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Overview of Oracle Workforce Analytics

Oracle Workforce Analytics contains information for workforce operations, employee events, and payroll.

The Oracle Workflow Analytics application has the following functional areas:

• Compensation. Workforce Compensation allows you to analyze the salaries, benefits, and rewards that comprise your employee compensation plan. The metrics provided as part of the application allow you to measure several areas of performance and perform a variety of comparative analyses at various levels of granularity.

  It provides your company with employee payroll information that can be vital to success in today's economy. Over or under-compensating employees can both have serious effects on your company's ability to maintain a competitive edge. The Workforce Compensation area provides the information your Workforce Management department needs to manage compensation costs, such as identifying emerging trends within the organization, or within specific areas of compensation, and evaluating the effectiveness of the level of compensation as an incentive.

• Human Resource Performance. The information stored in the Human Resource Performance area allows you to measure several areas of performance, including contribution and productivity, workforce effectiveness, and trends analytics.
• Retention. Under the Retention functional area you can find the events that are the hallmarks of employees' professional life cycle. These events include their hiring information, their promotional opportunities realized and not realized, the quality of the employees' job performance as measured by performance ranking, their length of service, and the reasons for termination, both voluntary and involuntary. Monitoring retention rates within departments is useful in determining potential problem areas that may want to be addressed by senior management.
• U.S. Statutory Compliance. The U.S. Statutory Compliance functional area stores information that help Human Resources departments prepare government-required reports.
• Workforce Profile. The Workforce Profile functional area provides you with the tools to separate sensitive from nonsensitive information, and to restrict access to sensitive data. Sensitive information includes such data as ethnicity, age, native language, marital status, and performance ratings. Nonsensitive information includes information such as job title, work location, and position status.