UKG Pro Data Integration with Redshift

With Portable, integrate UKG Pro data with your Redshift warehouse in minutes. Access your HR and Workforce Management Solution data from Redshift without having to manage cumbersome ETL scripts.

The Two Paths to Connect UKG Pro to Amazon Redshift

There are two ways to sync data from UKG Pro into your data warehouse for analytics.

Method 1: Manually Developing a Custom Data Pipeline Yourself

Write code from scratch or use an open-source framework to build an integration between UKG Pro and Redshift.

Method 2: Automating the ETL Process with a No-Code Solution

Leverage a pre-built connector from a cloud-hosted solution like Portable.

How to Create Value with UKG Pro Data

Teams connect UKG Pro to their data warehouse to build dashboards and generate value for their business. Let’s dig into the capabilities UKG Pro exposes via their API, outline insights you can build with the data, and summarize the most common analytics environments that teams are using to process their UKG Pro data.

Extract: What Data Can You Extract from the UKG Pro API?

UKG Pro is a HR and Workforce Management Solution used for managing HR workflows and capabilities.

To help clients power downstream analytics, UKG Pro offers an application programming interface (API) for clients to extract data on business entities. Here are a few example entities you can extract from the API:

Audit Details

Benefit Reductions Benefits Integration Business Structure Status Code Tables Company Details Compensation Details Deduction Code Dependent Deductions Earnings Code Earnings History Base Elements

Employee Contacts Details Employee Contacts Service Employee Contract Details Employee Deductions Employee Demographic Details

Employee Education Employee Employment Details Employee Job History

Employee Lookup Employee Multiple Jobs Employee Multiple Phone Numbers Employee Multiple Positions Employee National Documents

Employee Pay Statement

Employee Profile Employee Security User Details Employee Status Employee Supervisor Details

Employment Details

General Ledger Run Details Global Employee Direct Deposit Global Employee Localization Details Global Employee Payments and Deductions

Import Tool Insurance Rate Integration Audit Configuration International Employees Job Groups Jobs Configuration Locations Configuration

Onboarding New Hire Open Enrollment Employee Deductions Option Rate Organization Levels Organization Reporting Category Pay Register Paygroup Payperiods Payroll Deductions History Payroll Earnings

Person Details Position Report Positions Pto Plans

Roles

You can visit the UKG Pro API Documentation to explore the entire catalog of available API resources and the complete schema definition for each.

As you think about the data you will need for analytics, don’t forget that Portable offers no-code integrations to other similar applications.

Regardless of the SaaS solution you use, it’s important to find a HR and Workforce Management Solution with robust data available for analytics.

Load: Which Destinations Are Best for Your UKG Pro ETL Pipeline?

To turn raw data from UKG Pro into dashboards, most companies centralize information into a data warehouse or data lake. For Portable clients, the most common ETL pipelines are:

Once you have a destination to load the data, it’s common to combine UKG Pro data with information from other enterprise applications like Jira, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Klaviyo.

From there, you can build cross-functional dashboards in a visualization tool like Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or Retool.

Develop: Which Dashboards Should You Build with UKG Pro Data?

Now that you have identified the data you want to extract, the next step is to plan out the dashboards you can build with the data.

As a process, you want to consume raw data, overlay SQL logic, and build a dashboard to either 1) increase revenue or 2) decrease costs.

Replicating UKG Pro data into your cloud data warehouse can unlock a wide array of opportunities to power analytics, automate workflows, and develop products. The use cases are endless.

Now that we have a clear sense of the insights we can create, let’s compare the process of developing a custom UKG Pro integration with the benefits of using a no-code ETL solution like Portable.

Method 1: Building a Custom UKG Pro ETL Pipeline

To build your own UKG Pro integration, there are three steps:

Navigate the UKG Pro API documentation
Make your first API request
Turn an API request into a complete data pipeline

Let’s walk through the process in more detail.

How to Interpret UKG Pro’s API Documentation

When reading API documentation, there are a handful of key concepts to consider.

Authentication

There are many common authentication mechanisms. OAuth 2.0 (Auth Code and Client Credentials), API Keys, JWT Tokens, Personal Access Tokens, Basic Authentication, etc. For UKG Pro, it’s important to identify the authentication mechanism and how best to incorporate the necessary credentials into your API requests.

UKG Pro uses oAuth based authentication token for all requests.

Resources

It’s important to identify the UKG Pro API endpoints you want to use for analytics. Most APIs offer a combination of GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE request methods; however, for analytics, GET requests are typically the most useful. At times, POST requests can be used to extract data as well.

