If you are reading this blog entry, then you might already be saving countless hours by automatically creating and maintaining your company’s organizational charts. You may also be using OrgPlus to model business scenarios to help make better decisions about the future…something I certainly recommend (if you are not sure how, please call us at 1-888-821-1261 and we’ll show you!). 

How about sharing the power of OrgPlus with other users in your organization? Think how much time and money your organization would save: Time spent fielding requests for information, enabling others to understand the organizational issues of the day or streamlining your organizational planning to provide a faster and better response to changing business conditions.

Continue reading “Calling all OrgPlus Professional Users…It’s good to share with OrgPlus OnDemand!” »

In today’s economy, executives are eager to reduce costs, increase productivity and achieve these results with little cost. Cost can be a sensitive issue as budgets are being reduced everyday, making your options to seek solutions limited. If this situation sounds familiar to your corporate environment, HumanConcepts has a solution that will bring solutions to your workforce planning objectives, at a cost, that will meet your budget requirements today. Continue reading “OrgPlus OnDemand is the solution you have been waiting for!” »

When it comes to best practices for using OrgPlus Enterprise, we recommend onsite training so organizations can take full advantage of the solution. Training ensures that OrgPlus Enterprise is being used correctly and helps the user avoid time intensive calls into our Technical Service Department. HumanConcepts offers two courses: Admin Training 1 and Admin Training 2. Each course is 4 hours in length with 45 minutes of hands-on exercises. Continue reading “The benefits of onsite training for OrgPlus Enterprise” »

Recently released OrgPlus 8.0.1 brings a host of new updates to OrgPlus 8 making user navigation easier and smoother. For example, using Hotspots Word wrap has been improved, as has the field level conditional formatting functionality. When importing data you can now specify the number of columns in multi-record boxes, and when working with orphan records you can now be drag them directly into a chart. These and many other improvements make working with OrgPlus 8 an even better experience than ever.

Released late last year, OrgPlus 8 brings valuable new features to the org charting world. New features improve every user experience, for example, you are now able to track previous changes to charts; you can now analyze workforce changes over time with the auto archiving feature, and are now able to chart more people using less space with the multi-record, multi column feature. The coolest and most valuable addition for me is the ability to publish org charts to OrgPlus OnDemand. This one-of-a-kind ability lets people create charts in OrgPlus 8 then seamlessly publish them to a secure server where they’re available 24/7 and can be shared with colleagues in the next office, or around the globe. Org charting has truly moved into the future.

One of the most common questions during the OrgPlus Enterprise implementation process is, “How does OrgPlus determine the Manager?” I am usually asked this question when the customer is reviewing their Orphans in the Directory. They are surprised to see how many orphans exist in their data source and would like to know how to correct them. As a Professional Services consultant for HumanConcepts, my team works with the customer to define best practices and prepare their data source to accurately chart their organizational structure. Many times the customer wants their Organization Chart to display and format features that may not be consistent with their reporting relationship structure. We review their data source and provide recommendations on how to achieve their desired results. Continue reading “Organizational Hierarchy in OrgPlus Enterprise” »