HR Management Case Studies

Case Studies

New York Power Authority saves time, money and greatly improves their succession planning with Aquire’s OrgPublisher™ for SAP and Succession

New York Power Authority may produce some of the cheapest electricity in North America, but the country’s largest state-owned power organization was paying a high price in time and resources by creating org charts and succession plans manually. Now what use to take weeks is accomplished in minutes using OrgPublisher for SAP and OrgPublisher Succession.

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Aquire’s Orgpublisher™ Organizational Charting Solution Enables Daimler To Accurately Visualize Their Entire Workforce

With their internal organizational reporting solution unable to chart every one of their 25,000 employees in three countries, Daimler AG’s North American business units were making decisions based on an incomplete workforce picture. Their search for a complete charting solution that could also integrate with Daimler’s existing global HRIS ended with an endorsement from one of their own.

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OrgPublisher™ Streamlines Planning and Improves Productivity for Acclaimed Regional Hospital System

The Harris County Hospital District includes Ben Taub Hospital, LBJ Hospital and other facilities. With one of the highest concentrations of uninsured and underinsured individuals in the nation, it has gained national attention for its critical healthcare needs.

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OrgPublisher™ Helps London Borough Streamline Its Workforce and Save Pounds

The governing body of Southwark, a borough of London, England, needed an automated, simple way to give its 5,500 member staff access to updated, accurate HR information from its SAP application. Additionally, managers wanted individuals without SAP HR access to be able to access HR information siloed there.

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Global Pharmaceutical Industry Supplier Ports Vital Oracle HR Database Information to Employee Intranet

Colorcon needed to make better use of the vital HR information residing in the Oracle® module it was using for its global Human Resource programs. While the employee information was available, there was no simple, scaleable way for managers anddirectors to quickly see how the company was structured from top to bottom or to obtain actionable HR information.

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A Texas Community College System Relies on OrgPublisher™ by Aquire for More Actionable Workforce Planning, Efficiency and Savings

North Harris Montgomery Community College District (NHMCCD) needed an organizational charting solution that would give its HR department – and others – quicker, easier access to more meaningful and actionable workforce information. Whatever organizational management solution it chose needed to be able to integrate with Datatel, a leading provider of fully-integrated enterprise information management and planning solutions for higher education. Other requirements included eliminating time-consuming manually-created org charts, improving data accuracy, faster access to better data, and simple management to keep ongoing support costs in check.

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Automotive Industry Leader Deploys OrgPublisher™ by Aquire for Efficiency, “What-If” Planning & Better Workforce Decisions

A $9.4 billion force in the diversified automotive industry, JM Family Enterprises, Inc., had for years juggled growth, acquisitions and a very competitive business environment. It needed a better way to track, analyze and obtain actionable information about its growing — and distributed — workforce.

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EMC Corporation, a Satisfied Aquire Customer for Organizational Charting, to Deploy Unifi Solution for More Robust and Actionable Workforce Planning

With a globally distributed workforce, including the world’s largest storage-dedicated direct sales and service force, EMC has relied on Aquire’s HR software solutions for several years for organizational charting and efficient workforce planning. But then they began the quest for even more robust HR management options like collaborative succession planning and modeling capabilities.

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Software Leader Deploys OrgPublisher™ to Reduce Costs, Save Time, and Receive a Clearer Workforce Picture

With more than 30 years of expertise, 15,000 customers and a million licensed users, Micro Focus had grown to become an enterprise application modernization company serving more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies. But its growth was bringing challenges. In order to stay nimble and to save time and money, it needed information about its workforce - clear, easily obtained, actionable information.

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Global Farming and Industrial Equipment Company Seeds Efficiency with Deployment of Organizational Charting Solutions by Aquire

Deere & Company may be rooted in an age-old activity — farming — but when it comes to sowing the seeds of efficiency, it never stops looking for more fertile ground. Its organizational charting solution is a good example. With a highly distributed global business, it needed a better way for managers to quickly and easily access and use information about its workforce.

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Rapidly Growing Nonprofit Financial Services Organization Stays Efficient and Nimble with the Org Charting Solution, OrgPublisher™ by Aquire

With offices and clients distributed across the United States, Money Management International (MMI) was a company that was growing rapidly — so rapidly, in fact, that it was losing the “small company” feel that had made it such a pleasant and productive place to work.

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Full-service Canadian Financial Services Company Reduces Costs, Saves Time and Streamlines Hires and Transfers with OrgPublisher™

Based in Edmonton, Alberta and with assets of $19 billion, ATB serves more than 600,000 Alberta residents. It offers a full range of wealth management products and services under the banner of ATB Investor Services and employs approximately 4,000 associates. It started with the installation of a new Human Resource Information System at ATB Financial, a Canadian provider of banking and financial services. The process of migrating to the new system drove home the need for added efficiency regarding the hiring, tracking, management and deployment of employees. One of the required tools to achieve these goals, ATB realized, would be a new organizational charting solution.

