Connect Your Workday HRIS to Any Payroll in the World
If you run Workday, you can now connect it to any payroll provider, in any country, including the payrolls you already trust. datascalehr runs natively on Workday’s Data Changes on Demand (DCoD), part of Global Payroll Connect (GPC). One connector links your Workday HRIS to any local payroll, with no developers and no file specs, in under an hour per country. Three of the world’s top five payroll providers already run on datascalehr across more than 150 countries.
What is live
Our Workday connector, built directly on DCoD, is in production now. DCoD is the most capable interface in Global Payroll Connect. It carries field-level data every pay cycle, including backdated corrections, future-dated changes, and multi-position records. datascalehr reads that data and turns it into the exact format each local payroll needs, in both directions.
What it means for Workday customers
You keep the payrolls you already run. A typical multinational runs Workday as the HR system of record and processes pay through a patchwork of ADP, SDWorx, Strada, Dayforce, and local providers that changes by country. datascalehr connects all of them to Workday through GPC, from a single provider to every country you operate in.
Every connector you add brings the rest with it:
- Ongoing payroll reconciliation, every cycle
- Universal general ledger connectivity
- Global payroll harmonization across countries and currencies
- Pay Transparency-ready data
- Clean, structured data your AI agents can actually use, through the context layer
Why this was hard until now
Bringing a local payroll into Workday used to mean one of three things: build a connector yourself, wait for a provider to support it, or switch to a provider that already did. Each path costs months and real money, and the last one makes you give up payroll relationships you spent years building. For HR systems beyond Workday, including SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, and UKG, the same integration tax applies. We took that work out.
How it works
datascalehr is AI-powered middleware that sits between your HR system and your payrolls. The connector runs on KMod, our payroll AI engine, which maps Workday fields to each target format using more than 1.5 million validated mapping decisions across 7,000+ schemas. The mapping is predictive, not generative, so it does not invent values. Your payroll specialists make the decisions, and the integration layer does the rest. Read more on the Workday GPC page, and if you are moving off PECI, see PECI to GPC migration.
Frequently asked questions
Can I connect Workday to multiple payroll providers without replacing them?
Yes. datascalehr connects Workday to any number of local payroll providers you already run, from one country to every country you operate in, through GPC and the native DCoD connector. No custom development per country, and you keep providers like ADP, SDWorx, Strada, or Zellis.
What is Workday Data Changes on Demand (DCoD)?
DCoD is the most advanced data interface in Global Payroll Connect. It exposes field-level payroll data every pay cycle, including backdated corrections, future-dated changes, and multi-position records. datascalehr runs on it natively.
How long does it take to connect a country?
Under one hour, with no developers and no file specs. KMod handles the field mapping and format transformation between Workday and each local payroll.
Do I need to replace my payroll providers?
No. The point of the connector is that you keep every payroll you run today and bring it into Workday as it is.
