HR and Finance teams plan their workforce costs in Basqo
Key takeaways
What’s the difference?
Rolling workforce cost steering: the forecast runs against the approved budget.
Companies with several entities that need one workforce cost plan for HR and Finance.
Freely configurable approvals for new and planned positions, and native HRIS and ATS integrations.
GDPR compliant, with a data processing agreement (DPA). Headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Workforce cost planning in scenarios: each update means importing, recalculating and comparing.
Mid-sized and large companies that want workforce and cost planning tied into their HR reporting.
Scenario comparison and self-service workforce reporting.
GDPR-compliant data management and authorization concept.
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Feature comparison
How do Basqo and PeoplePLAN compare?
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| Feature | PeoplePLAN | |
|---|---|---|
| Planning & budgeting | ||
| Position-level headcount plan synced with the HRIS | Basqo: Included. Position-based plan, continuously synced with the HRIS. Baselines can include planned positions. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Top-down targets for departments | Basqo: Included. Targets as an absolute amount or a percentage, then owners plan their part. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Budget owners plan their own teams | Basqo: Included. Plan centrally or together; owners plan their part without Excel skills. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Scenarios and versions | Basqo: Included. Compare versions month by month, then lock the chosen one. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Workforce costs | ||
| All cost types (salary, bonus, benefits, special payments) | Basqo: Included. Every cost type, including custom ones such as bonus accruals. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Social charges by country and salary bracket | Basqo: Included. Every position automatically gets the right social charge rate for its country and salary bracket. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Multiple entities and currencies | Basqo: Included. Plan across legal entities and currencies in one model. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Forecast & controlling | ||
| Live forecast from HRIS changes | Basqo: Included. Raises, leave, exits and hires flow into the forecast automatically. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Payroll actuals against the plan | Basqo: Included. Payroll actuals come in monthly for reconciliation. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Variance analysis down to the position | Basqo: Included. Variance per position with cost drivers: average pay, months on payroll, cost type. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Ready-made workforce reports | Basqo: Included. Monthly development by cost type and FTE, plan vs. live estimate, filterable by any dimension. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Approvals & governance | ||
| Approvals for new positions | Basqo: Included. Freely configurable approval paths with ordered steps. | PeoplePLAN: Not offered or not stated. |
| Approvals for changes to planned positions | Basqo: Included. Salary, FTE and end-date changes go through the same paths. | PeoplePLAN: Not offered or not stated. |
| Conditional approval rules | Basqo: Included. Conditions such as position type or job level decide the path. | PeoplePLAN: Not offered or not stated. |
| Audit trail | Basqo: Included. Every change logged with person, date, before and after. | PeoplePLAN: Not offered or not stated. |
| Compensation | ||
| Salary reviews and merit cycles | Basqo: Included. Salary reviews as their own cycle or part of budgeting, for all compensation types. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Compa ratio against salary bands | Basqo: Included. Shown for every position, before and after the adjustment. | PeoplePLAN: Not offered or not stated. |
| Hiring | ||
| Hiring plan and tracker | Basqo: Included. Approved positions move to the hiring plan in one click. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| GDPR & security | ||
| GDPR compliance | Basqo: Included. GDPR compliant, with a data processing agreement (DPA). | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| ISO/IEC 27001 certified | Basqo: Included. ISO/IEC 27001:2022. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Product in German | Basqo: Included. Available in German and English. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| Integrations | ||
| Personio as HRIS (employees, salaries, changes) | Basqo: Included. Employees, salaries and changes sync from Personio into the plan. | PeoplePLAN: Included. |
| HiBob, BambooHR, Workday and many more | Basqo: Included. Plus HRworks, Suiteify and many more. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
| Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and many more | Basqo: Included. Plus Recruitee, Softgarden and many more. | PeoplePLAN: Not offered or not stated. |
| Hand-off to FP&A and ERP | Basqo: Included. Hand-off to SAP, Board, Lucanet or any other system. | PeoplePLAN: Partly. |
We now have real-time headcount and cost data, which has reduced errors and gives us control at every single point in time.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is Basqo a good PeoplePLAN alternative?
Yes, if the plan should stay current without re-importing and recalculating. In Basqo the forecast runs against the approved budget, budget owners plan their own teams bottom-up by cost center, every position gets the right social charge rate automatically, and new positions and changes to planned positions go through approvals.
What is the difference between Basqo and PeoplePLAN?
Both compare scenarios and plan against payroll actuals. PeoplePLAN recalculates scenarios after each import; Basqo keeps the forecast running against the approved budget. Basqo also connects applicant tracking systems such as Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever next to HRIS such as Personio, HiBob, BambooHR, Workday and many more, and adds approvals for new positions and changes to planned positions.
Does Basqo work with Personio?
Yes. Employees, salaries and changes sync read-only from the fields HR already keeps in Personio, including cost centers and splits across several cost centers, so no extra fields are needed for planning. Basqo also connects to HiBob, BambooHR, Workday, HRworks, Suiteify and many more.
Does Basqo support approvals for new positions?
Yes. Approvals are freely configurable, with conditions such as position type or job level and ordered steps, for new positions and for changes to planned positions. Approvers get an inbox and an email.
Is Basqo GDPR compliant?
Yes. Basqo is GDPR compliant, offers a data processing agreement (DPA) and is ISO/IEC 27001 certified. PeoplePLAN describes its data management as GDPR-compliant and is also ISO certified.
Is Basqo available in German?
Yes. Basqo is available in German and English.
Can Basqo hand its plan to other planning systems?
Yes. Basqo hands its workforce cost plan over to SAP, Board, Lucanet or any other system, so workforce cost planning at position level can feed company-wide planning.
Is Basqo built for HR or Finance?
Both. HR keeps employee data in the HRIS and Finance plans workforce costs from the same data, so nothing is maintained twice. Budget owners plan their own teams within the targets Finance sets.
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