Data Panda pulls your ELMO records (employees, payroll runs, leave, performance, training, applicants) into the same warehouse as your finance, sales and operations data. From one place we turn it into dashboards, workflows and apps that HR, payroll and team leads use during the month, not only the morning of a board meeting.
ELMO Software was founded in 2002 in Sydney by Danny Lessem and grew into one of the largest cloud HR vendors in Australia and New Zealand. The product is an integrated suite covering the HR core (employee record, org structure), payroll, recruitment and onboarding, learning management, performance and goals, plus rostering, time and attendance, expenses and surveys. ELMO publicly serves more than 2,000 organisations and around 1.2 million users, with offices across ANZ and the UK.
The company listed on the ASX as ELO, then was taken private by US growth investor K1 Investment Management in a scheme announced in October 2022 and implemented in early 2023, valuing the business at roughly AU$486 million. In 2020 ELMO acquired UK self-service HR platform Breathe (founded 2012, focused on businesses under fifty employees), which extended the group's reach into Britain and the smaller end of the market. Joseph Lyons, previously managing director at Xero, joined as CEO in January 2024. Co-founder Danny Lessem now sits on the board. ELMO is a single source of truth for the HR weekly check-in: who works here, who is joining, who is on leave, who needs training renewed. The questions that sit across HR, finance and operations, like what payroll cost truly drove this month's gross margin, how training compliance maps onto delivery risk, or how rostered hours line up with billable hours, need ELMO data next to ledger, project and CRM data. Our connector pulls the employee directory, payroll runs, leave records, performance reviews, training completions and applicant pipeline into the warehouse, so those joins stop being a copy-paste job into a spreadsheet once a quarter.
Headcount, payroll cost, training compliance and attrition in one place, joined to finance and delivery data.
Turn hires, leavers, payroll cycles and training expiries into the right downstream work, instead of a Monday morning checklist.
Put hiring pipeline, performance, payroll and learning history behind AI that sees the full workforce picture.
Lightweight HR and people-ops tools that sit on your ELMO data rather than on another SaaS subscription.
A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on ELMO Software data. Pick the one that matches your situation.
What did payroll really cost us this month, by cost-centre?
Payroll-run output from ELMO joined to the general-ledger cost-centre map, with variance versus plan per period and a drill-down per role family. Finance sees the labour-cost drivers behind this month's gross margin without waiting for a manual reconciliation between the payroll export and the trial balance.
Where is training compliance silently slipping?
Required course completions and certification expiries from the ELMO Learning Management module, joined to roster and project assignments. Operations sees which teams are about to run a shift or a billable engagement with someone whose ticket lapses next week, while there is still time to reschedule or renew.
Can we plan delivery against the real workforce, not the headcount headline?
Approved leave, rostered hours and open-role status from ELMO joined to project plans and demand forecasts. Delivery leads see the weeks where actual capacity drops below plan, so commitments to clients reflect the workforce that will really be available rather than the org chart on paper.
Payroll commitments and headcount reconciled against the finance ledger. You see which cost-centres are tracking above plan before the monthly close, not after.
Quota coverage against actual staffed sellers, ramp dates and trained certifications. You see when a territory falls below coverage before the pipeline does.
Leave, rostered hours, training expiries and onboarding completion in one delivery picture. The capacity plan stops being four screenshots stitched the morning of the planning call.
New hires, anniversaries, approved leave and expiring certifications in ELMO drive the right Slack messages into the right channels: a welcome post on day one, an out-of-office note for the team channel, and a manager ping when a required certificate is about to lapse. HR stops running a weekly announcement queue by hand.
New hires, leavers and completed sales-enablement training in ELMO keep the HubSpot quota-coverage view in sync with the actual staffed and certified sales team, including ramp dates per rep. Revenue leaders see when a territory slips below target coverage because a hire is delayed or a leaver has not been replaced, weeks before the pipeline report catches it.
Each ELMO payroll run lands as a structured journal in Exact Online, mapped per cost-centre and project, so finance closes the month against the same labour-cost numbers that HR signed off. Variance against budget is visible per department within the close, not in a follow-up reconciliation that comes a week after the board meeting.
Approved leave and rostered hours per assignee in ELMO net out the working days available in monday.com boards, so project leads plan against real capacity rather than a flat assumption. Milestones that collide with a leave-heavy week or an under-rostered location are flagged while there is still room to rephase.
Active employees, territory assignments and current certifications from ELMO populate Salesforce user, account team and qualification fields, so deals only route to reps who are still in seat and still certified for the product or region. Sales ops stops reconciling a CSV export against the CRM every month.
Rostered hours and payroll cost per employee in ELMO are joined to project and customer dimensions in Business Central, so project margin reports show the labour cost that truly drove each engagement. Finance and delivery debate the same number when a project runs late instead of trading two different spreadsheets.
You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your ELMO Software data lives.
OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.
Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.
We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.
We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.
Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.
We build the whole thing, end to end.
Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.
You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.
Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.
No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.
Pay rates, tax and superannuation identifiers and review-content fields can be kept in restricted schemas that only HR, payroll and finance roles reach, while the employee directory, leave and headcount data powers the dashboards the rest of the business uses. Access is enforced in the warehouse, not in each dashboard, so a new report cannot accidentally expose a field it should not see.
The connector pulls from the modules a typical ELMO tenant runs: HR Core (employee record, org structure), Payroll (run summaries and per-employee detail where licensed), Recruitment and Onboarding (applicants, offers, checklists), Learning Management (courses, completions, certifications), Performance (reviews and goal cycles), and Rostering / Time and Attendance where available. Modules a customer does not have stay empty rather than blocking the rest.
We review your ELMO Software setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.