Achmea, the largest insurance group in the Dutch market, employs 22,000 people working in six departments: Care, Pensions, Social Security, Direct Distribution, Monetary Distribution and Intermediary Distribution, and Group IT Services. Each division has its own key activities and operates under several brands. Cognos will be implemented across the enterprise to support business-critical and strategic goals, including financial and business scenario-based planning.

With Cognos 8 BI, Achmea will have a single product that easily integrates into its existing infrastructure, which has multiple systems and data sources. After Cognos successfully implemented two performance management projects for the Social Security Division in 2006, Achmea decided to implement Cognos across its enterprise. The Cognos consulting organization played a crucial role in the successful completion of the projects by aligning Achmea’s strategic objectives with the Cognos 8 BI implementation.

“We use integrated business performance management to monitor the strategy execution,” said Miloje Stevanovic, Manager of Change Management and IT at Achmea. “Cognos 8 BI provides us with a very solid base and a strong information platform.”

Achmea now has the complete range of BI capabilities from analysis, scorecarding, and reporting, on a single, proven architecture. In addition to delivering a single point of entry for business managers to access information, Cognos 8 BI will simplify deployment and administration for the IT department and reduce programming time. Cognos 8 BI is a groundbreaking product that provides decision makers at all levels of the enterprise with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. As a single product that easily integrates into existing infrastructures with multiple systems and data sources, Cognos 8 BI is a robust technology foundation for BI standardization and performance management.

“More and more companies realize that they aren’t able to increase their efficiency with their operational systems,” said Laurence Trigwell, senior director of financial services solutions at Cognos. “Strategic information is what matters. Achmea’s standardization is demonstrative of our vision of BI and performance management working together across the enterprise for all decision makers. Achmea now has a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage its performance.”

Achmea is the largest insurance group on the Dutch market. Achmea operates under brands such as Interpolis, Centraal Beheer Achmea, Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Avéro Achmea and FBTO. The common ambition of all insurers and service providers in Achmea is to take care of their clients’ cares. Central questions in this matter are safety, health, pension, workforce participation, company continuity and conditions of employment.

Companies are increasingly recognizing the importance of measuring the return on their investment in personnel-related expenses, such as recruiting, direct compensation, training, benefits, and outsourcing. In addition to implementing Hyperion software to streamline financial operations, these organizations are extending their use of Hyperion’s BPM and business intelligence (BI) capabilities into workforce reporting and analysis. Expanding the use of Hyperion System 9 software can help human resources managers, business line managers, and company executives:

* Consolidate and integrate enterprise data sources to create a single system for human resources reporting and analysis, which complements and leverages the workforce data in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resource transaction systems
* Gain critical insight into the impact of human capital spending on corporate strategy and objectives
* Synchronize workforce-related expense plans with the financial budgeting and forecasting process to create a consolidated view of the workforce and its productivity
* Decrease manual reporting effort and reliance on IT for custom reports with self-serve analysis of the workforce along any dimension: by function, level, department, geographical location, length of service, etc.
* Integrate consolidated data with existing planning and reporting processes and internal measurement tools for immediate, accurate insight into workforce demographics, diversity, compensation, hiring, attrition, and performance trends

Creating a single, worldwide business intelligence system for human resources benefits organizations by allowing more time for higher value analysis and decision making, shortening compliance reporting cycles, creating greater confidence in reported results, and identifying top human capital drivers to allow for the allocation of human resources investments to drive company success.

“With approximately 18,000 unionized employees located in multiple facilities across several states, it was an arduous and time consuming task to gather the information necessary to support union contract negotiations,” said Dan Rodriguez, assistant general counsel for Tenet Healthcare. “Hyperion’s modeling capabilities coupled with Hitachi Consulting’s deep knowledge of human capital and their ability to partner with Tenet to deliver a time critical solution focused on wages, benefits, employee tenure, and financial performance have enabled us to anticipate likely negotiation scenarios and quickly develop supporting positions and counter proposals based on factual data.”

Hyperion works closely with its human resources partners to provide solutions that address the most pressing human resources needs of today’s enterprise. Combining Hyperion System 9 software with partner solutions specifically developed for human resources allows organizations to use human capital investments to drive competitive advantage. These offerings include:

* Workforce Insight. A solution from DoubleStar, Inc., Workforce Insight leverages Hyperion software to deliver operational reports, metrics, and analytics to business users. Developed specifically for human resources, Workforce Insight addresses human capital measurement, provides human resources and corporate executives with accurate data from multiple data sources, eliminates manual reporting, and allows executives to link workforce performance with business performance management.
* Human Capital Management. Companies using Hyperion’s capabilities in their Finance or Operations functions can also apply them to their human capital measurement needs using Hitachi Consulting’s Human Capital Analytics Framework. The Human Capital Analytics Framework lets organizations get the most value from their human capital by enabling both human resources professionals, as well as line and executive leaders, to understand the causes and effects of relationships between people, corporate performance, and operational efficiency.
* Workforce Analytics. Business & Decision, a Hyperion consulting partner, leverages the complete Hyperion BPM platform to meet the most challenging customer requests and deliver enhanced planning and reporting capabilities on large group human resources challenges. Business & Decision uses Essbase and Hyperion Planning advanced analytics to simulate and model complex human resources forecasts and seamlessly integrates with Hyperion BI+ to publish reports or dashboards.

“Our workforce is our most critical company asset and we need tools to help us understand the profile of our workforce, how well it is performing, and where to apply our investments to improve and leverage human capital,” said Steve McMahon, vice president of human resources at Hyperion. “That’s why we use Hyperion System 9 as the reporting and analysis system for our own company. It provides us with the immediate insight that we need to assess workforce gaps, define opportunities, and plan for the future.”

For more information on Hyperion software-based solutions for human resources, visit: http://www.hyperion.com/solutions/lob/hr/