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25 March 2026
Last updated 26 March 2026

Improving HRIS user experience without rebuilding everything: key takeaways from the myMeta breakfast event

On March 24, 2026, Arago hosted an exclusive breakfast event at the Plaza Athénée in Paris, bringing together HR leaders to discuss a central challenge for HR departments: how to concretely improve HRIS user experience without rebuilding existing systems.

HRIS adoption refers to an organization’s ability to ensure that HR tools are genuinely used, and embrace, by employees and managers on a daily basis.

Alongside myMeta, a digital adoption specialist, and featuring a client testimonial from Capital Fund Management (CFM), the event offered real‑world feedback, live demonstrations, and a pragmatic vision of what a more fluid, engaging, and well‑adopted HRIS can look like.

Here is a recap of the key insights shared during the event.

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Why does HRIS adoption remain a challenge for organizations?

Despite the growing maturity and functional richness of HRIS solutions, user adoption remains a major issue for many organizations. Common friction points include:

  • Interfaces perceived as unintuitive
  • Complex forms and workflows
  • User journeys poorly aligned with business realities or local requirements

These challenges can directly impact user engagement among employees and managers, and ultimately undermine the value of HR digital transformation initiatives.

This is precisely where myMeta comes into play. As a non‑intrusive digital adoption platform, myMeta enhances the user experience through an overlay layer, without modifying the core of existing HR systems.

How Does myMeta Enhance HRIS User Experience?

Lors de ce petit-déjeuner, Philippe Peyresaubes, CRO myMeta, a rappelé les trois grands piliers de leur approche :

During the breakfast, Philippe Peyresaubes, CRO at myMeta, outlined the three main pillars of their approach:

  • User Guidance

    Step‑by‑step guidance, contextual help, and interactive walkthroughs that secure and simplify user actions.

  • UX Transformation

    Redesigned interfaces, hidden or enriched fields, dynamic components, and clearer business rules, all aimed at making HR processes easier to understand and use.

  • Process Orchestration

    Seamless connections between multiple systems (HRIS, ITSM, CRM, AI tools, etc.) to simplify user journeys and eliminate unnecessary data re‑entry.

The goal is not to overload users, but rather to create a simpler, more coherent experience tailored to each user profile.

Improving HRIS adoption without altering core systems

One key message strongly emphasized during the discussions: myMeta operates as an overlay layer, without changing native HRIS configurations or calculation rules.

In practical terms, this means that:

  • HR teams retain full control over their existing HRIS
  • Vendor upgrades remain fully compatible
  • Interfaces can evolve quickly through iterative improvements
  • User behavior can be adapted by country, population, or role, while respecting existing access rights

This overlay‑based approach enables organizations to deploy visible, fast improvements that are often perceived as “quick wins” by end users.

CFM customer testimonial: redesigning UX to boost engagement

A highlight of the morning was the testimonial from Thomas Plantive, Compensation & Benefits Specialist and HRIS PMO at Capital Fund Management (CFM). He shared concrete feedback on CFM’s use of myMeta within their SAP SuccessFactors project, particularly on the Performance & Goals module.

In a context of strong growth (around 20% average annual growth) and a highly demanding digital population, CFM faced several challenges:

  • An outdated and poorly engaging user experience
  • Limited customization options within standard functionality
  • A critical need for strong adoption of the performance management process

CFM’s Key Design Choices

With the support of Arago and myMeta, CFM chose to:

  • Fully redesign the user interface (colors, typography, navigation)
  • Introduce permanent navigation buttons to streamline workflows
  • Implement interactive checklists and clearly marked required fields
  • Simplify key actions such as copying goals from one year to the next
  • Remove unnecessary friction (duplicate entries, complex validations)

The result: a more modern, intuitive interface, broadly accepted by users, including the most technically demanding profiles.

Tangible Business Benefits

CFM also highlighted several measurable outcomes:

  • Increased adoption of the Performance module
  • Stronger engagement from both managers and employees
  • Reduced volumes of UX‑related support tickets
  • Greater responsiveness to user feedback and continuous improvement

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Arago x myMeta: a pragmatic approach to HRIS transformation

The event also underlined the strong complementarity between Arago and myMeta:

  • Arago brings deep expertise in HR strategy, processes, and HRIS solutions
  • myMeta delivers fine‑grained UX customization without increasing project complexity

Together, the teams support organizations in a progressive, controlled, and usage‑driven HR transformation, starting from real, on‑the‑ground pain points.

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Conclusion: making user experience a value accelerator for HRIS

This Arago x myMeta breakfast highlighted a reality shared by many HR leaders: the success of an HRIS project depends not only on functional depth, but on the day‑to‑day user experience.

Through myMeta demonstrations and CFM’s real‑life feedback, a clear vision emerged: a pragmatic, incremental, and user‑centric transformation capable of improving adoption without questioning existing system foundations.

By combining HRIS expertise, deep process understanding, and UX optimization, Arago and myMeta offer a concrete response to today’s organizational challenges: simplifying HR tools, engaging users, and ensuring long‑term adoption among managers and employees.

Key points

Key takeaways from the Arago x myMeta breakfast event

  • HRIS adoption is directly linked to the quality of the user experience
  • myMeta enhances HRIS UX without modifying the core of solutions
  • The CFM testimonial demonstrates tangible gains in adoption, engagement, and support efficiency
  • The Arago x myMeta approach combines business expertise, UX innovation, and project pragmatism

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