How to Sync Employee and User Data from Workday, BambooHR, and 180+ HR Platforms with a Unified API
October 27, 2025
Every SaaS platform depends on accurate user data — from permissions and analytics to AI personalization. But users and groups are often spread across HR systems, directories, and IDPs like Okta, Google Workspace, and Microsoft Entra ID. Each uses a different schema and authentication model, making synchronization complex and error-prone.
Unified.to simplifies this by providing a single API to connect HR, Directory/IDP, and SCIM sources. You can sync normalized employee and group data directly from the system-of-record — ideal for powering RBAC, analytics, AI pipelines (like RAG), and backups — without maintaining per-vendor logic or writing custom connectors.
When to Use Unified for User Data
With a unified API, you can:
- Build a reliable user directory in your product using live HR and directory data.
- Automate RBAC, provisioning, and audit trails using real-time user status.
- Feed analytics or AI pipelines with always-fresh user and group context.
- Reconcile multiple sources (e.g., HRIS + IDP) into one consistent, authoritative dataset.
Unified Objects & Key Entities
| Object | Description |
|---|---|
| Employee | The primary person record from the source-of-truth (HR, Directory, or SCIM). |
| Group | Organizational unit, team, or access group. |
| Company | Tenant or company metadata for rollups and scoping. |
| Location (optional) | Physical office or region associated with users. |
| Device (optional) | Assets tied to users where supported by the source. |
| Webhook | Real-time delivery of user and group changes. |
Unified.to normalizes these objects across 190+ HRIS, Directory, and IDP integrations, making it easy to map roles, memberships, and hierarchies consistently across platforms.
Supported Systems
Unified.to supports HR, Directory, and IDP providers across 190+ systems, including:
- HR/Directory: Google Workspace Directory, Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory, Okta, JumpCloud, BambooHR, Rippling, Deel, HiBob, Namely, and more.
- SCIM-compatible systems: Any source using SCIM 2.0 for identity and group synchronization.
See the full list of supported integrations.
Data Flow for User Data Sync
- Connect — The customer authorizes their HR, directory, or IDP source via Unified Connect, returning a secure
connection_id. - Fetch Users and Groups — Unified retrieves normalized employee and group records with consistent identifiers, attributes, and metadata.
- Deliver in Real Time — Changes (new hires, terminations, group membership updates) stream via webhooks or managed polling.
- Store or Process — Push data into your database, warehouse, or identity graph for permissions, analytics, or AI pipelines.
- Reconcile — Combine multiple sources (e.g., HRIS + SCIM + IDP) to form a unified directory view across customers.
Unified's zero-storage, real-time architecture ensures you're always working from the latest data — directly from the source, never cached.
Why Product Teams Choose Unified.to
- One model, many systems — Fetch and normalize users and groups from 190+ HR and identity platforms.
- Real-time sync — Detect user and permission changes instantly.
- AI-ready infrastructure — Feed RAG, analytics, or compliance pipelines without custom connectors.
- Zero maintenance — Unified handles tokens, retries, and schema updates automatically.
Deliver real-time, source-of-truth user data for RBAC, analytics, and AI — without managing dozens of integrations.
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