What does SAS® Talent Scorecard do?

SAS Talent Scorecard enables you to develop strategic human capital plans that support business units and the organiza-tion. This add-on to SAS Human Capital Management helps you communicate human capital strategy, initiatives, alignment, key indicators and progress to build an effective workforce strategy that is aligned with business goals.

Why is SAS® Talent Scorecard important?

As organizations encounter a widening skills gap among employees and changes in workforce demographics, retaining critical talent is of paramount importance. Talent drives innovation and provides business differentiation to gain competitive advantage, and therefore represents a significant component of an organization’s total value. SAS provides the workforce intelligence to build an effective talent strategy that is aligned with business goals.

Who is SAS® Talent Scorecard designed for?

SAS Talent Scorecard is designed for executives and managers who use dashboards, scorecards and strategy maps to align workforce initiatives and activities with strategic goals on a departmental, multidepartmental or organizational level.

SAS® Talent Scorecard

Align the human capital strategy with organizational goals

Overview

In order to develop strategic human capital plans you need to understand the strategy, objectives and perfor-mance of business units and the organization at a glance. Only then can you understand how your talent and your talent initiatives are supporting or not supporting those objectives. Then, you can communicate talent strategy, initiatives, alignment, key indicators and progress to build an effective workforce strategy that is aligned with business goals. Keeping a firm grip on this information directly affects the suc-cess of your organization. Improve the effectiveness of your workforce strategy with a talent dashboard, scorecard and strategy maps.

Unlike standalone performance management applications, SAS Talent Scorecard leverages the workforce data and analysis from SAS Human Capital Management to create an ana-lytical performance management tool to support your organization’s talent initia-tives. Executives can find a competitive advantage in SAS Talent Scorecard, a solution that helps them focus, align and adapt their talent strategies.

SAS Talent Scorecard merges work-force intelligence with strategy maps and scorecards to help you measure, moni-tor and manage workforce plans and tal-ent in support of organizational goals.

Key benefits

Set and graphically view organiza-tional strategy. Create interactive dia-grams or strategy maps, analyze cause and effects and leading or lagging indicators. With SAS Talent Scorecard, you can track KPIs against the orga-nizational structure, as well as see the associations between KPIs and other measures within HR or other units, including projects, goals and objectives.

Measure the impact of human capital initiatives on organizational and departmental performance. To make the most of people’s contribu-tions you need to measure their suc-cess at achieving goals that add value to the organization. With SAS Talent Scorecard, you can measure the overall performance of organizational goals. You can also incorporate traditional or new measures that show how people realize those goals and how your work-force strategy affects them.

Develop dashboard alerts for risk factors. SAS Talent Scorecard lets you spot problems and opportunities quick-ly through customized filters, alerts and navigation. The scorecard leverages the information from SAS Human Capital Management so you have consistent, accurate workforce intelligence for decision making.

FACT SHEET

Solution overview

SAS Talent Scorecard provides both operational dashboards for performance monitoring and strategic scorecards that help align resources and manage performance to achieve strategic goals. This powerful solution enables collaboration by delivering KPIs through a Web browser and by using built-in filtering and alerts to call employees to action when performance falls behind. Once notified, users can employ predictive analytics from SAS to identify the causal linkages between KPIs, discover why performance is not meeting targets and take corrective ac-tion accordingly.

Data access and integration

SAS Talent Scorecard includes a data management and data integra-tion tool that lets you access perfor-mance data wherever it exists in your enterprise. Data can be gathered from virtually any source, including Oracle, ERP and transactional systems.

SAS Talent Scorecard also uses a com-mon data store for metadata and data, which means that it can easily pull data from other SAS solutions, such as SAS Activity-Based Management or SAS Financial Management, for display in a dashboard or as part of a formula con-necting elements of your strategy.

Easy-to-use, Web-based navigation

All information in SAS Talent Scorecard is accessed through a Web-based interface, including definition of score-cards and strategy maps, personaliza-tion, monitoring of metrics, reporting, manual data entry, commenting and administration.

The dashboards and scorecards created in the solution are all easy to navigate, and customizable indicators (including traffic lights, speedometers and any other graphics) ensure that you can quickly find the information you need to make decisions.

Dynamic strategy map and diagram editor

The diagram editor allows you to visual-ize strategy maps and process flows. It dynamically reads from, and writes back to, underlying data tables, so any changes made in the diagram are immediately reflected throughout the application.

Highlight KPIs specific to your organi-zation’s talent and link to supporting scorecards and reports. With 250 pre-packaged KPIs, organizations can get a quick start to managing human capital more strategically.

Link performance indicators and associated activities between critical functions related to human capital using the talent strategy map.

Key Features

Data and metadata management• InadditiontoSASHumanCapitalManagementdata,accessdatafromvirtuallyanysourcesystem,includingOracle,ERPandtransactionalsystems.

