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BambooHR to SAP Hana integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep BambooHR and SAP Hana 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 BambooHR and SAP Hana

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: SAP Hana and BambooHR share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

BambooHR is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. SAP Hana is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Employees, Job Information, Compensation, Time Off in BambooHR need to exist as queryable Column store tables, Row store tables, Calculation views, SQL views in SAP Hana before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Column store tables, Row store tables, Calculation views, SQL views in SAP Hana with Employees, Job Information, Compensation, Time Off in BambooHR field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — BambooHR typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Detect inserts, updates, and deletes on high-write tables via AFTER triggers or a last-modified column and replicate the deltas downstream near-real-time.
  • 02 Read SYS.TABLES and TABLE_COLUMNS system views to auto-discover schema and generate field mappings when new tables are added to the sync.
  • 03 Read Job Information and Departments into an ERP or planning tool so headcount, cost centers, and org structure stay current.
  • 04 Push approved Time Off into capacity and scheduling systems so project plans reflect real availability.

Common sync patterns

Org and structure stay aligned

Groups, departments, managers, and reporting lines from BambooHR stay consistent in SAP Hana, so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in SAP Hana write onto the matching record in BambooHR where those fields are writable, keeping the people system enriched.

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in BambooHR land as queryable Column store tables, Row store tables, Calculation views, SQL views in SAP Hana, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

What you can sync between BambooHR and SAP Hana

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.

BambooHR objects SAP Hana objects How this pairing syncs
Employees The core person record with personal and work fields; read out to identity, payroll, and IT systems, and written back from recruiting or onboarding tools. Schemas Namespaces that group tables and views; the connector targets a schema and enumerates its objects from the catalog to build the sync. Employees is specific to BambooHR and Schemas to SAP Hana — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Job Information Effective-dated job title, department, division, location, and reporting line; synced so org charts and provisioning systems track internal moves. Sequences Server-generated key values; relevant when writing rows into tables whose identity is assigned HANA-side rather than by the source system. Job Information is specific to BambooHR and Sequences to SAP Hana — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Compensation Effective-dated pay rate, schedule, and change reason; read into planning and payroll systems with access restricted to authorized fields. Triggers AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers capture changes into a shadow/logging table so updates and deletes are detected near-real-time without full scans. Compensation is specific to BambooHR and Triggers to SAP Hana — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Time Off Requests, balances, and policies; read for absence calendars and capacity planning, with approved requests written from an external scheduling tool. System-versioned temporal tables Column store tables with a history table tracking each row's validity period; used to reconstruct update and delete history for change capture. Time Off is specific to BambooHR and System-versioned temporal tables to SAP Hana — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employment Status Effective-dated hire, leave, and termination status; drives automated provisioning and deprovisioning in downstream identity and license systems. System views (SYS schema) Catalog and monitoring views such as SYS.TABLES and TABLE_COLUMNS; read to discover schema and auto-generate field mappings for new tables. Employment Status is specific to BambooHR and System views (SYS schema) to SAP Hana — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Departments and Divisions Org-structure list values; synced to keep cost centers and team groupings consistent across ERP, identity, and analytics systems. Column store tables HANA's default table type, optimized for analytics; synced two-way as rows over the SQL interface with the primary key driving upserts and delete tracking. Departments and Divisions is specific to BambooHR and Column store tables to SAP Hana — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between BambooHR and SAP Hana

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.

BambooHR SAP Hana Sub-second propagation

DetectionBambooHR notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. The Get Updated Employee IDs endpoint (last-changed timestamps) returns employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a cursor for efficient polling.

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

SAP Hana BambooHR Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in SAP Hana are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Polling on a last-modified timestamp column, or AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers writing to a shadow table.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • BambooHR: Requests are rate-limited per API key with standard REST throttling (429 on excess); bulk reads are best done through saved Reports or the updated-IDs delta endpoint rather than per-employee calls.
  • SAP Hana: No SaaS-style request quota; throughput is bounded by connection limits, statement memory caps, and workload-class admission control (concurrency/memory limits) that share capacity with production queries.
What ships with BambooHR ⇄ SAP Hana

Connect BambooHR and SAP Hana for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every BambooHR–SAP Hana connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in BambooHR or SAP Hana instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever BambooHR or SAP Hana 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 BambooHR or SAP Hana record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your BambooHR ⇄ SAP Hana 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 BambooHR and SAP Hana.

How the BambooHR and SAP Hana connectors work

BambooHR

Integration surface
BambooHR API (REST, per-company subdomain)
Authentication
API key per user over HTTP Basic auth (key as username), scoped to that user's permission level in BambooHR; OAuth/OpenID available for SSO-enabled apps
Change detection
The Get Updated Employee IDs endpoint (last-changed timestamps) returns employees inserted, updated, or deleted since a cursor for efficient polling; webhooks can fire on monitored field changes
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are rate-limited per API key with standard REST throttling (429 on excess); bulk reads are best done through saved Reports or the updated-IDs delta endpoint rather than per-employee calls.

SAP Hana

Integration surface
SQL over the SAP HANA client (JDBC/ODBC drivers); OData/REST via XS for app-layer access
Authentication
Dedicated database user credentials over an encrypted TLS connection (password sent hashed); Kerberos, SAML, JWT, and X.509 certificate authentication are also supported. SAP HANA Cloud enforces TLS and IP allowlisting.
Change detection
Polling on a last-modified timestamp column, or AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers writing to a shadow table; system-versioned temporal tables and SLT/SDI provide trigger- and log-based CDC. No native webhooks.
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No SaaS-style request quota; throughput is bounded by connection limits, statement memory caps, and workload-class admission control (concurrency/memory limits) that share capacity with production queries.
How it works

How to connect BambooHR to SAP Hana — 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 BambooHR and SAP Hana 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
    BambooHR connected
    SAP Hana connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the BambooHR and SAP Hana 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 · BambooHR ⇄ SAP Hana
    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
    BambooHR SAP Hana
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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