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Dovetail HR Overview

What is Dovetail HR?

Dovetail Software provides an HR Service Delivery Experience that includes HR Case Management, Employee Relations Case Management, Employee Portal, HR Knowledge Management and Reporting & Analytics that enables HR to achieve excellence in HR Service Delivery and meets the needs of a modern HR team. These needs include enhancing the Employee Experience and improving HR Experience of delivering HR services.

Dovetail HR Details
Languages Supported
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Dovetail combines HR Case Management, Knowledge Management, an Employee Portal and powerful Reporting capabilities to enable HR to seamlessly manage, document, and report on every employee interaction with HR, centralized into one globally-accessible HR Help Desk.


Seller Details
Seller
Dovetail
Year Founded
1996
HQ Location
Austin, TX
Twitter
@Dovetail
1,506 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
31 employees on LinkedIn®

Kane F.
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Recent Dovetail HR Reviews

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Shelby D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
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I liked Dovetail HR customizable workflows, strong case management capabilities, and reporting features that help HR teams manage employee relation...
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Dovetail is a very easy to use solution that allow our business users to create a ticket for the HR business area to review and take action. this c...
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Shelita C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"New Dovetail Client"
The easy to use interface, the implementation was super smooth, and its more robust than it appears.
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Dovetail HR Media

Dovetail HR Demo - Working Emails in HR Case Management
Full email integration, including inline images, copy and paste direct into emails, spreadsheets, files etc
Dovetail HR Demo - Reporting and Analytics in real time
Real time powerful analytics
Dovetail HR Demo - Dovetail HR Case Management Working Cases
Working cases with Dovetail is easy and intuitive
Dovetail HR Demo - Dovetail MyEmployee Portal
Consumer like interactions for your employees to engage with HR
Dovetail HR Demo - The Dovetail HR Console
Monitor Critical Employee Interactions
Dovetail HR Demo - Dovetail HR Case Management Employee
Real time HCM data for Employee Profiles
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Global People Services, User Experience Specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

I think that the Dovetail Support team is one of the best features of Dovetail - we wouldn't have a successful platform without them. They are always exteremly quick with their responses to issues, always find a solution and go out of there way to teach you how to resolve the issues on your own in the future. Special shout out to Blake for being an amazing support for me and my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

I dislike some aspects of the system that can be clunky/not too user-friendly at times BUT I appreciate that there is always a solution to a request, never just a "no, we can't do that."

One example that really drives me crazy is soltuion formatting in admin view vs employee view. Whenever I format a solution in the admin view, it almost always looks CRAZY in the employee view and I have to do alot of little tweaks (with admin view and employee view open) to get the images, spacing and text to look normal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Most recently, I have been working with Blake and Kane to stand up the Spanish version of our portal, and language settings were proving to be very complicated. There was a lot of confusion and questions at the beginning of the journey, but Blake and Kane helped walk me through multiple scenarios to find the best solution for our company. One of the benefits I realized during this time is that the Dovetail releases are spot on when working towards a more user-friendly platform for both employees and agents. I also love that Dovetail is continuously open to suggestions, and you get to see those suggestions implemented!

After reading the question again, I’m realizing I may have answered incorrectly so Ill provide another answer. Dovetail Agent is solving our company’s previous issue of inefficiently managing HR questions and requests and Dovetail Portal is solving for an extreme lack of HR information available to our employees due to an overwhelmed and outdated intranet.

Dovetail agent has provided ONE place where employees can go to find answers to any HR related question. Previously, employees were in the habit of tracking down their certain “go-to” people in HR or contacting program owners directly for forms, simple questions etc. Now, we have a Tier 1 support team that answers or provides resources for all simple HR related questions and escalates cases to the correct program owners as needed.

Dovetail Portal has created ONE location where employees can go to find any HR related content that they know is the most current and accurate information. This Tier 0 resources has decreased ticket numbers for our Tier 1 support team by provding self-service options to our employees where they can answer their simple questions or find resources on their own.

These two Dovetail support systems have helped our team collect data on most frequent tickets which leads to new content being created, has enabled and informed our employees, has provided a standardized system for dealing with requests and has helped define the roles or HR team members who had previously had little visibility to all of the work they were responsible for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

The application is cloud-based, easy to use, configure, and provides excellent customer support. It has pre-built reports that are easy to modify based on our needs using its reporting tool, and a lot of training/learning material is made available for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

N/A, so far have nothing that we dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were able to keep track of the queries from employees and resolve them efficiently using SLAs. We are excited about implementing the Portal to enhance our employee experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeremy A.
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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

they know their stuff, I also like their enthusiasm to get a solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

nothing to dislike, so cannot really say anything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clarify CRM software/database issues. They found a great way around Oracle Support issue, and also DB tuning that helped greatly in client performance (data loading) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

Software is very well designed to handle the inflowing employee queries in a very organized manner, and closing the ticketing part is also very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

The insight feature is not very simple. Relatively it's very comprehensive, and for simple data, we had to pull the entire report and had to sort what is relevant for each stakeholder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing Inbound employee queries has now become easier; we don't need to rely on manual processes, and this has benefited the employee to a reasonable extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

I like that Dovetail keeps track of the full conversation within a case/ticket. We now reference case types when doing transactions in our HCM System (Workday) and it's so nice to be able to go back to an old case and understand exactly what happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

I dislike the reporting tool in Dovetail. I am a reporting analyst for HR and I report all day in Workday. When it comes to Dovetail reporting, it is not as intuitive. I think it has a ton of potential, I just wish there was more training on it (and maybe there is and I just don't know about it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dovetail HR:

