AlphaCalc® Performance Dashboard Transforms Human Capital Management
A new SaaS-based platform is the first to help organizations benchmark profitability, liquidity, and key human capital metrics through a low-cost, easy-to-use platform designed to help improve business performance, value creation and decision-making related to financial operations and people management.
29Bison, a human capital management consultant for private equity and venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, has launched AlphaCalc®, a business intelligence SaaS (software as a service) platform designed to enhance due diligence, portfolio-monitoring, and value-creation processes, as well as provide management of almost any size company powerful ways to track and benchmark key human capital factors, including:
• Return on sales—the profitability of sales operations
• Profit per employee
• Sales per employee
• Employee retention rate
• Human capital “value add” is an indicator of the financial value (profit) an average employee brings to the organization
• Human capital return-on-investment—this metric shows how effectively the investment in human capital is supporting organizational goals. It is the amount returned for every dollar spent on human capital
• EBIDTA per employee (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization—an important measure of earnings for valuation purposes)
• Diversity: percentage of women, people of color, and people over 40.
All this information can be benchmarked against an aggregate of companies comparable based on business code, size, and geography using a database of nearly one million private companies and growing.
AlphaCalc’s reports provide some of the key human capital metrics covered in a recent EEA Zoom Show: Human Capital Management, Metrics, and ROI of Engagement
The AlphaCalc scorecards are used to rapidly create vital financial and human capital metrics not only for better internal management, but for publication in Corporate Responsibility Reports, the company says, or for a sale prospectus.
The First Human Capital Metrics Benchmark Platform
“We believe this tool is invaluable to CFOs and CEOs to better manage their businesses, whether they wish to sell their companies next year or in 20 years. By putting both critical financial measures and human capital metrics on the same platform, they can ensure a clear connection between their investments in people and the impact on performance,” says Laura Queen, Founder and CEO of 29Bison.
AlphaCalc carries a monthly licensing fee of $99 for one company, $149 per month for up to 10 companies, with enterprise pricing available for agencies, consultants, and advisory firms that help organizations with people performance issues.
In addition to providing critical human capital management scorecards, which the company expects to expand, the platform offers industry benchmarks, financial performance scorecards, and ratios for critical liquidity information, asset efficiency, and overall return on assets and return on investment.
The online platform enables organizations to benchmark their performance not only against past comparable periods but also against a database of nearly one million private companies compiled through multiple sources, so almost any company can score itself against organizations in the same industry.
Designed for M&A Specialists and Any Business Leader
Originally created to help investors and managers in the mid-cap mergers and acquisition business, AlphaCalc has clear benefits for any business owner or CEO to create a rapid and powerful financial and human capital performance scorecard. According to Eric Lane, Partner and COO of 29Bison.com, “Our focus, of course, is on helping private equity firms and the strategic investors we serve. It’s clear AlphaCalc provides value to a far broader market and can help any CEO and management or outside advisory team set up a scorecard to help determine how well a company is doing in terms of human capital and financial management, against its own benchmarks and those of others in its industry or geographic region.”
The platform is designed to make it easy to load financial data into a highly secure platform through pre-established templates, or for a one-time fee, AlphaCalc can assist with the initial set-up process. The one-time set up process establishes a seamless means for transferring financial data from whatever accounting platform used by the organization into the secure AlphaCalc database. It uses a simple online form to enter human capital information, such as the number and type of employees.
“Amidst an uncertain economic environment, and as operating models evolve in a shelter-in-place world, the timely and actionable human capital analysis AlphaCalc offers is more important than ever,” says Queen. “The last bastion of opportunity for middle-market PE (private equity) sponsors as well as the management of any organization to drive company growth is through better human capital management and the often-unexplored value of people within these businesses. AlphaCalc provides organizations with the means to easily track and improve human capital metrics in addition to other financial KPIs (performance measures) to drive sustainable growth and, ultimately, improve returns for all stakeholders.”
A Performance Management Dashboard
According to the company, “AlphaCalc’s powerful AI-driven analysis engine distills insights in business performance across key financial and human capital metrics. An automated dashboard delivers actionable analytics, bespoke to the target industry, highlighting areas of concern and opportunities for improvement. With integrated deep data mining from over 2,600 industries and nearly one million private businesses, the AlphaCalc platform provides key benchmarks relevant to private middle-market businesses and, through incorporating human capital metrics, helps make intangible assets tangible and appreciable to business performance.”
Adds 29Bison’s Lane, “The old private equity model of slashing costs has given way to a more sustainable approach that is seeing both private equity and venture capital sponsors increasingly adopt ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) principles. It’s through this lens that many investors and management are looking to create value through people. Adding human capital management metrics to enhance financial analysis can add speed and conviction around the due diligence and value creation processes and ultimately help organizations avoid costly mistakes.”
AlphaCalc’s founding company, 29Bison.com, was recently featured in ESM: HR Exec Makes Unusual Leap to M&A Human Capital Advisory.
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