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Can you trust the data you rely on?

When your data sits in silos, it becomes almost impossible to understand your workforce or plan with confidence. Without harmonizing this data—cleaning, aligning, and structuring it into a single model—teams waste hours reconciling spreadsheets, struggle to trust the numbers, and risk making decisions on incomplete or conflicting information.

By directly connecting your systems of record to a system of design like Orgvue, you can simply build a trusted data foundation for analysis, scenario modeling, and ongoing workforce transformation.

Before Orgvue, I used to receive 30 to 100 emails about innacurate data—whereas now I hardly receive any.

Head of Transformation

We made more than 150,000 changes to workforce data in 60 days. We could never have achieved that with our old methods using spreadsheets.

VP of Org Design

A clearer view of your organization

Orgvue brings your workforce data together into one connected platform, giving you a clear and consistent view of your organization. By harmonizing information from different systems (or even different organizations during M&A), Orgvue creates a single source of truth you can rely on to understand today’s reality and design what comes next. Orgvue’s data integration capabilities also remove the burden of manual transfers by building automated transfer between your systems, keeping your data accurate and available whenever you need it.

When you need a broader perspective, Orgvue can also enrich your internal data with external talent intelligence, helping you understand roles and skills in a wider context.

Customer Story

From fragmented data and manual processes to strategic agility​

Read the case study

Orgvue’s Jayne Clarke joins Deloitte’s Jesse Jacks and Dan Sundt to explore how automated connectors support digital twins

Your digital twin, brought to life

With harmonized data in place, you now have a trusted digital twin of your organization in Orgvue. This living model lets you explore scenarios, test different design options, and understand the impact of change before anything shifts in reality. It’s a safe, controlled environment for confident, future-focused decision-making. 

How Orgvue helps

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Bring your data together

Easily integrate data from HR, finance, and planning systems in the way that suits your business. Orgvue supports:

  • Pre-built connectors for platforms like Workday and SAP SuccessFactors
  • Custom API connectors tailored by our engineering team and partners
  • CSV and spreadsheet transfers via manual or scheduled uploads
  • Built-in surveys for direct input from leaders
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Copy and pasting rate card data from spreadsheets into Orgvue

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Build a clean foundation

As you start visualizing your data in Orgvue, inconsistencies often surface when information comes from multiple sources. Orgvue’s drag-and-drop tools help you quickly bring order to that complexity, making it easy to align fields, standardize labels, and create a clean, consistent foundation you can trust for design and planning.

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Identifying inconsistencies in reporting lines

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Understand organizational performance at a glance

Once your data is loaded and harmonized, Orgvue’s visualizations help you understand how your organization is really performing. You can quickly explore areas such as organizational effectiveness, diversity metrics, spans and layers, critical roles and skills, and retirement risk to surface insights, identify risk, and focus attention where it matters most.


Visualizing the budget summary for each department, with full FTE visibility

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  • Spot inconsistent workforce data 
  • Understand why changes are recommended 
  • Review and approve updates with confidence 
  • Build trust in data-driven workforce decisions 

Common use cases

Automating data flow between Orgvue and systems of record will benefit in a number of ways. Explore the following scenarios where such connectors deliver value:

Workforce tracking

  • See workforce trends and monthly changes easily
  • Check progress on planned changes and the impact of unplanned change

Total cost of workforce

  • Aggregate labor cost and headcount data from multiple sources
  • Provide up to the minute and reliable reports on costs and movements in the workforce

Workforce planning

  • Download skills data and align to external labor market information
  • Analyze where skills gaps exist now and into the future
  • Feed plans back to HR suite for recruitment, talent development, and retention

FAQs

What do you mean by data harmonization?

Data harmonization is the process of cleaning, aligning, and structuring workforce data from different sources into a single, consistent model. This creates a trusted baseline you can use to understand your organization today and confidently plan for the future.

How is data harmonization different from data integration?

Data harmonization focuses on cleaning, standardizing, and aligning data so it can be meaningfully analyzed and modeled. Data integration focuses on how data is transferred into and out of Orgvue, whether through automated connectors, APIs, file uploads, or surveys. Many organizations start with harmonization and add integration as their needs mature. Orgvue data integration partners like Deloitte, Preos and Geconex.

What data can Orgvue harmonize, and where can it come from?

Orgvue can harmonize a wide range of workforce data, including people, roles, skills, costs, reporting lines, locations, and diversity metrics. This data can come from across HR, finance, and planning systems, as well as from databases, files, SaaS applications, web services, legacy systems, and custom applications. Orgvue also supports bringing together data from different organizations, such as during mergers and acquisitions.

What can organizations use data harmonization in Orgvue for?

Organizations use data harmonization in Orgvue to create a reliable, consistent foundation for understanding how their workforce operates today. By bringing data together from across systems and aligning it into a single model, teams can move beyond fragmented reporting and gain confidence in the information they rely on. This clarity is essential for answering fundamental questions about headcount, cost, structure, roles, skills, and organizational effectiveness.

With a trusted baseline in place, data harmonization supports a wide range of workforce planning and transformation activities. Organizations use it to analyze spans and layers, assess diversity and inclusion metrics, identify critical roles and skills, understand cost drivers, and surface risks such as retirement exposure or capability gaps. It is also commonly used to support mergers and acquisitions, where data from multiple organizations needs to be aligned quickly to understand overlaps, differences, and future design options.

Beyond analysis, harmonized data in Orgvue enables more confident decision-making over time. It underpins scenario modeling, organizational design, and strategic workforce planning by ensuring that decisions are based on a consistent view of the organization. Whether supporting large transformation programs or more targeted initiatives, data harmonization helps teams reduce risk, move faster, and focus on designing what comes next rather than reconciling data.

How does Orgvue protect customer data and ensure security and privacy?

Orgvue is delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, with security and data privacy built in by design. All customers benefit from consistent security controls, data management policies, and service-level commitments across the platform. Orgvue follows recognized industry standards and best practices to protect customer data throughout ingestion, harmonization, analysis, and modeling.

Orgvue’s security and privacy approach includes:

Independent assurance and certifications
Annual SOC 2 Type II report
ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and CSA STAR certifications
Penetration testing performed at least annually

Strong access controls and data separation
Customer data is logically separated by tenant
Each tenant is encrypted using a dedicated encryption key
Orgvue employees do not have access to customer data by default
Role-based access control (RBAC) and single sign-on (SSO) are supported

Robust data protection and compliance
Data encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption
Compliance with international data protection legislation
Standard Data Processing Agreement available

Flexible and secure hosting options
Data hosted on AWS in multiple regions, including the United States, Europe, and Australia

Comprehensive and up-to-date information about Orgvue’s security practices is available through the Orgvue Trust Center.

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