Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ Accounting and finance
Active Directory to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory 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 Active Directory and Workday
Keep the people who can act on financial records in Workday matched to their identities in Active Directory, so access is provisioned, updated, and revoked in real time.
Workday runs the money — the ledgers, invoices, budgets, and payments — and every one of those actions is taken by a person with a login. Active Directory is where those people and their access actually live: who is employed, what team they belong to, and what they are allowed to do. The two systems rarely share customers or transactions, but they share the one thing that governs both — the user. When that overlap is maintained by hand, a departed employee keeps finance access for weeks and a new hire waits on a ticket to get any.
Stacksync keeps Customers and Invoices, Journal Entries, Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers in Workday aligned with Organizational units, Organizational contacts, Users, Groups in Active Directory, field by field and in real time. A person added, moved, or deactivated on the identity side updates their matching user in the finance system within seconds, with the role or permission set mapped from the group they belong to. Direction is yours to set: lead provisioning from the directory, or let an HR-owned finance record drive the downstream accounts.
For a finance team, that alignment is an audit control rather than a convenience. When the user list in the books matches the identity source of truth, segregation-of-duties and access reviews start from data that is already correct instead of an export that was current last quarter.
Common use cases
- 01 Import journal entries from external billing or expense systems into Workday Financials.
- 02 Keep supervisory-organization hierarchies aligned with planning and workforce tools that model the same structure.
- 03 Two-way sync Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HRIS or Postgres so joiners, movers, and leavers provision and deprovision automatically.
- 04 Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.
Common sync patterns
One user roster across both systems
People, their status, and their contact details stay matched between Workday and Active Directory, so the finance system's login list reflects who actually works here instead of drifting out of date.
Group and role membership drives finance permissions
A person's group or role in Active Directory maps to their permission set in Workday, so who can approve, post, or view is governed from one place instead of maintained twice.
Access reviews backed by live data
Because the user list in Workday matches the identity source in Active Directory in real time, access certifications and SOX-style reviews start from current membership rather than a stale spreadsheet.
What you can sync between Active Directory 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.
| Active Directory objects | Workday objects | How this pairing syncs | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Registered and joined device objects; typically read into a database for inventory and compliance reporting. | Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used. | Devices is specific to Active Directory and Customers and Invoices to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. | Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials. | Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Journal Entries to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. | Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Custom Reports (RaaS) to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. | Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Workers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. | Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. | Positions Job seats synced with recruiting and planning tools. | Users is specific to Active Directory and Positions to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and Workday
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Active Directory Workday Sub-second propagation
DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Workday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Workday Active Directory Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Workday for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Active Directory: Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Workday
Connect Active Directory and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Workday connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory 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 Active Directory or Workday record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and Workday.
How the Active Directory and Workday connectors work
Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
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 Active Directory 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.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory 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.
Active Directory
connected
Workday
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Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory 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.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ WorkdayCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory WorkdayCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and Workday integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and Workday: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Devices and Directory roles), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Change detection on Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling. On Workday: Polling, including transaction-log criteria on SOAP operations to fetch objects changed since a given moment; no general webhook surface. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the Workday side: Customers and Invoices, Journal Entries, Custom Reports (RaaS), Workers, plus custom fields where Workday exposes them. On the Active Directory side: Organizational units, Organizational contacts, Users, Groups. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Active Directory and Workday: One user roster across both systems; Group and role membership drives finance permissions; Access reviews backed by live data. People, their status, and their contact details stay matched between Workday and Active Directory, so the finance system's login list reflects who actually works here instead of drifting out of date.
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Active Directory: Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS). Authentication: OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS. Workday: 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. Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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