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Semantic search, multi-browser viewing, optimized reports — we’ve made numerous enhancements based on user feedback to make OrgPublisher 10.1 more powerful than ever before. New features optimize report layouts, speed data searches and increase workflow efficiency so that you can produce the reports you need at a moment’s notice. Mike Cantrell gives you the full tour of OrgPublisher 10.1 features and benefits in this live demo.

Trustmark (NASDAQ: TRMK), a diverse and efficient financial services company with more than 50 offices in Mississippi and Tennessee, recently discovered one area where inefficiency reigned. The problem was its organizational charting solution — or, more accurately, the lack of a solution. Trustmark was updating its organizational charts manually. It was taking five associates up to 50 hours each, per month, to generate charts. Then it deployed OrgPublisher, an organizational charting software solution by Aquire.

With tens of thousands of employees worldwide and products marketed in more than 100 countries, this highly distributed company is constantly looking to streamline operations and help its workforce and management make better, faster decisions in order to provide better products in a globally competitive environment.

The problem was simple — but until Aquire came into the picture, it was also unsolvable. A global defense company with more than 100,000 employees was spending too much time and money trying to create organizational charts. The company was struggling with how to centralize employee data for the charts, which was housed in both PeopleSoft® and Lawson®. It also wanted more flexibility and accuracy, increased efficiency and better HR decisions, along with improved visibility throughout the organization.

In 2004, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania decided that too much of the information it was collecting about its 100,000-plus employees wasn’t being used effectively. Additionally, there were too many errors in data, and employees were spending too much time trying to create static org charts. Since the Commonwealth was implementing SAP for Enterprise Resource Planning, it decided to search for a centralized organizational charting solution that could integrate easily with SAP while helping HR professionals do their jobs.

HR specialists at Solvay, a global leader in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, were faced with more complex hierarchies and responsibilities as the company grew in size and global presence. Besides geographical factors, the separation of functional and hierarchical structures, which is typical for multiline organizations, added to the complexity of their organizational design. Couple that with a lack of visibility to these structures and the HR department was left without the necessary information needed to plan, develop and manage critical workforce data.

A Fortune 1000 company, Autodesk is wholly -focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. When it needed a new organizational charting solution, Autodesk had several goals in mind: Flexibility. Efficiency. Simple SAP integration. Improved workflow and improved visibility throughout the organization. Increased user adoption. One thing it already knew: The software it was using — an Aquire competitor —  wasn’t getting the job done.

It all started with the installation of a new Human Resource Information System at ATB Financial, a Canadian provider of banking and financial services. The process of migrating to the new system drove home the need for added efficiency regarding the hiring, tracking, management and deployment of employees. One of the required tools to achieve these goals, ATB realized, would be a new organizational charting solution.

Deere & Company may be rooted in an age-old activity — farming — but when it comes to sowing the seeds of efficiency, it never stops looking for more fertile ground. Its organizational charting solution is a good example. With a highly distributed global business, it needed a better way for managers to quickly and easily access and use information about its workforce.

With more than 30 years of expertise, 15,000 customers and a million licensed users, Micro Focus had grown to become an enterprise application modernization company serving more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100 companies. But its growth was bringing challenges. In order to stay nimble and to save time and money, it needed information about its workforce — clear, easily obtained, actionable information.

Colorcon needed to make better use of the vital HR information residing in the Oracle module it was using for its global Human Resource programs. While the employee information was available, there was no simple, scalable way for managers and directors to quickly see how the company was structured from top to bottom or to obtain actionable HR information.

The governing body of Southwark, a borough of London, England, needed an automated, simple way to give its 5,500-member staff access to updated, accurate HR information from its SAP application. Additionally, managers wanted individuals without SAP HR access to be able to access HR information siloed there.

The Harris County Hospital District includes Ben Taub Hospital, LBJ Hospital and other facilities. With one of the highest concentrations of uninsured and underinsured individuals in the nation, it has gained national attention for its critical healthcare needs.

With their internal organizational reporting solution unable to chart every one of their 25,000 employees in three countries, Daimler AG’s North American business units were making decisions based on an incomplete workforce picture. Their search for a complete charting solution that could also integrate with Daimler’s existing global HRIS ended with an endorsement from one of their own.

When this regional grocery chain of 150+ stores made a major operations strategy change, it required radical restructuring of every department. The current method of manually creating charts to test multiple scenarios was no longer an option. Find out why OrgPublisher Premier, along with Succession and Modeling, proved to be a wise buy for this retailer.

In today’s modern economy, most organizations spend thousands, if not millions, of dollars on solutions that track critical business assets: financial data, customer information and IT hardware, to name a few. While these assets are important, they do not facilitate tracking or managing the single most important asset in every organization: the company’s workforce and organizational structure. We’ve got five reasons that show the benefits of doing so.

Visibility into your data both mitigates risk and improves compliance odds. Aquire offers workforce planning and analytics solutions that deliver value throughout every area of the enterprise in cost avoidance, business continuity and more.