One tip I have is not to be too vague or too specific with your Case Types! You can end up with too many or too little. Think a lot about organizing your case types before adding them to Dovetail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving the problem of not being able to prove why we need the resources we need on our Customer Service team. We can now report how many cases were handled by which employees. This often shows that our company has a ton of questions, and we need a solid team of people to answer those. The reporting also gives us an idea of what types of questions or constantly being asked, and how we can get ahead of it so that people know the answer and no longer have the need to ask. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting
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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

The good part of this tool is it's handy to efficiently manage inbound employee inquires, which helps us to handle them efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

Repetitive quires or common quires can have a chatbot which would help the HR not to take up repetitive queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Earlier handling HR quires manually was very challenging; with DoveTail's services, we are in a better position to be more productive, and this has helped the business performance too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

Its interface is quite easy for me to use at all times, the ease with which I can create and edit the medical records of my patients is something very practical when going through my consultations in my office, in fact, this has allowed to carry out the control of my patients in a much more organized way, in terms of performance it is quite fast and efficient, and in fact, another thing that I like a lot about this application is that it works perfectly on any type of device. It has been quite practical to make my queries virtually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

It does not have any control mechanism or option to generate reports which if I find it something quite disappointing, especially because these metrics would help me and support me to carry out the morbidity of my patients in a much safer, more practical and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has been a great help to me when I want to organize my patients in the clinic where I consult in a much more precise and safe way, since previously all my management of medical records and patient information was done manually, Nowadays, thanks to Dovetail, I can handle all my information in an automated and digital way, which has helped me to work in a much more efficient and practical way in my work environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kyle P.
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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

The data you can gather and use to help determine where resources are needed or gaps in knowledge are in the workforce. Also the workflows you can create within system. It helps our growing company that is sprawled across multiple locations work seamlessly to the employees. During COVID-19 when HR staff went remote Dovetail became utilized much heavier and even became a main tool of the unfortunate reduction in force process we had. it helped get those impacted employees their answers quick and documented.

The support when I have to reach out is also typically great. This is a huge plus as I manage multiple systems and when the support is not helpful it makes things much harder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

Building reports I find a bit tricky still to get exactly what I am looking for. It takes quite a bit of time of trial and error and even then I normally have to still reach out to support for assistance.

I wish there was a way to only receive email notifications for particular queues you are a part of instead of every queue you are a part of. Or a way to only receive notifications when you are assigned or attached to a case. With how some of our workflows and teams utilize Dovetail this type of feature would be useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has created a way to collect incoming data which before we never had much of a way to do. We are able to present this data to show what types of questions we are receiving frequently which is helping us determine what gaps their are in our communications with our employees. Is there more training on a particular topic that needs to be completed, more in-depth explanation in existing materials, etc.? It also helps share the workload on teams. You are able to see who is doing what.

We are also in the process of building our Employee Portal which COVID-19 and remote working really kicked into high gear. This piece of Dovetail will help greatly with serving our employees system wide with the best self-service and contact when they need it. This is something we haven't had and I think our employees will enjoy having access to. With healthcare being a 24/7 operation the ability to send us a ticket or browse the solutions themselves will help rise employee engagement and satisfaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Dovetail HR?

+ The overall level of support

Through the Dovetail self-service Portal I am able to raise a case at any time, whether I just have a question about system configuration or whether there is an issue that is affecting system availability or usability. The team are always quick to respond and to help me to reach a resolution. I also really appreciate how easy it is to set-up a call with the support team if a matter needs urgent resolution, or more detailed conversation to arrive at a fix.

+ The constant evolution and development of the platform

Over the past couple of years, we have seen a string of new features being introduced that make a huge difference to the experience of our Agents and our Employees. I love how there is a road-map which lays out future developments and upcoming features, but above all, that the suggestions we put forward to Dovetail are listened to and acted upon.

+ The Dovetail Team is full of genuinely nice people

I enjoy working with Dovetail, whether I am speaking to Kane (COO), Dwane (VP Customer Experience) or Blake (Global Support Lead), I've always had a consistently great experience. I appreciate the prompt responses, the recommendations and suggestions, and the help with finding solutions to the complicated questions that I ask! Thank you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dovetail HR?

- There are some limitations to customisation

As would be expected with any system, there are some situations where you come up against a hard stop. Whilst these haven't been all too common, there are situations I've found where there are goals or outcomes that I can't achieve with the system. These may not be features that other Companies need, so it might be more due to the complexities of how our own organisation is set up, or down to us using the systems in ways that it isn't meant to be. However, that isn't to say that these features aren't being worked on for future releases!

- Reporting can be quite difficult at times

With a large employee footprint we receive thousands of interactions every day, so it's important that we're able to see key metrics and data linked to our performance and throughput. The reporting suite is extensive and contains a lot of very useful pre-built reports. But I have found that sometimes the deeper you need to dig, or the more specific the question is, the harder it can be to get to the answer. With the right tutoring and support, it is achievable, but has quite a steep learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dovetail HR solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coming from a different system entirely, using Dovetail has allowed us to completely move away from spreadsheets and offline tracking, to a place where we now have structured workflows and queues to help us manage and measure our work.

Since moving to Dovetail, we have been able to provide useful management information to our Sector teams concerning our performance. We're now able to demonstrate case closure rates, first contact resolutions, as well as volumes broken down by category. This has really helped to build trust between us and our customers, whilst also helping our team leaders to prioritise the effort of their teams. Over time we have seen our case closure times come down (to within SLA on average), as well as an improvement in internal customer satisfaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.