Sentrient

Making compliance easier starts with the right platform.
Easy to use, backed by quality content and continuously improving - we’re proud to deliver an experience our clients are happy to recommend.

Discover how Sentrient can simplify compliance for your organisation.

Learn more: https://www.sentrient.com.au/

Your rostering software costs more than your coffee budget. And that's saying something.

Deputy does a solid job for a lot of Aussie teams. But if your headcount has grown, your award interpretation has gotten messier, or you're paying per user for staff who clock on once a fortnight, the maths stops working.

We've compared the alternatives Australian businesses are actually moving to, what each one handles well, and where each falls short. No sales pitch, just the honest rundown. 🇦🇺

🔗 https://www.sentrient.com.au/blog/deputy-alternatives

Top Deputy Alternatives for Australian Businesses | Sentrient Deputy alternatives for Australian businesses: 10 rostering, workforce and compliance platforms compared, plus how to choose the right one for your need.

Renewal quote landed. Suddenly everyone's very interested in what the platform actually does.

Happens every year. You signed up for governance, risk, compliance and strategy in one place. Twelve months on, your team uses three of the modules and pays for nine.

Before you sign for another term, it's worth knowing what else is out there. Some platforms are built for enterprise risk teams with a full-time risk manager.

Others are built for a business of 80 people where the ops manager wears the compliance hat too. Very different tools.

Our comparison of Skefto alternatives breaks down which is which.
🔗 https://www.sentrient.com.au/blog/skefto-alternatives

Top Skefto Alternatives for Australian Business | Sentrient Skefto alternatives for Australian businesses: 10 GRC, risk and compliance platforms compared, plus how to choose the right one for your size.

Managing a remote team shouldn’t make HR harder.
When employees are working across different locations, keeping people processes consistent and organised matters.
With Sentrient HR Software for Remote Teams, you can:

✓ Centralise employee records
✓ Manage policies and acknowledgements
✓ Support online onboarding
✓ Manage goals and performance
✓ Keep remote teams connected

Bring everyday HR processes together in one place, wherever your people are working.
👉 Learn more: HR Software for Remote Teams
https://www.sentrient.com.au/hr-software-for-remote-teams

Managing people in a law firm comes with its own complexities.
From onboarding new hires to supporting development and managing performance, keeping every people process organised can quickly become time-consuming.

Sentrient HR Software for Law Firms helps bring your key HR processes together in one place.
✓ Streamline employee onboarding
✓ Manage performance reviews
✓ Support staff development
✓ Keep employee records organised

Give your HR and management teams more visibility, with less manual administration.
👉 Learn more: HR Software for Law Firms
https://www.sentrient.com.au/hr-software-for-law-firms

🤷 "It's fine" is not a great reason to renew.

If you inherited your safety software from whoever set it up in 2019, it's worth an hour of your time to check what else is out there.

Our comparison of Safety Champion alternatives covers the practical stuff: pricing model, local WHS fit, and how much admin each one really costs you. 🇦🇺

🔗 https://www.sentrient.com.au/blog/safety-champion-alternatives

Top Safety Champion Alternatives for Australia | Sentrient Safety Champion alternatives for Australian businesses: 10 WHS, safety and compliance platforms compared, plus how to choose the right one for your need.

What happens when manual compliance processes can no longer keep pace with a growing workforce?

For Mills Oakley Family Law Adelaide , managing policies, training and completion tracking across 700+ staff was becoming increasingly difficult and time-consuming.

By bringing key compliance activities into a single central system with Sentrient, the firm created a clearer, more consistent approach for its HR and Learning & Development teams.

✓ Easier policy sign-off and tracking
✓ Better reporting and visibility
✓ More consistent policy updates
✓ Smoother onboarding for new lawyers

A practical example of how moving away from manual processes can give teams greater visibility and a more consistent approach to workplace compliance.

👉 Read the full Mills Oakley case study: https://www.sentrient.com.au/case-studies/mills-oakley

Most whistleblower policies get written once, saved to a shared drive, and never opened again. Until the day someone actually speaks up. Then everyone's scrambling.

Here's the thing plenty of Australian businesses miss: having a policy isn't the finish line. It has to be accessible, it has to spell out how disclosures are handled, and it has to actually protect the person who raised the concern.

If you're not sure whether your business needs one, or whether the one you've got would hold up under pressure, our latest piece walks through who's covered and what a policy needs to include.

🔗 https://www.sentrient.com.au/blog/whistleblower-policy-australia

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Whistleblower Policy Australia: Who Needs One & What's In It Whistleblower policy requirements for Australian business: who must have one, what it must include under ASIC RG 270, and the protections the law gives.

Growing a startup is exciting. Managing the HR admin that comes with a growing team? Not always.

As your headcount grows, so do the onboarding tasks, employee records, follow-ups and everyday people processes. The right HR software for startups can help keep things organised without adding more manual work.

With Sentrient, growing teams can:

✅ Keep people processes organised
✅ Streamline employee onboarding
✅ Automate routine HR workflows
✅ Reduce repetitive HR admin
✅ Manage employee records centrally

Build stronger HR foundations now, so your processes can keep pace as your startup grows.

👉 Learn more: HR Software for Startups
https://www.sentrient.com.au/hr-software-for-startups

GRC, ERM or IRM… aren’t they all basically the same thing?

Not quite. While these three approaches are closely connected, they each look at risk, governance and information from a different angle.

So, what does each one actually mean? And where do they fit into a modern organisation?

Our latest guide breaks down GRC vs ERM vs IRM in plain English, helping you understand the differences, how they work together and why the distinction matters.

Read the full guide and make sense of the GRC landscape.
https://www.sentrient.com.au/blog/grc-vs-erm-vs-irm

GRC vs ERM vs IRM: The Difference, Explained (2026) | Sentrient GRC vs ERM vs IRM explained in plain English: what each means, how they differ, which your business actually needs, and the Australian roots of ISO 31000.