AI-Driven Workforce Intelligence: Introducing ELMO Insights for New Zealand Organisations

No spreadsheets to find and decode, no out-of-date data or questions about accuracy, no static, one-size-fits-all dashboards, no waiting on reports. Just type your question in plain English and get a clear, real-time answer you can act on.

ELMO Insights is more than a reporting tool. It’s an AI-powered workforce analytics platform designed for mid-sized organisations in New Zealand and Australia. Whether you’re exploring people analytics for the first time or looking to replace manual HR reporting with a smarter solution, Insights gives you everything you need to make data-driven decisions fast.

What’s ELMO Insights?

ELMO Insights is an AI-powered  analytics solution that helps HR teams and managers access real-time workforce data without needing analytics skills. Using natural language search, you can ask questions and get instant, visual answers based on data within your ELMO HRIS. ELMO Insights turns your data into decisions.

AI-powered HR insights, built for New Zealand

If you’ve ever felt like your organisation is sitting on a mountain of scattered HR data but still making decisions on gut instinct, ELMO Insights is for you.

It puts the power of workforce analytics into the hands of HR professionals, managers and business leaders, with no data scientists required. Insights connects your people data across the ELMO platform, giving you the real story behind your workforce in seconds, not days.

From workforce data to business action

Most organisations have piles of people data living across spreadsheets, physical files or disconnected systems. Drawing meaningful, actionable insights often falls into the ‘too hard basket.’

ELMO Insights is built to make data intuitive. Ask questions such as, “What’s the current headcount per position?”, “Tell me the overdue courses by department?” or, “What’s our average tenure by department?” and get the answer instantly.

You don’t need technical skills. You don’t need to manually build reports. And, importantly, you don’t need hours of spare time.

Insights automatically visualises results using smart charts and graphs that are easy to interpret and even easier to present to executives, teams or the board.

Solving the reporting problem

Most HR teams know the pain of reporting. Reports are often out of date before they’re delivered. Ad hoc data requests fill your to-do list. Spreadsheets contain hidden formulas and complex filters.

You wanted insights, but you got admin.

ELMO Insights changes that. It refreshes data every hour, gives you live dashboards and empowers managers to self-serve. HR stops being the gatekeeper and becomes the strategic enabler.

And because it’s built into your ELMO HR platform, there’s no double-handling, no integration issues and no loss of context. Every answer is grounded in real-time, connected data from a single source of truth.

How does ELMO Insights work?

You shouldn’t need to be a data analyst or tech wizard to better understand your workforce. With ELMO Insights, you don’t have to be.

Ask better questions. Get better answers

At the core of ELMO Insights is AI-driven natural language search. You ask a question in plain English, and the AI interprets your intent and maps it to the structure of your connected ELMO data, such as Learning or Recruitment. It then generates a query to retrieve the answer

Live dashboards eliminate stale data

Insights updates every hour, so your dashboards reflect what’s happening now, not last month. You can build tailored dashboards for different leaders or teams, confident the data is accurate.

Visual storytelling built in

Instead of navigating dense tables, Insights gives you the story at a glance. It automatically generates the most appropriate chart from 20+ choices, such as heatmaps, bar graphs or pie charts, so you can quickly interpret patterns, risks and opportunities.

Reports that actually report

Combine multiple data views into one clear, board-ready dashboard. Whether you’re preparing for a leadership team or supporting line managers, Insights makes it easy to tailor insights to the audience.

Simple for beginners, powerful for pros

Insights is built for everyone. General users can search and share. Analysts can dig deeper with pivot tables, filters and exports. There are no compromises and no barriers.

Integrated with your HRIS

What makes ELMO Insights different isn’t just how it works, but where it lives. It’s the intelligence layer inside your ELMO HR ecosystem. It’s built for compliance, ready to grow and made for mid-sized Australian and New Zealand businesses.

Rapid benefits, real outcomes

With ELMO Insights you can:

• Cut down manual reporting time with plain language HR queries
• Improve data accuracy with live updates across a single connected HRIS
• Make smarter, faster decisions with real-time HR dashboards
• Empower non-technical managers with self-service people analytics
• Free up HR teams to focus on strategy, not spreadsheets

Scalable, smart and built for ANZ

ELMO Insights is the AI-powered analytics layer across your entire ELMO platform. Whether you’re just getting started with HR Core or already running advanced Performance, Onboarding or Learning workflows, Insights grows with you.

Designed for mid-sized businesses across New Zealand and Australia, it helps you meet local compliance needs and turn data into confident action.

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