Making the most of the solution...
Moving over to Power BI can feel like a steep learning curve, as it offers a very high level of functionality which can easily be underutilised in the wrong hands. But the team at Zellis are determined to ensure that clients get the very best out of the solution, including a 5-day workshop using the organisation’s own data to demonstrate how to build out models.
Zellis provides training webinars as well as always-on support, which helps people new to the software understand what it is capable of and how to apply the software to their own situation.
The Zellis workshop was great at delivering the capabilities of Power BI and generating a high level of understanding behind that. Zellis understood that we’d never used this sort of product before, and having a session based primarily on our own data was really useful.” The webinars showed us what we would like to obtain and where we would like to get to within our organisation."
Working with Power BI has marked a real shift in the way the council as a whole works, to create better communication and clearer data sharing between the people who need it.
1500 managers will get this product and be able to see exactly what is happening in their team right now. But it can also be used for forecasting.”
Being able to look at the workforce in such detail and create custom reports provides hiring managers with the ability to be more pre-emptive in their talent strategy. Which in the current hiring environment is crucial to get ahead of skills shortages and better manage the workforce.
We now have this great tool that we can use and seeing how this will change the way the council works all together; we’ll be able to distribute large amounts of information quickly. We can look at what’s going out in terms of employees, pay and costs, and then forecast the future. So, if we need to change resources, we’ll be able to be a bit more proactive.”
Power BI is embedded within Zellis own ResourceLink. And it can be constantly iterated to make it work for you and your organisation as you scale and take feedback from your team.
The switch to Power BI was relatively simple even though there are several different departments within P&K, most notably at this stage, an HR, and an IT department. Both of which need access to similar information but organised in a different way. Power BI has the capability to provide the right people with the information they need and create powerful reports that can integrate with other solutions.
It’s not always about HR data, it might be sales or something else. And then it answers the question of how to bring everything together with HR, which can sometimes feel like a bit of a minefield due to being about people’s personal data. It helps us to untangle the web that is behind everything to produce something really useful.”
