Technically HR: Culture Amp set to acquire people analytics company Orgnostic to improve platform’s recommendations to leaders

To a non-French speaker, Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport is a challenge; the French rather prefer their language to, say, English, and understanding the signage and navigating the EU’s largest airport is best attempted with a connection that’s longer than 45 minutes. But we all manage.

HR pros spend time managing data that doesn’t always speak the same language, from a number of sources and on many different platforms. But the people analytics field is growing quickly, and execs are relying on teams to draw insights, and data that talks to each other can best inform those insights.

Employee engagement platform Culture Amp announced this month it plans to acquire Serbian people-analytics company Orgnostic. The acquisition will bring more people data into the Culture Amp platform and help people leaders make better decisions based on insights.

Culture Amp’s acquisition would improve existing tools by “collecting, cleansing, and synthesizing people data from disparate sources across the employee lifecycle” such as attrition, engagement, productivity, and salary.

“Leaders are increasingly challenged by their people data coming from a myriad of sources. Through this acquisition, Culture Amp will not only ingest the many information sources, but unlock the ability to analyze it against the predictive indicators we already have,” Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga said in a news release.

The company plans to release its people analytics product later this year. The terms of the deal have not been made public.

Zoom out. Leaders rely on a multitude of sources for information about the workforce. Data can be predictive, or come from sources like responses from surveys, info on performance, attendance, compensation, and more. The data is only as valuable as its use case in the company.

Data is informing how to make strategic decisions about how employees get the job done, and how the business accomplishes its goals. Microsoft, for example, relied on its people analytics to identify the “moments that matter” in the office, and inform a flexible work policy.

“We founded Orgnostic because we believe that people analytics is the key to unlocking meaningful changes in organizations, and we see an opportunity to rapidly accelerate what we set out to do by being part of Culture Amp,” said Luka Babic, an Orgonstic co-founder.

As for the monolingual traveler racing to make that connection, at least Google translate, a patient gate attendant, and a good pair of gym shoes can facilitate success.