{"id":723,"date":"2007-07-30T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2007-07-30T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T09:00:34","slug":"cedarcrestone-2007-analytics-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"CedarCrestone 2007 Analytics Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

CedarCrestone recently pushed out their 2007 Analytics survey. While I\u2019m not sure my own experience matches theirs, there are some interesting trends to at least be noted. You can find their full version of the survey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In general, when we\u2019re talking about HR metrics and analytics, I\u2019m perfectly happy with a definition that includes any type of reporting and data regurgitation out of theHR data source(s). Once we get into the concept of data warehouses though, my mind narrows a bit and I start thinking about multidimensional and drill through reporting that you get from ROLAP and MOLAP cubes. I start thinking about ETL\u2019s and enriched data marts. While mostly beside the point, what I\u2019m saying is that when I read the survey, I questioned a great many of their results, but I think it\u2019s all in the semantics.<\/p>\n

By far, the most common reporting tool is the simple management reports run from the HRMS, with 62% reporting they do this today (see Figure 2). Simple management reporting has been the first online interaction for managers since we began tracking employee and manager self service eight years ago. Operational and ad hoc reporting follows with 30% usage each. Least used today is multidimensional reporting (18%). For those not familiar with multidimensional reporting, this functionality is needed to drill down into the data to begin to see what might be behind a specific metric\u2014such as turnover\u2014in a given department. ((Cedar Crestone, 2007. \u201cCedarCrestone 2007 Metrics and Analytics Report.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While a great deal more detailed, what is interesting to me is that through the advent of SaaS and point solution vendors, it seems that HR organizations are getting access to more robust reporting and analytics tools. This is the only way I can think to explain the 18% of organizations who have access to multidimensional reporting. Where a few years ago, you\u2019d get very operational ad hoc report writer with your HRMS solution and hope that your 3rd party outsourcers would not take 3 weeks to produce some standard metrics for you to merge with your HRMS data, today you have the same decent on-demand reporting out of your HRMS and much better analytics solutions prepackaged with the SaaS type services.<\/p>\n

What CedarCreston accurately points out however, is that HR is not yet positioned to leverage the great multidimensional reporting that I mentioned above.<\/p>\n

But plans seen in 2005 to move to stand-alone workforce analytics applications have not materialized. However, we believe organizations with ERP solutions will ultimately move to the more comprehensive workforce analytics applications available from the major ERP vendors. From a technology perspective, they provide integration, scalable solutions, and convergence with service-oriented architecture (SOA) components. Most importantly, however, ERP providers own and provide best practices for the HR business processes through their HCM applications. They understand that analytics are most meaningful when delivered as part of the daily business processes used by different levels in the organization and they provide best practices for the analytics most appropriate for these processes through their applications. ((Cedar Crestone, 2007. \u201cCedarCrestone 2007 Metrics and Analytics Report.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The short term holy grail of analytics is really SOA, ERP and a fully functional HR data warehouse. The ability to eventually have a convergence of all the data that is important to your HR organization in a single space is the dream of many of us. And there shouldn\u2019t be anything really holding us back today. Up next, I\u2019ll spend a couple days going over DW and what it all really means (in non-technical terms). I\u2019ll see you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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