Pre-built cornerstone ondemand report migration covering Reporting 2.0 catalog, RDW custom views, scheduled distributions and dashboards. OTBI for ad-hoc, BI Publisher for compliance (OSHA / HIPAA / FDA / SOX) and Smart View for Excel-tethered analytics — rebuilt and reconciled before cutover.
Data migration gets the spotlight, but the reporting rebuild is what end users, managers, compliance officers and auditors actually touch on day one of Fusion go-live. If reports aren't ready, the migration isn't ready.
Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 is the analytical centre of any mature Cornerstone tenant. A typical 5,000-seat tenant runs 200–500 active Reporting 2.0 reports, 20–40 RDW (Reporting Data Warehouse) custom SQL views, dozens of scheduled distributions pushing PDFs to email lists, and a handful of executive talent dashboards visible to the CHRO. End users see training completion percentages on their home-page widget. Managers run team-status reports every Monday morning. Compliance officers pull OSHA training logs on regulator request. SOX auditors demand segregation-of-duties training evidence quarterly. None of those touch Fusion directly — they touch Reporting 2.0 outputs.
Reporting 2.0 reports and RDW custom views do not carry over to Oracle Fusion. The data model is different (Cornerstone User / OU / Custom Field / Learning Object vs Fusion Worker / Department / DFF / Learning Item). The query layer is different (Reporting 2.0 curated sections + RDW SQL vs OTBI subject areas + BI Publisher + Smart View). The distribution layer is different (Cornerstone scheduled bursts vs BIP scheduled jobs + OTBI agents). Every cornerstone ondemand report migration is essentially a translation project — translating the business question each report answers into the Fusion idiom that answers it on Fusion data.
Syntra ETL inverts the consultant default of rebuilding every report from scratch. Pre-built OTBI subject-area templates for the 60+ standard Reporting 2.0 reports (Training Completion, Certification Expiry, Course Consumption, Manager Team Status, Learning ROI) collapse weeks of OTBI development. Pre-built BIP templates for the regulator-format compliance reports (OSHA 300/301, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 GxP, SOX SoD training evidence, HIPAA privacy training) collapse weeks more. The bespoke work then focuses only on the tenant-specific RDW custom views and the executive dashboard rebuild — typically 20–30% of the report estate.
Each layer has a different Fusion target and a different rebuild approach. Skip a layer and end users notice on day one.
Manager team-status, certification calendars, course consumption rolled up to BU — rebuilt in OTBI ad-hoc with drag-and-drop subject areas. Fast rebuild, end-user editable.
OSHA 300/301, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 GxP, SOX SoD evidence, HIPAA privacy training — rebuilt in BI Publisher with regulator-format pixel-perfect templates. Audit-ready output.
CHRO talent dashboards, nine-box readiness, succession bench strength, learning ROI — rebuilt in Oracle Analytics Cloud over BICC extract with curated semantic model.
Analyst spreadsheets with Cornerstone data pivots — replaced with Smart View connections to Fusion subject areas. Refreshable from Excel, no rebuild for analyst.
Reporting 2.0 scheduled bursts (email, SFTP, dashboard) — rebuilt as BIP scheduled jobs with PDF/Excel/CSV output and OTBI scheduled agents for dashboard publication.
Reports needed over data older than Fusion retention (FDA life-of-product, SOX 7-yr) — rebuilt against archive store with identical BIP layout. Auditors see no break in continuity.
A repeatable workflow run alongside the data migration. Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks for a mature tenant with 200–500 active reports.
Reporting Discovery module walks the Reporting 2.0 catalog via Cornerstone Edge, captures every active report with run frequency, distribution list, parameters and Custom Field dependencies. RDW custom views inventoried with full SQL. Reports classified P1 compliance / P2 operational / P3 analytical / P4 retire.
OSHA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, SOX and HIPAA reports rebuilt first in BI Publisher with regulator-format templates. Highest stakes, longest review cycle with compliance leadership. Validated against most recent Reporting 2.0 outputs row-for-row.
Manager team-status, certification expiry calendars, course consumption and learning-path completion rebuilt in OTBI ad-hoc. Largest report count, fastest rebuild thanks to OTBI's drag-and-drop subject-area model and pre-built mappings.
