Workday Integration Cloud Connect consists of a growing number of pre-built, packaged integrations and connectors to complementary solutions that are 100% built, maintained, and supported by Workday.
With Cloud Connect, you can:
- Select from a growing ecosystem of packaged integrations and connectors
- Rely on Workday to support, maintain, and evolve these integrations over time
- Monitor and manage these integrations in the Workday UI
- Eliminate the need to own or manage any on-premise integration middleware or servers
- Redeploy IT to focus on more strategic activities
With Workday as the core system of record, companies are faced with the need to connect to multiple 3rd party systems and applications to satisfy key business functions and processes. Workday provides a variety of infrastructure and tools designed to address these integration challenges including a robust web services based API and the Integration Cloud Platform. Integration Cloud Connect rounds out Workday’s integration solutions.
Integration Cloud Connect represents a portfolio of integration products designed to compliment Workday core business applications by providing pre-built connections to 3rd party applications and services. Each integration is deployed in the Workday Cloud, which in turn gives you all the benefits of a fully hosted and managed application. Customers can enjoy integration solutions that are versioned and stable, as well as kept up to date with the latest infrastructure, tooling, application changes, and vendor changes (where applicable).
Integration Cloud Connect solutions fall under two main categories:
Packaged Integration and Connectors.
Packaged Integrations: A packaged integration is a fully designed end-to-end integration to a specific named 3rd party application or service. When a packaged integration is deployed, the specific business functions between the two systems are configured, with no additional coding required. The packaged integrations are managed just like any other Workday application, and are kept up to date with the same overall Workday update schedule. Updates include reacting to Workday core applications – both for compliance as well as additional application features – as well as updates to the latest tooling and infrastructure. In addition, Workday works with the 3rd party partner to manage a joint roadmap to ensure the integration is kept up to date as the 3rd party application evolves.
Connectors: A packaged connector is a pre-built integration template. While not always end to end like packaged integrations, connectors address the majority of the integration effort required to connect to 3rd party end points. Connectors can often be leveraged as delivered or can also provide the foundation for further configuration leveraging Workday’s Integration Cloud Platform.
The following list details the current Cloud Connect portfolio as of Workday 13. Please check with your sales representative for more details.
Cloud Connect for HCM
- Worker Sync Connector – This connector is focused on identifying Worker demographic changes and producing output for a 3rd party system. The connector allows you to configure the specific data you’re interested in, and can produce the data in either CSV or XML formats.
- Directory Service Connector – This connector is similar to the Worker Sync Connector, but is designed to connect to a 3rd party directory server. This connector includes XML, CSV, and LDIF formats, and contains specific features to connect to both LDAP and Active Directory servers.
- Lumesse TalentLink Packaged Integration – This integration compliments Workday HCM with recruiting functionality provided by Lumesse. From Workday, information about workers, job positions, and job requisitions are sent to Lumesse TalentLink to initiate the recruiting process. This information is kept up to date as changes are made in Workday. Once an applicant accepts a position, the information is then updated in Workday, where the applicant and employee are created, the employee’s talent profile is updated, and the HIRE business process is initiated.
- Cornerstone OnDemand Packaged Integration – This integration compliments Workday HCM with learning management functionality provided by Cornerstone. From Workday, information about workers, job profiles, and organization structures are sent to Cornerstone and used to target learning assignments. Once a worker completes training or certifications in Cornerstone, the Workday talent profile is updated to reflect this information where it is then available within Workday HCM.
- Chatter Packaged Integration - This integration enables customers of Workday and Chatter to securely present information from a worker's Workday inbox - such as notifications, business process events, and workforce data - directly in that person's Chatter stream. In addition to incorporating Workday information into Chatter, customer administrators will also be able to provision Chatter users directly from Workday - for example, as part of the new hire on-boarding process.
- AngelPoints Packaged Integration - This integration with AngelPoints enables customers to provision employees directly from Workday into AngelPoints for managing their Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability programs.
- Kronos Packaged Integration - This integration complements Workday HCM by synchronizing Workday worker information to Kronos, which then allows worker access to the Kronos Timekeeper application. The integration is applicable to all Workday/Kronos joint customers regardless of the payroll system. Customers that use Workday Payroll can additionally take advantage of the Kronos Payroll Input integration to import the resulting time information back to Workday Payroll.
