> ## Documentation Index
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# Overview

# Employee Skill Sync Integration with Workday

This Deployment Guide provides instructions that will assist in the process of
deploying the Workday - TechWolf Employee Skill Sync Integration, including
detail on the configuration and deployment of the integration in the customer's
Workday tenant. The intended audience for this document is the Integration
Implementer.

## Integration

The Integration has been designed, developed, tested, documented, and deployed
by TechWolf with Workday's guidance and oversight. The integration facilitates
the flow of data required between Workday and TechWolf Skills or specific use
case(s) and is not intended to address all use cases customers may be interested
in. The customer benefits by receiving pre-built, pre-tested, documented,
partner-maintained integrations that minimize implementer's effort as compared
to custom integrations for the specific use case(s) addressed.

## Functional Objective

TechWolf and Workday are partnering to enhance skill management within
organizations. TechWolf leverages data from various sources, including business
systems, to infer skills. These inferred skills are seamlessly integrated into
Workday skill profiles, providing a comprehensive and real-time view of
employees' skills. The integration also enables profile synchronization between
TechWolf and Workday, ensuring that both platforms' updates are consistently
reflected.

This can be further facilitated with the use of the
[TechWolf Skill Assistant <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](/integrations/skill-assistant/overview),
where employees can either be notified of or validate newly suggested skills.
This integration does not depend on the Skill Assistant; any other skill
validation approach can be used. The integration is agnostic to the skill
validation.

**Key benefits:**

* TechWolf synchronizes employee skill profiles across all relevant systems,
  harmonizing skills across all systems.
* The accurate and up-to-date skill data in Workday can be used for downstream
  purposes within Workday, e.g. Talent Marketplace and Learning.
* As TechWolf does not rely on manual assessments, we increase employee adoption
  to your talent marketplace with automated skill profiles.

## Important Information

### Software Partner API Versioning

To minimize the impact on Customers, Software Partners, and Workday, Workday
Software Alliances only requires Software Partners to update API versions in
their integrations when not doing so will result in meaningful impact on a
current or future Customer. Given that Workday's approach to API updates expects
that updates are backward compatible (with few exceptions), API version updates
are rarely required for a previously badged integration.

However, Workday reserves the right to require a partner to update an
integration to the latest API version if the current version is negatively
impacting a joint customer or is resulting in unnecessary support and/or
maintenance effort. We also strongly encourage partners to take the opportunity
when making other updates to their integration to also move to the latest
version of any API's leveraged.

## Reference Material

Reference materials and documentation can be found at:

* TechWolf developer documentation:
  [https://developers.techwolf.ai/ <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://developers.techwolf.ai/)
* TechWolf Skill Sync source IP addresses:
  [IP Addresses <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](/integrations/reference/ip-addresses)
* Workday x TechWolf field mapping matrix (on request).
* Used Workday Web Service operations:
  * `Put_Skill`
    ([Workday API <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/Talent/v43.2/Put_Skill.html))
  * `Manage_Skills`
    ([Workday API <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/Talent/v43.2/Manage_Skills.html))
  * `Get_Manage_Skills`
    ([Workday API <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/Talent/v43.2/Get_Manage_Skills.html))

## Glossary of Terms

* **Certified Integration**: An integration system developed by TechWolf that
  enables the data flow between Workday and TechWolf. Certification is achieved
  after meeting all requirements from Workday.

- **Configurable Security Policy**: The Configurable Security Policy describes
  the access required for each Integration System User and permissions needed
  for the integration to function.

- **Integration Implementer(s)**: The individual or group of individuals
  responsible for deploying the integration. Workday generally recommends that
  the customer engage the appropriate Workday Certified Consultants when
  deploying any integration.

- **SkillEngine API**: The TechWolf API. This is the TechWolf system where
  skill data is stored, calculated, and used for related skills functionality.
  Interaction works through the REST API.

- **Skill Profile**: The set of skills of an Employee.

- **Customer Skill Sources**: Implies all customer platforms, integrations,
  and data that can serve as a source of skill information. Think of learning
  platforms, and Workday itself.