Our mission is: transforming data to reveal business and clinical insights. We accomplish this through our data management, business intelligence and analytics consulting services. We ensure that organizations have the proper tools, technology and processes to improve performance – relative to predefined critical success factors and key performance indicators – based on greater insight and analysis through analytics. We offer a framework for establishing an Analytics Center of Excellence within organizations to define roles and responsibilities and coordinate activities and tasks among key stakeholders. With emphasis on statistical analysis, forecasting, optimization, and simulation, analytics provides results that are predictive and prescriptive, injecting clarity and confidence in decision making and improving performance through situational awareness at all levels of the organization.
Through our past consulting engagements, we observed significant challenges and short-comings in how these organizations navigate such a data-rich environment in the pursuit of analytical excellence. Based on our assessment and evaluation, we develop a roadmap for establishing an information environment that enables stakeholders to improve clinical decision-making and performance (as related to quality, outcomes, cost and utilization) through data visualizations and advanced analytics. This roadmap accounts for both structured and unstructured data, and it includes provisions for controlled data access based on security and privacy policies. We manage the transition from on-premise to cloud-based data sources and leverage the cloud as an aggregation point for creating a Big Data analytics platform. We then perform an alternatives analysis of feasible solutions based on several factors, including: delivered capabilities, ease of implementation, performance, scalability, interoperability and integration with legacy systems, and functionality -- at a cost that maximizes ROI.
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HCL’s Cross Docking IT framework enables Logistics service providers to better align IT applications with business functions. The three-stage framework with five phases covers the entire spectrum of your IT system to let the CIO focus on quantifiable business benefits from IT activities. With its business process orientation, it will make the LSP’s IT landscape more optimized and nimble, thus providing it an edge in today’s challenging environment.
A Capability Maturity Model for Corporate Performance Management, an Empirica...Mika Aho
Presents a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for assessing the maturity of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) within an organization.
The CPM maturity development process was studied in five case companies where the author participated into CPM projects in a various consultation roles. Through a literature study and the development process in each company, the author has made observations, and has identified the key components, factors, and levels of a CPM maturity.
The findings of this study further extend the CPM research providing a deeper understanding of the process, components, and levels of CPM maturity. The conference paper also provides organizations with an understanding about CPM and its potential value. The model provides a quick way for organizations to gauge where their CPM initiative is now and where it needs to go next.
Our mission is: transforming data to reveal business and clinical insights. We accomplish this through our data management, business intelligence and analytics consulting services. We ensure that organizations have the proper tools, technology and processes to improve performance – relative to predefined critical success factors and key performance indicators – based on greater insight and analysis through analytics. We offer a framework for establishing an Analytics Center of Excellence within organizations to define roles and responsibilities and coordinate activities and tasks among key stakeholders. With emphasis on statistical analysis, forecasting, optimization, and simulation, analytics provides results that are predictive and prescriptive, injecting clarity and confidence in decision making and improving performance through situational awareness at all levels of the organization.
Through our past consulting engagements, we observed significant challenges and short-comings in how these organizations navigate such a data-rich environment in the pursuit of analytical excellence. Based on our assessment and evaluation, we develop a roadmap for establishing an information environment that enables stakeholders to improve clinical decision-making and performance (as related to quality, outcomes, cost and utilization) through data visualizations and advanced analytics. This roadmap accounts for both structured and unstructured data, and it includes provisions for controlled data access based on security and privacy policies. We manage the transition from on-premise to cloud-based data sources and leverage the cloud as an aggregation point for creating a Big Data analytics platform. We then perform an alternatives analysis of feasible solutions based on several factors, including: delivered capabilities, ease of implementation, performance, scalability, interoperability and integration with legacy systems, and functionality -- at a cost that maximizes ROI.
http://www.hcltech.com/travel-transportation-logistics - More on Travel Transportation & Logistics
http://www.hcltech.com/ - More on HCL Technologies
HCL’s Cross Docking IT framework enables Logistics service providers to better align IT applications with business functions. The three-stage framework with five phases covers the entire spectrum of your IT system to let the CIO focus on quantifiable business benefits from IT activities. With its business process orientation, it will make the LSP’s IT landscape more optimized and nimble, thus providing it an edge in today’s challenging environment.
A Capability Maturity Model for Corporate Performance Management, an Empirica...Mika Aho
Presents a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for assessing the maturity of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) within an organization.
The CPM maturity development process was studied in five case companies where the author participated into CPM projects in a various consultation roles. Through a literature study and the development process in each company, the author has made observations, and has identified the key components, factors, and levels of a CPM maturity.
The findings of this study further extend the CPM research providing a deeper understanding of the process, components, and levels of CPM maturity. The conference paper also provides organizations with an understanding about CPM and its potential value. The model provides a quick way for organizations to gauge where their CPM initiative is now and where it needs to go next.
SumTotal Performance Management software supports SMART goal methodology, providing workers assistance in creating Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time?based performance goals which can then be evaluated in real time with managers.
