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Google Cloud Spanner to Workday integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Cloud Spanner 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 Google Cloud Spanner and Workday

Work with Workday's financial data straight from Google Cloud Spanner: read it with ordinary queries, write to it from your own code, and let Stacksync keep both sides consistent.

Engineers need finance data more often than finance systems make it easy to get: for internal tools, reporting services, or logic that reacts to invoices and payments. Working through the vendor API means rate limits, pagination, and glue code that has to be maintained forever.

Stacksync mirrors Workers, Organizations, Positions, Compensation from Workday into Rows, Interleaved tables, Secondary indexes, Change streams in Google Cloud Spanner and keeps the two in sync bi-directionally and in real time. Your services read finance records with normal queries against Google Cloud Spanner, and rows your code writes or updates flow back into Workday with validation, so the finance system stays the system of record.

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 Consolidate data from a globally distributed Spanner deployment into regional business systems.
  • 04 Push billing or entitlement changes from finance tools into Spanner tables the application reads at runtime.

Common sync patterns

Internal tools without API plumbing

Build dashboards and back-office tools directly on Google Cloud Spanner; Stacksync handles the API calls, rate limits, and retries against Workday.

Write back safely

Updates written to the synced tables in Google Cloud Spanner propagate into Workday, so automations can create or correct finance records without custom integration code.

React to financial events

Changes in Workday appear in Google Cloud Spanner as row changes, so you can trigger downstream logic with the database tooling you already use.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Spanner 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.

Google Cloud Spanner objects Workday objects How this pairing syncs
Change streams Capture inserts, updates, and deletes for log-style change data capture. Time Off and Absence Balances and requests synced with scheduling and workforce tools. Change streams is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Time Off and Absence to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner. Payroll Results Completed pay data exported to finance and benefits systems. Views is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Payroll Results to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration. Suppliers Workday Financials vendor records aligned with procurement tools. Databases is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Suppliers to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets. Customers and Invoices Financials receivables objects synced for billing visibility where Workday Financials is used. Tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Customers and Invoices to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows The unit of read and write in each sync cycle, keyed by primary key. Journal Entries Accounting entries imported from external subledgers into Workday Financials. Rows is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Journal Entries to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interleaved tables Child rows physically co-located with parents; synced as related records. Custom Reports (RaaS) Tenant-defined reports exposed as web service endpoints, often the practical read surface for syncs. Interleaved tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Custom Reports (RaaS) to Workday — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Spanner 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.

Google Cloud Spanner Workday Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google Cloud Spanner are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries.

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

Workday Google Cloud Spanner 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 applied to Google Cloud Spanner as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Spanner: Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
What ships with Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Workday

Connect Google Cloud Spanner and Workday for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Google Cloud Spanner–Workday connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Google Cloud Spanner or Workday instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Cloud Spanner 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 Google Cloud Spanner or Workday record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Workday sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Cloud Spanner and Workday.

How the Google Cloud Spanner and Workday connectors work

Google Cloud Spanner

Integration surface
gRPC/REST client API with SQL query surface (GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL-interface dialects)
Authentication
Google Cloud IAM (service accounts)
Change detection
Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.

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 Google Cloud Spanner 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.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Google Cloud Spanner 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.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Google Cloud Spanner connected
    Workday connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Cloud Spanner 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.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Workday
    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
    Google Cloud Spanner Workday
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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