Strategies for integrating talent management with external succession planning tools

steven_919
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:28:00 +0000
Workday HCM

Our organization uses Workday for core talent management but we’ve invested in a specialized external succession planning platform that offers more sophisticated succession analytics and visualization capabilities. We need to keep talent data synchronized between the two systems to maintain accurate succession plans.

The integration needs to flow both directions - worker profiles, performance ratings, and potential assessments from Workday to the succession tool, and succession plan updates and readiness scores back to Workday. We’re evaluating whether to use API-based integration, file-based data exchange, or a connector middleware approach.

I’d appreciate hearing from others who have integrated external talent or succession planning tools with Workday. What integration patterns worked best? How did you handle the bidirectional data flow? Any recommendations on API integration versus file-based approaches for this use case?

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