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Ceridian Dayforce to InterSystems IRIS integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS 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 Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: InterSystems IRIS and Ceridian Dayforce share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Ceridian Dayforce is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. InterSystems IRIS is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances, Employee (HR / Person Details) in Ceridian Dayforce need to exist as queryable Globals, Namespaces, Stored Procedures, Tables in InterSystems IRIS 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 Globals, Namespaces, Stored Procedures, Tables in InterSystems IRIS with Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances, Employee (HR / Person Details) in Ceridian Dayforce field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Ceridian Dayforce 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 Sync operational tables in IRIS bi-directionally with a CRM so business teams work on IRIS-backed data without SQL access
  • 02 Consolidate IRIS data with other databases in an analytics warehouse for cross-system reporting
  • 03 Two-way sync of Employee and Work Assignment data (position, department, location, org unit) into Postgres so provisioning, internal apps, and analytics read current worker and org data in SQL while HR keeps editing in Dayforce.
  • 04 Push new hires (Employee, Employment Status, Work Assignment) from an ATS or onboarding tool into Dayforce with POST once a candidate is hired, pre-fetching valid XRefCodes for department, position, location, and pay group.

Common sync patterns

Reporting and analytics on current data

Employee Schedules, Org Units, Departments, Jobs & Positions, Time Away From Work & Balances, Employee (HR / Person Details) replicate into InterSystems IRIS where they join operational tables, so headcount, roles, and status reports run on the live state without manual pulls.

Org and structure stay aligned

Groups, departments, managers, and reporting lines from Ceridian Dayforce stay consistent in InterSystems IRIS, so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in InterSystems IRIS write onto the matching record in Ceridian Dayforce where those fields are writable, keeping the people system enriched.

What you can sync between Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS

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.

Ceridian Dayforce objects InterSystems IRIS objects How this pairing syncs
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. Namespaces Namespaces partition databases and determine the connection context for integrations. Time Away From Work & Balances is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Namespaces to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employee (HR / Person Details) Core worker record keyed by XRefCode; GET Employees returns matching XRefCodes, then a per-employee GET fetches full HR details. New hires are added with POST and edits made with PATCH, so it is read and write. Stored Procedures Server-side logic callable over SQL supports controlled writes and transformations. Employee (HR / Person Details) is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Stored Procedures to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employment Status Effective-dated employment status and type (active, leave, terminated) that drives active/terminated state for downstream provisioning; read, and writable as new dated status records. Tables Relational projections of stored data are the primary read/write surface for SQL-based syncs. Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Tables to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Views SQL views expose curated slices of data for outbound replication. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Views to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Schemas Schema organization scopes which tables a sync connection can see. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Schemas to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Persistent Classes Object-model classes project to tables, so class data is reachable through SQL. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Persistent Classes to InterSystems IRIS — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS

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.

Ceridian Dayforce InterSystems IRIS Sub-second propagation

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

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

InterSystems IRIS Ceridian Dayforce Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls InterSystems IRIS for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling (timestamp or query-based).

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

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.
  • InterSystems IRIS: Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ InterSystems IRIS

Connect Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Ceridian Dayforce–InterSystems IRIS connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Ceridian Dayforce or InterSystems IRIS instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or InterSystems IRIS 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 Ceridian Dayforce or InterSystems IRIS record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ InterSystems IRIS 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 Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS.

How the Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS connectors work

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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InterSystems IRIS

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC, plus object and REST access layers
Authentication
Database credentials
Change detection
Polling (timestamp or query-based); no standard webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Constrained by database resources rather than published API rate limits
How it works

How to connect Ceridian Dayforce to InterSystems IRIS — 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 Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS 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
    Ceridian Dayforce connected
    InterSystems IRIS connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and InterSystems IRIS 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 · Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ InterSystems IRIS
    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
    Ceridian Dayforce InterSystems IRIS
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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