Hire2Retire Automates Employee Lifecycle Management to Keep DTN’s Eyes on the Sky

For the common person, the weather app on most smartphones provides everything needed to make an informed decision about what to wear on a given day. But for many business owners, simply knowing what to wear is not going to cut it; they need to know how the weather will affect their bottom line. For those answers, many business owners turn to DTN and its team of over 180 in-house meteorologists for real-time, hyper-local forecasts. DTN provides weather intelligence for over 50,000 farmers throughout the U.S., as well as companies in the fields of aviation, marine, shipping, and even sports. But the scope of DTN’s operational intelligence is not limited to weather, as real-time information on market prices and supply chains empowers business owners to make the right decision at the right time through the power of data. 

While DTN’s operational intelligence keeps them at the forefront of data analytics, the company needed help when it came to managing employees in more than 13 locations spread across seven countries. Sysadmins felt the burden of keeping employee profiles updated and accurate manually, and inefficiencies in the process led to problems throughout the company. Employee attributes were inconsistent from location to location, and new hires found themselves stuck waiting for the right access and identity provisioning on their first days of work. And when it came to DTN’s prized data intelligence, which is the core of its business, the prospect of a terminated employee retaining their system access and causing a security breach simply posed too great a risk. DTN knew it was time to change the old way of managing employee lifecycle events and seek out a better solution.