Xemplo eliminates data silos, delivering seamless worker lifecycle with Workato Embedded

Xemplo eliminates data silos, delivering seamless worker lifecycle with Workato Embedded

Department

Product

Region

Sydney, Australia (Global)

Industry

Workforce Management/HR Tech

Key Connectors

About

Xemplo is a workforce management platform built by HR, staffing, and payroll experts. Xemplo connects onboarding, employment, timesheets, payroll, and compliance into one governed platform, giving recruitment agencies and businesses real-time visibility and a single source of truth across the entire worker lifecycle.

Results

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Manual data re-entry required between Bullhorn and Xemplo

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Pre-built integrations available to Xemplo clients via Workato

Challenges

Challenges Disconnected worker lifecycle; a resource stress and compliance risk

Xemplo was built to solve one of workforce management’s most persistent problems: to bridge the gap between legislation, compliance, HR, and payroll processes.

Historically, these departments have operated in silos. Compliance was difficult to maintain and worker lifecycle management was unnecessarily complex. But even as Xemplo unified those workflows, a broader disconnection remained: the tools that recruitment agencies relied on most were still beyond Xemplo’s reach.

For most agencies, the recruitment process starts in an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) like Bullhorn for Salesforce. Xemplo handles everything else that follows: onboarding, contracts, timesheets, payroll, and compliance. Unfortunately, Xemplo had no real way to connect these two critical processes.

This resulted in a process that required frequent manual data re-entry, where even the smallest error could lead to legal consequences. Wrong employment types, mismatched field values, missed assignment; each handoff became a compliance liability.

A native integration might have seemed like the straightforward fix. But, with highly configurable tools like Bullhorn for Salesforce, Xemplo ran the risk of building a rigid, point-to-point integration that locked them into a specific configuration and would also break with customer customizations. This would also require significant ongoing engineering investment as both platforms evolved.

Solution

The flexible integration layer powered by Workato Embedded

Xemplo needed a scalable solution that could evolve with their platform, partners, and, most importantly, their customers’ tech stacks. That’s what led the team to build with Workato Embedded; the leading embedded integration platform for SaaS leaders.

Where a native integration would have been a brittle one-size-fits-all connector, Workato’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface enabled Xemplo to build a dynamic data field integration to Bullhorn for Salesforce. Data is read at runtime and mapped into Xemplo’s data model, adapting to each customer’s specific configuration without any custom code per deployment.

Xemplo designed this connector with existing recruiter workflows in mind, keeping the Bullhorn for Salesforce environment recruiters were familiar with while Workato was working invisibly in the background.

With this new solution in place, Xemplo had successfully orchestrated the handoff from placement to onboarding management, eliminating the friction and risk with manual data entry.

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How Xemplo’s integration works

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    Managed service for enterprise

    Xemplo leveraged the Workato Embedded Platform to build and maintain their customer-facing integrations, creating a seamless, hand-offs experience for customers.

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    Recruiters stay in Bullhorn

    Xemplo’s delivery partners received structured recipe-building training, ensuring consistent integration quality and faster time-to-value across the partner ecosystem.

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    Dynamic field mapping and digital onboarding

    Bullhorn for Salesforce fields are mapped to Xemplo dynamically at runtime, adapting to each agency’s custom configuration without any custom code. Xemplo’s digital onboarding process is also triggered directly from Bullhorn for Salesforce, accelerating onboarding for clients.

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    Built to expand

    With Workato’s extensive library of 1,200+ pre-built connectors Xemplo isn’t limited to just Bullhorn for Salesforce. The same integration layer extends to any system customers require—all through a single centralized platform.

Results

Higher margins, faster payments, and a scalable platform ready for any tech stack

The Bullhorn for Salesforce integration built on Workato Embedded completely transformed Xemplo’s platform. From two disjointed systems that required an error-prone manual data entry process, Xemplo converted their platform into a seamless, scalable integrated solution that bridged data silos, accelerated timelines, eliminated previous compliance risks, and gave recruiters confidence that Xemplo matched their ATS data.

For agencies operating on tight margins with large contract workforces, compressing the worker lifecycle was invaluable. Beyond the immediate efficiency gains, integrations are now a strategic advantage for Xemplo. Connectors no longer take months of custom engineering, they are a product capability that Xemplo can extend to any new ATS, payroll platform, or back-office system customers request.

Partnering with Workato allowed Xemplo to revolutionize their approach to workforce management—turning a source of weakness into a competitive differentiator. With a secured, scalable solution like Workato, Xemplo is prepared to connect to their customers’ ever-growing list of third-party tools without placing a stress on resources.

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Manual data re-entry required between Bullhorn and Xemplo

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