Data & Analytics

No one can question the importance of analytics in the business world. As the technology behind data use becomes more sophisticated, HR departments are challenged to find metrics that provide true and accurate measures of both their performance and that of the organization’s workforce as a whole. Here we examine the progress of technology surrounding data’s use and explore how companies can ensure they’re measuring the correct things.

Brent Skinner is co-founder, director and principal analyst of HCM practice at the analyst firm 3Sixty Insights. We spoke with him about how HR has leveraged technology to run their organization more smoothly, help plan its future, and also about new technologies it might adopt. When it comes to advanced...
Qualtrics and Nexthink, a digital employee experience management software provider, announced a partnership aimed at improving the digital employee experience their joint customers offer their workers. The collaboration brings together both operational data from Nexthink and employee experience data from Qualtrics “to provide companies insights on where and how they...
You can love data, you can hate data, but you can’t argue that it’s not important to hiring. We’re going to talk about what that means on the ground – to recruiters and talent acquisition specialists – with today’s guest – Michael Fitzsimmons, the CEO of Crosschq. They provide...
Transcript Mark: Welcome to People Tech the podcast of the HCM Technology Report. I'm Mark Feffer. Mark: My guest today is Eric Sydell, executive vice president of innovation at Modern Hire. They're a science based recruiting platform with tools that touch multiple steps in the hiring process. We're going to talk about data,...
Paycor released new functionality within its Paycor Analytics tool, offering customers predictive analysis to understand employee turnover. The feature give HR and business leaders insights from their own company data, Paycor said, including identification of at-risk employees, factors driving the risk of resignation, expected resignation across organizations and locations,...
Oracle added new features to Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Analytics in a bid to help employers identify blind spots and use data to help keep employees engaged and growing. Built on Oracle’s Analytics Cloud and Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM Analytics delivers analysis and insights that HR can...
Qualtrics announced the addition of Experience ID to its Experience Management system. The new offering provides a unified view of data shared by both customers and employees, including their preferences, beliefs and feelings about their experiences with a product or brand. The system enables companies to personalize experiences at scale,...
The pandemic hasn’t suppressed the need for employers to improve their approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. Employees, candidates and customers all make it their business to examine a company’s efforts and results in DEI. That puts talent acquisition and HR teams under pressure to imagine and implement DEI...
isolved launched Predictive People Analytics, designed to make data analysis more readily available to help employers navigate the Great Resignation. Even as companies struggle to find and retain employees, only 57% of HR leaders rate their company’s employee experience as “good,” a survey by isolved found. One of the most...
Burning Glass Technologies said it will merge with Emsi, a labor market data firm, with the backing of its primary investor KKR. Terms were not disclosed. The combined company, to be called Emsi Burning Glass, will be led by Burning Glass CEO Matt Sigelman. Andrew Crapuchettes, Emsi’s former CEO,...