Learning ROI, course-effectiveness, completion-trend reports rebuilt in OTBI plus Smart View for Excel-tethered analysts. Executive dashboards rebuilt in OAC with BICC extract over curated semantic model.
Reporting 2.0 scheduled bursts rebuilt as BIP scheduled jobs and OTBI agents. Home-page widgets and dashboard tiles rebuilt in Fusion HCM dashboards and MSS. Distribution lists, frequencies and channels carried across verbatim.
Every P1 and P2 report run on both Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 and Fusion equivalent for 2 reporting cycles. Results reconciled to the user-course pair. Signed sign-off pack issued to compliance, HR ops and finance. Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 last scheduled run Friday; Fusion first scheduled run Monday.
The Reporting 2.0 reports that show up on every Cornerstone tenant. Pre-built Fusion equivalents collapse weeks of rebuild.
Training Completion by User, by OU, by Course, by Date Range — six standard variants pre-mapped to OTBI Worker + Learning Record subject areas with drill-down to transcript event.
Active certifications expiring in next 30/60/90 days, by user, by manager, by certification type — pre-mapped to OTBI Certification subject area with email distribution to manager.
Enrollments, completions, drop-offs, average completion time, score distribution by course — pre-mapped to OTBI Learning Item + Learning Record with consumption rollup.
Team training status by direct report, certifications outstanding, mandatory training compliance percentage — pre-mapped to MSS dashboard tile and OTBI manager subject area.
Cost per completion, learner engagement scores, skill development tracking, business outcome correlation — rebuilt in OAC over BICC extract with curated talent-analytics semantic model.
OSHA 300/301 training substantiation, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 GxP log, SOX SoD training evidence, HIPAA privacy register — pre-built BIP templates in regulator-format pixel-perfect layout.
A cornerstone ondemand report migration project takes the full Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 catalog plus every custom view in RDW (Reporting Data Warehouse) and rebuilds equivalent analytical content in Oracle Fusion OTBI, BI Publisher and Smart View. The technical heart is three-fold: inventory every active Reporting 2.0 report (Training Completion, Certification Expiry, Course Consumption, Manager Team Status, Learning ROI, OSHA Logs, SOX Evidence) plus every RDW custom view with its SQL, joins and parameters; classify by business value (compliance-critical, operational, analytical, retire); build Fusion-side equivalents on top of the migrated Worker/Learn/Talent data using Fusion's subject areas. Syntra ETL ships pre-built mappings for the 60+ standard Reporting 2.0 reports to their OTBI subject-area equivalents, which collapses a six-month consultant rebuild into 4–6 weeks.
Reporting 2.0 is built on Cornerstone's proprietary data model — User, OU, Custom Field, Learning Object, Transcript, Certification — exposed through curated report sections. Oracle Fusion OTBI is built on its own HCM subject areas — Worker, Department, Learning Item, Learning Record, Certification — with completely different join semantics. A Reporting 2.0 report that filters by OU and groups by Custom Field has no direct OTBI translation. RDW custom SQL views are even worse: they hit Cornerstone-specific schema (cornerstone_user, cornerstone_transcript, cornerstone_lo_certification) that doesn't exist in Fusion. Any cornerstone ondemand report migration has to translate the question, not the SQL — what business outcome did the report support, and what's the right OTBI/BIP construct to answer that on Fusion's data?
Syntra ETL ships a Cornerstone Reporting Discovery module that walks the Reporting 2.0 catalog through Cornerstone Edge APIs, captures every active report (template ID, owner, last-run-date, run frequency, distribution list, parameter set), pulls the report's data source (which sections and which Custom Fields), and joins that against actual run-frequency telemetry from the past 90 days. Output is a classified catalog: P1 compliance-critical (OSHA logs, FDA training records, SOX evidence packs that go to regulators or internal audit), P2 operational (manager-team training status, certification expiry calendar, course consumption rolled into operational decisions), P3 analytical (learning ROI, course-effectiveness, completion-trend analysis used in periodic reviews), P4 retire (duplicates, abandoned reports, one-off ad-hoc queries). Approximately 40–60% of any mature Cornerstone tenant's report library falls into P4 and gets retired in the cornerstone ondemand report migration.
