GLOBAL PAYROLL MAGAZINE
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As for the testing phase, the duration will depend, for the most part, on the number and complexity of the requirements made – as well as how many subsequent adjustments would need to be made. What is the impact of integration on employees and users of the system? None. The interface that users interacted with before remains the same. All changes are only apparent in the backend. Employees don’t see where the calculation is happening and, at the end of the day, would not know any better if there had been any change – save for the introduction of new features. For payroll, for instance, a SAGE integration into Workday would work as follows: 1. You would approve the payroll. 2. You run your normal payroll processes and then, once this is done, the API will run and fetch the data from SAGE and push it back into Workday. As mentioned previously, all of this gets done with an API. But there are no standard APIs. Rather, your API gets customised per your needs and what you need to get from one system into the other. Pros and Cons of a SAGE/Workday integration Pros: Saving time Where, without an integration, there would have been manual processes involved; integrations save time and prevent human errors from being made.
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