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Tools and platforms

Tools and platforms

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Tools and platforms

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- Well one of the most interesting things you're going to find in People Analytics is the vast number of tools. You have to deal with tools. You very rarely can do this alone with Excel, although Excel is probably the best tool you'll ever find. You're going to have to look for some core infrastructure that allows you to collect and analyze the data in the best possible way. The first place to look is look at your core human capital systems providers, your payroll provider, your core HRMS, your core learning platform, your core recruiting platform. Those vendors should provide reasonably good, and hopefully very good analytics tools to get the data you need and make sense of it. Second you're going to need some form of a statistical analysis tool. It turns out in all my years doing this people do use Excel, SPSS, SAS, sort of the fundamental statistical analysis tools. You as an HR person may not be the person who uses that tool. There may be the statistician who uses it, but you're…

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