4.4 out of 5 stars
(655 Ratings)
Breathe (also known as Breathe HR/BreatheHR) is a UK HR platform, founded in 2012, for small and medium-sized businesses. It brings people records, leave, documents, performance, reporting and compliance into one place, replacing scattered spreadsheets and disconnected tools.
What's included
Core HR: secure central employee records and documents, holiday and leave requests, sickness and absence tracking, self-service, e-signatures, performance management (goals, feedback, one-to-ones, reviews), reporting and analytics.
Optional modules:
- e-Learning: training management, UK-specific courses, completion tracking
- Health and Safety: risk assessments, incident reports, certifications, compliance evidence
- Recruitment: hiring workflows, job ads, candidate tracking - Expenses: claims, receipts, manager approval, spend tracking
- Rota, Time and Attendance: shifts, availability, hours, attendance
In development: an AI Assistant answering HR and policy questions from company information. Payroll planned for late 2026.
Problems solved
- Scattered data → one accurate central record
- Chasing approvals → self-service, e-signatures, shared workflows
- Lean HR teams → start with Core HR, add modules as needs grow
Result: less duplicate entry and chasing, clearer visibility, more manager and employee involvement.
Who it's for
Best fit: UK SMEs with up to 200 employees moving HR off spreadsheets, e.g. start-ups, charities, healthcare, retail, education and professional services, especially with lean or shared HR roles.
Evaluate carefully: 200+ employees, or needs for multinational payroll, complex global compliance, extensive custom workflows or enterprise workforce planning. Not a global enterprise HCM suite.
Why Breathe
- 17,000+ businesses; 1,000+ UK HR consultancies
- From £24/month per organisation, no long-term contracts or hidden fees
- Free 14-day trial, no obligation
- UK-based support from setup onwards
- ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 accredited; GDPR-conscious; UK data centres, encryption, access controls
Bottom line: a flexible, self-service way for UK SMEs to organise HR and cut admin, with room to grow into recruitment, learning, safety, expenses, rotas and payroll (late 2026).
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4.3 out of 5 stars
(121 Ratings)
Planview ProjectAdvantage is a project and portfolio management product for mid-market organizations and early-stage to maturing PMOs. It centralizes projects, programs, resources, financials, and performance data in one platform, replacing spreadsheets and disconnected tools with structured workflows, real-time dashboards, and AI-powered planning.
Project and Program Management
• Gantt with drag-and-drop scheduling and role-adapted layouts
• Project creation via templates, with Excel and MS Project import
• Program roll-ups, sub-project hierarchy, dependency management
• Phase-gate visibility and critical chain
Portfolio and Resource Management
• Idea and demand management with approval workflows and scoring models
• Portfolio simulation, project ranking, and what-if scenario planning
• Resource and capacity management, including request and commitment workflows
• Budget and cost management with time-distributed costs and forecasting
Adaptive Workflow
• No-code, configurable workflows applied to any object in the platform
• Waterfall, agile, hybrid, critical chain, and phase-gate methodologies supported side by side
• Admins adapt workflows to organizational processes without IT support
Collaboration and Reporting
• Native Microsoft Teams integration for logging time, updating work items, and managing tasks
• Self-service dashboards, native Power BI connector, and PowerPoint export
• Risk, issue, and change tracking alongside document management
AI Capabilities
• AI-generated project plans, including work breakdown structure, phases, and dependencies, from a plain-language description
• AI-assisted risk identification based on project data and historical patterns
• AI-assisted resource matching based on availability, role fit, and cost
• Conversational assistant in Teams for timesheet and work item updates
Deployment
• Typical implementation time of 8 to 12 weeks with no-code setup
• Role-based permissions, single sign-on, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance
• More than 500 organizations and 350,000 users across 100+ countries
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Tempo Timesheets
5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 Rating)
Tempo Timesheets is the #1 time-tracking app in the Atlassian Marketplace, trusted by over 30,000 organizations including one-third of the Fortune 500. It replaces manual spreadsheets with automated time logging natively inside Jira. AI-powered suggestions draft timesheets from IDE activity and calendar events (Google Workspace, Office 365). Teams can differentiate billable and non-billable hours, track CapEx/OpEx for accounting compliance, and generate audit-ready records. Custom work attributes capture granular details such as overtime, travel time, and project phases.
Managers review and approve timesheets, build dynamic reports, and measure planned vs. actual effort. Tempo also offers Rovo agents for Jira – including a Worklog Assistant that logs time in natural language . Timesheets is part of Tempo's modular, Jira-native suite for Strategic Portfolio Management, alongside Capacity Planner, Financial Manager, Structure PPM, and Custom Charts.
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