Which integration flow should I choose?
Details on the different integration flows Ravio supports and choosing which one is best for you
When you connect your HRIS (Human Resources Information System) to Ravio, you choose between two integration types: standard and anonymous. Both pull the same compensation data and both keep that data just as secure. The only difference whether you see names or IDs inside your own Ravio account.
The one thing that changes: employee identifiers
A standard integration brings across an employee name from your HRIS, so you can recognise who is who and match records back to people in your own systems.
An anonymous integration leaves that PII behind. Records still carry all the compensation detail Ravio needs, but there is no PII attached to each employee record.
That is the whole difference. It only affects what you see in your account. It does not change the benchmarks you get, the security of your data, or how Ravio handles it behind the scenes.
What both options have in common
Whichever you choose, the privacy fundamentals are identical:
- All data is anonymised, standardised, and aggregated before it enters Ravio's benchmarking dataset.
- No other company can see your data, and you can't see any individual company's data - only market-level benchmarks.
So the choice is not about how safe your data is. It is about how you want to work with it day to day.
When to choose a standard integration
A standard integration is the right pick if you want to:
- Recognise employees by name and reconcile them against your HRIS.
- Spot and fix data issues quickly.
- Share access amongst a wider group.
This is the most common choice, because the employee name makes day-to-day analysis and troubleshooting much easier.
When to choose an anonymous integration
An anonymous integration is the right pick if your organisation needs the strongest possible internal privacy, for example where:
- Internal policy or a works council agreement requires that no PII is shared with external tools like Ravio.
The trade-off is usability. Because there is only an ID, it's harder to identify which employees you are analysing.
Crucially, this decision is not final! You can always change between standard and anonymous if you change your mind.
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