Our new HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, the next generation of OrgPlus Enterprise, is the best way for the enterprise to manage organizational change.

Seeing is believing, too, as a newly minted series of instructional videos—spotlighting HR data visualization, workforce analysis and planning, org charting, and PowerPoint publishing—on our YouTube channel illustrates.

Tech Tip: For optimal viewing, watch the videos in their original perspective directly on YouTube.

HR Data Visualization Quick Tour (Part 1)

Summary: This first video in a two-part series gives you a quick tour of how HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite allows you to easily visualize your HR Data. Features include selecting the chart view (to view different fields in the chart), navigating the chart, viewing and comparing employee profiles, searching for employees and finding them in the chart, changing the number of levels in a chart, and printing a chart.

HR Data Visualization Quick Tour (Part 2)

Summary: This second video in a two-part series continues the quick tour of how HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite allows you to easily visualize your HR Data. Features include using conditional formats and formulas to analyze employee metrics and workforce statistics, navigating the organizational hierarchy using the org tree, exporting a chart to Excel, publishing a chart to PDF, using split-screen mode, and switching hierarchies to view alternate reporting relationships.

Workforce Analysis Quick Tour

Summary: This video provides a quick demonstration of how managers and HR professionals can use HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite for workforce analysis. In the first scenario, key performance indicators are analyzed to improve group productivity. In the next scenario, span of control metrics are analyzed to reduce management costs. In third scenario, diversity ratios are analyzed to correct imbalances following an organizational restructuring.

User Org Charting Quick Tour

Summary: This video demonstrates how HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite allows you to customize charts for meetings and presentations. You can control which fields are displayed in chart boxes. With HumanConcepts Plan & Model, you can add, move, delete and edit chart boxes to model the future state of an organization.

Workforce Planning Quick Tour

Summary: This video demonstrates how managers can use HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite to create, share and collaborate on departmental plans. In the featured scenario, a manager is directed to create a new function within her department. The manager creates a new plan and then shares it with her supervisor. The supervisor certifies the plan, using track changes to review and set effective dates for each change. The HR administrator completes the plan by exporting the changes to the core HR system.

Publishing to PowerPoint

Summary: Produce boardroom-quality presentations using HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite by publishing your organizational charts to PowerPoint. This short video demonstrates how to specify the contents of a chart to be published, and how to optionally include a cover page, table of contents and index. In PowerPoint slide show mode, clicking on live sub-chart arrows allows you to present your organization by visually navigating the chart hierarchy.

Need help with your chart creation? Don’t have the time for a general two-hour training session? Let the OrgPlus ChartDoctors be your personal guides!

During my many years of supporting OrgPlus, there has always been a need from customers to have their charts professionally created, and receive personalized, one-on-one support. OrgPlus ChartDoctors (previously known as Chart Assistance) is a great option for OrgPlus Standard and Professional users who want an expert to walk them personally through specific features relative to their unique company environments and data.

Additionally, the OrgPlus ChartDoctors can tweak your existing charts or create new ones that meet your criteria and requirements, all while keeping it aesthetically pleasing and professional. For pricing and availability, ask your account manager or an OrgPlus Technical Support Representative (your “ChartDoctor”) at 888-821-1261. We have also added the option of purchasing five or ten hour blocks of this service at a discounted rate.

Single Sign On (SSO) is a method of passing credentials into OrgPlus Enterprise (OPE) from a chosen security adapter inside the Admin panel of OPE. An example is the Generic Adapter SSO which passes security information into OPE through a URL. Credentials are cached in OPE until the user’s session has ended. The session will end when one of the following events occur:

- Select ‘Sign Out.’
- Close the Browser completely (if on OPE 3.3 or above).
- The session ends after the “Idle Timeout” period has passed. This setting is located in the Application Pool under the ‘Performance’ tab in Internet Information Services.

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