Beyond the HRIS: Why You Need an Experience Layer, Not Another System

Are you feeling pressure to create a more streamlined, automated employee experience? This, along with tightening HR budgets, is leading many HR teams to re-evaluate their tech stack. According to Mark Stelzner, founder and managing principal at HR advisory firm IA, most organizations are managing anywhere from 15 to 50 different HR technologies, leading to significant technology debt. 

Before you bring any new technology into your organization, including onboarding software, you’ve got some homework to do:

• Clearly define the value that tech will add to the business
• Ensure it fits seamlessly with your existing tech stack

Thankfully, Enboarder checks both those boxes by delivering AI-powered, cross-functional journeys that connect your employees with the right people, tools, and resources to be successful. Enboarder isn’t an HRIS or ATS – it’s built to integrate, not compete or complicate. 

In this blog, we’ll dive into some of the details about Enboarder integrations that you can share back with your HR and IT teams to get them excited about adding an experience layer to your existing tech stack.

How Enboarder Integrations Work

Enboarder connects with 85+ industry-leading platforms – from Workday and SuccessFactors to Slack and Microsoft Teams – so you can embed personalized employee journeys into the flow of work, not build an entirely new one.

Here’s how integration powers a smoother, smarter onboarding experience:

• Launch workflows automatically from your HRIS or ATS the moment a new hire is added
• Update key information like start dates or manager assignments – without manual edits
• Cancel workflows when plans change, saving time and reducing confusion

This means no more missed triggers. No more duplicated data entry. Just a streamlined process that works the way it should.

A Better Experience for Everyone

For HR:
Your team can deliver personalized onboarding journeys without relying on IT for every little change. Enboarder helps uplevel the experience of your existing tech investments – without ripping and replacing them. Beca Floyd, internal communications and engagement manager at Dermalogica, shares how integrating Enboarder with its ATS Greenhouse has changed the game: “That has been life-changing for me because I was putting everybody in manually. It’s now automated in the background and everything just falls into place.

For IT:
No standalone burden. Our APIs are simple, our authentication is secure (OAuth 2.0), and we offer flexible options like SFTP, iPaaS, and webhooks. In most cases, HR can manage the platform independently post-implementation.

For Managers:
No more juggling tools or clicking through endless emails. Enboarder brings tasks together in one place – whether that’s a custom form, calendar push, or embedded ServiceNow action – designed to reduce notification fatigue and drive action with minimal clicks.

Maximize the Systems You Already Have

Some companies hesitate to integrate because they worry it means recreating the same work. But Enboarder is designed to optimize your existing systems, not duplicate them. (That’s a big challenge for 56% of HR teams, according to Mercer).

Instead of sending managers tasks from three different tools – one from Jira, one from ServiceNow, one from Salesforce – you can bring everything into a single, intuitive workflow inside Enboarder. Or embed Enboarder actions into those platforms. It’s about using integrations to deliver the best end-user experience.

Kiera Hazley, people operations leader at Moneysupermarket Group, chose to integrate Enboarder with Moneysupermarket Group’s HRIS to drive more engagement in onboarding: “Enboarder runs on key dates, meaning no matter when the data field in the HRIS are uploaded, the workflow will only start once it hits those – in our case -60 days before the key date.”

Avoid Kicking it “Down the Line”

We’ve seen it time and time again: If integration isn’t prioritized during implementation, it often doesn’t happen. IT bandwidth gets redirected, and HR ends up back at square one.

That’s why Enboarder works closely with your systems experts during onboarding to identify:

• Where errors are occurring
• Where manual work is slowing you down
• Where smart integration can eliminate friction

We’ll help your teams build it once and benefit every time.

Your Integration, Your Way

Whether you’re looking to integrate Enboarder with your ATS, HRIS, or collaboration tools, you choose the method that fits your environment:

• Native Integrations: Quick connections with Workday, ServiceNow, Greenhouse, DocuSign, and more
• APIs: Customize triggers and data flows using simple, secure JSON formats
• SFTP: Automatically upload encrypted CSV files for ongoing sync
• Webhooks: Trigger events to and from Enboarder in real time
• iPaaS: Keep your employee profiles aligned with your system of record

Use Enboarder as the Experience Layer

Your existing systems hold the data – Enboarder brings it to life. By sitting on top of your HR tech stack, Enboarder acts as the experience layer that connects siloed tools into one seamless journey for your employees. 

Rather than replacing your HRIS or ATS – Enboarder amplifies their value by making it easy to design dynamic, personalized journeys triggered by real-time changes in your source systems. That means less manual work for you and faster time-to-impact for your employees.

Want to see how your onboarding could work smarter with Enboarder integrations?
Learn more here or schedule a FREE demo!