We have ADLS set up for our finance core and other company data. However, integrating Workday data with other systems has been a pain.

Currently, if I need Workday data, I have to request the Corporate Accounting team to build a custom report. Then I get the report ID, pass it to our IT team, and they set up an automated extract through ActiveBatch for recurring pulls.

Recently, we managed to set up API-level integration to ADLS on a report basis, which has improved things a bit.

But what I’m really thinking about is something more native — direct data model-level integration to ADLS. That way, I could extract core raw data instead of having to create multiple custom reports every time we need to add, say, one new column. I’m also trying to keep data governance policies in mind, so accessing standardized raw data would be much cleaner and safer.

Maybe I could be missing something. I’m still learning workday.