The ADP Workforce Now integration enables HR, IT, and Compliance teams to automatically sync hire dates, termination dates, and employment statuses from ADP to Drata. This automation ensures that your organization maintains accurate personnel data for user access reviews, onboarding/offboarding verification, and audit evidence collection.
Key Capabilities
Automated data synchronization: Imports hire dates, termination dates, and employee status from ADP Workforce Now into Drata.
Access review automation: Provides verified personnel information to support user access and offboarding compliance.
Evidence collection: Streamlines compliance audits by automatically maintaining up-to-date employment records.
Prerequisites & Data Access
Must have Administrator privileges in ADP Workforce Now.
Must create a Service Account in ADP with a Practitioner role.
The ADP instance must be U.S.-based. ADP Canada is not supported due to limited personnel report data.
Permissions & Data Table
Permission/Scope | Why It’s Needed | Data Access (Read Only) |
Practitioner Role | Enables API and report access for syncing personnel data | Employee personal and employment details |
Reports & Analytics (My Reports, All Reports, Standard Reports) | Grants access to HR reports required for syncing data | Hire/termination dates, employment status |
Personal & Employment (Employment, Employee Profile, Personal Info) | Provides visibility into personnel employment attributes | Employee identifiers and HR metadata |
Step-by-Step Setup
Step 1: Create a Profile with Report Access
Go to Setup → Access Permissions → Profile Permissions → Manage Profiles.
Select Create Profile and enter the name, description and role.
Important Note: The role must be Practitioner.
Under Menus & Features, enable the following in Reports & Analytics. This will give the service account access to securely sync your data.
My Reports
All Reports
My Standard Reports
View
Reports Output
Reports Scheduled
Reports Dashboard
Reports Dashboard
Standard Reports
All Reports (only grants access to report types that are otherwise checked)
Personal & Employment
Under People, enable:
Employment
Employee Profile
Personal Information
Employment Profile Report
Personal Profile
Save and activate the Profile.
Step 2: Create a Service Account User
From Setup → Security Management.
Go to People → Manage Users → +
Fill in the user fields.
First Name, Last Name, and Email Address: Provided to you during the connection process in Drata.
Identity Type: None
Step 1:
User Type → independent contractor
User Role → Product User
Step 2:
Give the user access to Workforce Now (if available).
Set them as a Practitioner (if available).
Proceed through Step 3, and confirm the new user.
Step 3: Assign the User Profile
In Access Permissions → Manage People, search for the new Service Account user.
Open User Access Permissions → Manage Profile Memberships.
Add the Service Account Profile created earlier.
Verify that Menus & Features and Sensitive Personal Information match the Profile you set up previously.
In People Access, ensure the user has View Only Access to all People.
Complete the Connection: ADP Workforce Now
When connecting, ensure that you used the values displayed in Drata during the connection process to create your ADP service account. If the account setup is incorrect, you will be prompted to adjust the configuration and try again, with the same values shown to you.
For steps on accessing and using the Connections page in Drata, refer to The Connections Page in Drata.