retentionEngine Case Studies

Multi-Billion Dollar Global Private Equity Firm

Problem: highly complex, multi-year executive compensation programs are all being designed, managed and communicated with Excel spreadsheets.

Underlying problems: limited, difficult, time-intensive reporting process; no audit process for change management; unsecure communication platform of confidential information.

Bigger problem: the employee who designed and managed the programs has just resigned.

Managing Director of Company calls retentionEngine after scouring the internet for information about knowledgeable companies that have a solution. Within a few weeks, an agreement is reached to pilot a few programs and build a "proof of concept" solution. Engineering begins on the system 4 months after initial call and after a week of intensive requirements gathering.

Outcome: firm now has a team of dedicated compensation engineers that has created a secure, web-enabled compensation solution that allows the senior management to access historical programs, quickly run reports for other managers and never worry again that the spreadsheet developer might leave.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

Multi-billion dollar consultancy, in the months after the merger of Cap Gemini and Ernst & Young, is struggling to converge two very different executive compensation models. RetentionEngine was called to assist in the development of a technology solution that would be able to live through the merger process and create a compliance tool flexible enough to live through future changes.

Outcome: retentionEngine worked with CGEY through some difficult changes to create a solution to their executive plan management problem.