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With Designs on a More Efficient Organizational Charting Solution, Autodesk Switches to Aquire and Enjoys Better Workforce Decisions

A Fortune 1000 company, Autodesk is wholly-focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. When it needed a new organizational charting solution, Autodesk had several goals in mind: Flexibility. Efficiency. Simple SAP integration. Improved workflow and improved visibility throughout the organization. Increased user adoption. One thing it already knew: The software it was using - an Aquire competitor - wasn’t getting the job done.

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Solvay Consolidates Global SAP® HR Data and Organizational Management with Aquire’s OrgPublisher™ for SAP® Solutions

HR specialists at Solvay, a global leader in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, were faced with more complex hierarchies and responsibilities as the company grew in size and global presence. Besides geographical factors, the separation of functional and hierarchical structures, which is typical for multi-line organizations, added to the complexity of their organizational design. Couple that with a lack of visibility to these structures and the HR department was left without the necessary information needed to plan, develop and manage critical workforce data.

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With the Help of OrgPublisher™ by Aquire, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Enhances SAP®, Saves Time, Improves Data Accuracy & Streamlines Workflow

In 2004, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania decided that too much of the information it was collecting about its 100,000-plus employees wasn’t being used effectively. Additionally, there were too many errors in data, and employees were spending too much time trying to create static org charts. Since the Commonwealth was implementing SAP for Enterprise Resource Planning, it decided to search for a centralized organizational charting solution that could integrate easily with SAP while helping HR professionals do their jobs.

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Global Defense Company Reigns in Costs and Saves Time by Deploying OrgPublisher™ by Aquire for Its Organizational Charting Solutions

The problem was simple - but until Aquire came into the picture, it was also unsolvable. A global defense company with more than 100,000 employees was spending too much time and money trying to create organizational charts. The company was struggling with how to centralize employee data for the charts, which was housed in both PeopleSoft® and Lawson®. It also wanted more flexibility and accuracy, increased efficiency and better HR decisions, along with improved visibility throughout the organization. Not only did it realize all those benefits with OrgPublisher by Aquire, but it also developed a solution for notifying managers of time card issues that may save millions annually.

Before deploying Aquire solutions, the company’s organizational charts had to be created in Microsoft® PowerPoint, converted to PDFs, converted again into Web-ready documents to be published to the Internet and, finally, published to the Internet. This process was very time consuming. But that wasn’t the only issue. The process lended itself to inaccuracies that never got fixed - or got fixed too late - because of the time it took to get any changes into the system…

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Global Pharmaceutical Leader Realizes Enhanced, Simple SAP® Functionality and Streamlined Workforce Management, Thanks to OrgPublisher™

Prior to implementing OrgPublisher, this global pharmaceutical leader relied on manually updated organizational charting and directories. This labor-intensive process was error-prone and not effective enough in giving managers the information they needed to make quick and effective decisions. Employees were spending too much time creating charts - and managers were spending too much time waiting for them, too often making decisions without adequate information. The answer came via an innovative product: OrgPublisher by Aquire. Easily and quickly integrating with the company’s SAP system, OrgPublisher provided a fast, simple way to view its most important asset - its people - and therefore a faster, more efficient way to make better organizational decisions.

With tens of thousands of employees worldwide and products marketed in more than 100 countries, this highly distributed company is constantly looking to streamline operations and help its workforce and management make better, faster decisions in order to provide better products in a globally competitive environment…

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OrgPublisher Energizes Southern Company, Fueling Increased Efficiency and Cost Savings

With 4 million customers and nearly 39,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier super-regional energy company in the Southeast and a leading U.S. producer of electricity.

Though it has 25,000 employees and nine operating companies, Southern did not have a consistent, automated way to create or distribute an accurate picture of its organization. Its people used a confusing and inefficient combination of presentation graphics programs and drawing and diagramming software. As a result data integrity and critical HR functions were negatively affected. Inefficiency reigned.

When researching automated organization chart software, the company found that only OrgPublisher by Aquire had the flexibility and high level of performance it required. “The first day we used OrgPublisher we had an org chart up and running,” said Tim Moon, HR Staff Analyst. “It was amazing.”…

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Trustmark Relies on OrgPublisher for Intranets for Fast, Accurate Updates and More Efficiency

Trustmark (NASDAQ: TRMK), a diverse and efficient financial services company with more than 50 offices in Mississippi and Tennessee, recently discovered one area where inefficiency reigned. The problem was its organizational charting solution – or, more accurately, the lack of a solution. Trustmark was updating its organizational charts manually. It was taking five associates up to 50 hours each, per month, to generate charts. Then it deployed OrgPublisher, an organization chart software by Aquire.

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