Summary

Localyze, a leading B2B global mobility platform, partnered with StackOne to overcome challenges associated with building native third-party integrations in-house and scale their integration capabilities. This case study explores how StackOne's unified API solution enabled Localyze to launch 6 new HRIS integrations to enhance their service offering while _{reducing integration development time by 90%.}

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StackOne is a game-changer – we launched 6 enterprise HRIS integrations in a few weeks. It is the only platform we tested that enabled us to customize the unified API to fit our use-case across so many integrations. And the real-time API makes reading and writing much easier than other tools that have a sync delay.
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Anthony Petane, Director of Product at Localyze

Company Overview

Localyze is a leading B2B global mobility platform that empowers companies to effectively plan, manage, and support employee mobility needs, including relocations, workations, visa renewals, and business trips. Catering to a diverse customer base from startups to enterprises, Localyze's tech-enabled platform ensures a seamless experience for both employers and employees in the ever-evolving landscape of global workforce management.

The Integration Challenge

As a global mobility platform, integrations with Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) providers are crucial for Localyze's operations and growth. These integrations serve several critical purposes:

1. Seamless user experience: Localyze needed to integrate smoothly into their customers' existing HR tech stacks, streamlining what would otherwise be a time-consuming and error-prone process.
2. Data accuracy and consistency: Synchronizing data across systems was vital for informed decision-making and ensuring compliance with complex immigration and labor laws.
3. Scalability: As Localyze's customer base expanded, they needed to scale their integration capabilities to support a growing variety of customer HRIS providers.

Prior to using StackOne, Localyze had already developed integrations with three HRIS providers (Bamboo HR, Personio, and Workday). However, this approach presented significant challenges as they sought to expand their offerings and maintain these integrations efficiently. In-house development was complex and time-consuming. Additionally, the team needed a solution that would enable them to rapidly scale their integration capabilities without requiring additional dedicated resources and extensive maintenance, which was crucial to execute their ambitious expansion plans.

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We chose StackOne because we wanted to stay ahead of our growing customer base's demand for new integrations. We needed a way to scale our integration capabilities effectively and rapidly. StackOne enabled us to offer a wider range of utility with our integrations, such as two-way document sync. Their solution was the most efficient, comprehensive and reliable, which sealed the deal for us.
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Marnie Nyenhuis, Product Manager at Localyze

Why StackOne Unified API

After evaluating several other unified APIs providers, Localyze selected StackOne for the following reasons:

1. Technical Depth beyond any other Unified API

StackOne's depth of integrations in the People Technology space was the only one that could support Localyze's specific needs — _{bidirectional (read and write)} and _real-time data across many Employee data points.

Retrieving current employee information is crucial. Any changes made in the HR system must be immediately accessible via the API to ensure a consistent user experience. StackOne ensures this by making the necessary requests to the HR system in real-time.

In addition, interacting with various HR systems' Employee Document APIs is complex, as both file metadata and delivery methods differ significantly across platforms. StackOne simplifies this process by unifying file uploads. It accommodates various upload methods, including:

1. URL-based uploads
2. Binary HTTP request payloads
3. Embedded base64 strings within JSON payloads

This flexibility allows StackOne to adapt to each provider's specific requirements, streamlining the integration process

2.  Privacy and Security

StackOne's real-time API enabled direct communication _{without data storage}, ensuring security and compliance for Localyze's customers' sensitive data, including visa information and social security numbers.

Importantly, StackOne’s unique real-time architecture is able to support Localyze's use-case without ever processing data of employees that Localyze does not need, which was not the case for other unified APIs due to their caching-based architecture.

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As a Global Mobility platform, we handle sensitive talent immigration details, which we handle with the utmost care. [Data privacy and security] is one of the key things that our customers are looking into and asking us about. So, of course, it means that if we partner with a third-party vendor, we also want to make sure that we can still ensure the data security of [our customers'] employees' data.
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Marnie Nyenhuis, Product Manager at Localyze

3. Partner Mindset

StackOne positioned themselves as a partner from the start, guaranteeing support for all the fields Localyze needed and making sure their use case was covered across various providers.

Onboarding Experience

The onboarding and implementation experience with StackOne was highly successful:

• Rapid deployment: Within 1-1.5 months, Localyze transitioned from three custom-built integrations (Bamboo HR, Personio, and Workday) to a scalable setup with StackOne, expanding to include two new integrations, SAP SuccessFactors and Hibob.
• Efficient collaboration: Weekly check-ins and clear communication ensured a smooth implementation process.
• Responsive support: StackOne quickly implemented new features as needed, often within days.

The Results

StackOne's unified API has empowered Localyze to build a robust and scalable ecosystem of integrations. By integrating seamlessly with a wide range of HRIS providers through a single API, StackOne platforms has helped Localyze simplify the integration process, reduce its complexity, and minimize maintenance overhead, all while _{ensuring data security and compliance}.

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With StackOne, we've been able to rapidly expand our integration offering. _{Within six weeks}, we were able to transition to a scalable integration setup with all three existing integrations and expand that to two more.
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Marnie Nyenhuis, Product Manager at Localyze

Partnering with StackOne yielded significant benefits for Localyze:

1. Expanded integration offerings: Successfully integrated five HRIS providers through a single API.
2. Increased efficiency: Reduced average integration development time by 80-90%.
3. Cost savings: Significantly decreased resources required for integration development and maintenance.
4. Enhanced scalability: Ability to quickly add new integrations and custom fields as needed.
5. Increased focus on innovation and customer-centric improvements: Development team freed up to concentrate on core product innovation.

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StackOne's unified API and pre-built integration components have streamlined the integration process, reducing time and resources required to develop and maintain integrations. _{We've reduced the average integration development time by 80% to 90%} for spinning up a new integration, leading to significant cost savings and allowing our team to focus more on innovation and customer-centric improvements.
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Marnie Nyenhuis, Product Manager at Localyze

Next Step

Looking ahead, Localyze's partnership with StackOne on integrations will remain a critical component of their core strategy and will enable them to:

1. Expand their integration ecosystem to include financial and ticketing tools
2. Improve existing integration capabilities and use cases
3. Offer more tailored integration solutions for niche customer needs

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‍With StackOne as our partner, we aim to not only meet but exceed our customers' expectations, ensuring that Localyze remains the leader in the global mobility space. Our partnership with StackOne will continue to be crucial in achieving these objectives and enabling us to deliver seamless, scalable, and secure integration solutions.
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Marnie Nyenhuis, Product Manager at Localyze