Discoverer ad Hoc Report Writing
Features: Writing Reports to user specifications either using standard report templates or Oracle HRMSi tables.
Benefits: Reliable Information, not subject changes made by McKesson 'enhancements'.
Data validation for Payroll Services
Features: Using reports to minimise payroll errors. Reporting and process review. Providing system advice.
Benefits: Payroll is processed accurately to Trust audit standards.
Features: Methodical approach using ESR functionality and reports to cleanse data.
Benefits: Improved data quality in Management Information.
Features: Review procedures, match to processes supporting system design.
Benefits: Highlight areas of financial saving and added value that can be achieved by process change.
Features: Train or demonstrate to users the most cost effective and reliable ways to extract data from ESR . Enable Trusts to utilize the data held in the system to feed into other systems.
Benefits: Improve data quality and interfaces to all systems requiring regular updates of staff and staff movements.
Management Reporting using ESR
Features: Train or demonstrate to users how to produce reports that support their Management objectives.
Benefits: Enable current information needs to be met more efficiently. Enable Managers to have access to more meaningful reports with additional features such as drill down analysis.
Discoverer EUL Tips and Tricks
Features: Train or demonstrate to users the structure of the ESR data items and how they can be joined to create reports.
Benefits: Enable trusts to report on any item held in the system.
Features: Train users to use discoverer either by generic course or by a course to suit specific needs.
Benefits: Access to unique knowledge enabling users to meet all their reporting needs when fully trained.
Integrating ESR Reports into Management Reporting Suites
Features: Analysis of current Reporting needs, replacing with ESR Reports where appropriate. Using ESR information to enhance other Reports e.g. performance management, financial information.
Benefits. Providing comprehensive Reporting mechanisms that provide quality data cost effectively.
Managing Organisational Change
Features: Informing users of the best methods of data cleansing /employee reclassification so that reports provide information that accurately reflects their organization structure, and implementing new hierarchical and accounting code structures.
Benefits: Enable Senior Managers to plan for change and manage change more effectively.
Financial Modelling / What if scenarios?
Features: A feature of ESR that is not widely appreciated enabling users to create parallel hypothetical organization structures using current information to demonstrate the effects of organizational restructure.
Benefits: Enable Senior Managers to plan for change and manage change more effectively.
ESR for Management Accountants
Features: The Finance function has as much of an interest people management as any other ESR users yet involvement in systems and information issues seems to be focused on HR and Payroll.
Benefits: By presenting ESR from the Accountants perspective I can tell you what to expect from ESR. How to get make the most of ESR and how to improve data quality of costing data produced in ESR.
Features: ESR as an all-encompassing HR database managed by a third party, that can be viewed and directly affected by various internal and external influences presents many challenges to auditors.
Benefits: As a trained accountant with financial and systems audit experience that has been involved with ESR design for 6 1/2 years I can help you with establishing data quality, system audits, procedural issues, areas of risk, data protection and security.
Integrating ESR with other Management Information Systems
Features: ESR should be a fundamental part of the trusts IT strategy. It is the most reliable source of people information available and as an Oracle database relatively easy to extract information that can be interfaced or transferred to other systems.
Benefits: I can advise how to put in to place a strategy based on specific internal needs that can deliver improved data quality and eliminating the costs brought about by relying on several disparate sources of data.