By the time Lauren came on board, the Bevi team was already searching for a new HRIS. “I came in at the final leg of the sprint, I like to say. The team had already been doing a lot of research and exploring solutions, and they handed the baton to me to make the final decision.”
The team knew things weren’t working well and that they needed a better system. They’d been in conversations with a number of PEOs, like Insperity and ADP TotalSource, but Lauren warned that Bevi was growing too quickly for a PEO. “If we moved to a PEO at that point, we’d have to move off of it within two years because it would no longer be cost-effective. Bevi would have really benefited from a PEO two years ago, but it just didn’t make sense at our stage. Not to mention, their platforms didn’t offer the great user experience we wanted.”
Lauren also considered just switching benefits brokers, since that was their biggest pain point. “That, again, wasn’t the answer because of how we were scaling nationally. We needed a great system too, where everything was managed under one roof.”
In addition to PEOs, the team evaluated a number of HRIS systems. Already a prominent name in the HR space in Boston, Namely was on their list.
While Lauren was impressed with Namely’s technology, her interest peaked when she learned about Namely’s Managed Services offering. “The solution that Namely offered in Managed Services nailed the element of relationship-building I was hoping to see from a broker, as well as the level of support I was hoping to see from a PEO.”
When it came time to get the executive team on board, Lauren got down to the numbers. “I looked at the list of requirements we’d created at the start of the search, and I was able to clearly show which solutions checked the most boxes. Namely was the obvious winner.”