For UKG Pro, the Get all master company and component company details endpoint is a great place to get started.

Request Parameters

For each API endpoint you would like to use for analytics, you need to understand the method (GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE) and the URL, but there are other considerations to take into account as well. You should look out for pagination mechanics, query parameters, and parameters that are added to the request path.

Ukg Pro uses page and per_page parameters for pagination.

Some API endpoints require unique identifiers from a previous API response to be included in the URL path. For instance, to submit a background check, you need a candidate-id and a tenant-alias that is returned from another endpoint.

How Do You Call the UKG Pro API? (Tutorial)

Follow the instructions above to read the UKG Pro API documentation
Identify and collect your credentials for authentication
Pick the API resource you want to pull data from
Configure the necessary parameters, method, and URL to make your first request (e.g. with curl or Postman)
Add your credentials and make your first API call . Here is an example request using curl (without real credentials):

curl -X GET --header 'Accept:application/json' 'https://servicet.ultipro.com/configuration/v1/company-details'

How Do You Maintain a Custom UKG Pro to Redshift ETL Pipeline?

Making a call to the UKG Pro API is just the beginning of maintaining a complete custom ETL pipeline.

Here is a getting-started guide to building a production-grade pipeline for UKG Pro:

For each API endpoint, define schemas (which fields exist and the type for each)
Process the API response and parse the data (typically parsing JSON or XML)
Handle and replicate nested objects and custom fields
Identify which UKG Pro fields are primary keys and which keys are required vs. optional
Version control your changes in a git-based workflow (using GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
Handle code dependencies in your toolchain and the upgrades that come with each
Monitor the health of the upstream API, and —when things go wrong— troubleshoot via the status page, reach out to support, and open tickets
Handle error codes (HTTP error codes like 400s, 500s, etc.)
Manage and respect rate limits imposed by the server

We won’t go into detail on all of the items above, but rate limits are a great example of the complexity found in a production-grade data pipeline.

UKG Pro API uses an API gateway to manage quotas and rate limits for how many API calls an API client can make over a particular time period, normally 1 minute.

If the rate of requests has been too high the server is not willing to accept this and will return to the API client an HTTP Status Code 429.

If you don’t respect rate limits, and if you can’t handle server responses (like 429 errors with a Retry-After header), your pipeline can break, and analytics can become out-of-date.

What Are the Drawbacks of Building the UKG Pro ETL Pipeline Yourself?

You can probably tell at this point that there is a lot of work that goes into building and maintaining an ETL pipeline from UKG Pro to your data warehouse.

If you want less development work, faster insights, and no ongoing responsibilities, you should consider a cloud-hosted ETL solution.

Let’s walk through the setup process for a no-code ETL solution and its benefits.

Method 2: Using a No-Code UKG Pro ETL Solution

No-code ETL solutions are simple. Vendors specialize in building and maintaining data pipelines on your behalf. Instead of starting from scratch for each integration. Companies like Portable create connector templates that can be leveraged by hundreds or thousands of clients.

Step-By-Step Tutorial for Configuring Your UKG Pro ETL Pipeline

Off-the-shelf ETL tools offer a no-code setup process. Here are the instructions to connect UKG Pro to your cloud data warehouse with Portable.

Create an account (no credit card required)
Add a source —search for and select UKG Pro
Authenticate with UKG Pro using the instructions in the Portable console
Select Redshift and authenticate
Set up a flow connecting UKG Pro to your analytics environment
Run your flow to replicate data from UKG Pro to your warehouse
Use the dropdown to set your data flow to run on a cadence

What Are the Benefits of Using Portable for UKG Pro ETL?

No-Code Simplicity

Start moving UKG Pro data in minutes. Save yourself the headaches of reading API documentation, writing code, and worrying about maintenance. Leave the hassle to us.

Easy to Understand Pricing

With predictable, fixed-cost pricing per data flow, you know exactly how much your UKG Pro integration will cost every month.

Fast Development Speeds

Access lightning-fast connector development. Portable can build new integrations on-demand in hours or days.

Hands-On Support

APIs change. Schemas evolve. UKG Pro will have maintenance issues and errors. With Portable, we will do everything in our power to make your life easier.

Unlimited Data Volumes

You can move as much data from UKG Pro to Amazon Redshift as you want without worrying about usage credits or overages. Instead of analyzing your ETL costs, you should be analyzing your data.

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UKG Pro Data Integration with Redshift