People data that makes business sense. Where you want it.
Raw data isn’t insight, and locked-in dashboards aren’t freedom. Popay Insights turns your people data into answers a leader can read, and delivers them in Popay, or straight to your own BI tool. Your choice.
Reporting breaks down in predictable ways
The data exists, but it’s technical, inconsistent, stuck behind IT, or trapped in one vendor’s dashboards.
Column names only IT understands, not business answers.
Insights: Translates raw, technical fields into concepts leaders read: headcount, FTE, cost, turnover.
“Headcount” means three different things in three reports.
Insights: Every metric is defined once and consistent everywhere it appears.
Every question becomes a ticket and a two-week wait.
Insights: Ready-made dashboards HR and leadership can read and drill into themselves.
Trapped in one vendor’s dashboards you can’t extend.
Insights: Read it in Popay, or feed the same numbers to your own BI tool, no lock-in.
The business layer on your people data
Insights sits on top of PeopleRecord and translates raw, technical data into business concepts: headcount, FTE, cost, turnover, absence, defined once and consistent everywhere. Human-readable by design.
Then it meets you where you work: read it in Popay’s own dashboards, or feed the same trusted numbers to your BI tool. No lock-in, no black box.
Same numbers, defined once, consumed wherever you already work.
Use our dashboards, or your own BI
The value is the business layer underneath. Where you read it is up to you.
Popay dashboards
Ready-made, human-readable views for HR and leadership, no setup, no BI licence, live from your data.
Your BI tool
A clean semantic feed to the tools you already run, same definitions, your dashboards.
One definition, both ways
Because the business layer is defined once, “turnover” means the same thing in Popay and in your BI. No two versions of the truth.
The questions it answers
Consolidate first. Turn on Insights when it’s worth it.
Insights is the analytics layer of the HR Data Management stack, the payoff once the data’s together.
Consolidate
PeopleRecord brings your systems’ people data into one unified model, the foundation Insights reads from.
Define
The business layer turns technical fields into concepts: headcount, FTE, cost, turnover, defined once, the same everywhere.
Consume
Read it in Popay’s dashboards, or feed the same trusted numbers to your own BI tool. One definition, both ways.
What it looks like in each role
For HR
For leadership
For IT & BI
Insights doesn’t work alone
It’s the top layer of HR Data Management, trusted data in, business answers out.
PeopleRecord
The consolidated record Insights reads from, the trusted foundation underneath.
Popay Connect
Feeds the data in, monitored and traceable, so what Insights reports is clean.
Your BI tool
A clean semantic feed to Power BI, Tableau, Looker or Qlik, same definitions, your dashboards.
Payroll
Cost and pay data flow through into workforce-cost and total-reward views.
Frequently asked questions
Is Popay Insights a separate product?+
It’s the analytics layer of HR Data Management. It sits on top of PeopleRecord. PeopleRecord brings the data together; Insights makes it make sense. One solution, two jobs: consolidate, then report.
Do I have to use Popay’s dashboards?+
No, that’s the point. The value is the business layer underneath. Read it in Popay’s ready-made dashboards, or feed the same semantic model to your own BI tool. Your choice, no lock-in.
Will the numbers match between Popay and our BI?+
Yes. Because each metric is defined once in the business layer, “turnover” or “FTE” means the same thing whether you read it in Popay or in your BI tool. There’s no second version of the truth to reconcile.
Which BI tools does it feed?+
A clean semantic feed to the major tools: Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik.
Do we need data analysts to use it?+
For Popay’s dashboards, no. They’re human-readable and ready to drill into. For your own BI, your analysts get a clean, business-defined feed instead of raw technical tables, so there’s far less modelling to do.
Does Insights need Popay Core?+
No. It reads from PeopleRecord, which consolidates whatever systems you run, with or without Popay Core. Keep your systems; still get the business answers.
Stop exporting. Start answering.
See Insights turn your people data into business answers, in Popay or your own BI. Let’s walk through it.