Manual reporting was eating
time that didn't exist
Every payroll cycle, every week, someone on the HR team was manually logging into UKG, pulling between four and seven different reports, exporting them, reformatting the data in Excel, and distributing them to stakeholders across HR, Finance, and Operations. The process was repetitive, time-consuming, and fragile — one missed export or formatting error could send incorrect data to leadership.
Beyond the time cost, manual reporting created a visibility lag. By the time a report was pulled, formatted, and distributed, the data was already hours old. For a workforce of 700+, that meant decisions were being made on information that was never quite current.
The real cost of manual reporting: not just the hours spent pulling data, but the inconsistency, the lag, and the risk of human error compounding across every cycle.
From hours of work to
zero recurring effort
End-to-end pipeline architecture
The pipeline connects UKG People Analytics and Cognos BI as the data source, Power Automate as the scheduling and delivery layer, and Excel as the formatted output. Each component does what it does best — no custom code, no external dependencies, no new tools to license or maintain.
Reports that now run themselves
The pipeline handles the recurring reports that were previously pulled manually each cycle — each one configured in Cognos, scheduled in Power Automate, and delivered formatted to the right audience automatically.
Built on tools the org already owned
A deliberate constraint of this project was using only tools already licensed and available — no new software, no IT procurement, no additional spend. The entire pipeline runs on existing infrastructure.