• MaintainconsistentmetadatabetweenSASsolutionswithacommondatastore.• AdministerthetechnologyunderpinningsofSASapplications(i.e.,metadataresources)usingacentralizedmanagementframework.

User interface and scorecard creation• Allinteractionisthroughaneasy-to-use,Web-basedinterface.Thisincludesdefinition,personalization,monitoring,reporting,dataentry,commentingandadministration.

• UsespeedometersorothercustomizedimagestosignalKPIstatus.Associateanyimagetoacertainthresholdorrangevalue.Userscancreateanynumberofthresholdranges.

• Drilldownandthroughanyelementintheinterfacetoinvestigateproblems.Thesolutionlinkstodocumentsaswell,suchasreportsandspreadsheets.

• Subscribetoreceivealertsbasedoncustomized,personalthresholds.• Wizardsdrivethecreationandmaintenanceofscorecards.• Manyparameters,suchasformulas,rangesandthresholds,canbecreated,modifiedandmaintainedinbulk.

• Parentscorecardsindicateunderlyingproblemsatthechildscorecardlevel.• Setthecolumnorder,contentandformatinanytableview.• Displayanytimeperiodforanymetrictype(actual,target,status)andchoosetodisplayvalues,colors,rangeiconsordescriptivetext.

• Choosefromfivedisplayviews,includingsimpletableview,aggregatetableview,dashboardgraphs,diagramsandelementassociationtables(whichshowconnectionsbetweendifferentelementtypes,suchasKPIs,objectivesandperspectives).

• UsetheFormulaEditortoconnectelementsfromvariousprojects,scorecards,timeperiods,elementtypesandelements.Morethan60industry-standardSASformulasareincluded.

• EnterdatamanuallyusingaWebbrowser.• IncludehierarchiesinscorecardsandassociatethemwithSASHumanCapitalManagementOrganizationAnalysis.Rollupscouldincludegeography,function,productionsystemortestsystem.

Security and role-based authorization• Establishsecuritypermissionsforspecificelementsorrows,aswellastemplates,projectsandscorecards.

• Assignoneormorerolestoeachuser.Rolesdeterminewhichactionsausercantake.

Comment Manager• UsetheCommentManagertocommentonadocument.• Addacommentthread,addattachmentstocommentsandsortcommentsbyauthor,dateorelement.

Dynamic diagrams• Createstrategymapsandprocessflowsusingadiagrameditorthatreadsfromandwritestotheunderlyingdatabasedynamically.

Integration with Microsoft Office• UseMicrosoftExcelorWordforreportingandanalysisfromthescorecard.

Personalized display options

Each individual’s interface and naviga-tion can be customized to his or her needs and preferences. This means you can choose which metrics you want to track, and you can set personal alert thresholds. Such personalization makes it possible to manage by excep-tion, so you can focus only on the most important items.

Integration with Microsoft Office

You can also use Microsoft Excel and Word for reporting and analysis from the SAS Talent Scorecard database. This integration makes it easy to incor-porate metrics and reports into docu-ments used for communicating strategy and progress toward goals.

Software requirements

SAS Talent Scorecard is a Web application on the mid-tier accessed through a Web browser on the client tier. SAS 9.1 servers run on the data tier to provide metadata, data and compute services.

Client tier

Operating systems

•WindowsXPProfessional

•Windows2000Professional

•Windows2003Professional

Additional software

•AWebbrowserwithcookiesandJavaScript enabled is required. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Version 6.0orlater,issupported.

•JRE1.4.2_09(Sun)

Middle tier

The following list describes supported platforms for SAS Human Capital Management and SAS Information Delivery Portal.

Windows operating systems

•Windows2000ServerorAdvancedServerwithServicePack3

•Windows2003Serveror Advanced Server

•Windows2003Server, Enterprise Edition

UNIX operating systems

•AIX,release5.2or5.3

•Solaris10onSPARC

Data tier

Windows operating systems

•Windows2000ServerorAdvancedServerwithServicePack3

•Windows2003Serveror Advanced Server

•Windows2003Server, Enterprise Edition

Additional required software

•Microsoft® Windows® Script containing Visual Basic® Script Edition (VBScript)Version5.6

•JScript®Version5.6

•WindowsScriptComponents

•WindowsScriptHost5.6

•WindowsScriptRuntimeVersion5.6

•MicrosoftSoftwareUpdateforWebFolders: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;892211

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UNIX operating systems

•AIX,release5.2ML5orhigherML.SAS9.1.3isa64-bitapplicationandrequires64-bitenvironment(hardwareand operating system support) in order to execute.

•Solaris10onSPARC

Database server

•MySQL5.0.22

•MySQLConnector/J5.0.3,commercial version

Additional software

•J2SDK:1.4.2_15(Sun)

•BEAWebLogic8.1withServicePack6(WindowsandUNIXSunSolarisinstallations)

•WebSphereApplicationServerVersion5.1.1.5(UNIXAIXinstallations)

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