SumTotal Talent Management features an intuitive interface for a non-technical audience familiar with HCM concepts to be able to change the application to match organizational processes.
Analytics applications are designed to measure, predict, and optimize business performance; they are used to analyze specific data related to particular aspects of a business. This paper discusses how Pivotal CRM Analytics can help companies across a range of industries improve their effectiveness through practical, low-cost CRM analytics applications.
While other solutions focus solely on attracting and measuring talent, we add the ability to discover hidden talent and capabilities within your current workforce and provide tools to help all of your people be more productive. With SumTotal Talent solutions, you can unlock hidden potential in your people and watch your business soar.
How to optimize cloud and virtual infrastructure resource utilization, manage the sprawl, troubleshoot and control cost.
IT administrators and managers need a comprehensive strategy to optimize and manage their infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
While many utilities look forward to the benefits of deploying smart grid technology, they need help on where and how to start. A manageable distribution management system (DMS) pilot implementation is a good kickoff toward the smart grid goal, because it successfully demonstrates the possibilities while it builds support from stakeholders across the enterprise. Schneider Electric helps the utility implement the DMS pilot, using a phased Build — Learn — Plan — Execute approach.
In such a DMS pilot project, the company works with a small team of utility personnel knowledgeable of the organization’s network data stores and analytical functions. They build a fully operational load flow model that represents a subset of the network and reflects circuit data from the GIS database or other sources and includes two HV/MV substations and four to eight feeders, ideally with the switches and enough load profile data to support some switching and basic optimization functionality.
In the Learn phase of the DMS pilot, team members evaluate functionality of the model and completeness and accuracy of the data used. Tuning the model builds team confidence in its understanding of the data needed and the accuracy of the basic DMS algorithms.
In the Plan phase, the utility identifies current business plan and internal and external drivers toward grid automation, considering throughout the political and regulatory environments. A strategy is designed to remove obstacles and achieve identified goals.
In the final Execute phase, the utility will contract for software and services; train core team; develop system configuration and convert data; and finally deploy the system with site acceptance testing and rollout.
This fastrack DMS implementation gets the utility started and moving at the ‘speed of value’ as it builds confidence in DMS technology. It offers a proof-of-concept of DMS benefits across the organization — more reliable service, reduction of peak demand, utility cost savings and more.
Turning your Excel Business Process Workflows into an Automated Business Inte...OAUGNJ
Many organizations have evolved key internal business processes built on top of Microsoft Excel. These cross-functional workflows involve several organizational units responsible for collecting business system transactions, modifying this raw data, consolidating, transforming, pivoting and preparing data into a published set of Reports & Graphs – all in MS Excel. Such workflows are a burden to organizations – not repeatable, costly, time-consuming, inflexible and hard to scale, and evolve to become more complex over time. Business critical processes such as financial analysis, operational analysis and revenue analysis are often supported this way. Attempting to replace such systems can be quite daunting and a barrier to replace. The goal of this session is to present an easy to understand methodology and use cases to demonstrate how to move from an operational workflow in Excel to truly automated Business Intelligence.
www.charisma.ro
www.totalsoft.ro
The increased applicability of mobile devices is rapidly turning them into business working and analysis platforms. Given the current trends, the expansion of software capabilities on cutting edge mobile devices is definitely a statement of TotalSoft team’s innovative spirit.
SumTotal Performance Management software supports SMART goal methodology, providing workers assistance in creating Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time?based performance goals which can then be evaluated in real time with managers.
SumTotal Talent Management features an intuitive interface for a non-technical audience familiar with HCM concepts to be able to change the application to match organizational processes.
Analytics applications are designed to measure, predict, and optimize business performance; they are used to analyze specific data related to particular aspects of a business. This paper discusses how Pivotal CRM Analytics can help companies across a range of industries improve their effectiveness through practical, low-cost CRM analytics applications.
While other solutions focus solely on attracting and measuring talent, we add the ability to discover hidden talent and capabilities within your current workforce and provide tools to help all of your people be more productive. With SumTotal Talent solutions, you can unlock hidden potential in your people and watch your business soar.
How to optimize cloud and virtual infrastructure resource utilization, manage the sprawl, troubleshoot and control cost.
IT administrators and managers need a comprehensive strategy to optimize and manage their infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
While many utilities look forward to the benefits of deploying smart grid technology, they need help on where and how to start. A manageable distribution management system (DMS) pilot implementation is a good kickoff toward the smart grid goal, because it successfully demonstrates the possibilities while it builds support from stakeholders across the enterprise. Schneider Electric helps the utility implement the DMS pilot, using a phased Build — Learn — Plan — Execute approach.
In such a DMS pilot project, the company works with a small team of utility personnel knowledgeable of the organization’s network data stores and analytical functions. They build a fully operational load flow model that represents a subset of the network and reflects circuit data from the GIS database or other sources and includes two HV/MV substations and four to eight feeders, ideally with the switches and enough load profile data to support some switching and basic optimization functionality.
