BI dataset enablement.

connect hireful to your BI platform and bring recruitment data into the heart of your reporting 📊

Most organisations have invested seriously in business intelligence. Power BI workspaces, Tableau projects, Looker Studio dashboards, central data warehouses. Your finance team uses them. Your operations team uses them. Your CRM data lives in them.

And then there's your recruitment data. Sitting in a separate system, extracted manually into spreadsheets, uploaded by whoever happens to remember to do it that week. Stale by the time it reaches the people who need it.

BI Dataset Enablement changes that. hireful now provides a secure, read-only reporting database that connects directly into your existing BI platform, putting recruitment data in the same place as the rest of your business reporting.

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your BI tools, your way 🔗

If your organisation already uses a business intelligence tool, whether that's something like Power BI, Tableau, or Google's Looker Studio, this integration connects hireful directly into it. Your reporting team sets it up once, and from that point your recruitment data appears alongside all your other business data automatically. Nobody needs to manually export anything, and nobody needs to learn a new system. It just works within what you already have.

For those who want the technical detail: the integration connects via Amazon Redshift, with Power BI using its native Redshift connector and other BI tools connecting through standard JDBC/ODBC drivers. Organisations that run a central data warehouse can also ingest from the reporting database upstream and serve it to multiple downstream tools from there. No proprietary connector or plugin is required at any point.

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near-real-time data without the manual effort ⏱️

Recruitment data from hireful synchronises into the reporting database roughly every 30 minutes. Jobs, applications, candidates and more: all refreshed automatically, on a consistent schedule, without anyone needing to trigger an export or move a file.

For organisations that currently rely on a few people running manual extracts or maintaining personal scripts, this is a significant shift. hireful manages the data pipeline, the refresh schedule is predictable, and the schema is structured and ready to report against from day one.

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security and governance built in 🔒

Connecting an external data source to your BI environment means security matters. BI Dataset Enablement is built with governance in mind at every layer.

Access is controlled through Row-Level Security at the database layer, so analysts only see data for the companies or brands they're authorised for. Credentials are issued per user. IP whitelisting governs where connections can originate from. The database is strictly read-only: no analyst can modify data or create objects in the schema.

For IT, Data, and Security teams, that means a supported, documented integration pattern they can review, approve, and sign off on. No more personal scripts hidden on someone's laptop, and no more unmanaged data sitting in shared drives.

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recruitment data alongside your full business picture.

The real value of BI Dataset Enablement is what becomes possible once recruitment data sits alongside everything else. You can combine hireful data with HRIS, payroll, CRM, finance, and operational data to build a complete picture of the recruitment lifecycle, from vacancy creation through to cost, time, and quality of hire.

HR, Talent, and business leaders get recruitment dashboards in the same place they already go for reporting. BI developers get a governed, reusable data source they can model against without building or maintaining a custom ETL pipeline. Everyone stops waiting for the Monday morning extract.

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straightforward to get started 🚀

Getting connected requires three things: the email address of the person who will be using the BI tool, the relevant IP address for whitelisting, and your hireful company IDs. Once those details are in, the Product and Development team handle the setup and issue credentials within 24 hours. Client setup guides are available for both Power BI and other BI tools to support your team through the connection process.

BI Dataset Enablement is available on hireful's Hero tier. If you're an existing hireful customer and want to find out more, get in touch with our team at support@hireful.co.uk.

New to hireful? We'd love to show you how BI Dataset Enablement fits into our broader ATS platform. Book a demo to see how hireful can become a first-class data source inside your existing BI stack.

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