Kompanion vs BambooHR
How an engineering firm went from 'HR tool + intranet + chat + ticketing' to one platform the whole company lives in.
Company profile
- Industry
- Engineering services
- Employees
- 90
- Previous platform
- BambooHR + shared drive + two chat tools
- Migration time
- 2 weeks
The challenge
BambooHR handled HR records and leave well - for HR. The other 85 employees opened it twice a year. Company communication ran over two competing chat tools, documents lived on a shared drive with no structure, and IT requests were emails to one overloaded admin. The company was paying per-user prices for an HR database while the actual 'intranet' was chaos.
Why they switched
- BambooHR is HR-first; employees had no daily reason to open it. Kompanion combines the HR core with news, chat, tasks and helpdesk that people use every day.
- Per-user HR pricing plus separate chat and storage tools cost more than one Kompanion Essential-to-Business plan.
- Kompanion's helpdesk gave the overloaded IT admin a queue, priorities and history overnight.
- The dedicated server model satisfied client confidentiality requirements better than multi-tenant SaaS.
Side-by-side comparison
| Criteria | Kompanion | BambooHR |
|---|---|---|
| Employee records & documents | Built in with versioning | Built in (strong) |
| Time off & approvals | Built in | Built in (strong) |
| Company intranet & news | Built in, targeted announcements | Basic announcements only |
| Team chat | Built in, real-time | Not included |
| Helpdesk / IT requests | Built in | Not included |
| Tasks, events, on-call, forms | Built in | Limited or not included |
| Daily relevance for all employees | Daily-use platform for everyone | Mostly HR and managers |
| Deployment | Dedicated cloud server per customer | Multi-tenant SaaS |
Results after switching
“BambooHR was a great HR filing cabinet. Kompanion is where the company actually works - and the HR filing cabinet is included.”
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