable now available at a price that a couple of years ago bought you just 2Mb, you have a large range of choices.
Absolutely! Although many of our customers are in the UK we also have lots of clients and users stretching from Barbados in the Caribbean right through Europe (France, Germany, Spain, Cyprus) to Hong Kong, Australia and South East Asia.
No. We specialise in providing support to our users for our products only, however we can recommend some good independent third party support companies including Virtual IT, Quiss PLC and Urban Networks. Please see our partner pages for more information.
As part of the initial setup process we will pre-configure all of the user-definable data fields (keywords and skills for example) for you and set the system up with a standard set of defaults that will allow you to start using the system from day one.
Having said this, although lots of recruitment companies get on very well with all of the default settings, we think that to get the very best out of evolve™ it's worth spending a little time understanding the range of configuration options available.
This includes both personal preferences - what would you like to see, how should it be displayed and so on - and the range of options that govern user permissions and settings.
No, full fat only!
The thing is that some of our competitors use 'lite' or 'small user' version of their products knowing that once you are using it, switching to anything else becomes more difficult (and with one of two of them, it's actually impossible to get you data out!).
We don't play that way - we want our customers to continue using evolve™ because they actually like it.
The other thing is that by 'lite' what they really mean is 'cut down' - but then we don'know too many recruitment companies that are cut down, do you?
If you are a UK registered charity, we may be able to offer a special rate on Managed Service Fees. Please contact us to discuss.
We don’t offer this as an option right now. In truth, we probably won’t ever offer it as the whole point of the architecture is that it should offer a level of reliability and scalability that end users wouldn’t be able to match.
Our multi-tenant architecture means that quite a few machines (around 24) would be required as a minimum in order to host it yourself.
Add to that the cost of the datacentre space, the people to look after it (several different types of programmers, network people and maintenance staff), the cost of the bandwidth and so forth and we don’t think it would be very attractive to most people.
