ELMO HR Core
The foundation your workforce runs on
Executive Summary
ELMO HR Core is the unified employee system of record at the heart of the ELMO platform. It centralises employee data, connects people workflows across the employee lifecycle and uses native AI to surface workforce insight in plain language. ELMO says it is designed for mid-market complexity and trusted by 2,000+ organisations across Australia and New Zealand, and that it keeps one consistent employee record across office, frontline, casual and shift workers.
Use Cases
- Keeping a complete, connected employee record from hire to retire
- Connecting people workflows across the employee lifecycle
- Employee self-service for personal information
- Supporting compliance record keeping and auditability
- Covering office, frontline, casual and shift workers across all sites
- Using structured role, position and employee data to build capability frameworks
Features
Visibility
- HR Core: Centralise employee records from hire-to-retire and automate your people management.
Intelligence
- Natural Language Querying: Use the Data Assistant to ask routine workforce questions in natural language
Support
- Learning Management: Assign training automatically, track completions and support every employee with learning that’s relevant.
- Performance Management: Link employee goals to broader objectives for better alignment, transparency and accountability.
- Workforce Design: Develop capability frameworks and identify skills gaps in minutes, not months.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS platform hosted on AWS infrastructure
- Deployment
- SaaS
Infrastructure
- AWS
AI/ML Stack
- ELMO Insights
Integrations
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Affinity Payroll
- Payroll Exchange
Security & Compliance
Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, ISO/IEC 27017:2015
Pricing
- Model
- Subscription per user/month based on selected modular capabilities
- Target Customer
- Mid-Market,Enterprise
About ELMO Software
ELMO Software provides HR, payroll and workforce management software on one employee data foundation, with native AI. It serves organisations across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Verified sources
Each of these facts was checked against the vendor page linked (2026-10-15).
- Executive Summary: elmosoftware.com.au
- Features · Intelligence: elmosoftware.com.au
- Features · Support: elmosoftware.com.au
- Features · Visibility: elmosoftware.com.au
- Input · Highlight: elmosoftware.com.au
- Input · Primary: elmosoftware.com.au
- Input · Secondary: elmosoftware.com.au
- Output · Dashboard: elmosoftware.com.au
- Output · Recommendations: elmosoftware.com.au
- Output · Reports: elmosoftware.com.au
- Process · Ai Engine: elmosoftware.com.au
- Process · Analysis: elmosoftware.com.au
- Process · Compliance: elmosoftware.com.au
- Security · Certifications: elmosoftware.com.au
- Tagline: elmosoftware.com.au
- Links · About page: elmosoftware.com.au
- Links · Security: elmosoftware.com.au
- Use Cases: elmosoftware.com.au
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