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Azure Synapse Analytics to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday

Land the financial records from Workday in Azure Synapse Analytics continuously, and write results back, without building or maintaining a pipeline.

Finance data belongs in the warehouse: revenue, invoices, payments, and customers joined with everything else the business measures. Getting it there usually means an extraction pipeline that breaks quietly and delivers yesterday's numbers.

Stacksync syncs Customers and Invoices, Journal Entries, Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers from Workday into tables in Azure Synapse Analytics in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Azure Synapse Analytics can be written back to fields in Workday where you want them operational. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than code you maintain.

Common use cases

  • Import journal entries from external billing or expense systems into Workday Financials.
  • Keep supervisory-organization hierarchies aligned with planning and workforce tools that model the same structure.
  • Consolidate SaaS data alongside lake data so analysts join both through one SQL surface.
  • Load CRM and ERP records into Synapse dedicated SQL pool tables for enterprise reporting.

Revenue joined with everything else

Analysts combine Workday's financial records with product, marketing, or operational data already in Azure Synapse Analytics for reporting the finance system cannot do alone.

Write-back of computed fields

Scores or segments computed in Azure Synapse Analytics, like payment-risk flags or customer tiers, sync back onto records in Workday where the finance team can act on them.

Queryable history for audit and reconciliation

A continuously synced copy in Azure Synapse Analytics gives you a durable, queryable record of financial data for month-end and audit questions.

What you can sync between Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Azure Synapse Analytics objects Workday objects
Views Curated projections used when downstream tools should not read base tables directly. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools.
Schemas Namespaces that separate staging, integration, and presentation layers. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems.
Materialized views Precomputed aggregates that speed reads of frequently synced result sets. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools.
SQL pools Dedicated or serverless compute contexts that determine how and where queries run. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used.
Tables (dedicated SQL pool) Distributed warehouse tables that serve as sync destinations for analytics workloads. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials.
External tables Tables over files in the data lake, queried through serverless SQL and often read-only in syncs. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs.
What ships with Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Workday

Connect Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Synapse Analytics–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Azure Synapse Analytics or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Synapse Analytics or Workday data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Azure Synapse Analytics or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday.

How the Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday connectors work

Azure Synapse Analytics

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (TDS) with T-SQL for SQL pools; additional Spark and pipeline surfaces exist but syncs use the SQL endpoint
Authentication
SQL authentication or Microsoft Entra ID
Change detection
Polling on watermark columns; Synapse SQL pools do not expose log-based CDC for downstream consumers
Capabilities
read · write

Workday

Integration surface
SOAP Workday Web Services (WWS), a REST API, and Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS) endpoints for custom reports
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for the REST API; integration system users with WS-Security or certificate-based auth for SOAP
Change detection
Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect Azure Synapse Analytics to Workday — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Azure Synapse Analytics connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Synapse Analytics and Workday objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Workday
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Azure Synapse Analytics Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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