Uncover Valuable Data Troves In Workday And Beyond

Workday offers organizations incredible value from comprehensive financial and HR insights to widespread automated processes.

Yet even as Workday is designed to scale with your growing organization, maximizing the business value of Workday usually means exporting data. We often hear from customers who need to facilitate better storage for historical data, conduct advanced analysis, or enrich other business data from a CRM or ERP.

Workday integration challenges

The walls of the Workday garden can loom large, and many applications that connect to Workday APIs struggle to extract complete, accurate data sets. There are a few reasons for this:

• Workday uses an object-oriented architecture, in which data is tied to objects representing real-world entities, rather than flat tables.
• Unlike other object-based apps, like CRMs, Workday’s data is uniquely varied and complex, accessing millions of objects to provide useful reporting
• Workday APIs are designed to interact with objects rather than flat tables, which requires deep understanding of the object model and how different objects relate to each other.
• Workday data extraction can quickly become resource-intensive, due to complex data structures, sheer data volume, and data redundancy across objects.

Workday data connectivity made easy

The custom-engineered Workday connector from CData Sync maximizes the capabilities of Workday’s APIs and specifically enhances users' abilities to access full data sets from core Workday features, including:

• Workday Query Language (WQL): Sync’s built-in SQL Engine is optimized to work with WQL, pushing query complexities for faster responses and less reliance on client-side resources for data processing.
• Reports-as-a-Services (RaaS): RaaS reports can be delivered in various formats such as XML, JSON, or CSV, all of which Sync can replicate to a destination data warehouse or database.
• Prism Data Catalog: Sync can access the datasets and tables created in the Data Catalog, allowing you to work with your Workday data in your preferred BI, analytics, and data tools.

You can see all of these Workday data pipelines in action inside Sync during our live demo on Tuesday, September 24 at 1 pm ET. CData Sr. Technologist Jerod Johnson will walk you through creating and running replication jobs to a data warehouse and highlight why that matters to engineers and data consumers.

Register for the demo today!