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This page introduces the standard file-based datasource integration with Workday, in which Workday exports files through the Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) for TechWolf to infer skills from.

Jobs

Job Families, Jobs and Vacancies.

Employees

The Employee baseline and every Employee file.

Courses

The Course catalogue.

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Integration Overview

Workday is a cloud-based enterprise software platform that delivers human capital management (HCM), financial management, and analytics capabilities. Its HCM module is designed to streamline and unify core HR functions such as talent management, payroll, benefits, and workforce planning, providing real-time insights and automating many HR processes. As such, an enterprise’s Workday HCM environment usually contains much if not all of the HR-related data of that customer enterprise. To export this data for uses external to Workday itself, Workday provides (among other solutions) the Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), which can generate files of an arbitrary form, in one of many formats, containing only the data specified by the user, of only the objects specified by the user, in a user-specified format, on a configurable schedule. Since much of the data held in Workday HCM can be relevant for skill inference, we have therefore developed a standard file-based integration that can take in these EIB files and load their contents into the SkillEngine API. From this data, we can then infer the skills of or needed for the related Employees, Jobs, and more. These skills are then available in the TechWolf SkillEngine API, but can i.a. also be pushed back into Workday using the Workday Skill Syncs. For the broader picture of how file-based integrations work and how they compare to API-based connectors, see Key concepts.