Overcoming the obstacles to effectively structuring your workforce requires visibility into your workforce data. It’s not difficult when you have the right tools to corral information from multiple HR and ERP systems and create automatic org charts. Learn more about best practices for managing your workforce’s structure.

OrgPublisher Premier is world-renowned for producing the fastest, most flexible org charts in the industry — but that’s just the starting point. From workforce metrics to succession planning, organizational scenario planning and more, OrgPublisher Premier is the workforce planning solution more and more companies depend on every day. And its seamless integration with SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle and other systems makes OrgPublisher Premier the most versatile solution on the market.

Visibility to open positions within your workforce, to both you and your employees, is a key component to building and retaining a strong team. OrgPublisher Premier from Aquire provides such visibility, helping you search internal resources and giving employees a venue for involvement in planning career aspirations.

In the wake of the Enron scandal, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (commonly referred to as SOX) in order to hold top executives accountable for corporate governance. The following list can help HR professionals identify some of the most common potential problems leading to SOX non-compliance.

Most organizations spend thousands, if not millions, of dollars on solutions that track critical business assets and play a critical role in the success of the business. ERP applications track financial data; CRM applications track customers; network management solutions track critical network devices. But many companies may not be effectively tracking or managing the single most important asset in every organization: workforce data.

This white paper addresses ways to unlock the power of the HR data stored in your PeopleSoft application. Benefits include the ability to structure workforces for optimal performance, improved visibility into workforce information and dramatic reductions in the cost, time and risk associated with strategic workforce transitions.

Companies today spend an inordinate amount of time manually compiling organizational charts and data to visualize their workforce. In this podcast, you will learn exactly what a hierarchy is and how you can easily and quickly build and maintain an accurate view of your workforce. 

Headcount data can play a large role in the choices HR professionals make. Be sure your organization is compiling headcount data in a way that ensures accuracy while allowing for the kind of analysis that leads to smarter workforce decisions. 

Aquire co-founder and CTO Ross Melbourne joins the program to discuss the release of OrgPublisher 10, including new features and the benefits they deliver. Daily workforce reports, ad-hoc reporting and semantic searching are just a few of the exciting new features in OrgPublisher 10. 

Matthew Moore, VP of Marketing for Winshuttle software joins Tom McKeown, President & COO of Aquire, to address organizational restructuring challenges and solutions. Aging workforce, mergers and acquisitions, reductions in force and employee turnover all factor into reorganization challenges. Cumbersome and costly manual processes vs. OrgPublisher’s streamlined automated org charting and modeling capabilities are compared. Learn how Winshuttle’s integration with both OrgPublisher and SAP automated the reorganization process, decreasing costs and time spent creating manual org charts. 

This webinar outlines Aquire’s expertise in handling the many challenges of headcount management while still meeting business objectives using their robust organizational software solutions including OrgPublisher. The crucial nature of talent management, open position management in workforce allocation, as well as the actual cost of layoffs is addressed. The cost-effectiveness of contractor talent management, EEOC tracking and diversity management throughout the span of control of the organization is also discussed. Featured is a case study of a large retail company’s headcount management success and cost-savings by using Aquire’s organizational and modeling and succession planning software. 

Organizations can be too tall, too flat or even too symmetrical — costing your company in the long run. Balance is key, but how do you know where your structure stands? Learn what span of control and layer metrics are and why they are critical elements in analyzing your organization's structure and the impact it has on your business strategy. Lois Melbourne shares the key points you must consider to keep your organization from falling into the critical structural traps that so many companies do. The presentation includes a brief demonstration by Mike Cantrell of Aquire's span of control and layer metrics tools. 

Get to know the world's most popular org charting and workforce reporting solution in this webinar presented by Aquire's Renu Dadlani, PHR. You'll see how detailed metrics and information-rich org charts combine data from multiple sources to give you the cost roll-ups you need for budgeting, performance ratings for a particular division or any ad hoc report you can design. OrgPublisher 10's powerful tools will save your organization time, reduce costs and provide the information you need — when you need it — to make stronger workforce decisions than ever. 

Though it has 25,000 employees and nine operating companies, Southern did not have a consistent, automated way to create or distribute an accurate picture of its organization. Its people used a confusing and inefficient combination of presentation graphics programs and drawing and diagramming software. As a result data integrity and critical HR functions were negatively affected. Inefficiency reigned.

With offices and clients distributed across the United States, Money Management International (MMI) was a company that was growing rapidly — so rapidly, in fact, that it was losing the “small company” feel that had made it such a pleasant and productive place to work. 

North Harris Montgomery Community College District (NHMCCD) needed an organizational charting solution that would give its HR department – and others – quicker, easier access to more meaningful and actionable workforce information. Whatever organizational management solution it chose needed to be able to integrate with Datatel, a leading provider of fully integrated enterprise information management and planning solutions for higher education.