Simply’s mission is conveniently wrapped up in the URL to their website: simplygetresults.com. Dedicated to helping employers and employees get the right skills, leveraging innovations in data and machine learning, Simply wants to rectify the growing skill gap problem found in an ever-changing world.

With such strong attention to helping others with self-improvement, it’s no surprise that Simply takes their self-improvement as a company just as seriously. This drive is ultimately what led them to rethink how they deliver insights internally and to their growing list of customers.

An External Analytics Use Case with Finastra

Simply is no stranger to working with people data at scale. Organisational-scale upskilling involves activating thousands of employees with meaningful data, insight and options. As an example, Simply has been supporting global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, Finastra, on their skills journey. With over 8,000 employees and an open mind, Finastra represented the perfect opportunity for Simply to create new mode of insight delivery.

To help them with the technical buildout, they reached out to the InterWorks UK team. Finding the right mix of solutions didn’t take long for Simply and InterWorks. That framework was comprised of four key puzzle pieces: Tableau Cloud, Snowflake, Okta and Curator by InterWorks.

At the foundational level was Snowflake, a Cloud Data Platform that is highly performant, scalable and functional for organizations big and small. Snowflake’s ability to transform data from multiple sources and prime it for analysis makes it the ideal backbone for any modern insight-delivery system. InterWorks was able to get Snowflake up and running in record time via a Snowflake Rapid Start.

Sitting on top of Snowflake is the analytics workhorse: Tableau Software. Simply already owned a Tableau Server instance, so they were familiar with the power and beauty of Tableau’s visual analytics capabilities. That said, the Finastra use case presented an opportunity to move to Tableau Cloud, which made it easy to share valuable insight without complex administrative hassle for Simply or Finastra.

Simply didn’t want to stop there, however. Rather than giving Finastra a factory-default sort of experience, they needed to create something more personalised. That’s where Curator by InterWorks played a pivotal role. Curator by InterWorks gives organizations like Simply the power to fully augment their analytics experience, allowing for even more tailored design and navigation options, as well as advanced functionality and security.

In a nutshell, Simply would be able to take the insight dashboards built in Tableau and embed them in a custom-branded Employee Skills Portal that is totally unique to Finastra. The final piece to the puzzle, yet no less essential, was the inclusion of Okta to provide seamless and secure user administration features, which make managing 8,000 users far easier.

How It’s Going Now

Thanks to Simply’s amazing work in understanding Finastra’s needs and InterWorks’ expert technical aid, Finastra has a Skills and Career Navigator tailored to their needs, helping employees understand their critical skills, career options and gap analyses. This is all linked up to their existing internal systems in a seamless, unobtrusive way.

Finally, as an InterWorks PRO customer, Simply’s solutions are upkept with world-class guidance from the global InterWorks team. We were honored to work with a great team like Simply and support their goal to help take the pain away from having robust skills insight and infrastructure. We’re also excited to see how Simply continues to use their modern analytics stack to serve other major global employers.

“Our partnership with InterWorks enables us to support the world’s biggest, most demanding organisations with confidence.”

– John Guy, CEO, Simply