Challenges

• Gain one complete, accurate, up-to-date human resources (HR) record for all London-based employees, encompassing personal data, leave and sickness absence and training details, from hire to retire
• Gain ability to record continuous professional development (CPD) training hours in compliance with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
• Provide a means by which people can own and update their own personal data and diversity information, for example ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability

Solutions

• Replaced end-of-life legacy human resources (HR) with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management suite of solutions
• Leveraged Oracle Partner Cedar Consulting’s PeopleSoft Legal HR Accelerate solution to go live in 16 weeks—50% faster than anticipated for a full HR roll-out
• Benefited from PeopleSoft's broad functionality and flexibility
• Used PeopleSoft's self-service capabilities to transfer absence management and personal details updating from the HR administration team to the individual
• Reduced paper usage by introducing self service, in line with Baker & McKenzie’s sustainability ethos
• Consolidated all HR data into a single Web-enabled record for each staff member, which simplified the reporting of information on issues, such as diversity and immigration status
• Used PeopleSoft's open interfaces to extend functionality with a custom-built module for automating the tracking of each lawyer's CPD qualifying hours, in compliance with SRA rules

Partner

“Cedar Consulting's expertise in PeopleSoft enables us to utilize the business benefits of our HR platform without needing to invest in additional, in-house resources. Their close relationship with Oracle gives us the benefits of rapid access to Oracle's product and development teams when we need it.” – Diana White, Human Resources Manager, London Office, Baker & McKenzie