Workday Integration Cloud

In today’s hyper-connected world, integrations are more important than Key Benefits
ever. Amidst a rapidly evolving IT environment, it’s important for your • Eliminate the need to own or manage

teams to be able to quickly create connectivity between systems. additional on-premise or cloud
integration middleware by deploying
integrations to the Workday
Traditionally, integrations have been a burden for enterprises in their
enterprise-class integration platform
software deployment journeys in terms of cost and complexity. Workday
• Leverage a catalog of pre-built
believes that connectivity between applications and resources should be
integrations and integration templates
easy to create and evolve over time.
• Accelerate custom integration
That’s why we developed Workday Integration Cloud—a complete solution development by using tools
optimized specifically for creating
for building, deploying, and managing integrations to and from Workday.
Workday integrations
An integration Platform-as-a-Service, Workday Integration Cloud is a
• Empower non-technical business
foundational element of the Workday technology stack and powered by
users to create custom integrations
an embedded enterprise service bus (ESB) at its core. without coding

To help accelerate your integration development process,

Workday Integration Cloud provides:

• Connectors: Pre-built integrations to non-Workday systems

›› Certified connectors: integrations managed
by Workday and our partners

›› Connector toolkits: integration templates

• Development tools for building complex and custom integrations

›› Enterprise interface builder (EIB)

›› Workday Studio

• Management and monitoring tools

Native to Workday
Because integrations work best when they are a native and seamless part
of an application platform versus bolted on, we’ve enabled integrations
to be surfaced naturally throughout our applications. You can manage,
monitor, and launch integrations all from within the Workday user
interface. At the heart of Workday is the business process framework (BPF),
a powerful tool for managing workflow across your organization. You can
configure the BPF to seamlessly orchestrate integrations, and leverage it
for approvals and other workflow steps.
 Workday Cloud

Workday Applications

Public Web Service APIs Custom APIs

Workday Integration Cloud

Integration Cloud Platform

Connectors Management and Monitoring

Cloud On-Premise Benefits Payroll

Applications Applications Providers Providers LDAP/AD

Figure 1. Workday Integration Cloud

Streamlined Deployment ESB Enterprise Grid

Workday Integration Cloud enables you to deploy and run At the core of Workday integration capabilities is a fully
integrations on the scalable Workday cloud infrastructure, embedded ESB that enables Workday integrations to
simplifying your IT footprint and eliminating the need scale, interconnect, and support the latest industry
for on-premise or cloud middleware. For our deployment standards, protocols, and formats. The ESB supports open
partners, it helps streamline and speed Workday standards-based connectivity to virtually all types of
deployments by enabling integrations built and deployed business applications and data, and is provided as a
for multiple customers to all leverage the same technology native part of Workday at no additional cost.
and tooling. And the Workday Community portal provides
a place to easily collaborate and exchange integrations
Tooling and APIs for All Your Integration Needs
with other customers because all customers are using
We recognize that our customers have a diverse range of
the same version of Workday Integration Cloud.
integration needs and development skill sets. With this in
mind, we provide integration development options that
Workday Integration Tools
Design, Build, Test, & Deploy range in complexity from simple configuration to
Enterprise Class ESB Grid complete build-from-scratch capabilities. Our tools are

Transport Mediate Route specifically optimized and continually enhanced to help

Transform Orchestrate Secure you efficiently create integrations to and from Workday.

Workday UI
Manage & Monitor We provide a comprehensive array of hundreds of SOAP
and REST-based web service APIs to use when building

Figure 2. Workday Enterprise Interface Builder Use Cases with Workday Integration Cloud or with your own
integration platform. These open APIs provide access
to business operations and processes across Workday
functional areas, as well as to core reporting capabilities
and integration monitoring.
Workday APIs are fully versioned, ensuring that your the Workday side of the integration. Your developers
integrations continue to function across future Workday simply complete the integration by writing the logic
updates. Additionally, they’re secured by a single security necessary to connect the third-party system they want to
model in Workday that spans all of our applications. integrate with Workday. With these connectors, your
integration specialists also have the flexibility to customize

Overview of Workday Connectors and Tools the orchestration of services within the connector to

To simplify and accelerate the process of integrating match their specific integration requirements.

with Workday, we provide a series of pre-built and

configurable connectors. The Enterprise Interface Builder
Enterprise interface builder (EIB) addresses the majority
Certified Connectors of simple-to-moderately complex integration requirements.
Certified connectors are built, implemented, and We designed the EIB to empower both your IT and
supported by Workday and our partners. They are non-technical business users to address a variety of
adaptable and configurable, and dramatically lower integration needs. Accessible from within the Workday
the time required for you to implement integrations user interface, it provides an easy-to-use, guided
by providing everything required to integrate a third- graphical interface for creating inbound and outbound
party system with Workday, such as processing logic, integrations—without any programming.
data transformation, and error-handling routines.