Cloud Connect for Benefits
Cloud Connect for Benefits includes a catalog of benefit provider integrations that extends and complements the Workday Benefits application. With more than 160 providers in the catalog, the benefits network covers a wide variety of benefits providers and formats (including HIPAA-834), including:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Retirement Savings Plans
- Life Insurance and AD&D
- Health Savings Accounts
- COBRA Administrators
With all the benefits of a packaged integration, Cloud Connect for Benefits enables customers to make the best benefits choices by minimizing the integration costs associated with switching vendors during open enrollments.
Cloud Connect for Workday Payroll
Cloud Connect for Workday Payroll includes a catalog of integrations that extends and complements Workday Payroll.
- Electronic Payments Connector – The electronic payments connector supports a variety of payment protocols which allow you to make payments to any bank. While you won’t see a list of named supported banks, the connector is designed so that it can be configured (with no additional coding) to connect with any bank and includes cross-border support as well as international payments.
- Ceridian Tax Filing Packaged Integration – This packaged integration complements Workday Payroll with tax filing and W2 support provided by Ceridian Tax Filing Services. The integration supports periodic, quarterly, and annual tax filing.
- ADP Tax Filing Packaged Integration – This packaged integration complements Workday Payroll with tax filing and W2 support provided by ADP Standalone Tax Filing Services. The integration supports periodic, quarterly, and annual tax filing.
- Ceridian Check Print Packaged Integration – This packaged integration complements Workday Payroll with check printing and outsourced banking services provided by Ceridian.
- Kronos Packaged Integration – This packaged integration allows time captured in the Kronos TimeKeeper application to be imported into Workday Payroll. Also included is an outbound integration that forwards worker information from Workday to Kronos.
Cloud Connect for Third Party Payroll
- Payroll Connector – The Workday Payroll Connector provides a way for customers to integrate bi-directionally to any third-party payroll system. The payroll connector includes Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) features that support data models required by external payroll systems. The Payroll Connector also offers web services that identify and transfer only the Workday HCM events that affect payroll. With these configuration capabilities, Workday can streamline and simplify the complexity of integrating with external payroll systems.
Additionally, the bi-directional nature of the Payroll Connector enables organizations to import data from a third-party payroll provider back into Workday HCM, providing a comprehensive view of payroll data across the global workforce. This new level of insight will allow users to analyze data in support of more effective decision making such as:
- Improving cash forecasting
- Comparing actual to budget
- Optimizing pay ranges
- Managing allowances and overtime policies
- Better understanding the true cost of their workforce around the world.
- Partner Payroll Integrations - Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll includes multiple payroll partners that have solutions for countries across all continents and geographies. Integrations to Workday via the Payroll Connector are built and maintained by our partners, and our partners maintain any changes to the integrations as well. Please check with your salesperson to find out the latest list of partners and countries served throught Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll.
Cloud Connect for Spend Management
- PunchOut Connector – The PunchOut connector extends Workday Procurement by providing the ability to connect to any PunchOut enabled supplier.
- Credit Card Transaction Packaged Integrations – Workday Expenses can import corporate credit card transactions for their employees which then can then be linked to expense items.
Cloud Connect for Financials
- Salesforce.com Packaged Integration – This packaged integration links Workday Financial applications with Saleforce.com (SFDC). When an opportunity is created in SFDC, that opportunity is also created in Workday and tagged to a prospective customer. When an opportunity is closed in SFDC, a new customer is created in Workday if required and an invoice is created. This invoice is automatically sent back to SFDC for visibility. Customers can track expenses against open opportunities in SFDC. Additionally, payments received and tracked in Workday are forwarded to SFDC where they can be used to track and evaluate the customer.
- Electronic Payments Connector – The electronic payments connector supports a variety of payment protocols which allow you to make payments to any bank. While you won’t see a list of named supported banks, the connector is designed so that it can be configured (with no additional coding) to connect with any bank and includes cross-border support as well as international payments.
- Cybersource Packaged Integration– Workday customers can accept payments from their customers via credit card by taking advantage of the Cybersource packaged integration. Cybersource is a PCI compliant 3rd party solution that manages credit card authorization and payments.