It’s time to move your HR department away from Excel

The modern HR department continues to evolve, requiring ever-more-advanced data analytics capability to enable effective decision-making. Better management of payroll information, cost centres, divisional splits, performance management, staff scheduling, demand forecasting and more necessitates technology that can deliver key insights.

Cubewise, enabled by IBM Planning Analytics / TM1, is well positioned to take your HR department to the next level. It’s time to move away from traditional spreadsheets towards a dynamic database environment that eliminates guesswork and delivers trusted results, every time.

Common challenges

  • Salary planning

    Optimising your salary planning across different divisions, cost centres and currencies can make for complex and intricate HR processes.

    • A lack of flexibility

      When you’re running salary planning workflows using spreadsheets, you quickly run into constraints in terms of agility and flexibility. Shifting personnel across units, cost centres, countries and divisions is difficult and leaves processes prone to human error and version control issues. Traditional spreadsheets are simply not set up for dynamic planning and forecasting purposes.

    • Calculation errors

      A poor planning workflow can result in duplicated costs, inaccurate salary mappings and other errors that result in misstated salary numbers. This has knock-on effects in terms of personnel development, performance measurement, ROI calculations and staff planning capabilities. This can place further pressure on already constrained resources.

    • Dynamic salary planning

      Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 offer a powerful technology solution that offers dynamic planning across a wide range of different contexts. Instead of relying on a spreadsheet, our tools plug directly into all your data sources and allow for infinite configurability and drill-down transparency to offer the flexibility you need for sophisticated planning. With this data at your fingertips, you can make better decisions aligned with your strategy.

  • Staff scheduling

  • Gap analysis

  • A lack of flexibility

    When you’re running salary planning workflows using spreadsheets, you quickly run into constraints in terms of agility and flexibility. Shifting personnel across units, cost centres, countries and divisions is difficult and leaves processes prone to human error and version control issues. Traditional spreadsheets are simply not set up for dynamic planning and forecasting purposes.

  • Calculation errors

    A poor planning workflow can result in duplicated costs, inaccurate salary mappings and other errors that result in misstated salary numbers. This has knock-on effects in terms of personnel development, performance measurement, ROI calculations and staff planning capabilities. This can place further pressure on already constrained resources.

  • Dynamic salary planning

    Cubewise and IBM Planning Analytics / TM1 offer a powerful technology solution that offers dynamic planning across a wide range of different contexts. Instead of relying on a spreadsheet, our tools plug directly into all your data sources and allow for infinite configurability and drill-down transparency to offer the flexibility you need for sophisticated planning. With this data at your fingertips, you can make better decisions aligned with your strategy.

Transform your HR function today

Your HR team deserves better tools to arrive at data-backed decisions – and now they exist. We can help you move away from Microsoft Excel and into a dynamic database environment where everything is in one place. This improved framework enables better salary planning, true gap analysis and Full-time Equivalent (FTE) calculations that can all lead to better decisions.

Combine this with powerful forecasting and visualisation capabilities and you have everything you need at your fingertips. It’s technology that can truly take your operations to the next level.

We’ve faced this issue before

Amazon Web Services case study

We came up with a solution for Amazon Web Services that allows them to plan more efficiently.

Talk to us today and let’s overcome the challenge together.

When a system is unable to adapt to changing business circumstances, it can be tremendously frustrating for all who work with it. Things must go on, of course, and so users will resort to building tedious workarounds, simplifications and shortcuts that only serve to kick the can down the road.

Don’t accept that your business processes are incapable of adapting to fast-moving market changes. Contact us to find out how easy it can be to implement efficient and practical planning, reporting and forecasting workflows.

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