Follett Uses ADP DataCloud to Help Simplify Reporting, Providing Insights for HR Practitioners and Speeding Decision-Making for Business Leaders

ROSELAND, NJ--(Marketwired - Aug 18, 2016) -  

• Simplified reporting tool helps unburden small IT team to empower HR.
• Compiling reports in minutes versus days becomes an integral part of HR decision-making.
• Company plans to extend capability to 1,200 managers in retail stores.

Follett^® is feelin' the power -- the power of simplified reporting, that is. As champions of simplified reporting powered by the ADP® DataCloud, Follett is experiencing the ease, speed, and efficiency of this new tool that helps to make analysis of human resources data easier than ever.

That's important for a company like Follett, which provides education technology, services, and print and digital content to 70,000 schools. The company serves more than half of the students in the United States through more than 1,200 local campus stores and 1,600 virtual stores across the country.

"ADP's simplified reporting tool has transformed the role of the Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) team at Follett from being producers of reports to enablers of decisions," said Cheryl Brand, vice president of compensation and HR systems at Follett. "We're now the people who put actionable data in the hands of our HR business partners.

"This capability has become our springboard to data analytics," she added. "We turned it on with minimal training, and it's so intuitive we can more quickly and easily set up reports, schedule them and then let our HR partners run them. Having this reporting tool also has freed a tremendous amount of time so the HRIS team can focus on supporting our HR business partners and their customers differently." 

ADP's simplified reporting feature delivers enterprise insights by using ADP DataCloud data to reveal critical people trends and business opportunities. Integrated within the ADP Vantage HCM® solution, businesses can equip managers and business leaders with information that can give them more confidence in their decisions -- because of the factual data it provides.

Introduced in May 2015, the ADP DataCloud allows business leaders and HR professionals from every part of an organization to generate actionable insights from the workforce data embedded in their ADP human capital management (HCM) solutions. ADP DataCloud helps boost business and workforce management goals, such as workforce productivity, talent development, retention and the identification of flight risks. A benchmarking feature that gives business leaders the ability to compare his/her own company's data with current industry averages -- including compensation, turnover and other workforce metrics -- was added to the ADP DataCloud analytics platform in October 2015.