talenttrends Data Hub

Your Cornerstone data. As a SQL database. In your hands.

No API brake. No export jobs. No reporting limits. The talenttrends Data Hub continuously replicates your Cornerstone data into an open SQL database — ready for BI, analytics, integrations and modern HR processes.

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Make use of your data

Your data, your tools, your decisions

Your Cornerstone data in Microsoft Excel
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Workforce structure analysis and DE&I
System usage

The problem

HR report­ing ends where your ques­tions only begin

Cor­ner­stone stan­dard report­ing is fine for stan­dard ques­tions. As soon as analy­ses go beyond OUs, cus­tom fields and his­tor­i­cal states, the workaround marathon begins: exports to Excel, frag­ile Pow­er BI direct con­nec­tions to ODa­ta, or home-built ETL pipelines that no one wants to main­tain any more.

OData is there — but rate-limited

Direct­ly con­nect­ed to Pow­er BI, every analy­sis becomes a test of patience and reg­u­lar­ly hits API quotas.

The reporting API delivers no SQL layer

Any­one who wants to join across com­plex data joins in Excel — or not at all.

Self-built pipelines age badly

Every new Cor­ner­stone release changes fields. No one wants to update the pipeline.

Data stays trapped in Cornerstone

Data ware­house, AI, migra­tion to anoth­er LMS — every­thing needs its own data copies.

How it works

From Cor­ner­stone to open data

01

Replicate

The tal­ent­trends Data Hub reads the data from your Cor­ner­stone por­tal on a con­fig­ured cycle — typ­i­cal­ly hourly or dai­ly, con­fig­urable per table. As a rule, only what has changed since the last sync is trans­ferred. This keeps the effort con­stant, even as your data vol­ume grows.

02

Structure

The data lands in a ver­sion-sta­ble SQL schema that we main­tain — even when Cor­ner­stone intro­duces new fields or changes the data mod­el. Your report­ing remains ful­ly operational

03

Use

Pow­er BI, Tableau, Excel, Snowflake, Data­bricks, your own reports, Micro Apps, AI appli­ca­tions — any­thing that speaks SQL now speaks with Cor­ner­stone data. With no wait­ing times, no quo­tas, no ven­dor mediation.

What you can do with it

Tal­ent data becomes answers

Reporting beyond the standard

Com­plex analy­ses across OU struc­tures, cus­tom fields and his­tor­i­cal states — direct­ly in your BI plat­form. That includes ques­tions that Cor­ner­stone stan­dard reports can­not represent.

Compliance analyses

Qual­i­fi­ca­tion matri­ces, GxP val­i­da­tion trails, works coun­cil (BetrVG) records, ISO audits. Full col­umn-lev­el his­tori­sa­tion option­al­ly avail­able — you can recon­struct any data state of recent months precisely.

Data warehouse connection

You pull the Cor­ner­stone data 1:1 into your DWH — Snowflake, Data­bricks, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fab­ric. The Data Hub is the stag­ing lay­er; what you build on top of it is left to your architecture.

Data sovereignty during a platform switch

In migra­tion sce­nar­ios or when switch­ing LMS, you have your tal­ent data in your own hands — not just in the plat­form. This takes the pres­sure off the strat­e­gy discussion.

The technology

Built for pro­duc­tion, not for demos

The tal­ent­trends Data Hub has been run­ning for years in Cor­ner­stone projects where we take respon­si­bil­i­ty our­selves. This is what’s behind it.

Schema-driven, not hard-coded

The data struc­ture in your data­base auto­mat­i­cal­ly reflects what Cor­ner­stone cur­rent­ly deliv­ers — includ­ing data types, keys and index­es. New Cor­ner­stone fields appear in your data­base with­out any code change.

Resilient against Cornerstone quirks

When Cor­ner­stone’s APIs fal­ter, your report­ing keeps run­ning. The Data Hub cush­ions dis­rup­tions and keeps oper­a­tions sta­ble — you only see this in the audit log, not in reporting.

Full auditability

Every sync job is ful­ly logged: API calls, trans­ferred data, rows, dura­tion, errors per table. Full col­umn-lev­el data his­to­ry option­al­ly available.

Performance through bulk load

Even large data vol­umes are writ­ten in min­utes rather than hours. Your analy­ses can keep run­ning dur­ing the sync — the pro­duc­tive data­base is nev­er blocked at any point.

SQL Server or PostgreSQL

Freely selec­table: Microsoft SQL Serv­er (local, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Man­aged Instance) or Post­greSQL (local, Azure Flex­i­ble Serv­er, STACKIT). This also runs in par­al­lel — a sep­a­rate tar­get per data source.

Not just Cornerstone

Oth­er HR plat­forms such as Suc­cess­Fac­tors can be con­nect­ed too. If you want to bring togeth­er sev­er­al source sys­tems, the tal­ent­trends Inte­gra­tion Lay­er helps.

Deployment

Your data, your infrastructure

tal­ent­trends inte­grates into exist­ing data and secu­ri­ty archi­tec­tures — whether cloud, pri­vate cloud or on-premises.

SaaS with talessio

Ful­ly oper­at­ed by us. Fastest time-to-val­ue. Host­ing in Azure Ger­many West Cen­tral or with STACKIT — EU data res­i­den­cy, Schrems II-compliant.

In your cloud

Deploy­ment in your own cloud sub­scrip­tion — Azure, AWS, GCP or Open­Stack. Full con­trol over net­work and data residency.

On-Premises

Runs in your own data cen­tre. Max­i­mum con­trol. Your data nev­er leaves your infrastructure.

Details under Secu­ri­ty & Com­pli­ance. Details on host­ing choice, respon­si­bil­i­ties and migra­tion between mod­els can be found under Cloud & On-Premis­es.

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Interested?

Talk about data that is gen­uine­ly usable

30 min­utes, no oblig­a­tion. We’ll show you the tal­ent­trends Data Hub in live oper­a­tion — against your own Cor­ner­stone por­tal or our sand­box envi­ron­ment — and dis­cuss what it changes for your HR data architecture.

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