Technology

MAPS Platform

Working with customers to optimize their workforce, Allocate Software’s industry-leading MAPS software platform is a powerful and proven technology. As an enterprise-level platform, it has been designed to meet the demands of organizations with large, multi-skilled workforces. The MAPS software platform is the enabling technology that today, has more than 1,000,000 people deployed globally.

As a constantly evolving software framework, with over 17 years investment in research and development, the platform is continually developed with Allocate Software’s customers in mind. This ensures MAPS is the leading workforce scheduling software platform for each industry that it’s tailored to.

Key Features of MAPS
The MAPS software platform provides its users with a number of key features and operational benefits:

• MAPS is unique in its ability to provide workforce optimization over a period of time. The time-based nature of MAPS means that an organization’s changing operational requirements can be matched by an up-to-date picture of workforce supply and demand.
  
  
• With time-based matching of an organization’s workforce demand, against its workforce supply, MAPS accommodates simple, rapid, changes to organizational structure and requirements. Using a time-line gives users the ability to model future commitments, based on workforce supply and demand in the past and present.
  
  
• MAPS manages information about people and competencies, together with operational commitments and requirements; providing a single source of information to plan and meet organizational workforce demands.
  
  
• The powerful rules engine within MAPS takes into account specific workforce-related circumstances and criteria when posting individuals to assignments and events.
  
  
• MAPS provides views of information via multiple levels; enabling easy zoom in and out to the most appropriate view of the workforce resources and organizational demand over time. This gives the user an instant view of the impact of the changes.
  

Featuring a simple graphical user interface (GUI), MAPS presents a wide range of information on a single screen.

Providing a rich user experience, it presents planners and analysts with a central tool to plan and view workforce resources, against commitments and demand.

MAPS has been developed to ensure organizations can configure the software suite around their existing business processes, terminology and branding.

The platform can be integrated easily with external systems, ensuring that workforce optimization links seamlessly with the rest of the operation e.g. other departmental software applications such as human resources and payroll.