HR Transformation & Tech Practice

Hire-to-Retire.
Transformed for
the Modern Enterprise.

40+ years of combined HR transformation leadership. We modernize the full employee lifecycle on Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow HRSD, and DarwinBox.

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EMPLOYEE LIFECYCLE
Hire
Onboard
Develop
Engage
Retain
Retire
WorkdayConnected
SAP SuccessFactors170 Countries
ServiceNow HRSDPreferred SI
DarwinBox15 Practitioners
17+
DB Projects
170
Countries Covered
4
Platforms
40+
Years Combined HR Leadership
80K+
Employees Managed at Meta
17+
DarwinBox Projects Delivered
170
Countries
The Challenge

HR Transformation is Hard to Get Right

HRMS implementations fail when the right mix of HR domain expertise, systems knowledge, and change management is missing. Most firms bring one or two — we bring all three.

Legacy System Debt

Siloed HR tools, manual processes, and disconnected data prevent real-time workforce visibility.

Change Management

New platforms fail without employee adoption. HR transformations need human-first design and stakeholder alignment.

Global Complexity

Multi-country payroll, compliance, and cultural nuance require seasoned international HR leadership across regions.

AI-Readiness Gap

Most HRMS deployments don't leverage intelligent automation. We close the gap with agentic HR workflows.

HR strategy team
What We Do

Full Hire-to-Retire.
Platform-Agnostic.

We embed senior HR practitioners with your team — not just technologists. From platform selection to go-live, we've run this at the world's largest enterprises and bring that real-world experience to every engagement.

Strategy

HRMS assessment, vendor evaluation, and total cost of ownership analysis.

Implementation

Core HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Leave, and HRSD integration.

Change Management

Stakeholder alignment, manager enablement, training, and adoption support.

AI & Automation

Agentic workflows for HR Ops, automated onboarding, and predictive attrition.

Workday
SAP SuccessFactors
ServiceNow HRSD
DarwinBox
HR practitioners
Practice Leadership

Led by Practitioners,
Not Consultants

Our HR practice leads have managed payroll and workforce operations for tens of thousands of employees across five continents. They don't just know the platforms — they've lived the problems you're trying to solve.

DarwinBox Practice

The Deepest DarwinBox Bench in the Market

Dedicated HRMS professionals — spanning implementation design, cut-over planning, integrations, payroll, talent acquisition, and change management. Every hire is a DarwinBox alumnus.

15
DarwinBox Practitioners

Project Managers, Architects, Developers, Administrators, Testers, Integration experts, and Payroll SMEs.

17
Projects Within CBS

Delivered across India, Singapore, Middle East, and US. All hires are DB alumni — minimal learning curve.

100%
DB Alumni Hires

We only hire DarwinBox practitioners with direct product experience. 20% bench investment and training ongoing.

Modules Delivered
Core HRRecruitmentOnboardingTime ManagementTravel & ExpenseReimbursementLeave & AttendancePMSHelpdeskIntegration & AmplificationHypercarePayroll
Chaitanya Peddi, Co-Founder, DarwinBox

“Highly delighted with the rapid Core HR implementation.”

Chaitanya PeddiCo-Founder, DarwinBox
DarwinBox · Core HRIT/ITES · 1,800 Employees

No System. No Clean Data. 1,800 Employees Live in 7 Days.

When this Hyderabad IT firm signed with DarwinBox, they had 1,800 employees, zero HRMS history, and data too inconsistent to import into any system.

We audited every employee record, resolved data conflicts at the source, configured Core HR around how the business actually operates, and built automations that matched their workflows — not a generic template.

On day seven, all 1,800 employees were live on DarwinBox. The implementation quality earned a personal commendation from Chaitanya Peddi, Co-Founder of DarwinBox.

More DarwinBox Engagements
Dubai skyline
DarwinBox · Core HRLogistics · 1,300 Employees · 7 Months

50% Deskless Workforce. One Platform. Zero Paper.

When Alliad came to us, every GCC country was running its own HR process. Paper-based attendance, manual leave tracking, and SSO failures were generating duplicate employee records across the board.

We resolved the SSO and duplicate-record issues at the data layer, standardized leave and attendance workflows across all locations, and built a mobile-first experience designed specifically for the 50% deskless and blue-collar workforce — a demographic most HRMS rollouts ignore.

Now there's one unified HR platform across the GCC. Field employees have full digital access for the first time, leadership has real-time HR visibility, and the foundation scales cleanly to new countries and modules.

Bangalore skyline
DarwinBox · 10+ ModulesSpaceTech · 250 Employees · 3 Months

10 Modules. 3 Months. 95%+ Adoption on Day One.

When Pixxel came to us, their engineering team was running HR on email and Google Forms. High automation expectations, zero tolerance for process drag — any rollout that slowed them down wasn't going to last.

We launched Core HR, Time, Onboarding, PMS, R&R, Recruitment, and Workflows in a single phased rollout without disrupting a sprint. Survey automation replaced Google Forms entirely. PMS and MSF workflows were fully automated from day one — no manual follow-ups, ever.

10+ modules live in 3 months. 95%+ employee adoption within the first week of launch — and the engineering team never felt a thing.

Clients We've Served
Ctrl SEmirates RetailVedantaTata AIGLionbridgeBoundlessDatavoltAlliad
HR Consulting in Practice

Complex HR Problems. Real-World Fixes.

Beyond platform implementations — our consulting practice has solved the messy, multi-country, multi-entity HR challenges that most firms won't touch.

Workday enterprise office
Workday · Global Payroll42 Legal Entities

Standardizing Payroll Feeds Across 42 Legal Entities

When a global enterprise came to us, their payroll was in chaos. They had Workday, but 42 legal entities each ran their own non-standard feed, causing constant reconciliation failures.

We aligned definitions across all 42 entities, eliminated third-party dependencies, and built direct regulatory reporting for pre-hire and leaver workflows.

Now payroll is fully centralized in Workday — one reliable source of truth, no single point of failure, and no more constant reconciliation headaches.

PepsiCo rooftop sign
PepsiCo · Payroll TransformationAsia · Middle East · Europe

Payroll Centralization Across Asia, Middle East & Europe

When PepsiCo came to us, they were running payroll across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe with no unified platform, too many vendors, and no shared services model in key regions.

We deployed KRONOS across India, Philippines, Pakistan, and the EU — fully integrated with payroll and HRMS — collapsed the vendor landscape to a 2-vendor strategy, and stood up greenfield HR Shared Services centres in India, Krakow, and Egypt.

The full input-to-payout process is now streamlined. Platforms unified, vendor count reduced, and a scalable shared services model running across three geographies.

HR transformation leadership team
HR Transformation · 40+ Years of Leadership

A Team That Has Done This Before — at Scale

Our HR practice leads bring decades of real-world experience from Meta, PepsiCo, and Viatris. We don't just implement platforms — we've managed payroll for 80,000+ employees and run HR operations across 170 countries.

40+ years combined HR transformation leadership
80,000+ employees managed at Meta
17+ DarwinBox projects delivered
170 countries covered

Ready to Modernize HR?

Start with a 30-minute strategy session. We'll assess your current HRMS landscape and identify your highest-impact modernization opportunity.

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