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Well here it is a year later, and it looks like ADP has done it. The company’s next-generation HCM and payroll system is now available, and could become one of the more disruptive systems on the market. While the system is still young, it sets a technical direction for Workday, SAP, Oracle, and others. HowContinue reading “Why ADP’s Next-Gen HCM Is A Disruptive Force In HR Technology”

ETL is a type of data integration that refers to the three steps (extract, transform, load) used to blend data from multiple sources. It’s often used to build a data warehouse. During this process, data is taken (extracted) from a source system, converted (transformed) into a format that can be analyzed, and stored (loaded) into aContinue reading “ETL What it is and why it matters”

How to call Workday API in SSIS (Read or Write Data) Here are high level steps to read or write Workday data in SSIS. Obtain Workday WSDL URL (Service Metadata) and API URL for your tenant Craft POST request XML using tool like SoapUI for desired operation (e.g Get_Employee ) Configure SSIS HTTP Connection (for SOAP WSS) using APIContinue reading “How to get data from Workday in SSIS using SOAP/REST API”

Apache Hadoop is synonymous with big data for its cost-effectiveness and its attribute of scalability for processing petabytes of data. Data analysis using hadoop is just half the battle won. Getting data into the Hadoop cluster plays a critical role in any big data deployment. Data ingestion is important in any big data project because the volumeContinue reading “Sqoop vs. Flume Battle of the Hadoop ETL tools”

It is a known fact that ETL testing is one of the crucial aspects of any Business Intelligence (BI) based application. In order to get the quality assurance and acceptance to go live in business, the BI application should be tested well beforehand. The primary objective of ETL testing is to ensure that the Extract, Transform & Load functionality is working as perContinue reading “How To Perform ETL Testing Using Informatica PowerCenter Tool”

For managing databases, ETL means three different functions, i.e. Extract, Transform, Load. ETL becomes a combined programming tool for obtaining temporary data subsets for reports, as well as more permanent data for other purposes. Being a highly important function in database management, ETL is achieved by using different tools and programs. Benefits of Informatica andContinue reading “WHY INFORMATICA SHOULD BE USED AS AN ETL TOOL OVER TERADATA?”

Workday’s OpenStack journey has been a fast one: from no cloud to five distributed data centers, over a thousand servers and 50,000 cores in four years. The team has done much of the work themselves. At the Sydney Summit, Edgar Magana and Imtiaz Chowdhury, both of Workday, gave a talk about how they work with Kubernetes to achieveContinue reading “How to build OpenStack on Kubernetes”

Integrations are crucial when communicating external systems with Workday. To be able to say you master them means that you understand how data can be imported to or exported from Workday. Thankfully, there are predefined rules of how that data must look like, and public interfaces you can access anytime you need to build anContinue reading “Introduction to Workday Integration”

Step-By-Step : Import SQL Server data to Workday using SSIS Lets build our SSIS Package to load data from SQL Server or any Source (e.g. Oracle, DB2) to Workday using SOAP API calls. Using below approach you can Create new records or Update existing records in Workday. You can also delete records with same concept.Continue reading “Load SQL Server data to Workday using SSIS / SOAP API”

Quality Assurance at the Speed of Business Workday offers enterprise-level software solutions for human resource and financial management. With Worksoft’s proven test automation software, Workday users can be confident that all end-to-end business processes, including those that integrate with other apps, run as designed. With automated functional testing, companies can be sure their HR processes operate withoutContinue reading “Automated Testing for Workday”