Overview

Nakisa Strategic Workforce Planning is part of the Nakisa Workforce Planning Portfolio—cloud-native, AI-enhanced software crafted for large enterprises. It empowers organizations to forecast long-term headcount and skill needs, identify talent gaps, model multiple scenarios, and continuously monitor progress. With seamless integrations to ERPs/HCMs and a unified analytics foundation, it bridges strategic vision and operational execution.

Features and Capabilities

• Strategic Initiative Management: Define multi-year planning initiatives, set time horizons (short, mid, long-term) and segment by legal entity, function, or location.
• Current State Assessment: Analyze workforce capacity, cost, capabilities, composition, and organizational configuration—the “5C” framework.
• Gap Analysis: Identify future talent shortages across headcount, costs, skill sets, structure, and demographics.
• 6B Scenario Modeling: Explore strategic options—Buy (hire), Borrow (contractors), Bot (automation), Build (train), Bounce (remove roles), Bind (retain key talent).
• Ongoing Monitoring: Track scenario progress monthly or quarterly, reevaluate and pivot based on outcomes.
• Operational Workforce Planning: Drill down to team-level headcount and budgets—with bottom-up contributions from managers and automated approvals. AI-powered analytics support data-informed decisions.
• Unified Workforce Data Hub: Centralized HR/ERP data ingestion with native bidirectional integrations (SAP, Oracle, Workday) and robust API support.
• Advanced Visual Analytics: Interactive org visuals with in-chart KPIs like span of control, tenure, salaries, vacancies; plus configurable dashboards and historical snapshots.
• AI Agents: Generative AI that assists in dashboard generation and workforce planning tasks through natural-language prompts.
• Security & Scalability: Cloud-native microservices architecture, SLA-backed uptime (99.5%), plus compliance with SOC1/2, GDPR, SSO, ITGC.
• Collaboration & Governance: Role-based access, configurable approval workflows, versioning, notifications, and threaded stakeholder feedback.