Nakisa 3.0 coming soon

Author: Daire O’Mochain, HCM (Human Capital Management) Line of Business Manager

I have just attended a demonstration of some of the new functionality in Nakisa 3.0. Nakisa develop software which integrates with SAP ERP and Oracle ERP systems to generate visualizations of your organisation.

The demo focused on two main elements of the product:

• Organisation visualisation
• Talent visualisation

In the organisation visualisation component there are a couple of new features including the ability for staff to import components of their LinkedIn profiles – something that will be of interest to companies who have a keen focus on developing talent and leveraging the ever growing importance of social media (though of course this will raise its own challenges as well!).

New functionality on the way in SAP EHP5 is the Org Manager – this provides HR and Managers with the ability to:

• Maintain employee position assignments
• Create new positions
• Plan future changes to positions using date definition

Many of you will have seen the Talent Visualisation capabilities of the package at Mastering events, etc.   A couple of items that stood out for me were:

• Career planning (employee access) – a very nice set of three tabs:
  • Where am I? – snapshot of current competencies
  • Where do I want to be? – search for jobs of interest
  • How will I get there? – analysis of competency gap between current and jobs of interest
  • Talent dashboard: This functionality provides a high level view of talent related KPIs and the ability to drill into areas of concern

Obviously, the functionality relies on a customer having the key foundations and processes in place for organisation management, qualifications and competencies, etc and while SAP’s standard Talent Management suite provides a lot of advanced functionality since EHP3 and 4, in terms of the visualisation and user interface, the Nakisa product’s functionality is really in a class of its own.

On a final interesting note, Nakisa has reviewed and updated their licensing model for the product (which I always felt was very well structured anyway) so it is well worth taking some time to investigate how this tool set could address some of your Organisation Management and Talent Management challenges.

At Extend, we will be talking to SAP about the new licensing structure, to see how our customers can benefit.  Nakisa also told me that they have experience with migrating customers from other products in the organisation structure publishing / modelling area to leverage the functional and bottom line benefits of the integration within a single system.

Want to know more?  Give us a call for more information.  We will be happy to come and present the new features to any interested customers.