Workday integration
Quick answer
This project connects Workday as the authoritative source so hires, transfers and terminations drive identity lifecycle automatically.
Key takeaways
- Workday as authoritative source
- Drive joiner/mover/leaver events
- Map HR attributes to identities
- Trigger downstream provisioning
Workday is most valuable to a SailPoint programme as the authoritative HR source that drives the entire identity lifecycle. When Workday says someone is hired, transferred or terminated, SailPoint reacts. This project wires Workday in as the trigger for all joiner, mover and leaver automation.
The goal
Use Workday as the authoritative source so hires, transfers and terminations automatically drive identity creation, access changes and deprovisioning downstream.
How to build it
- Configure the Workday connector with an integration system user.
- Aggregate workers as identities and map HR attributes onto the cube.
- Define lifecycle event triggers for joiner, mover and leaver based on Workday changes.
- Drive downstream provisioning and deprovisioning from those events.
- Handle Workday effective-dating so events fire at the right time.
Design considerations
The subtlety with Workday is effective-dating, HR changes often carry a future effective date, and your lifecycle events must fire on the effective date, not the day the record was entered. Get the attribute mapping clean and comprehensive, because as the authoritative source, Workday data quality determines the correctness of every downstream access decision.
Common pitfalls
- Mishandling effective-dated changes, firing events too early or late.
- Incomplete attribute mapping feeding wrong data downstream.
- Treating Workday only as a target and missing its authoritative value.
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Check your understanding
What role does Workday play?
- A. Joiner, mover and leaver events.
- B. HR attributes onto identities.
- C. The authoritative HR source that drives identity lifecycle.
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C. The authoritative HR source that drives identity lifecycle.
The authoritative HR source that drives identity lifecycle.
What events does it drive?
- A. HR attributes onto identities.
- B. Joiner, mover and leaver events.
- C. The authoritative HR source that drives identity lifecycle.
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B. Joiner, mover and leaver events.
Joiner, mover and leaver events.
What is mapped from Workday?
- A. The authoritative HR source that drives identity lifecycle.
- B. Joiner, mover and leaver events.
- C. HR attributes onto identities.
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C. HR attributes onto identities.
HR attributes onto identities.