What is Rippling and how does it work?

Rippling is a unified workforce management platform that combines HR, IT, and Finance applications on a single source of truth for employee data. Founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad and Prasanna Sankar, Rippling eliminates the friction from running a business by automatically syncing employee information across over 600 integrated applications.

The platform's architecture captures hundreds of employee attributes—from basic demographics to device assignments, application access rights, and compensation details. When any data changes, it automatically propagates throughout the entire system, ensuring consistency across all business operations.

Benefits of Integrating Rippling with Abacum

• Sync real-time employee data from Rippling directly into Abacum's FP&A platform, eliminating manual CSV exports and data reconciliation tasks

• Automate headcount reconciliations with AI-powered matching that instantly aligns new hires in Rippling with forecasted positions in financial models

• Analyze workforce costs by department, role, location, or custom dimensions to gain granular visibility into your largest expense category

• Model hiring scenarios dynamically to evaluate the financial impact of workforce changes, expansion plans, or restructuring initiatives

• Track variances against budgets in real-time as employee changes occur, ensuring financial forecasts always reflect current workforce reality

• Unify global workforce data across 185 countries with financial planning, supporting multi-currency analysis and international expansion planning

• Enable finance and HR collaboration through shared access to integrated workforce and financial data, aligning talent strategy with business objectives

• Reduce manual data manipulation by 90%, freeing finance teams to focus on strategic analysis rather than operational data management