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Svapa Presentation
Changing Technology
Scott E. Townsend, President
Scott E. Townsend’s Payroll Journey
1988 – 1994 Reported to Najeeb Khan, CEO and founder of Interlogic Systems, Inc.
2008 – 2009 Director, Payroll Services with Westaff (acquired by Staff Leasing)
Part 2 – Demos showing key benefits of a new reporting and analysis framework
Conclusion
What is Business Intelligence?
A management decision support framework that empowers business users to
understand data => resulting in actionable insights that improve the business.
• A collection of database and software technologies
• Business intelligence uses a special multi-dimensional database
• In the process, it can unify data across multiple independent data silos
• This is true for ERP systems like SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, etc.
• And for smaller payroll platforms like Paylocity, SaaSHR, Evolution, MPay, etc.
In this example:
Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174587(v=sql.90).aspx
What does a Multi-Dimensional Database look like?
DIMENSION
In this example:
Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174587(v=sql.90).aspx
What does a Multi-Dimensional Database look like?
MEASURE CONTEXT
ROUTE:
Non-Ground / Air
SOURCE:
Eastern Hemisphere / Australia
TIME:
2nd Half / 4th Quarter on November
27, 1999
Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174587(v=sql.90).aspx
What does a Multi-Dimensional Database look like?
HIERARCHY
• Often, payroll services are from disparate systems making integration difficult
• Report writers are inflexible and do not support exploring data dynamically
• Users have to deal with “payroll codes” (i.e. cryptic, there is no metadata)
What most Payroll Vendor offerings look like today:
With BI – Payroll Vendors can look like this:
Reporting starts from this: (we still need these transactional reports)
And adds this: (a new analytical view of data leading to insight)
Demo
Use BI now! Or, why wait?
What we’ve just seen is a formal data warehouse and cube solution
But, it’s possible to achieve impressive results with common tools like Excel
Once this was done, we could analyze our data and start using slicers
Companies that have large data volumes and want data visualizations to help them:
• Share analysis and make better decisions through KPI’s and Scorecards
Formalization
http://www.bgsi.com http://www.insight4m3.com
BI can help payroll professionals give real management decision support within their
organizations
We believe business intelligence plays a very strong role in the future of our industry!
Scott E. Townsend, President
scott@bgsi.com
(408) 730-6821 or Toll Free (866) 241-0428
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