Increasingly in 2014, human capital management is becoming known as a data-driven industry. We collect so much data at the transactional level from payroll and attendance to compensation and performance appraisals, and we go wide across the cycle from sourcing to retirement and everything in between. We should now be thinking about harnessing this data http://ceridianblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/searching-for-a-single-source-of-truth-in-hr-data/