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Fourth Analytics

Score9 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

What is Fourth Analytics?

Fourth Analytics holds HR, scheduling, payroll, purchasing, stock and POS data in one place, as well as third-party data such as social media sentiment, customer reviews and mystery diner.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

1 / 5

Top Performing Features

  • Data analysis

    Reports and dashboards presenting data with drill-down capabilities

    Category average: 8.4

  • Automated data collection

    Automated collection of key talent data.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Self-service insights

    Ability of non-analyst users to glean insights

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Data management

    Built-in data management capabilities

    Category average: 8.3

  • Benchmarking

    Built-in industry data allowing firms to benchmark their HR performance and compare to peer organizations

    Category average: 7.7

  • Report designer

    Report designer allowing analysts to design their own reports and dashboards

    Category average: 8.7

A great service for managing in-house sickness absence!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for monthly reporting capabilities in order for us to track sickness absence, and agency usage hours mostly. It helps us to see where our locations have particularly high absence and agency usage and address the causes for this, in order to be proactive. It is mainly used for HR and recruitment.

Pros

  • Collating large amounts of data
  • Making in-depth analytical data more easily readable and understood

Cons

  • It can be a bit clunky to use at times
  • Some of the reports take a very long time to generate
  • More custom reporting functionality

Return on Investment

  • It has helped us reduce our sickness absence
  • It has helped us reduce our agency reliance and money spent on them
  • It has saved us large sums of money by being more proactive

Fifty/50

Pros

  • Break down of hours in department costs.
  • Allowing access to contracts & other HR bits.
  • Access to payslips to go through issues with the staff.

Cons

  • Breakdown of costs in each Rota - SMP affects it.
  • The integration with recruitment websites still requires data to be put in manually.
  • Integration of importing Excel on the rota.

Return on Investment

  • Great for the reduction of labour with the use of the V3 REPORTS & PAYROLL REPORTS.
  • Time consuming on inputting of the rota the drop down & alteration of shifts takes time inputting into the system - should be an import-export excel factor.
  • Staff turnover report would be more useful if it could be split into leavers and joiners independently.
  • Viewing the current weeks rota allows you to monitor wage % against budget/forecast and actual.

Review

Pros

  • Simplicity
  • Speed
  • Handy

Cons

  • More Updates
  • Bug Fixes
  • More Functions

Return on Investment

  • Audit
  • Control
  • Time saving

Alternatives Considered

AMI Smart Horizons, Application Delivery Analysis (formerly CA Application Delivery Analysis) and Amadeus Cloud Property Management

User-friendly functional HR system

Pros

  • Storing data on employees to save holding paper documents on site
  • Coordinating data from our fingerprint clock in and out machine to check hours worked against rota’d hours
  • Useful for recording comments and warnings on staff performance

Cons

  • Sometimes the website does not run smoothly. It can be very slow and crash while uploading information.
  • Compatibility with different browsers could be improved -- does not work well with chrome, for example.
  • Improvements when rehiring old employees would make this a smoother process.

Return on Investment

  • Automated reporting
  • Successful documentation on staff and right to work

Does the job and makes it easy

Pros

  • Clear figures.
  • Easy to understand.
  • Data transferable onto spreadsheets.

Cons

  • All reports clear and readable on multiple formats.

Return on Investment

  • It creates a clear understanding of labour KPI’s.
  • Historical data gives you accurate data to compare to.