Ascentis Review
March 23, 2018

Ascentis Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ascentis HR

They are responsive, especially when you're interested in a new module. They're not that flexible, which is a disappointment most of the time.
Ascentis HR is being used across the organization for employee and manager self-service, applicant tracking, open enrollment and communications. It has automated a lot of our paperwork and on-boarding processes.
  • The ATS of Ascentis is easy to use and our managers are able to access candidates right away. It also connects with other sites such as Indeed and Glassdoor, which saves us a step.
  • The Employee Self-Service works well for our employees to update their personal information.
  • The Home page of Ascentis allows us to post important updates and forms for employees to fill out.
  • In the ATS, there is no "quick apply" option and we get a lot of complaints that our application process takes too long.
  • The reporting functionality is tedious, takes a long time to access and then there is a lot of data clean up.
  • Ascentis is not visually pleasing on the front end or backend.
  • I feel as though when they made the sales pitch they weren't clear about what would be included in the "basic" package and anything extra that you want to do, i.e. get a feed to a new website is at least $1,000 which gets old after a while.
  • It's gotten us away from paper, which is nice.
  • It's made open enrollment a lot easier to handle.
I wasn't here for the initial evaluations of systems.
If you have no HRIS and want to go electronic, it's a basic system that will capture the basic information that you need. If you want something that looks cool and is fancy, don't go there.

Ascentis (discontinued) Feature Ratings

Employee demographic data
7
Employment history
Not Rated
Job profiles and administration
8
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
Not Rated
Organizational charting
Not Rated
Organization and location management
5
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)
Not Rated
Pay calculation
Not Rated
Support for external payroll vendors
Not Rated
Benefit plan administration
Not Rated
Direct deposit files
Not Rated
Salary revision and increment management
Not Rated
Reimbursement management
Not Rated
Approval workflow
Not Rated
Balance details
Not Rated
Annual carry-forward and encashment
Not Rated
View and generate pay and benefit information
7
Update personal information
10
View job history
Not Rated
View company policy documentation
5
Employee recognition
Not Rated
Tracking of all physical assets
Not Rated
Report builder
2
Pre-built reports
Not Rated
Ability to combine HR data with external data
Not Rated
Performance plans
Not Rated
Performance improvement plans
Not Rated
Review status tracking
Not Rated
Review reminders
Not Rated
Multiple review frequency
Not Rated
Create succession plans/pools
Not Rated
Candidate ranking
Not Rated
Candidate search
Not Rated
Candidate development
Not Rated
Not Rated
New hire portal
Not Rated
Manager tracking tools
Not Rated
Corporate goal setting
Not Rated
Individual goal setting
Not Rated
Line-of sight-visibility
Not Rated
Performance tracking
Not Rated
Job Requisition Management
8
Company Website Posting
6
Publish to Social Media
Not Rated
Job Search Site Posting
5
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
Not Rated
Applicant Tracking
8
Notifications and Alerts
8