talenttrends Integration Layer

One pipeline for all HR systems. Not just Cornerstone.

Building on the talenttrends Data Hub, the Integration Layer connects Cornerstone with SuccessFactors, Microsoft Graph and your own systems — transforming, routing and delivering data, in both directions and fully traceable.

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The problem

HR data does not live only in Cornerstone

In most enter­prise land­scapes, Cor­ner­stone is one one sys­tem among many. Core HR data comes from SAP HCM or Suc­cess­Fac­tors. Activ­i­ty sig­nals sit in Microsoft Graph. Com­pli­ance data goes to exter­nal audi­tors. Each of these con­nec­tions is a project in its own right today — and each ages in its own way.

Integrations grow out of control

Every new sys­tem brings two or three new inter­faces with it. No one has an overview of who sends what to whom.

Generic iPaaS doesn’t know Cornerstone

Boo­mi, Mule­Soft or Worka­to can do every­thing, but every Cor­ner­stone spe­cial case becomes a cus­tomis­ing project.

Scripts are the fastest solution — and the most fragile

At the first Cor­ner­stone release, the map­ping breaks. No one dares to change any­thing about it.

Manual exports and sFTP drops remain a reality

Excel tables trav­el by email, no audit trails are cre­at­ed, respon­si­bil­i­ty becomes blurred.

How it works

Con­nect, route, deliver

01

Connect

Source sys­tems are mir­rored via the repli­ca­tion engine of the tal­ent­trends Data Hub — Cor­ner­stone, SAP Suc­cess­Fac­tors, Microsoft Graph (Entra ID, Teams, M365), Work­day, Per­so­nio, any ODa­ta and REST sources. Set up once, kept up to date auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Cre­den­tials are stored encrypt­ed with­in the platform.

02

Route

On the basis of the already repli­cat­ed data, map­ping rules, fil­ters and trans­for­ma­tions are defined. Main­tain­able with ver­sion­ing, testable before they go live, oper­a­ble via an admin inter­face. Sched­uled or event-driven.

03

Deliver

Back to Cor­ner­stone, to third-par­ty sys­tems, to SFTP direc­to­ries, to email recip­i­ents, to web­hook end­points, to data­bas­es. With PGP encryp­tion where it is required. With a com­plete audit trail of every deliv­ery — when, to whom, with what con­tent, with what result.

What you can do with it

Data silos become processes

Synchronise HR master data in Cornerstone

Core HR data comes from SAP HCM, Suc­cess­Fac­tors or Work­day — Cor­ner­stone takes over. Join­ers, leavers and organ­i­sa­tion­al changes end up auto­mat­i­cal­ly in the right OU tree, with­out man­u­al cre­ation or dupli­cate maintenance.

Pass on compliance and audit data

Train­ing records, qual­i­fi­ca­tion lev­els, manda­to­ry train­ing — direct­ly to exter­nal com­pli­ance tools, audi­tors or author­i­ties. As CSV or Excel, via SFTP or encrypt­ed email. Audit trail included.

Use Microsoft 365 as a data source

Entra ID groups, Teams struc­tures and organ­i­sa­tion­al con­texts from Microsoft Graph flow into Cor­ner­stone — as mem­ber­ship updates, OU struc­tures or sup­ple­men­tary mas­ter data. One source, sev­er­al tar­get systems.

Forward events in real time

New employ­ee, com­plet­ed train­ing, changed qual­i­fi­ca­tion — the Inte­gra­tion Lay­er noti­fies down­stream sys­tems via web­hook as soon as the event becomes vis­i­ble in the data. Onboard­ing tools, com­pli­ance work­flows or your own appli­ca­tions react automatically.

Sources and targets

Mod­ern HR land­scapes do not con­sist of a sin­gle system

Via the repli­ca­tion engine of the Data Hub, the Inte­gra­tion Lay­er reads from the HR and busi­ness sys­tems you oper­ate today — and deliv­ers in every direc­tion in which you need data.

Source systems (what comes in)

  • Cor­ner­stone OnDe­mand — via the offi­cial Cor­ner­stone data interfaces
  • SAP Suc­cess­Fac­tors — HR mas­ter data, OUs, learn­ing data
  • Microsoft Graph — Entra ID, Teams, M365 activities
  • Work­day — on request, ODa­ta- and REST-compliant
  • Per­so­nio, Bam­booHR, your own HCM sys­tems — if they speak ODa­ta or REST
  • SFTP and file drops — for sys­tems with­out an API
  • Incom­ing web­hooks — for sys­tems that active­ly push data

Delivery targets (where it’s delivered)

  • Cor­ner­stone OnDe­mand — bidi­rec­tion­al, not just read-only
  • SFTP direc­to­ries — with option­al PGP encryption
  • Email recip­i­ents — with signed attach­ments, encrypt­ed if required
  • Web­hook end­points — event-dri­ven, with retry and signature
  • Tar­get data­bas­es — SQL Serv­er, Post­greSQL, any oth­er ODBC-capa­ble systems
  • Local direc­to­ries or object stores — for inter­nal data collectors
  • tal­ent­trends Data Hub — as an enrich­ment sink for your own analyses

The technology

Built for pipelines that last

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

The pipeline layer above your Data Hub

The Inte­gra­tion Lay­er builds on the tal­ent­trends Data Hub and extends it with trans­for­ma­tion, rout­ing and deliv­ery. One plat­form, one iden­ti­ty, one oper­a­tions log­ic — also for the tal­ent­trends Micro Apps, that build on it.

Source-agnostic

Cor­ner­stone, Suc­cess­Fac­tors, Microsoft Graph, Work­day, Per­so­nio, your own ODa­ta and REST sources — the Inte­gra­tion Lay­er is not tied to a sin­gle provider. What­ev­er can be opened up via open inter­faces can be connected.

Transformation as a first-class citizen

Map­ping rules, val­ue con­ver­sions, fil­ters and aggre­ga­tions are main­tained — with a clear change his­to­ry and the option to review changes before they go live. No black-box mag­ic, no hid­den hard-codings.

All standard delivery channels

Email, SFTP, web­hook, data­base write access, direc­to­ry drop, ZIP archive. PGP encryp­tion for email and file deliv­er­ies where con­fi­den­tial­i­ty is required.

Scheduled and exception-tolerant

Pipelines run on a sched­ule or event-dri­ven. If parts of a deliv­ery fail, the rest remains reli­able — you see the sta­tus of each pipeline trans­par­ent­ly, not only when the esca­la­tion tick­et arrives.

Fully auditable

Every oper­a­tion is logged: what was trans­formed, where it was deliv­ered, when, with what result. For audits, for com­pli­ance, for diag­nos­ing data ques­tions weeks later.

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?

Inte­gra­tions should not be a bottleneck

30 min­utes, no oblig­a­tion. We’ll map out your HR land­scape with you, iden­ti­fy the most obvi­ous pipeline and dis­cuss how a main­tain­able inte­gra­tion can grow from it — with­out pipeline sprawl.

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