Hyperion User Group Conference, Hyperion Workforce Planning, Key Steps

"Hyperion Workforce Planning is an application you purchase and out of the box comes with an account structure, input forms, business rules and forms, it comes with menus and smart lists, so if you’re not familiar with menus and smart lists you will become familiar with them. It comes with a best practices application design.

"Your key steps in implementing Hyperion Workforce Planning:

"Making sure your data is source corrected. Ours was PeopleSoft , and we actually got two data files, one Canadian and one U.S. Our Canadian file was different because Canada has different taxes than the U.S., and that’s one thing that does not come out of the box. Hyperion Workforce Planning only has US taxes in it, so I had to add everything for Canadian taxes, and we just loaded Mexico people in, we didn’t calculate their taxes. So if you have other taxes you have to add things to it.

"When you start adding things you have to go in and customize your forms, business rules and formulas to what your requirements are.  If you’re adding additional functionality, CompuCom wanted to do 401K, which Oracle people are in to but it is not in Hyperion Planning, so we had to add that. Then they had different other requirements that we had to do.