Workday 

Workday is a cloud-based software that specializes in human capital management applications. You can land Human Resources data from Workday as a data source when landing or replicating data.

• For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

• For more information about Lite connectors, see Classifications for SaaS application connectors.

• Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

• Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

• Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

• Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your Workday data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

You need access to a Workday Integrated System User (ISU). To create an ISU you need to be logged into Workday as a user with administrative access.

1. Use the search bar to find Create Integration System User and select it.

2. Add the newly created user to the list of System Users.

3. Search for Create Security Group, and create a new User-Based Security Group.

4. Add the user you created to the group you created.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

1. Fill in the required connection properties.

2. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

3. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

4. Click Create.