What are your challenges when bringing HR data together?
Bringing HR data together is rarely straightforward. Recruitment, performance, engagement, learning, holidays and leaver surveys can each exist in their own software platform, stored with their own structures, formats and rules. The result is valuable workforce information that ends up scattered across silos.
Building a single, consistent dataset that can power meaningful analytics and dashboards becomes one of the toughest challenges HR teams face.
When the data doesn’t connect, dashboards risk being little more than a patchwork of numbers. But when integration is done well, silos disappear, and the full workforce story emerges – from attraction right through to retention and beyond.
I asked the LI community in a poll what their biggest challenge is when bringing HR data together from different platforms was and here are the answers. Thanks to everyone who voted.
I’m really interested in hearing your experiences too. If you’ve tackled these challenges successfully, what approaches or tools have worked best for you? And if it’s still a work in progress, what would make the biggest difference?