In the Learn phase of the DMS pilot, team members evaluate functionality of the model and completeness and accuracy of the data used. Tuning the model builds team confidence in its understanding of the data needed and the accuracy of the basic DMS algorithms.
In the Plan phase, the utility identifies current business plan and internal and external drivers toward grid automation, considering throughout the political and regulatory environments. A strategy is designed to remove obstacles and achieve identified goals.
In the final Execute phase, the utility will contract for software and services; train core team; develop system configuration and convert data; and finally deploy the system with site acceptance testing and rollout.
This fastrack DMS implementation gets the utility started and moving at the ‘speed of value’ as it builds confidence in DMS technology. It offers a proof-of-concept of DMS benefits across the organization — more reliable service, reduction of peak demand, utility cost savings and more.
Turning your Excel Business Process Workflows into an Automated Business Inte...OAUGNJ
Many organizations have evolved key internal business processes built on top of Microsoft Excel. These cross-functional workflows involve several organizational units responsible for collecting business system transactions, modifying this raw data, consolidating, transforming, pivoting and preparing data into a published set of Reports & Graphs – all in MS Excel. Such workflows are a burden to organizations – not repeatable, costly, time-consuming, inflexible and hard to scale, and evolve to become more complex over time. Business critical processes such as financial analysis, operational analysis and revenue analysis are often supported this way. Attempting to replace such systems can be quite daunting and a barrier to replace. The goal of this session is to present an easy to understand methodology and use cases to demonstrate how to move from an operational workflow in Excel to truly automated Business Intelligence.
www.charisma.ro
www.totalsoft.ro
The increased applicability of mobile devices is rapidly turning them into business working and analysis platforms. Given the current trends, the expansion of software capabilities on cutting edge mobile devices is definitely a statement of TotalSoft team’s innovative spirit.
Top Five HR Process Integrations That Drive Business ValueSumTotal
Integration is the new currency of HR. Empirical research reveals that improving HR process, technology, and data integration to eliminate silos and facilitate cross-functional reporting affords significant business benefits.
According to SumTotal’s 2010 State of Global People Management worldwide survey of human resources (HR) leaders, organizations with fully integrated HR and talent processes, systems, and data outperform those organizations that have not integrated by 41% across twelve key HR and business operating metrics.
There is little doubt that improving HR integration and eliminating silos affords significant benefits. Based on SumTotal’s global survey data, this whitepaper dives into the top five HR process integrations that provide organizations with the most business value: better internal, talent mobility, decreased voluntary turnover, better workforce alignment to overall business strategy, improved workforce productivity and faster on-boarding (time-to-productivity).
SumTotal TalentNet enables companies to maximize the value of social networking and Web 2.0 without the risk or liability of employees using external networks not within organizational control.
SumTotal's Hiring & Recruiting solution provides organizations the ability to manage the hiring lifecycle, from requisition creation and approval, through job posting, to applicant tracking, selection, background checking, and hiring.
1. SumTotal Talent Platform®
Workforce Analytics
Improve Decision Making with Key Benefits
Workforce Insight and Analysis • Enable the HR organization to become a
SumTotal Workforce Analytics, powered by IBM Cognos, provides deep cross- strategic resource by focusing on analysis
in lieu of data collection and manipulation
functional analysis and reporting capabilities across the entire SumTotal talent
• Leverage the rich data and metadata gath-
platform to improve decision making.
ered using SumTotal to provide a holistic view
Constantly changing business conditions have thrust human resources to the of organizational information and trends
forefront of strategic planning. The foundation of process improvement is a • Promote flexibility by enabling administra-
company’s ability to measure and provide real-time analysis of organizational tors to deploy and standardize business
performance. Reporting and analysis are key to an organization's success in intelligence to multiple audiences and roles
managing employee resources. within the organization
• Empower non-technical users to conduct
SumTotal Workforce Analytics provides
their own analyses through an easy-to-use,
organizations with the information they need to
intuitive web-based interface
86%
more effectively design and implement business
• Leverage deep analytic capabilities includ-
strategies in support of corporate objectives and ing: an ad-hoc report development wizard;
initiatives. The solution leverages the extensive scheduled recurring reports; reports pub-
data and metadata harnessed within the entire lished to portals and dashboards based on
of companies have user role; comparison of data from multiple
SumTotal talent platform to provide a holistic
or are planning a time periods; and trend analyses
view of workforce information. It also provides a
signi cant investment • Utilize advanced role-based security to
variety of different tools to meet an organization's
in reporting & analytics ensure proper user access rights and
reporting and analysis needs. Reports can
permissions
be aggregated into executive dashboards to
*Source: SumTotal, State of Global
provide at-a-glance graphical reporting of key
People Management survey, 2010
performance indicators.
Each SumTotal solution includes numerous standard reports and reportlets that
provide tabular information supporting various aspects of the particular solution.
SumTotal Workforce Analytics, on the other hand, enables an organization to compare
and relate deep analytical views across the entire talent management platform. For
example, training efforts and costs can be compared to competency improvements;
or, compensation improvements can be compared to employee retention rates.
Datasheet
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