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Any enterprise organization looking for a human capital management (HCM) solution should compare Workday vs. SAP SuccessFactors. These vendors are titans of the cloud-based HCM space. And given the mission-critical tasks you’ll need such a system to perform, you shouldn’t skimp when it comes to researching an HCM purchase. We provide this in-depth comparison toContinue reading “Workday vs. SAP SuccessFactors”

As they face ever-changing business requirements, our customers need to adapt quickly and effectively. When we designed Workday’s original architecture, we considered agility a fundamental requirement. We had to ensure the architecture was flexible enough to accommodate technology changes, the growth of our customer base, and regulatory changes, all without disrupting our users. We startedContinue reading “Workday architecture and components”

Workday is a cloud financial management and human capital management software that seamlessly combines finance and HR for greater business performance and visibility into organizational data. Use the Workday REST integration connector to sync data between your Workday REST instance and other cloud applications. The Workday REST connector works best when you are executing workflow-centric actionsContinue reading “Workday REST with examples”

In this post, I am going to discuss Apache Spark and how you can create simple but robust ETL pipelines in it. You will learn how Spark provides APIs to transform different data format into Data frames and SQL for analysis purpose and how one data source could be transformed into another without any hassle.Continue reading “Create your first ETL Pipeline in Apache Spark and Python”

ETL is the process by which data is extracted from data sources (that are not optimized for analytics), and moved to a central host (which is). The exact steps in that process might differ from one ETL tool to the next, but the end result is the same. At its most basic, the ETL processContinue reading “ETL Database Process”

As they face ever-changing business requirements, our customers need to adapt quickly and effectively. When we designed Workday’s original architecture, we considered agility a fundamental requirement. We had to ensure the architecture was flexible enough to accommodate technology changes, the growth of our customer base, and regulatory changes, all without disrupting our users. We startedContinue reading “Exploring Workday’s Architecture”

Learn the differences between an event-driven streaming platform like Apache Kafka and middleware like Message Queues (MQ), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Including best practices and anti-patterns, but also how these concepts and tools complement each other in an enterprise architecture. This post shares my slide deck and video recording. I discuss theContinue reading “Apache Kafka vs. Integration Middleware (MQ, ETL, ESB)”

how we use Business Intelligence tools to visualise the mountains of data we accumulate in the course of our Performance Intelligence practice assignments. Even the practice name of “Performance Intelligence” reflects the vital role that such tools and techniques play in deriving insights from all of that data to allow us to get to theContinue reading “Integrating Tableau into your application”

Nowadays, most of the HR professionals are aware of the Human Capital Management technology. By selecting the correct HCM technology the human resource will be able to streamline the various HR processes that saves a lot of time and money of the organizations. With the latest business environment, regulation and technology, the employer not only have toContinue reading “Comparison between SAP SuccessFactors and Workday HCM”

It is a known fact that ETL testing is one of the crucial aspects of any Business Intelligence (BI) based application. In order to get the quality assurance and acceptance to go live in business, the BI application should be tested well beforehand. The primary objective of ETL testing is to ensure that the Extract, Transform & Load functionality is working as perContinue reading “How To Perform ETL Testing Using Informatica PowerCenter Tool”