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5,001-10,000 Employees
Katerra
Katerra is a fast-growing construction company from Silicon Valley, funded by investors like Softbank, that uses technology to revolutionize the construction industry. By putting modern technology to work at every level of building design and construction, Katerra can address some of the industry’s biggest challenges.
Back in June of 2017, Katerra decided it was time to find a robust solution that could effectively manage the employee lifecycle to support its rapid growth. Onboarding employees was a tedious and repetitive task, and for a large construction company like Katerra, thousands of employees needed to be managed across its locations all around the globe. Katerra required a solution that was fully hosted, operated, and managed by the provider – a type of solution referred to as a SaaS (Solution as a Service) in the tech world. The solution would need to manage the employee lifecycle from the Human Resource Information System (HRIS), ADP to Active Directory (AD) for user identity and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
Over the last two years, Katerra had grown from 650 employees to 6,500 plus employees. This sort of rapid growth required a massive amount of management to track and keep everything in line and running smoothly.
In the absence of a full-featured, pre-built solution, Katerra would have to hire multiple system administrators just to manage the work necessary for onboarding employees, applying access rules, and any additional policies over time. This required the system admins, on average, at least two hours to onboard a new employee. With a workforce numbering in the thousands, it was a monumental amount of time dedicated to a repetitive, manual task.
The amount of work only increased when factoring in the many application accounts and the multitude of permissions that had to be provisioned, depending on the role and the department of the employee. The other option that Katerra could have taken would have been to have a custom solution built that would have taken months to complete and would be neither as feature-rich nor as robust as Hire2Retire, the ADP to AD SaaS solution offered by RoboMQ.
Hire2Retire’s ADP to AD integration automated employee lifecycle events for Katerra, including onboarding, change of roles, leave, termination, and re-hire.
AD accounts were created, updated, or deleted based on employee lifecycle updates from ADP, which served as the source of truth for the employee data. The data was then mapped to security groups, organization units (OU), and distribution lists (DL) based on the specific combination of attributes in the ADP feed. Rules for this mapping were provided by Katerra and can be updated as necessary. Continuing the automation, tickets or cases were either opened or closed in ServiceNow for auditing and tracking purposes. If any errors were detected in the ADP to AD integration, emails or SMS alerts were automatically sent out.
Best of all, Hire2Retire was fully managed and hosted by RoboMQ on its cloud. This means that instead of spending thousands of man-hours onboarding, Katerra could let Hire2Retire do the heavy lifting with automated profile creation, saving time and money.
By using Hire2Retire, Katerra could achieve:
Ready to join the wave of companies automating their employee lifecycle management processes with Hire2Retire? Schedule a demo call with us today to see what Hire2Retire can do for your business.
5,001-10,000 Employees
Katerra
