Lights, Camera, Big Data

Imagine an industry that does not have an HR record for its employees. How do you comply with the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) health insurance eligibility determination when you don't know when someone started or stopped working for a particular company? That is the situation that the entertainment industry faced in 2013 as the ACA loomed on the horizon. Entertainment Partners, the largest provider of payroll and other related services to the entertainment industry for its production workforce set out to solve the problem. We coordinated across all of the industry's payroll providers, created a data analytics engine that ingests, aggregates and analyzes millions of transactions and determines which of their production workers meets the ACA eligibility criteria. We help the industry stay in compliance and avoid costly government penalties and we used Big Data to solve the problem.