Certain private information such as salaries can be hidden from users while exposing the rest of the workforce model

Description

Private information hiding in Workforce Planning within Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software pertains to the ability to conceal sensitive data, such as employee salaries, from certain users while displaying the rest of the workforce model. This feature promotes data security and HR confidentiality while allowing necessary workflows and analysis to proceed unimpeded.

Example Use Case

Scenario: A mid-size technology company uses CPM software for strategic planning, including workforce modeling. IT managers from around the company need to add hire requests into the budget. HR does not want to expose existing salaries, as these managers are paid different rates.

Solution: With the private information hiding feature, the software protects individual salary data from unauthorized viewers while still allowing for aggregate salary data available for planning and analysis. This way, sensitive information remains confidential, and necessary functionality is preserved.

Considerations

For this requirement, it is crucial that security can be applied to a specific field in the model, in this case salaries, and restrict access to it to a group of users. In the example above, IT managers are not allowed to view salaries. That may be department managers, store managers, etc. Singling out a specific user for a restriction might be needed as well.

Also take care that this restriction carries over into different versions and/or scenarios. Make sure that security roles are not specific to a version.

Questions to Ask a Vendor

• Privacy Features: How does your system control what each user can see in terms of sensitive data like salaries? Can we apply rules to groups, individuals, or other means?
• Versions: When we restrict the ability to view salary in our working budget, does this carry over once we move into our rolling forecast?
• Existing vs New: Are we able to hide existing salaries, but allow users to enter salaries for TBH entries?