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

Keep Azure Synapse Analytics and Ceridian Dayforce 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 Ceridian Dayforce

Land the people and organization records from Ceridian Dayforce in Azure Synapse Analytics as live tables for workforce reporting, without extract jobs, and write computed results back where Ceridian Dayforce can use them.

Workforce data is some of the most requested data in the warehouse and some of the most awkward to move: the record types are many, the fields carry sensitive personal information, the APIs are strict, and hand-built extract jobs go stale or break quietly. Whether Ceridian Dayforce is the system of record for employees and payroll, for candidates and applications, or for learners and course completions, the reporting belongs in Azure Synapse Analytics next to everything else the company measures.

Stacksync syncs Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances, Employee (HR / Person Details), Employment Status from Ceridian Dayforce into tables in Azure Synapse Analytics continuously, handling API limits and schema drift as they come. The connection is bi-directional, so values computed in Azure Synapse Analytics, such as headcount rollups, cost allocations, or attrition risk flags, can be written back to fields in Ceridian Dayforce where the HR team acts on them. You configure which records and fields cross over, and in which direction, instead of maintaining pipeline code.

Common use cases

  • 01 Consolidate SaaS data alongside lake data so analysts join both through one SQL surface.
  • 02 Load CRM and ERP records into Synapse dedicated SQL pool tables for enterprise reporting.
  • 03 React to Dayforce Event Notifications for hire, rehire, and terminate to provision or disable IdP and app access and update downstream records as the changes post.
  • 04 Replicate Compensation Summary and pay data into a warehouse for headcount, labor-cost, and compensation reporting without manual BI exports.

Common sync patterns

Write-back of computed values

Segments, rollups, or risk flags computed in Azure Synapse Analytics sync back onto the matching records in Ceridian Dayforce, where the HR team sees them in the system they already use.

HR data in the warehouse, minus the pipeline

People and organization records from Ceridian Dayforce arrive in Azure Synapse Analytics as queryable tables, current within seconds instead of a day behind, replacing hand-built extract jobs.

Headcount and cost joined with everything else

Analysts combine Ceridian Dayforce's workforce records with finance, product, or operational data already in Azure Synapse Analytics for reporting the HR system cannot produce on its own.

What you can sync between Azure Synapse Analytics and Ceridian Dayforce

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 Ceridian Dayforce objects How this pairing syncs
External tables Tables over files in the data lake, queried through serverless SQL and often read-only in syncs. Work Assignments Effective-dated position, department, location, and org-unit assignment; the most-synced record for org charts, provisioning, and analytics. Read and updatable via PATCH. External tables is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Work Assignments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Curated projections used when downstream tools should not read base tables directly. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments Compensation Summary returns pay rate and frequency for reporting; Employee Pay Adjustments are written as effective-dated records via PATCH to post pay changes back to Dayforce. Views is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces that separate staging, integration, and presentation layers. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries Time-and-attendance punches; raw clock entries are added with POST and punches removed with DELETE, so time data flows both ways between Dayforce and scheduling or workforce tools. Schemas is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materialized views Precomputed aggregates that speed reads of frequently synced result sets. Employee Schedules Shift and schedule assignments; created and updated through POST and PATCH schedule endpoints and paged with pageSize, used to push schedules from a WFM tool or pull them for analytics. Materialized views is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Employee Schedules to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
SQL pools Dedicated or serverless compute contexts that determine how and where queries run. Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions Configuration reference data; POST creates org units and departments and PATCH updates job, position, department, and org-unit data. Used to resolve and validate XRefCodes when mapping employee writes. SQL pools is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables (dedicated SQL pool) Distributed warehouse tables that serve as sync destinations for analytics workloads. Time Away From Work & Balances Time-off requests and accrual balances read per employee; pulled into scheduling, payroll, or absence-reporting databases and used to reconcile leave against downstream systems. Tables (dedicated SQL pool) is specific to Azure Synapse Analytics and Time Away From Work & Balances to Ceridian Dayforce — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Azure Synapse Analytics and Ceridian Dayforce

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 Synapse Analytics Ceridian Dayforce Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Azure Synapse Analytics for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on watermark columns.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Ceridian Dayforce through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Ceridian Dayforce Azure Synapse Analytics Sub-second propagation

DetectionCeridian Dayforce notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. No CDC stream.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Azure Synapse Analytics as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Ceridian Dayforce: Dayforce does not publish numeric rate limits; thresholds vary by tenant and exceeding them returns HTTP 429, so large employee reads are paged (pageSize) and throttled with backoff. Employee list calls return XRefCodes only, so each employee needs a follow-up GET.
What ships with Azure Synapse Analytics ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Azure Synapse Analytics or Ceridian Dayforce 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 Ceridian Dayforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

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EDI

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

How the Azure Synapse Analytics and Ceridian Dayforce 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

Ceridian Dayforce

Integration surface
REST API (Dayforce RESTful Web Services, v1/v2), JSON payloads
Authentication
HTTP Basic authentication with a dedicated Web Services user plus the client namespace (Company ID), or an OAuth 2.0 access token from the Dayforce identity endpoint (POST dfid.dayforcehcm.com/connect/token, client_id Dayforce.HCMAnywhere.Client). Token-based auth is recommended, and the Web Services role with the Read Data subfeature must be enabled on the account.
Change detection
No CDC stream. Broad change detection uses delta polling on GET Employees with filterUpdatedStartDate/filterUpdatedEndDate and filterUpdatedEntities to pull only records changed in a window. Dayforce also has native Event Notifications (the Notification Publisher) for lifecycle events — hire, rehire, terminate, and workflow validation — delivered by push to a receiver service or by querying unacknowledged notifications; the publisher runs roughly hourly and each notification must be acknowledged.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Dayforce does not publish numeric rate limits; thresholds vary by tenant and exceeding them returns HTTP 429, so large employee reads are paged (pageSize) and throttled with backoff. Employee list calls return XRefCodes only, so each employee needs a follow-up GET.
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How it works

How to connect Azure Synapse Analytics to Ceridian Dayforce — 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 Ceridian Dayforce 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
    Ceridian Dayforce connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Azure Synapse Analytics and Ceridian Dayforce 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 ⇄ Ceridian Dayforce
    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 Ceridian Dayforce
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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