Case Study: L'Oréal achieves faster, automated HR reporting and data integration with Informatica PowerCenter

Reduced daily batch processing times from seven hours to five hours a day

L'Oréal, the world's leading cosmetics company with products in 130 countries, €14.5 billion in revenue and 52,000 employees across 60 countries, needed a new reporting and HR decision-support solution to better monitor social data and implement HR strategy. The challenge was to integrate complex and sensitive data—recruiting, training and career development—across multiple countries and extract, transform and load data from different SAP instances into a new SQL database while delivering reliable, auditable HR indicators.

Using Informatica PowerCenter to access, integrate and deliver data without hand coding, L'Oréal cut daily batch processing from seven hours to five, eliminated manual coding, reduced IT maintenance time and empowered HR users to build their own data flows and processing. The result was timelier, more reliable and auditable HR data to support global HR policy and decision-making.

L'Oreal

Philippe Bot

Director of HR Corporate Information Systems