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Ceridian Dayforce to SAP ASE (Sybase) integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Ceridian Dayforce and SAP ASE (Sybase) 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 SAP ASE (Sybase)

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: SAP ASE (Sybase) 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. SAP ASE (Sybase) is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Employment Status, Work Assignments, Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries in Ceridian Dayforce need to exist as queryable Views, Stored Procedures, Databases and Schemas, Triggers in SAP ASE (Sybase) 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 Views, Stored Procedures, Databases and Schemas, Triggers in SAP ASE (Sybase) with Employment Status, Work Assignments, Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries 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 Replicate ASE tables to Postgres or a warehouse so analytics run off the OLTP system.
  • 02 Bridge legacy ASE-backed applications to modern SaaS tools through a synced intermediate database.
  • 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

Employment Status, Work Assignments, Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments, Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries replicate into SAP ASE (Sybase) 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 SAP ASE (Sybase), so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in SAP ASE (Sybase) 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 SAP ASE (Sybase)

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 SAP ASE (Sybase) objects How this pairing syncs
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. Triggers Server-side hooks sometimes used to populate change-capture tables for syncs. Employee (HR / Person Details) is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Triggers to SAP ASE (Sybase) — 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. Indexes Access paths that keep keyed polling queries efficient on large OLTP tables. Employment Status is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Indexes to SAP ASE (Sybase) — 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. Tables The core sync unit; rows are read and written with standard SQL. Work Assignments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Tables to SAP ASE (Sybase) — 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. Views Read-only projections used to shape data for extraction without touching base tables. Compensation Summary & Pay Adjustments is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Views to SAP ASE (Sybase) — 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. Stored Procedures T-SQL routines that encapsulate business logic; often invoked instead of direct table writes. Employee Punches & Raw Clock Entries is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Stored Procedures to SAP ASE (Sybase) — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
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. Databases and Schemas Namespaces that scope sync configuration and permissions. Employee Schedules is specific to Ceridian Dayforce and Databases and Schemas to SAP ASE (Sybase) — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Ceridian Dayforce and SAP ASE (Sybase)

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 SAP ASE (Sybase) Sub-second propagation

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

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

SAP ASE (Sybase) Ceridian Dayforce Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls SAP ASE (Sybase) for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Timestamp or key-based polling and trigger-based capture.

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.
What ships with Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ SAP ASE (Sybase)

Connect Ceridian Dayforce and SAP ASE (Sybase) for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Ceridian Dayforce–SAP ASE (Sybase) connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Ceridian Dayforce or SAP ASE (Sybase) instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Ceridian Dayforce or SAP ASE (Sybase) 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 SAP ASE (Sybase) record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Ceridian Dayforce ⇄ SAP ASE (Sybase) sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Ceridian Dayforce and SAP ASE (Sybase).

How the Ceridian Dayforce and SAP ASE (Sybase) 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.
Ceridian Dayforce setup guide

SAP ASE (Sybase)

Integration surface
SQL over the TDS wire protocol; JDBC (jConnect) and ODBC drivers
Authentication
Database credentials (username/password), optionally backed by LDAP or Kerberos
Change detection
Timestamp or key-based polling and trigger-based capture; log-based replication requires SAP Replication Server components
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect Ceridian Dayforce to SAP ASE (Sybase) — 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 SAP ASE (Sybase) 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
    SAP ASE (Sybase) connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Ceridian Dayforce and SAP ASE (Sybase) 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 ⇄ SAP ASE (Sybase)
    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 SAP ASE (Sybase)
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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