How does CData’s integration with Workday enhance data analytics capabilities?

Whether you’re connecting to Workday through CData Connect Cloud or our drivers & connectors, you get real-time access to your Workday data from your preferred tools and applications. Your organization has already spent time and resources in building expertise in analytics tools like Power BI, Tableau, and more. With CData, you can leverage that expertise with Workday data! To read up on our popular BI & Analytics integration possibilities, check out our Knowledge base articles: https://www.cdata.com/drivers/workday/#section-bi-anchor

Hello CData Community,

We've had some a great start to a discussions in our ongoing AMA about Workday and CData integrations. A big thank you to everyone who has participated so far!

Let's Talk:
We're curious—where do you want to be able to access your Workday data?

• In analytics tools like Tableau or Power BI?
• Directly within your CRM?
• Somewhere else?

Your insights can help shape future integrations and features, so we'd love to hear from you.

Expert Panel:
Our in-house experts Jerod Johnson, Riley James, Jon Tye, and our CData Champions are here to answer all your questions.

Let's keep the conversation going and continue to make this AMA a valuable experience for everyone!

Hi All, just want to ask. Can this CData do extract realtime for all Data Source type in Workday? Including all Custom Business Object, Custom Worktag, & Custom Report also?

Hello @Pramadi and thank you for your question.

Yes, we support real-time connectivity to all Workday objects exposed through Workday's WQL API. 

This includes:

• Custom Reports: Easily connect to any custom reports you've created in Workday.
• Tables with Worktag Information: Access tables that contain Worktag data seamlessly.

Here are a link to KB article that might help you out as well.

Do you have any more questions or specific use-cases you'd like to explore? We're here to help.

As we approach the end of this insightful AMA, we have one more question that we believe could benefit many in our community:

How does Connect Cloud differ from CData Drivers when connecting to Workday?

We're looking forward to your responses and insights on this topic. Thank you all for making this AMA a valuable experience!

The biggest difference between Connect Cloud and the Drivers are where they are hosted.

CData Connect Cloud is a cloud-based SaaS application, giving you direct cloud-to-cloud integration between your Workday data and your cloud-based tools (like Tableau Cloud, the Power BI Service, Looker, and more).

The CData Drivers are installed on-premises, on each machine that needs connectivity to Workday, but provide more direct access to your on-premises tools and applications. The Drivers are essentially software libraries, so they can also be embedded in custom-built applications, letting organizations build data tools with built-in access to Workday.