In today’s digital workplace, the seamless integration of systems is essential for minimizing manual processes, enhancing productivity, and ensuring secure access management across enterprise systems.
UKG Active Directory Integration provides a robust solution to synchronize employee information and streamline user authentication processes. By integrating with Active Directory, UKG enables organizations to automate user provisioning, maintain consistent access controls, and enhance security protocols for core business processes.
This article explores the key features and benefits of UKG Active Directory Integration, highlighting how it simplifies IT administration, improves data accuracy, and strengthens organizational security, ultimately creating a more efficient and secure work environment.
Understanding UKG Active Directory Integration
UKG provides seamless integrations with Microsoft Azure Active Directory, enabling organizations to automate onboarding and offboarding processes for employees and maintain data consistency and accuracy across systems.
By leveraging Connect to AD, users can access intelligent data conversion, configuration, and synchronization tools to automatically sync and manage HR service management and eliminate manual data entry.
Key Features of UKG AD Connection
User provisioning/de-provisioning
Create a new Active Directory user when an employee is hired in UKG and disable the Active Directory user when an employee is terminated in UKG.
Secure application
Leverage configurable settings to customize data security groups for unique organizational requirements, ensuring data remains secure and protected over time.
Automation
Minimize manual data entry to reduce error risk, maintain efficiency, and ensure consistent data across UKG and Active Directory systems.
Attribute, group, and manager mapping
Activate and manage Active Directory user attributes, group memberships, and managers in sync with UKG values and supervisors.
Installation and sync
Utilize user-friendly setup and sync tools to simplify the installation process and keep user data in Active Directory automatically synced to the UKG employee record.
Notifications
Create and send custom email notifications when a user is created, modified, or disabled, ensuring user accounts stay up-to-date and administrators are aware of real-time changes in their systems.
Built-in support
Leverage built-in support for common use cases specific to UKG to ensure automatic manager mapping and align operations across both UKG and Active Directory systems.
Why Integrate?
By integrating UKG and the Active Directory manager, organizations can improve collaboration, efficiency, and consistency across systems and facilitate better user satisfaction. Here’s how:
Employee lifecycle management
Eliminate the manual stress and workload of adding, updating, and removing user accounts throughout employee hiring, onboarding, training, and offboarding processes. Leverage UKG Pro and Active Directory or Google Directory integration to automate user provisioning and de-provisioning, reduce errors, and improve end-to-end employee management.
Reduced IT workload
Reduce IT workload by minimizing manual document scanning and data conversion procedures and creating fine-grained security groups and distribution lists to maintain accurate employee data.
Compliance and security
Integrate UKG Pro and Azure Active Directory to improve control over employee data and user access, improving security and compliance with organizational and industry regulations.
Best Practices for Efficient Integration
With seamless integrations between UKG Pro and Active Directory, organizations can automatically manage, sync, and secure employee data and improve efficiency. Here are a few key best practices:
Regular updates
Conduct regular system audits and updates to improve data security, maintain configurations, and resolve issues before they impact core integrations.
End-user training
Leverage built-in training resources to ensure internal teams, managers, and system administrators can manage integrations effectively.
Role mapping
Assess data fields, automate manager mapping tasks, and maintain security groups to ensure all information matches in Active Directory and UKG Pro and reduce costly errors.
Getting Started with Our Team
Whether you need help outlining plans for a complex UKG implementation project, additional support navigating data mapping and conversion processes between systems, or just an extra hand managing employee data in UKG and Azure AD, Surety Systems can help.
Our senior-level UKG consultants have the skills and experience to understand your critical project needs and ensure your teams are prepared for continuous improvement over time.
Contact Us
For more information about our UKG consulting services or to get started on a project with our team of expert consultants, contact us today.
