Cornerstone OnDemand Integration and Automation Services
When your systems agree, training happens on time
New hires are enrolled before day one. A role change triggers the right learning assignments. Managers see current completions, and the auditor gets records that match on the first ask. Our own tooling turns approved changes elsewhere in the business into working training without adding another queue for your team to watch.
Your audit has answers, not surprises
Tooling we built and maintain in house watches your data feeds around the clock, and it uses AI to do it. When a feed drifts or a source system changes what Cornerstone expects, the tooling flags the mismatch and prepares the correction. A Certified Cornerstone Expert reviews it and makes the call inside the governance we set together. Nothing reaches your live platform without a person approving that specific change. Your people never have to discover the problem through a missed assignment, and your next audit starts with records you can stand behind.
What we connect and what we automate
HR and people data
Hires, promotions, transfers, and departures become the right org structure, manager hierarchy, permissions, and learning assignments in Cornerstone.
Compliance and credential records
Certifications, completions, and role requirements stay current across the systems your compliance team relies on.
Custom data feeds
If a system has an API or a structured export, we can map it into Cornerstone and prove the transformation. Our own tooling then watches the connection.
Content libraries
Your people reach the right content from Cornerstone, and their completions return against the right training record.
Identity and access
People sign in with the access their role requires. We map the handoff, test the fallback, and keep permissions aligned as roles change.
Recurring platform work
Our own tooling runs approved provisioning checks, enrollment triggers, reminders, and expiration notices on schedule, with a Certified Cornerstone Expert accountable for the result.
One operating model from source record to training outcome
Your system of record stays authoritative. We work with your HRIS team to map each field Cornerstone needs, document what changes in transit, and prove the result against real people and real training records before anything reaches production. Every connection has an owner, an expected result, and a reconciliation that shows whether the two sides still agree.
The work does not stop when the first clean file lands. Source fields change. Permissions evolve. A scheduled job can finish without moving every record it should. Our own tooling watches for those gaps around the clock, and a Certified Cornerstone Expert owns the response. Cornerstone is all we do, and has been for more than ten years, so we know where to look when a clean technical run still produces the wrong learning outcome.
You keep ownership of the data model. We take the Cornerstone-side cleanup. Your team keeps the business rules and internal relationships; we translate those decisions into working feeds, assignments, access, and reporting.
Mapped, automated, and owned after launch
Map the current state
We inventory every feed, trigger, schedule, transformation, and owner. The undocumented connection is included because finding it is part of the work.
Reconcile the records
We compare Cornerstone with the source data, resolve the backlog, and document the intended behavior so the knowledge lives with the platform.
Run the recurring work
Our own tooling runs the approved checks and workflows on schedule. A Certified Cornerstone Expert reviews prepared changes, approves each specific change, and owns the result.
Catch drift early
Our own tooling catches missing records, changed fields, short feeds, and silent job failures. We bring your team the issue, the affected outcome, and the prepared correction.
Three ways organizations handle integrations
| GroveDeck | Consultancy | Internal team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone depth | We own the Cornerstone side | Often led from the source-system side | Depends on who has capacity |
| Feed ownership | Our tooling runs it; we own the result | Built, delivered, and handed back | Maintenance competes with core work |
| Monitoring | Our tooling keeps watch around the clock | Usually a separate support scope | Problems wait for an alert or ticket |
| Custom connections | We connect APIs and structured exports | Usually a separate statement of work | Depends on available skills and time |
| When something changes | The same people own the response | A new scope may be required | It joins the internal queue |
| Commitment | Built and operated month to month | Build contract plus support scope | Permanent maintenance responsibility |
| Who’s accountable | A Certified Cornerstone Expert | Whoever owns the active contract | Whoever originally built the feed |
Questions we hear most
Our HRIS team already owns the system of record. Do we still need you?
Probably for different things. Your HRIS team owns the source data and data model. We own the Cornerstone side: how that data becomes access, learning assignments, permissions, and reporting. We work alongside your team so the boundary is clear and the records agree.
Can you fix integrations someone else built?
Yes. Most of our integration work is inherited: a feed built years ago, undocumented, and drifting from its spec. We map what it does now, reconcile the records, document the intended behavior, and our own tooling watches it after the repair.
Can you connect a system Cornerstone does not support out of the box?
If the system has an API or a structured export, we can usually build against it. We map the records, prove the transformation against real data, and add reconciliation so the connection stays accountable after launch.
Is this a project or an ongoing engagement?
The build starts with a defined outcome: map the workflow, build it, and prove it against real records. Once it is live, our own tooling watches it month to month while a Certified Cornerstone Expert owns improvements. The same people own the connection instead of turning every change into a new project.
What we also do
Migrations: move into Cornerstone without losing the training history and audit records you already built.
Managed administration: we run Cornerstone day to day so the integrations and automations keep working after launch.
Your systems agree. Training keeps moving.
You keep ownership of the data model. We take the Cornerstone-side cleanup. That means data feeds built to spec, our own tooling running the recurring work inside your governance, and one accountable team watching both after launch.
Send us the workflowA Certified Cornerstone Expert, not a sales rep. Earned month to month. No multi-year contract.