The layer that makes people open the portal every morning: Corporate Communications & Employee Services

Announcements, news, the daily menu, shuttle times, the employee handbook, surveys, exchange rates and partner-company discounts — every piece of information an employee needs day to day, on a single portal. From read-tracked announcements to a crowd-voted suggestion pool, this module turns your portal from a piece of software into the start page your people open every single day. It is the pure employee-experience layer your ERP never touches.

ERP gap

Your ERP has no equivalent for any of this content

Read-tracked announcements, an internal news feed, the daily lunch menu, shuttle routes, the employee handbook, surveys, an exchange-rate screen and a partner-company discount directory — none of these fall within the scope of an ERP. Logo, Mikro, SAP or Uyumsoft handle your ledgers, inventory and payroll, but they cannot model questions like 'who read this announcement', 'what's for lunch today', 'when does the shuttle leave' or 'which companies offer an employee discount'. Customising these functions into the ERP is simply not possible, because the ERP's data model has no concept of employee communication at all. Solving it with a separate intranet or DMS subscription, meanwhile, means a second cost line and a second login screen.

Key Capabilities

Read-tracked announcements

Every announcement is scheduled with a publish and expiry date and targeted by department, location and role. Each read is logged individually, so you can watch the read count against the target audience in real time. Important announcements can be pinned, highlighted or set to open automatically on login.

Mandatory login announcement screen

Critical announcements marked with 'show_on_login' open on every visit to the portal, so no employee can skip past them unseen. This guarantees a read record for content everyone must see — OHS warnings, policy changes or urgent notices.

Internal news / blog feed

Categorised corporate news and blog posts with cover images, grid and list views, a create-edit-publish workflow and employee comments. Company wins, events and updates all reach people through a single feed.

Daily lunch menu

The day's menu with soup, main course, side dish, dessert and a vegetarian alternative. Employees see the menu the moment they open the portal — no need to check the canteen board or ask a colleague.

Shuttle routes and timetables

Each shuttle line is defined with its direction, departure time and a stop-by-stop list (stop name plus time). Employees can see their own line, stop and departure time from the portal, and everything is kept current with active/inactive status and ordering.

Employee handbook

A categorised documentation library of policies, procedures and forms, each with a title, summary and 'last updated' tag. Reference documents such as leave policy, expense rules and OHS instructions are gathered in one place everyone can reach.

Surveys

Publish surveys with questions, a target audience, an optional anonymous-response setting and start/end dates. Completion rates are calculated automatically, a public survey link can be generated, and multiple responses and maximum response limits are controlled. A ready-made tool for measuring employee satisfaction and taking the pulse of the organisation.

Suggestion pool (with voting)

Employees open a suggestion under a trackable code such as ONR-0001, submitting anonymously if they prefer. Other employees vote on it (community voting), and HR responds with a status of 'Under Review / Accepted / Rejected'. It is a bottom-up improvement channel, deliberately kept free of approval workflows.

Exchange-rate screen and discount directory

Current buy/sell rates pulled from the Central Bank's EVDS service are displayed on the portal, with historical rates and conversion available too. The partner-company directory lists each offer with its promo code, discount details, how to redeem it and branch information, and the discounts and savings each employee uses are recorded.

How It Works

01

Content is prepared and targeted

HR or the communications team creates the announcement, article, survey or menu, selects the target audience by department, location and role, and sets the publish and expiry dates.

02

It reaches the employee

The content lands on the employee's home page on both web and mobile; critical announcements open automatically on login and a notification is sent. Menu, shuttle, handbook and exchange-rate information stay accessible at all times.

03

Interaction and read tracking

The employee reads the announcement (a read record is kept), comments on articles, responds to surveys, opens suggestions and votes on others', and uses partner-company discounts.

04

Measurement and feedback

Management sees the read rate (how many people saw it), survey completion rates, suggestion votes and discount usage. It becomes possible to measure whether internal communication is actually landing.

How It Connects to Your ERP

This module is a pure intranet / employee-experience layer and does not depend on the ERP to run — the ERP has no equivalent for it anyway. That said, it uses the portal's employee master data for targeting and personalisation, and that data is in turn fed from the ERP.

Targeting from employee master data

Announcement, survey and content targeting is based on department, location and role. This organisational data comes from the employee record mirrored read-only from the ERP (SAP/Uyumsoft): new joiners are automatically included in the right audience, and leavers drop off the list.

Central Bank EVDS rate integration

The exchange-rate screen pulls current buy/sell rates not from the ERP but directly from the Central Bank's EVDS service, and archives them. The expense, invoice and procurement modules can use this rate data too.

One login, one interface

Everything from announcements to the lunch menu, from surveys to the discount directory, lives on the same portal and behind the same login as the employee's ERP self-service. There is no need for a second intranet or SharePoint subscription and a separate login screen.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. A read record is kept individually for each announcement: the system shows the target audience size (how many people the announcement is aimed at) and how many of them have read it. By marking critical announcements to open on login, you can prevent employees from skipping past without seeing them.
No. Every announcement can be targeted by department, location and role. You can make it visible only to a specific department, a particular site or selected roles, while general announcements go out to everyone. By setting a publish and expiry date, the timing is managed automatically too.
No, the suggestion pool is deliberately kept free of approvals. An employee opens a suggestion (anonymously if they wish), other employees vote on it, and HR responds with a status of 'Under Review / Accepted / Rejected'. Each suggestion is given a trackable code such as ONR-0001. The aim is to gather grassroots improvement ideas without an approval barrier.
The exchange-rate screen pulls current buy and sell rates directly from the Central Bank's EVDS service, archives them, and offers historical rates and conversion. It does not depend on the ERP, and modules such as expenses and invoicing can use this rate data as well.
Yes. Announcements, news, the menu, shuttle, handbook, surveys, suggestions and the discount directory are pure intranet functions; the ERP has no equivalent and they do not depend on it to run. The only requirement is employee master data for targeting — and while that can be mirrored from the ERP, in companies that don't use an ERP it can just as easily be managed via Excel import.

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