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Field notes on HR data
Hard-won, practical writing on getting your HR and L&D data out and moving – starting with Cornerstone OnDemand: the APIs, the limits, the reporting, and everything the docs make you dig for.
octo.taxi · Facts
What is octo.taxi? The facts in one place
What it is, who it is for, where the data comes from and where it lives, how current it is, what it costs – and what it is not.
5 min readReadocto.taxi · Use case
Learning data in your employee app
Due dates, required training and progress from your HR platform, as cards in the app your people already open.
2 min readReadocto.taxi · Launch
Eight arms. One brain. Meet octo.taxi
Your LMS is one arm, HR core another, surveys and performance tools a third and a fourth. And the brain? Usually an Excel export from last Tuesday. So we built the brain.
3 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Power BI
Cornerstone data in Power BI: five ways, compared
Reporting 2.0 exports, Cornerstone's own Power BI utility, your own pipeline, an ETL connector or an OData feed – what each is good at, and where it gets expensive.
6 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Analytics
Cornerstone analytics: your options compared
Cornerstone's own reporting, its Power BI utility, a warehouse pipeline, a people analytics platform or octo.taxi – strengths and limits of each, with sources.
6 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Compliance
A Cornerstone compliance dashboard that survives an audit
The five questions every audit asks about mandatory training, how Cornerstone defines “mandatory”, and why the trend matters more than the snapshot.
4 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Certifications
Certification expiry in Cornerstone: the 30/60/90 view
Which certificates matter, the 30/60/90-day pipeline, coverage by location and time to certify – the overview that keeps a shift from stopping.
4 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Works council
HR analytics your works council can sign off
Section 87 BetrVG, the court decision that drew the line, minimum group sizes and what a works agreement asks for – and how to enforce it in the product.
5 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · APIs
Getting data out of Cornerstone: REST, Reporting API, or Data Exporter?
Cornerstone has more ways out than almost any HR system – REST, RAPI, the Data Exporter, and Bulk. Here's the whole map, and a three-question way to pick.
6 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Compliance
Cornerstone compliance %: the one number every manager asks for
“How compliant is my team?” sounds like one number. In Cornerstone OnDemand it's a completion rate rolled up across a manager's whole reporting line – direct and indirect reports – and it's surprisingly hard to get. Here's why, and the two ways to actually get it.
5 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Data Exporter API
The Cornerstone Data Exporter API (DEAPI), and the throttle limits nobody warns you about
What the DEAPI is genuinely good for, where its rate limits bite, and how to tell whether the wall is your code or Cornerstone's servers.
8 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Reporting 2.0
Cornerstone Reporting 2.0: the limits nobody mentions until you hit one
The 200,000-row default, the one-million-record ceiling, the schedules that switch themselves off, and why Cornerstone itself is moving past the reporting screen.
6 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Dashboards & KPIs
The Cornerstone dashboards and KPIs that actually matter
The handful of HR and L&D numbers worth putting on one screen – and why Cornerstone makes assembling them current and board-ready harder than it should be.
6 min readReadCornerstone OnDemand · Portal Health Check
The Cornerstone portal health check nobody schedules (until audit season)
Module activation, dormant users, orphaned learning, config drift, access – what a real portal audit covers, and why the answers are so hard to get from inside the platform.
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