Nova Smart NG
HR and payroll platform with Swissdec-certified payroll and multi-country support.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
- Swiss InfrastructureHosted in Switzerland on infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider (or the company itself) — not a foreign hyperscaler.
novative.com
Overview
Nova Smart NG is an integrated HR and payroll system. Its modules cover payroll, absence management, time and attendance, planning, recruitment, training, evaluations, expense claims, electronic documents and HR analytics, with a self-service portal and mobile apps for iOS and Android. The platform handles several legal entities, countries and currencies, and Novative says it has more than 600 clients in over 30 countries in Europe, Africa and the USA.
For Switzerland, the payroll is listed by Swissdec as certified (basic level, ELM 5.0 to 5.3). Novative also describes an information security management system based on ISO 27001; its website does not say clearly whether a current certificate exists, so no certification is recorded here.
Novative SA in Nyon also offers HR and payroll outsourcing and employer of record services. The software is described as hosted in a Swisscom data centre in Switzerland. Prices are only available after a demo.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
Nova Smart NG is operated by Novative SA, which is headquartered in Nyon, Vaud. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Nyon, Vaud (VD), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
Privately held; the shareholders of the SA are not published and the website makes no statement about ownership. Register publications from 2023 to October 2026 record only an address change and the departure of a board member; no acquisition was found in register publications or reporting. Novative says it opened offices in Africa in 2020.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesVendor claim[1]
Novative describes the software as developed and hosted in Switzerland. It has had offices in Africa since 2020 and does not say where its developers work.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[1]
The website names a Swisscom data centre and states that all data is hosted in Swiss data centres. The privacy policy covers only the website and does not address where customer data of the HR platform is stored.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Yes — Swisscom · SwitzerlandVendor claim[1]
Whether Novative rents servers or colocates its own hardware in the Swisscom data centre is not stated. Swisscom is majority-owned by the Swiss Confederation.
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
Privacy & security
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning, Public API and Data export
- Certifications
- None listed
Pricing
- Pricing model
- On request
- Free plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Billing in CHF
- Unknown / not verified
Prices checked 16 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Open source
- Open source
- NoInferred
Proprietary software; no source code is published.
Company
HR and payroll software and outsourcing company in Nyon, founded in 1993, that develops the Nova Smart NG HR platform and serves clients in about 30 countries.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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