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	Informatica: Complementing Workday® with intuitive, self-service analytics

Informatica: Complementing Workday® with intuitive, self-service analytics

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries	Professional Service Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Human Resources
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Informatica faced challenges with their existing HR system, PeopleSoft, which provided limited workforce data in a tabular format. This made it difficult and labor-intensive to generate workforce analytics, requiring significant IT time and expertise. Even after switching to Workday, the company found that the system did not meet the growing demand for strategic and predictive workforce insights. HR Business Partners struggled to have fact-based conversations with business leaders, limiting the strategic value they could deliver. Read More
About Customer	Informatica is the world’s leading independent provider of data integration software, empowering over 5000 enterprises worldwide to connect their data to anything and everything. The company’s mission is to unleash the potential of information to maximize competitive advantage. Informatica’s software enables enterprises to ask and answer important questions that drive business competitiveness and results. The company looked to its HR department to provide workforce insights that supported its business objectives of growth and innovation. Read More
Solution	Informatica had several key requirements for a workforce analytics solution. They needed a system that provided intuitive, interactive analytics visualizations that were easy to share. The solution also needed to allow users across the enterprise to slice and dice data in multiple dimensions, removing dependency on IT for custom analytics. Additionally, the solution needed to offer meaningful “out of the box” analytics for quick time to value. After assessing the market, Informatica selected Visier Workforce Analytics, a cloud solution that was implemented within eight weeks. This solution transformed analytics at Informatica, enabling the HR department to be self-sufficient in generating custom analyses and providing extensive self-service analytics capabilities. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)

Applicable Industries

Professional Service

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Human Resources

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Informatica faced challenges with their existing HR system, PeopleSoft, which provided limited workforce data in a tabular format. This made it difficult and labor-intensive to generate workforce analytics, requiring significant IT time and expertise. Even after switching to Workday, the company found that the system did not meet the growing demand for strategic and predictive workforce insights. HR Business Partners struggled to have fact-based conversations with business leaders, limiting the strategic value they could deliver.

About Customer

Informatica is the world’s leading independent provider of data integration software, empowering over 5000 enterprises worldwide to connect their data to anything and everything. The company’s mission is to unleash the potential of information to maximize competitive advantage. Informatica’s software enables enterprises to ask and answer important questions that drive business competitiveness and results. The company looked to its HR department to provide workforce insights that supported its business objectives of growth and innovation.

Solution

Informatica had several key requirements for a workforce analytics solution. They needed a system that provided intuitive, interactive analytics visualizations that were easy to share. The solution also needed to allow users across the enterprise to slice and dice data in multiple dimensions, removing dependency on IT for custom analytics. Additionally, the solution needed to offer meaningful “out of the box” analytics for quick time to value. After assessing the market, Informatica selected Visier Workforce Analytics, a cloud solution that was implemented within eight weeks. This solution transformed analytics at Informatica, enabling the HR department to be self-sufficient in generating custom analyses and providing extensive self-service analytics capabilities.

Impact #1	Visier has transformed analytics at Informatica, making the HR department no longer dependent on IT for custom analysis.
Impact #2	The company now has an extensive self-service analytics capability that answers hundreds of key workforce questions via intuitive, interactive visualizations.
Impact #3	Informatica can understand historic trends and use predictive analytics to foresee future events, such as identifying employees at risk of leaving and taking action to retain them.

Impact #1

Visier has transformed analytics at Informatica, making the HR department no longer dependent on IT for custom analysis.

Impact #2

The company now has an extensive self-service analytics capability that answers hundreds of key workforce questions via intuitive, interactive visualizations.

Impact #3

Informatica can understand historic trends and use predictive analytics to foresee future events, such as identifying employees at risk of leaving and taking action to retain them.

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Informatica: Complementing Workday® with intuitive, self-service analytics

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