Case Study: Financial Services Organization achieves cloud-based HR modernization and reduced HR costs with Happiest Minds

Modernizing Desktop Application by Migrating it to Cloud

Happiest Minds partnered with a national financial services organization that supports credit unions across six divisions to modernize Compease, an aging desktop HR performance and compensation application. The client needed to move a decade-old system to a scalable, secure, cost‑effective SaaS model to keep pace with rapidly changing business requirements, improve collaboration, and reduce operational risk and costs.

Happiest Minds analyzed the application, recommended Zend Framework, redesigned the web and database architecture, and rebuilt the UI and integration layers for the cloud, including a custom module to ingest salary survey data. The new SaaS delivered near‑real‑time updates (minutes versus months), stronger security and license control, graphical dashboards, automated salary adjustments and annual market data—resulting in compensation equity, lower HR administration expenses, improved staff retention and faster market scalability.