This latest version of the human resources module from the Walldorf, Germany, software giant includes payroll and benefits capabilities, as well as succession planning. In addition, the toolset enables managers to analyze a workforce and develop a catalog of all skills needed to run a business. Workforce Scorecard, Workforce Insight, and Workforce Rewards. Scorecard offers more than 100 different measures of HR effectiveness, while Insight provides an analytical assessment of a workforce, and Rewards simulates various compensation strategies. That tool also does retention planning and risk assessment for various job titles.
Some employees are more critical to the organization than others.
Some are also scattered across the globe. KLA-Tencor, for example, has some 6,000 employees in 19 countries. Crawford says the company completely revamped the home page on its corporate intranet, creating onscreen HR dashboards that can be accessed globally. The employment verification process has been shortened, also using Web-based tools, and HR personnel are responding more quickly to potential candidates. In their case, managers at the Stamford, Connecticut-based Thomson were looking for software that would help senior executives with succession planning.