Compose Suite Overview

ost organizations treat compensation planning as an annual scramble: budgets get set, spreadsheets proliferate, decisions get made, and then everyone hopes the data was accurate. This reactive approach fails precisely when decisions matter most. Paper 2 examines why compensation modeling demands always-on infrastructure and why “good enough” data quality costs organizations an average of $12.9 million annually in poor decisions, rework, and missed opportunities.

The best-of-breed vs. unified system debate isn’t new. But in compensation, it’s particularly consequential. This paper makes the case for why compensation complexity demands specialized platforms, not general-purpose HCM modules.