Employee Relationship Management
When we started building our HR software on the Salesforce cloud, some saw it as a gamble.
We didn’t. We don't gamble.
Salesforce was designed to streamline, automate and optimise customer experience, helping organsisations build closer, more valuable relationships through CRM.
The founders of XCD understood the parallels and harnessed the platform to create a solution that could do the same for employees.
They turned CRM into ERM.
XCD is a single solution application with the following capabilities
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2010
2010
Chris Mitford-Slade
Chris, an experienced HR Director, proposes a cloud solution for HR & Payroll. A single application, eliminating the risky and time-consuming need for manual data transfer. He and his team of developers make the bold call to build it on the Salesforce platform and make it accessible in the AppExchange.
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2011
2011
XCD officially launches
The system is first unveiled at Salesforce World Tour in London
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2012
2012
Performance shift
Adobe becomes one of the first global organisations to abolish annual performance reviews, replacing them with continuous feedback
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2012
2012
First XCD customers
XCD begins building its customer roster with the likes of SAB Miller, Investec and the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
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2013
2013
XCD goes global
XCD becomes an officially a global HR solution, now serving customers in 35 different countries
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2014
2014
International expansion
XCD extends its international reach by opening its first office in India
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2015
2015
G-Cloud
The official public sector software suppliers list ‘G-Cloud 15’ is launched, and XCD is recognised as an accredited supplier, now offering a wide array of functionality, enhancements to global leave rules, talent management, recruitment, salary modelling and payroll management
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2016
2016
AI
Salesforce announces its latest innovation, the Einstein artificial intelligence engine
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2016
2016
New leadership
XCD receives investment and announces a new company Chair, renowned UK tech entrepreneur and investor Vin Murria OBE
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2017
2017
Payroll
XCD’s new Payroll management tool is officially HMRC approved, and its payroll bureau service is launched.
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2017
2017
Mobile
The XCD Mobile App is launched, allowing customers and their end users to access a variety of key self-service HR & Payroll functions.
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2018
2018
No.1 Cloud Platform
Salesforce is officially recognised by Gartner as the world’s fastest-growing cloud platform and announces plans to invest more than $2.5 billion over the next five years to fuel the growth of its UK business.
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2018
2018
New CEO & COO
XCD’s new CEO Simon Fowler and COO Ben Bishop join to drive a new, ambitious growth strategy for the business.
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2019
2019
R&D
XCD developers invest over 9,000 days in improving the product. They unveil a raft of new tools to help public sector organisations manage many of their complex HCM elements like local government pensions, pay spines, and term time payments.
