A database is only as good as the data it contains. Have you finished spring cleaning your HCM data? Don’t fall behind!

A database is only as good as its data and if you haven’t started your spring cleaning, yet, there is no better time than now. Having clean data is extremely important to all HR activities and is often overlooked by business owners. Nevertheless, database management can be tedious, time-consuming and some might even call it boring.

HR data can be considered one of the most valuable business assets and should be kept up to date. With the surge of big data and today’s growing globalization, data changes occur more frequently than ever before and unless you keep on top of these changes, it will cost you. The Data Warehousing Institute, which provides research and business intelligence for the data warehousing industry, estimated that data quality problems cost U.S. businesses over US$600 billion a year. Evidently, the costs associated with bad data can seriously diminish the value of your database and make all your HR efforts futile.

Here are some tips for your data cleansing:

·         Start of by entering only clean data. If the data is right from the start, you will have a lot less work to do clearing it later.

·         If possible, hire someone dedicated solely to data management or have one person on the team be accountable for the data.

·         Ensure that employee data is updated as soon as you are aware of any changes.

·         Take the time needed to really clean your data.

·         Periodically audit your data for errors.

·         Get software to help manage data quality.

By comparing the costs (in terms of HR and business effort) or outsourcing data quality audits, organizations can see that an integrated, easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage data quality system has a clear return on investment. A good data quality system will not only find errors, it will help you pinpoint where the problems are coming from. By maintaining audit histories and using analytics with slicing/dicing capability, a good data quality system can define where errors are coming from (region, business unit, and department) and can track issue metrics that provide details on where the root problems areas are. These could be errant data-entry forms or systems that allow for incorrect data, insufficient training in certain regions, or perhaps a new form, process, or report that is corrupting data.  An automated system can find these problems before they become crippling to your organization.

To increase their efficiency today and improve their planning for tomorrow, many organizations must rely on their HR data to make informed and accurate business decisions. Nakisa® OrgAudit™ provides a simple and smart way for your organization to take control of critical business data. The solution provides Managers, HR & Executives with a clear process and the tools they need to analyze, cleanse and monitor HR data for better business decision-making. Get more information by visiting our website.

Good luck with your spring cleaning! We look forward to hearing from you to book a demo!

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A guide to unlocking the full potential of human capital management

Have you considered that shifting HR’s center of gravity from compensation management to organizational management could benefit all areas of HR? Without a sound organizational management strategy, the full potential of all other HR activities cannot be achieved.

Check out the webinar slides where we uncover examples of how SAP® Organizational Visualization by Nakisa® (SOVN) is used by leading organizations as a key stepping-stone to form their HR strategy.

Discover how SOVN:

• Helps manage complex HR data so that you can make informed decisions about talent, manage change, and communicate operational information quickly and easily.
• Enables you to efficiently collaborate and communicate with stakeholders on change and restructuring processes.
• Saves you time by avoiding errors and speeding up key processes with real-time write-back to SAP HCM.
• Uses preset data management rules to help you identify and cleanse data anomalies.

A guide to unlocking the full potential of human capital management from Nakisa Inc.

The mobile future is now: Three challenges IT departments are facing in 2014

The demand for anytime, anywhere network access is growing at lightning speed. Businesses now need a well-defined mobile strategy to ensure IT departments have the tools, solutions, security and resources ready to drive the implementation. With the explosion of mobile, IT departments are facing the following challenges:

1.       A growing demand for quick access to information.

It’s true that mobile devices help employees be more efficient no matter where they are, travelling for business or even on public transit. Also, to remain competitive, organizations need to be able to react more quickly to market conditions and customer needs. Mobile technologies are helping businesses become more agile, however, in many cases, it can also disrupt corporate networks. IT departments need to start now to plan for and prepare mobile usage policies.

2.       A secure and efficient management of corporate networks.

IT departments need to know what devices are trying to connect to their networks so they can provide convenient, secure access to those that are authorized. They must establish a standard for connected devices by making an initial inventory of all the devices on the network, categorize them and then set network access policies based on the risk profile of the device. This allows for a secure, convenient access for authorized devices, while providing appropriate limited access for unauthorized devices, notably personal devices employees bring to work.

3.       Numerous requests for “bring your own device” (BYOD) policies.

Businesses are counting on strategic IT departments to come up with robust, simple, scalable and secure BYOD strategies for their enterprise to allow users to access information from their personal devices. A BYOD policy needs to deliver the essentials for secure network access and take into consideration securing mobile devices, simplifying device and network management, and scalability.

IT departments that try to keep up by using traditional network access control methods risk putting their companies at a disadvantage. By choosing the right technology to use on mobile devices for their organization, IT will improve network security and manageability, save time, increase employee productivity and gain strategic business advantage.

Learn about Nakisa® OrgHub™ for Mobile

Nakisa® OrgHub™ for Mobile provides Managers, HR & Executives with the ability to access accurate and up-to-date organizational information anytime, anywhere, enabling both IT and business to make better decisions and communicate more efficiently. With this fully integrated application, people can keep up with the daily pace of business by breaking down the barriers of traditional working and automatically mirroring the existing Nakisa® OrgChart™ application on a mobile device, creating a seamless user experience. Learn how Nakisa® OrgHub™ for Mobile can help you keep up with the speed of business. Download the whitepaper.

Top 10 benefits of using an org chart software

Businesses have been using organizational charts to fulfill a very basic but significant function: visualizing the organization structure. Basically, an org chart is a map as to where exactly you are in an organization. Nevertheless, org charts need to be used updated and defined properly in order to be effective. Without the use of software, org charts can become labor-intensive and mistakes can negatively impact the very core of your business.

1.       Org chart software enables you to easily and readily visualize your entire workforce in real-time, either in the office or on-the-go.

2.       Org chart software enables all your key stakeholders to easily communicate your org chart in an intuitive and adaptable format.

3.       Org chart software helps your workforce to understand how they relate to colleagues, departments and your organization structure as a whole. It also shows the relationships between the organization's workforce.

4.       Org chart software enables the workforce to quickly visualize, access and share complex and accurate HR data in a comprehensive org structure.

5.       Org chart software helps effective project management by enabling managers to view key HR data such as headcount, age, diversity and compensation.

6.       Org chart software helps managers and executives keep up with and visualize organizational changes in an instant.

7.       Org chart software ensures reporting structures and HR data is always 100% up-to-date and accurate with powerful real-time visualization. 

8.       Org chart software helps all business units find employees and colleagues easily with the rapid search functions.

9.       Org chart software helps businesses communicate and share their org chart clearly and accurately with secure printing and exporting.

10.   Org chart software will help employees find colleagues and teams that can help them meet the company’s strategic goals and objectives.

Nakisa® OrgChart™ enables you to easily and readily visualize your entire workforce in real-time, either in the office or on-the-go. With our software, Managers, HR & Executives can make informed decisions about resources, provide a framework for managing change, and efficiently communicate operational information, while employees can navigate the org chart to collaborate on projects with other employees and build professional and social communities to support innovation.

Our Nakisa® OrgChart™ software integrates with human resources data quality software, organizational design software as well as our talent management suite, helping you meet all your human resources needs.