People Analytics Platform is managed as-a-service. You don’t have to bother IT in order to get things up and running.

Frequently asked questions

What is the People Analytics Platform?

Houston Analytics’ People Analytics Platform will put complex HR data into shape by combining different structured and unstructured data sources together. Insight ready data model allows you to capture all relevant phenomena through the employee lifecycle and identify relevant trends and connections that exist between the various data points. You can use it with your organization’s preferred BI tool.

What are the benefits of the People Analytics Platform?

It automates standard HR reporting processes enabling HR analysts to focus on more value-added work.

Used with the BI tool your organization is already familiar with you can prevent unnecessary costs and training – and share the insights and KPI’s with other parts of the organization like finance and business management.

With synchronized data base and data models you can flexibly add additional data sources to increase your analysis and forecasting capabilities.

Also, when you feed insights back to operational systems you can optimize processes and support decision-making.

What kind of technical capabilities does my organization need to deploy this?

No IT needed is the premise. The solution is managed as-a-service.

How does the People Analytics Platform differ from for example basic cloud platform?

Cloud platform is like a storage whereas the People Analytics platform creates a synchronized data base that – together with the data models that come with the platform organize the elements of data and standardize how different data points relate to one another.

What are the basic pre-built data models?

Data models are the “smarts” behind any analytics. They organize the elements of data and standardize how they relate to one another making analytics scalable.

See the online demo to discover what types of reporting and analysis the pre-build data models enable.

Can the dashboards be customized if we need some specific insights or analytics from our workforce?

Absolutely. Houston Analytics' data scientists and HR experts can help you to create basically any type of reporting, analytics and forecasting models.

How is data privacy managed?

Role based access to employee data will ensure that different users will have access rights only to the relevant details and protect privacy of individuals. 

As an additional feature the People Analytics Platform extended with GDPR solution that lets you efficiently manage information requests to personal data.

What core HCM solutions are supported - can I flexibly add data from other sources?

All modern HCM solutions such as Workday, SuccessFactors, Cornerstone and Oracle HCM are supported. You can add any data source – engagement surveys, assessments, WFM, CRM, financials, safety, weather…

What BI tools is the People Analytics Platform compatible with?  

The most common BI tools like PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud and IBM Cognos Analytics.  Basically any BI tool can be integrated.

Can you do workforce optimization with the People Analytics Platform?

People Analytics Platform itself does not do that however  the synchronized data base such as this is prerequisite for optimization. Houston Analytics' WFM solution gets you covered when it comes to workforce management and optimization.