Enterprise
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Actuate for Human
Resources Applications
Actuate is an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform that
creates interactive reports, dashboards, information portals,
spreadsheets and business analytics that integrate internal
and outsourced HR information with financial and operational
data throughout the enterprise.
Using Actuate, you elevate the strategic value of the HR
function by empowering everyone with the information they
need––on a regularly scheduled or self-service, on-demand
basis––to measure and maximize human contribution at all
levels in the organization.
Improving HR’s Strategic Contribution
The economic realities of today’s marketplace has forced
every organization to re-examine their bottom lines and
tighten budgets. Traditionally, HR groups have performed
operational and advisory roles, but as executives and
managers slash overhead and costs, they are requiring HR
groups to provide more strategic, measurable contributions
to the entire enterprise.
“Senior executives accepted HR as a ‘soft’
unavoidable cost of doing business that managed
executive compensation, handled employee
processing and support, and, hopefully, prevented
law suits.
Although headcount, HR staff per 100 employees, and
cost-per-hire were considered common HR ‘metrics,’
they don't stand up to hard business questions and
challenges and supported the belief that HR couldn't
be measured.”
Nick Burkholder
Staffing.org, November 2002
To increase their strategic profiles, HR organizations must
provide regular, high-quality information to the rest of the
enterprise––so everyone can measure and maximize the
accountability and value of human contributions throughout
the organization.
Adding Value to HR Applications and Data
Actuate adds value to HR systems by aggregating
information into useful forms and making it instantly
and easily available for access and analysis. Using
Actuate, HR groups increase their strategic contribution
as they:
Control costs by creating employee self-service solutions
Increase accountability by transforming HR information into
hard data and key indicators for measuring contribution to
the success of the business
Improve information quality and efficiency by integrating
employee data from databases, enterprise applications and
third-party outsourced vendors
Actuate Enterprise
Reporting Applications
can create and deliver Web
pages, electronic and hardcopy reports, self-service
portals, executive dashboards, and fully functional
Excel spreadsheets
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Supporting Strategic HR Initiatives
Actuate gives HR organizations the power they need to
produce interactive reports, dashboards, portals,
spreadsheet reports, and analytics that support crucial
HR initiatives.
Cost Control: Employee Self-S
Service Solutions
Using Actuate, HR organizations can create self-service
solutions that save costs by empowering employees to:
• Access personalized reports and dashboards to get the
information they need without requiring HR, helpdesk or
IT assistance
• Track hours, compensation data, investment plans,
benefits, contact information and vacation schedules
to help reduce HR overhead
• Perform tasks online that eliminate the printing and
mailing of forms
• Present employees unified views that integrate data
from internal systems and external service providers
"HR employee per capita spending increased nearly
10% between 1999 and 2001 alone."
HR Expenditure Study
Society for Human Resource Management
and Bureau of National Affairs
Accountability: Performance Measurement Systems
Nick Burkholder
Staffing.org, March 2003
Information Quality: Unified Content from Myriad Sources
The single greatest IT challenge for HR groups is to integrate
data from their various internal and external data sources
into cohesive, meaningful forms. Using Actuate, HR
organizations can:
• Create high-quality content that integrates web-based
data and reports from multiple outsourced HR vendors
with employee data from in-house systems
• Access real-time data as well as historical warehouse
data to provide more accurate reports
• Speed and ease review cycles by unifying all relevant
employee information into online forms and reports
"HR outsourcing continues to grow more prevalent.
Nearly three out of four employers (74 percent) have
outside vendors or contractors to handle at least one
human resource function."
Joint survey
Society for Human Resource Management
and Bureau of National Affairs
• Measure and map employee skill sets while launching
training and recruiting programs to fill gaps
“[The] requirements for HR data integration include
the following; integration of applications and
disparate enterprise systems and data stores;
support for the Internet as a computing platform
and environment for conducting self-service,
e-business and e-commerce transactions; support
for global business transactions and processing;
business process or department-specific data
consolidation and views, business intelligence
and analytics.”
• Analyze human capital contributions and costs more
effectively by integrating it with operational data
Human Resources Applications: Perspective
Gartner, January 2003
To provide more strategic value, HR must quantify its
contributions in hard, tangible scorecards that enable
their companies to balance human productivity expenditures
with output. To do so, HR groups must:
• Transform staffing, compensation, productivity, and
other hard data into key indicators that measure the
performance of departments and employees
• Provide managers with performance information to
motivate and compensate employees effectively
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"Not only are we being forced to measure our own
performance, but we also have to help every other
function in our organizations better measure their
human capital performance."
Create HR Enterprise Reporting Applications in
Any Form
Organizations use Actuate to extend the capabilities of their
existing HR reports and applications, as well as create
all-new Enterprise Reporting Applications. These solutions
give HR professionals better insight for managing and
leveraging human capital, while providing employees selfsufficiency that reduces operational costs.
Compensation and Benefits Management
• Self-sservice benefits systems that let employees manage
flexible benefit plans, change personal profiles and add
insurance coverage online
• Insurance usage reports that track employee claims and
benefit payment histories
• Early warning systems that notify managers and financial
groups about compensation deviations from budgets
and uncover important trends
• Compensation alignment analyses that track differences
and inequities across departments, divisions, locations
and functions
• Participation surveys and analyses that evaluate
enrollment and satisfaction rates for specific benefit
programs versus their costs
• Salary analytics that perform what-if scenarios that
assess budgetary impacts of compensation adjustments
Employee Performance Measurement Systems
• Productivity spreadsheets that give managers and
analysts ready-to-analyze Excel files for determining
the effects of efficiency initiatives
• Real-ttime scorecards that combine soft and hard
information to provide insight into departmental and
individual productivity through interactive reports,
charts, and graphs
Workforce Development
• Employee skill-sset maps that provide at-a-glance
assessments of how in-house skills meet staffing
and project requirements
• Training effectiveness monitors that track how
individuals and organizations are progressing in
skills development and educational programs
• Recruitment tracking systems that monitor open
positions, interview schedules and new hires
• Turnover analysis applications that provide insight
into which departments, locations and managers lead
and lag in employee retention
• Compliance reports that summarize and analyze
adherence to requirements and regulations
• Recruiting effectiveness analyses that present
cost-per-hire and staffing efficiency across hiring
departments, positions and managers
It’s Time to Actuate
Actuate gives you the ability to unify your HR information
from internal and outsourced systems with operational data
from across the enterprise. Using Actuate, you can create
the measurement systems, self-service portals, and analyses
that everyone needs to fully leverage your organization’s
human capital. In doing so, you substantially increase the
strategic value of the HR function as it helps the rest of the
organization control costs, manage and motivate employees,
and increase accountability.
For more information on Actuate for human resources
applications, visit us on the Web or call us today.
Contact Actuate
Tel: (888) 422-8828
Email: hrsolutions@actuate.com
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