Recent advances in workforce management (WFM) software are rewriting the way organizations tackle hourly workforce management and related administrative challenges. This is largely due to improvements in the design of business processes and a focus on enabling more hassle-free user experiences. The result is fundamental changes in how workers account for their time and request PTO, as well as how they access information on payroll, benefits and other company policies. These advances are also enabling managers to more readily consider workers’ as well as the organization’s needs when they forecast and schedule shifts. Scheduling that minimizes worker burnout from too many double shifts, for example, only makes management sense and should be a common interest.
Modern Digital Workforce Management Systems Are All the Rage
Topics: Human Capital Management, HRMS, Payroll Optimization, Work and Resource Management, Workforce Management
AI Energizing HCM for Better Employee Experience
Over the last two years, investments in digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) by nearly every major provider of HCM systems and tools have transformed the HR technology landscape. Many of the investments have gone into developing distinctive product capabilities, particularly capabilities that rely on machine learning technology.
Topics: digital technology, Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing, Human Capital Management, HRMS, Learning Management, Payroll Optimization, Total Compensation Management, Work and Resource Management, Workforce Management, employee experience
Prophix – Financial Performance Management for Midsize Organizations
Prophix is an established provider of financial performance management (FPM) software for planning and budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting, and managing the financial close and consolidation process. Its eponymous software is designed specifically for midsize companies or midsize divisions of larger corporations. These organizations are a distinctive segment of the market in that they have almost all the functional requirements of large enterprises but have fewer resources to apply to these critical tasks. Fortunately, the evolution of information technology over the past decade has been especially beneficial to midsize customers, bringing them expanded capabilities, substantially better performance and greater automation of routine tasks at an affordable total cost of ownership.
Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, Financial Performance Management, Price and Revenue Management, Work and Resource Management, Sales Planning and Analytics, Budgeting, Planning, Integrated Business Planning, Consolidation, accounting close, Reporting
Unit4 Prevero Provides a Practical Alternative to Spreadsheets
In 2016 Unit4 acquired Prevero, a financial performance management software company. The acquisition reflects a trend toward the convergence of transactional and analytical business applications. ERP and financial management software vendors increasingly are adding analytic capabilities – especially in financial performance management (FPM) – to the core functions of transaction processing and accounting in order to broaden the scope of their offerings. The integration of transaction processing and analytical software is especially valuable to Unit4’s core customer base of midsize organizations, which we define as those with 100 to 1,000 employees. Midsize entities have almost the same systems requirements as larger ones but lack the resources the latter enjoy.
Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Workforce Management, Marketing, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, Financial Performance Management, FPM, Operations & Supply Chain, Work and Resource Management, Sales Planning and Analytics
Compensation Management Software Vendors Evaluated in Value Index
Compensation and the processes and systems to support it are at the center of success in every organization, as I have noted recently. In our view, an investment in total compensation management software is a strategic step toward advancing human capital management. Our benchmark research on this topic found some progress in attitudes about modernizing compensation practices. Almost three-fourths (72%) of organizations said that it is important or very important to have a total compensation management system rather than a piecemeal approach. Moreover, nearly half (49%) told us they are confident or very confident that their organization currently manages its compensation processes effectively.
Topics: Human Capital Management, HRMS, Learning Management, Payroll Optimization, Work and Resource Management, Workforce Management, Office of Finance, ERP and Continuous Accounting
