Your ability to measure the outcome of your programs—whether for ROI, regulatory compliance or future planning—is critical to ensuring long-term talent development success. This track will focus on those reporting practices and tools that best develop thoughtful measurement while working to meet your organization's needs—including completion/gap analysis tracking for regulatory reporting and cost-effective report delivery formats. In addition, you’ll enjoy peer discussions that highlight real-world success with available reporting tools.Topics featured in this track are listed below:
Introduction to SSRS-Based Reporting in SumTotal 8.2 Presenter: Bill Docherty, Sr. Director of Product Management, SumTotal Systems
Reporting is the ultimate tool for any enterprise software system. That’s because you derive more value from a system when you can extract data and use it to make better business decisions. With our new Report Manager tool, based on the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) architecture, SumTotal works to help you meet reporting needs comprehensively—so you can gain optimal business value from your talent development applications. Join this informative session for an in-depth focus on the functionality and benefits your organization can expect when using Report Manager.
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Introduction to Web Analytics: Measuring the Use of Your LMS Presenter: Walter Wimberly, LMS DB Administrator, SunGard Public Sector
You measure your classes so you can maintain levels of safety, certification, and progress—but don’t forget to measure your LMS. Are you using it optimally to meet the needs of your organization? Join this session as we discuss Web Analytics—the process of measuring Web site usage and effectiveness—along with the setup and configuration of an Analytics package. Using the free Google Analytics package as an example, we’ll show you how users can access the system and determine the best ways to improve the use of their LMS. You’ll learn how to choose and implement a Web analytics package, how to look for useful metrics to track, and how to generate and send reports.
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The Future of Talent Development Analytics Presenter: Dan Boccabella, Sr. Director of Product Management, SumTotal Systems
Over the next year, SumTotal will deliver enhanced capabilities throughout its Talent Development Suite that will enable users to author and publish compelling, interactive reports and dashboards. In addition, SumTotal plans to introduce Reporting Answer Sets (RAS). Managers and administrators will stop struggling to address business problems using specific reports—and instead use RAS to analyze data and provide actionable solutions to the most common HR and training issues. Join this session as we demonstrate how RAS integrate with current and future OnDemand reporting capabilities.
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Authoring Reporting: Exploring Report Creation with the new SSRS-Based Report Manager Presenter: Bill Docherty, Sr. Director of Product Management, SumTotal Systems
The new SumTotal Report Manager tool, delivered with the SumTotal 8.2 product release, provides a framework for creating highly interactive and compelling reports. This technical session, targeted at individuals tasked with report generation responsibilities, focuses on how to use the Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) to create effective reports for the Report Manager platform.
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Derive Greater Strategic Impact from Performance Management Solutions Presenter: Robert Sandy, Sr. Consultant – Talent Development Solutions Group, SumTotal Systems
Running HR effectively—like running any business—requires producing clear and valued deliverables. In addition to demonstrating proven results, you also need to be viewed as a strategic partner within the organization. How do you accomplish this? By understanding and meeting your internal customers’ needs as efficiently as possible, by ensuring strategic alignment of employee and company goals, and by providing easy accessibility to a greater range of products/services. Join this informative session to explore ways you can improve your understanding of strategy and apply your knowledge to become a better strategic partner. You’ll learn how employee alignment and engagement can drive company strategy. And you’ll learn how building the right performance management strategy can complement your overall talent development initiatives—so you can deliver real results.
