Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Azure Active Directory or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Security and identity ⇄ Accounting and finance
Azure Active Directory to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Azure 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 Azure Active Directory and Workday
Keep the people who can act on financial records in Workday matched to their identities in Azure 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. Azure 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 Organizations, Positions, Compensation, Time Off and Absence in Workday aligned with Group memberships, Applications, Service principals, Directory roles in Azure 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 Sync worker records from Workday into IT and identity systems so hires, transfers, and terminations provision access automatically.
- 02 Replicate worker, organization, and compensation data into a secured database for people analytics without giving analysts tenant access.
- 03 Provision and deprovision Entra ID Users and Group memberships from an HR system of record so account enablement follows employment status.
- 04 Sync manager, department, and jobTitle from an HRIS back onto Entra ID User attributes to keep dynamic groups and Conditional Access accurate.
Common sync patterns
One user roster across both systems
People, their status, and their contact details stay matched between Workday and Azure 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 Azure 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 Azure 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 Azure 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.
| Azure Active Directory objects | Workday objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Service principals /servicePrincipals (enterprise apps) plus appRoleAssignments; read for app inventory and access-posture reporting. | Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. | Service principals is specific to Azure Active Directory and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Directory roles /directoryRoles and roleManagement assignments; read for privileged-access reviews, with role-assignment writes where the granted scopes permit. | Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used. | Directory roles is specific to Azure Active Directory and Customers and Invoices to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Devices /devices registered or joined to the tenant; typically read-only into asset and security databases. | Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials. | Devices is specific to Azure Active Directory and Journal Entries to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Users /users in Microsoft Graph; synced two-way — profile attributes, accountEnabled, and assignedLicenses are read out while provisioning writes (create, update, disable, delete) are pushed back. | Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs. | Users is specific to Azure Active Directory and Custom Reports (RaaS) to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Groups /groups covering security and Microsoft 365 groups; created, updated, and deleted through Graph, and read into warehouses for entitlement reporting. | Workers The central HCM record covering employment, job, and personal data; the anchor of most syncs. | Groups is specific to Azure Active Directory and Workers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Group memberships Member and owner relationships on /groups/{id}/members; added and removed via the $ref endpoint and tracked for changes with delta query on $select=members. | Organizations Supervisory and company hierarchies read to drive routing and reporting in other systems. | Group memberships is specific to Azure Active Directory and Organizations to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Azure 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.
Azure Active Directory Workday Sub-second propagation
DetectionAzure Active Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Workday through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Workday Azure 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 Azure Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Azure Active Directory: Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header.
What ships with Azure Active Directory ⇄ Workday
Connect Azure Active Directory and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Azure Active Directory–Workday connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure 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 Azure Active Directory or Workday record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Azure 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 Azure Active Directory and Workday.
How the Azure Active Directory and Workday connectors work
Azure Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (v1.0)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform using an Entra ID app registration; app-only (client credentials) or delegated flows, with directory scopes such as User.ReadWrite.All and Group.ReadWrite.All requiring tenant admin consent
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Resource-unit throttling: roughly 8,000 ResourceUnits per 10 seconds per app for reads on tenants over 500 users, writes near 3,000 requests per 2.5 minutes; 429 responses include a Retry-After header
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 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 Azure 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.
Azure Active Directory
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Workday
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OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Azure 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 · Azure 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.
Azure Active Directory WorkdayCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Azure Active Directory and Workday integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Azure Active Directory and Workday: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Azure Active Directory's Service principals and Directory roles), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Azure Active Directory and Workday records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Azure Active Directory and Workday connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Azure Active Directory–Workday integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Azure Active Directory and Workday. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Azure Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta query (deltaLink tokens returning only changed users and groups, with @removed deletions) paired with change-notification webhook subscriptions for near-real-time push. 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: Organizations, Positions, Compensation, Time Off and Absence, plus custom fields where Workday exposes them. On the Azure Active Directory side: Group memberships, Applications, Service principals, Directory roles. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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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
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