Overall, 26 percent of participants identified inadequate software as the largest
barrier to effective workforce planning. More than one-fourth of organizations use
only spreadsheets for tracking and managing compensation, and 35 percent use
them extensively in conjunction with their compensation systems, but both of these
numbers are reduced since the 2008 research. And while 71 percent of participants
identified Microsoft Excel as a system they use for compensation management, a
range of other applications, including some
dedicated to this purpose, were named more
frequently.