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SAS® Talent Scorecard

Align the human capital strategy with organizational goals

As part of a larger enterprise approach to performance management, SAS® Talent Scorecard combines the strengths of SAS Human Capital Management and SAS Strategic Performance Management to develop human capital scorecards and strategy maps, allowing organizations to better manage their workforce strategy in support of organizational goals.

Benefits

  • Set and graphically view organizational strategy.
  • Analyze cause and effect and leading or lagging indicators.
  • Measure the impact of human capital initiatives performance.
  • Develop dashboard alerts for risk factors.

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Features

  • Data and metadata management
  • Easy-to-use interface and scorecard creation
  • Personalized display options
  • Dynamic diagrams
  • Integration with Microsoft Office

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Use talent strategy maps to link performance indicators.


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How SAS® Is Different

Only SAS Talent Scorecard combines the strengths of SAS Human Capital Management and SAS Strategic Performance Management to develop human capital scorecards and strategy maps.
  • Prepackaged metrics allow you to measure and analyze key indicators.
  • Integrated business and industry solutions are available as your organization grows.
  • Integrated analytics let you plan for future needs, generate accurate forecasts and perform "what-if" analyses.

Benefits

  • Set and graphically view organizational strategy. With SAS Talent Scorecard, you can track KPIs against the organizational structure in a Web-based interface that can be customized to fit your needs.
  • Analyze cause and effect and leading or lagging indicators. With the strategy map, you can see the associations between KPIs and other measures such as projects, goals and objectives to determine why performance is or isn’t on target.
  • Measure the impact of human capital initiatives performance. SAS Talent Scorecard lets you establish a hierarchy of dashboards and scorecards, diagram cause-and-effect relationships between metrics and build custom navigation – all to help align your entire organization toward common goals.
  • Develop dashboard alerts for risk factors. SAS Talent Scorecard lets you spot problems and opportunities quickly through customized filters, alerts and navigation. The scorecard leverages the information from SAS Human Capital Management so you have consistent, accurate human capital intelligence for decision making.

Features

Data and metadata management
  • In addition to SAS Human Capital Management data, access data from virtually any source system, including Microsoft Excel, Oracle, DB2, SAP and legacy systems.
  • Consistent metadata can be maintained between SAS solutions with a common data store.
  • The technology underpinnings of SAS applications (i.e., metadata resources) are maintained using a centralized management framework.
Easy-to-use interface and scorecard creation
  • All interaction, including data entry, is through an easy-to-use, Web-based interface.
  • Wizards drive the creation and maintenance of scorecards.
  • Parent scorecards indicate underlying problems at the child scorecard level.
  • Hierarchies are included in scorecards and data and associate them with the SAS Human Capital Management Organization Analysis.
  • Formula Editor includes more than 60 industry-standard SAS formulas to help you connect various projects, scorecards, time periods, element types and elements.
  • Problems can be investigated by drilling into detailed information about any element in the interface.
Personalized display options
  • Customized images are used to indicate thresholds or range values, including KPI status.
  • Many parameters, such as formulas, ranges and thresholds, can be created, modified and maintained in bulk.
  • Alerts can be customized based on personal thresholds.
  • The column order, content and format can be set in any table view.
  • Any time period for any metric can be displayed, allowing you to choose display values, colors, range icons or descriptive text.
  • Five display views are available, including simple table view, aggregate table view, dashboard graphs, diagrams and element association tables.
Dynamic diagrams
  • Strategy maps and process flows are created using a diagram editor that reads from, and writes to, the underlying database dynamically.
Integration with Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word can be used for reporting and analysis from the scorecard.

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Use talent strategy maps to link performance indicators.

Talent strategy maps link performance indicators and associated activities between critical functions related to human capital.

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Highlight KPIs specific to your organization’s talent and link to supporting scorecards and reports.

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

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This talent scorecard provides an overview of where under and acceptable performance lies and where help may be needed.

This talent scorecard provides an overview of where under and acceptable performance lies and where help may be needed. Managers can drill down to child scorecards to determine causes of under performance.

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System Requirements

SAS Talent Scorecard is a strategy management product that enhances the use of SAS Human Capital Management. It includes a rich client and a Microsoft Excel add-in on the client tier, and a Web application on the middle tier. A Web browser may be used on the client tier to view the Web application. SAS 9.1 servers run on the data tier to provide metadata, data and compute services.

Windows (using WebLogic)

Client Tier

Operating systems
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows 2000 Professional
  • Windows 2003 Professional
Additional software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
  • Microsoft Excel 2000 or later (for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
  • Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 (for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
  • JRE: 1.4.2_09 (Sun)

Mid tier

The following list describes supported platforms for SAS Talent Scorecard and SAS Information Delivery Portal.

Operating systems
  • Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server Service Pack 3
  • Windows 2003 Server or Advanced Server
  • Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition
Additional software
  • J2SDK: 1.4.2_05 (Sun)
  • BEA WebLogic8.1 Service Pack 6
  • Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) 4.2.35 or Apache HTTP Server 2.0.45

Data tier

Operating systems
  • Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server Service Pack 3
  • Windows 2003 Server or Advanced Server, SE or EE
Database server
  • MySQL 5.0.22
Additional software
  • Adobe Reader 6.0.1 or later (for online help)
  • J2SDK 1.4.2_05 (Sun)
  • BEA WebLogic 8.1 Service Pack 6
  • Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) 4.2.35 or Apache HTTP Server 2.0.45

AIX (using WebSphere)

Client tier

Operating systems
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows 2000 Professional
  • Windows 2003 Professional
Additional software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
  • Microsoft Excel 2000 or later (for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
  • JRE: 1.4.2_09 (Sun)

Mid tier and data tier

The following list describes supported platforms for SAS Talent Scorecard and SAS Information Delivery Portal.
Operating systems
  • AIX 5.2 or 5.3
Database server
  • MySQL 5.0.22
Additional software
  • J2SDK 1.4.2_05 (Sun)
  • Adobe Reader 6.0.1 or later (for online help)
  • WebSphere Application ServerNetwork Deployment Version 5.1.1.5
  • Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) 4.2.35or Apache HTTP Server 2.0.45

Sun Solaris (using WebLogic)

Client tier

Operating systems
  • Sun Solaris 10
Additional software
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
  • Microsoft Excel 2000 or later (for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
  • Microsoft .NET framework 1.1 (for SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
  • JRE: 1.4.2_09 (Sun)

Mid tier and data tier

The following list describes supported platforms for SAS Talent Scorecard and SAS Information Delivery Portal.
Operating systems
  • Sun Solaris 10
Database server
  • MySQL 5.0.22
Additional software
  • J2SDK: 1.4.2_05 (Sun)
  • BEA WebLogic 8.1 Service Pack 6
  • Xythos WebFile Server (WFS) 4.2.35or Apache HTTP Server 2.0.45

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