Workday provides a rich, platform-managed integration surface: EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, RaaS, and SOAP/REST web services — all running inside Workday's Integration Cloud with managed credentials, monitoring, and scheduling. D365 replaces this with a composable stack: DMF data entities, OData, custom services, business events, and Azure Integration Services. This module maps each Workday integration pattern to its D365 equivalent, and covers the reporting re-platform from Workday's live object graph to Power BI and Fabric.
Workday's integration and reporting model is built on a single, unified surface. The Workday Integration Cloud hosts all integrations — inbound and outbound — with managed scheduling, credential storage, operational monitoring, and version history. EIB handles file-based ETL. Studio handles complex multi-step orchestration.
Before designing the D365 integration architecture, inventory every integration in the Workday estate.
DMF is the primary bulk inbound integration surface. It works through data entities: composite, integration-friendly views of D365 application tables that expose a flattened schema for import and export.
D365 business events fire when defined application states change. Standard business events include:
Workday reporting runs directly against the live Workday object graph. A custom report in Workday queries worker records, their positions, their cost centre hierarchies, and their transactions simultaneously. The report returns current data in real time. There is no separate analytics platform;
Workday's managed Integration Cloud — EIB, Studio, RaaS, SOAP/REST — is replaced by a composable Azure stack: DMF for bulk import/export, OData for real-time record operations, business events for outbound event signals, and Azure Logic Apps / Data Factory / Functions for orchestration.