Workday Studio
Certified connectors deliver all the benefits of a fully
For custom integrations involving sophisticated
hosted and managed SaaS application and run on the
requirements, we offer Workday Studio, an integration
Workday cloud infrastructure, freeing you from having
design tool that provides a functionally rich graphical
to maintain separate integration infrastructure.
integration design environment. Your integration specialists
Workday, in conjunction with our partners, maintains can drag and drop a variety of reusable components
these packaged integrations. We adapt them to address to handle the routine “plumbing” aspects of building
new features and functionality within Workday core integrations. Integrations created with Workday Studio are
applications (for example, compliance updates), as well deployed to and run on the Workday cloud infrastructure.
as update the tooling and technology powering these
connectors. Additionally, we work with our partners to Management and monitoring
manage a joint roadmap to keep connectors up-to-date Within the Workday user interface (UI), you can manage
as their applications evolve. and monitor all your Workday integrations, regardless of
type. The same Workday UI enables both non-technical
For a complete list of certified connectors, please visit
business users and integration administrators to:
marketplace.workday.com.
• Launch and schedule integrations
Connector Toolkits • View and manage past, running,
To address situations where a pre-built, packaged and scheduled integrations

integration isn’t available for a specific third-party • Create, route, and maintain email notifications
application, we provide a collection of configurable based on integration events, such as when
integrations launch, complete, or fail
connector toolkits to speed the creation of custom
integrations. Included with each connector toolkit is all • Configure integration security to control which

of the processing, logic, and error-handling required on users can launch, build, and view integrations
and their associated data
 Integration Tools Comparison

Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) Workday Studio

• Enables non-technical users to solve many common • Solves sophisticated and highly customizable
integration use cases integration needs to and from Workday applications
• Accessible from directly within the Workday • Functionally rich graphical development environment,
application user interface including a drag-and-drop palette of purpose-built
• Easy-to-use, form-based graphical tool with no packaged components
programming required—appropriate for business • Customizable with Java, Spring, or third-party services
users and analysts • Provides a unified framework for building, launching,
• Export data out of Workday on a one-time or debugging, monitoring, and troubleshooting
scheduled basis • Scalable and efficient processing of large data sets
• Bulk-perform a large number of tasks or load (up to tens of gigabytes)
large amounts of data into Workday using Excel • Advanced message processing capabilities, including
spreadsheets (such as hiring employees, supplier change detection, complex looping, and branching logic
invoices, bonus data) based on dynamic data or external variables
• Bulk-maintain for file type and email transport protocols

EIB Technical Specifications • Data Transformations

• Transports ›› XSLT

›› SFTP ›› Visual transformer for configuring

fixed-width outbound files
›› FTP/SSL

›› FTP • Data Formats

›› Email ›› XML

›› HTTP/SSL ›› Excel

›› AS/2 ›› CSV

›› Workday Attachment ›› JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

›› Amazon Simple Storage ›› Google Data (GData)

›› SOAP ›› Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

›› REST ›› HTML

• Security • Other

›› PGP (encryption, decryption, and ›› File compression

digital signatures) ›› Document retention policy
›› X509 (AS/2 encryption and digital signatures) ›› File name sequence generator
›› Amazon KMS

• Data Sources

›› Excel spreadsheet

›› Workday web service API

›› Workday custom API

Workday Studio Technical Specifications • Productivity Tools

• Transports ›› Web service message builder and tester

›› SOAP ›› WSDL and XML schema explorer

›› REST ›› XPath expression builder

›› HTTP/SSL ›› Workday Prism Analytics

›› FTP ›› Salesforce Connector

›› SFTP ›› Splitter and aggregator

›› FTP/SSL ›› Parallel processing

›› Email ›› MVEL, XPATH, XSD Validation

›› AS/2 ›› Custom java

›› Google Cloud Storage ›› Enqueue messages

›› Amazon Simple Storage ›› XML diff

›› XMPP • Security
›› Custom ›› PGP (encryption, decryption,
and digital signatures)
• Data Transformations
›› x509 (AS/2 encryption and digital signatures)
›› XSLT Streaming
›› Amazon KMS
›› Text-to-Excel and Excel-to-Text

›› Text-to-XML and XML-to-Text • Other

›› XML-to-Java and Java-to-XML ›› File compression

›› XML-to-CSV and CSV-to-XML ›› Document retention policy

›› XML-to-JSON and JSON-to-XML ›› File name sequence generator

›› Formatting Objects Processor for PDF and RTF ›› Database storage and retrieval

›› File character conversions ›› Validation

›› Base64-encoding and decoding ›› Error handling

›› BIRT PDF Printing ›› Cloud logging

›› In-memory tables

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