dn:Director for HR
The impact of employee data issues 
Inaccuracies, inconsistencies, gaps and duplications in your employee data can significantly impact on your HR department’s ability to plan and manage resourcing, deploy effective employee retention and development programmes, ensure compliance with Health & Safety and other legislation, provide reliable reports to executives, and even simply pay the right salaries, benefits and bonuses.
How you may be undermining your HR technology investments
Significant investments in HR technology solutions such as Human Capital Management (HCM), Talent Management (TM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) could be failing to deliver full return on investment due to their reliance upon fit-for-purpose employee data in order to generate reliable results.
How dn:Director for HR helps
Datanomic’s dn:Director for HR is a fully-templated solution designed specifically to enable HR teams to quickly and easily identify and resolve anomalies within your employee data, improving enterprise-wide resource planning, reducing administrative overhead, increasing responsiveness to reporting requests and enhancing employee satisfaction. You are able to prepare the underlying data in advance of HR migration projects for Human Capital management initiatives, whilst its full auditability and configurable controls means dn:Director helps you to ensure compliance with any enterprise-wide data governance programme.
Building a Single View of Employee
HR data is often dispersed across multiple records and systems (Payroll, Talent Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Training, Time Management etc), typically presenting a challenge to gaining insight across all employee data. dn:Director’s data agnosticism means it does not require data to be in the same format, and is able to compile a ‘Single View of Employee’ or SVE from data sources right across the enterprise. Information relating to compensation & benefits, locations, work schedules, training, equipment and skills can all be captured into a single system irrespective of the type of data or how structured it is.
Resolving the issues
dn:Director’s advanced data profiling quickly identifies anomalies within source data, such as missing or duplicate National Insurance numbers (which can create legal issues), mismatched bank account numbers and sort codes (hindering payroll), rates of pay that are out of line with the type of job role, no assigned manager for the employee, inconsistencies in date of birth/joining date and a wide range of other issues that are time consuming to resolve. Such inaccuracies have a direct impact on organisational forecasting and may negatively affect cash-flow, so quick resolution is important.
Often records end up containing multiple usable bits of data, such as first and last name, job title and even location all in the same field. dn:Director for HR’s powerful parsing capabilities allows you to automatically extract each element into the relevant field. Using its Business Rules engine, it is possible to check that employees have received the correct training for the tasks they perform in their roles or the tools to which they are allocated, removing the administrative burden of ensuring compliance with Health & Safety regulations.
The burden of producing extensive ad-hoc resource reports for management teams can be resolved through dn:Director’s web-based reporting tool, dn:Dashboard, which allows real-time views of KPIs based on the Single View of Employee you are able to generate. To protect sensitive employee information, dn:Director for HR also offers the ability to restrict to access to those with the appropriate level of authority.
Your first step to an effective Single View of Employee
To assist HR Directors to quantify the scale of the issues within their data, and obtain insight into the benefits that could be achieved through improving the accuracy and reliability of their enterprise employee data, Datanomic offers qualifying organisations a complimentary QuickStats Workshop. A QuickStats Workshop is a free 90-minute collaborative investigation of a representative sample of your data, passed through dn:Director’s profiling and auditing processes. All identified issues are discussed to assess the impact on the business. The session provides quantitative analysis on the fitness-for-purpose of your employee data, allowing a quick determination of the operational improvements that could be achieved with reliable data.
The session will illustrate how anomalies can be automatically resolved, and how those which require further investigation can be managed through the system. At the end of the session, the Datanomic team will provide a workbook of the full results of the forensic investigation. Click this link for more information about our QuickStats Workshop.