Three Fusion technologies cover the full Cornerstone reporting estate. OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence) is the ad-hoc layer — drag-and-drop Worker / Learning Item / Learning Record / Certification subject areas, replaces Reporting 2.0 for operational reporting like manager-team training status and certification calendars. BI Publisher (BIP) is the pixel-perfect layer — required for OSHA training logs in regulator format, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 GxP training-record exports, SOX segregation-of-duties evidence packs that need exact layout. Smart View is the Excel-tethered layer — for the analyst who lives in Excel and needs Fusion data refreshable from a pivot. RDW custom views and complex SQL are typically rebuilt in OTBI subject areas where possible, or BICC extracts where the SQL needed is too complex for OTBI.
Regulatory training-evidence reports are the highest-stakes deliverable of any cornerstone ondemand report migration — they go to OSHA inspectors, FDA auditors, SOX external auditors and HIPAA compliance officers, often with no advance notice. Syntra ETL ships BIP templates for the standard regulatory layouts: OSHA 300/301 training-record substantiation, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 GxP training log with electronic signature audit, SOX segregation-of-duties training evidence pack, HIPAA privacy training certification register. Each template runs over Fusion Learn data post-migration but is structured to match the Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 layout the compliance team already knows. For records that live in the long-term archive (older than the Fusion Learn retention window), the same templates run over archive data with identical layout — auditors see no break in continuity.
A full cornerstone ondemand report migration for a mature tenant (200–500 active reports, 20–40 RDW custom views, full OSHA/HIPAA/FDA/SOX compliance reporting suite) typically runs 6–10 weeks alongside the data migration. Week 1–2: discovery and classification of the full report catalog. Week 2–4: P1 compliance-critical rebuild in BIP with regulator-format templates. Week 3–6: P2 operational rebuild in OTBI (most reports fall here, fast rebuild because OTBI is drag-and-drop). Week 5–8: P3 analytical rebuild in OTBI and Smart View. Week 7–10: parallel validation — every P1 and P2 report run on both Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 and Fusion equivalent, results reconciled to the user-course pair, sign-off pack issued to compliance and HR leadership. Smaller tenants with cleaner report estates complete in 4–6 weeks; very large tenants with hundreds of RDW custom views can stretch to 12–14 weeks.
Yes. Cornerstone Reporting 2.0's scheduled-distribution feature pushes reports to email lists, SFTP drops and Cornerstone home-page widgets on a cron. Syntra ETL inventories every scheduled distribution (recipients, frequency, format, delivery channel) and rebuilds equivalent distribution in Fusion: BIP scheduled bursts for email distribution with PDF/Excel/CSV output; OTBI scheduled agents for home-page dashboard publication; SFTP drops via Fusion Files Service for downstream system feeds. The transition is timed so on the cutover weekend, the last Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 schedule runs Friday evening and the first Fusion BIP/OTBI schedule runs Monday morning — recipients see the same content arrive at the same time through the same channel, just sourced from Fusion data.
Cornerstone dashboards (manager dashboards, executive talent dashboards, compliance dashboards) and home-page training widgets are the most visible reporting surface for end users. They don't carry over directly. Syntra ETL's report migration playbook rebuilds dashboards in Fusion's native dashboard layer — Fusion HCM dashboards for executives, Manager Self-Service tiles for managers, Learning home-page widgets for end users — using migrated Fusion data and the OTBI infusions discussed above. For executive talent dashboards that span Cornerstone-style talent analytics (nine-box readiness, succession bench strength, learning ROI), the rebuild typically uses OAC (Oracle Analytics Cloud) with the BICC extract feeding a curated semantic model. End users land on Fusion the morning after cutover and see equivalent visualization in equivalent layout — the cornerstone ondemand report migration is invisible to them by design.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We will walk through your Cornerstone Reporting 2.0 catalog size, RDW custom view profile, regulatory reporting obligations (OSHA / FDA / SOX / HIPAA) and dashboard estate — and outline a rebuild plan that finishes alongside your data migration cutover, not weeks after.