Integrate Live UKG Pro HCM Data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas with RDS

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a no-code machine learning platform that lets you generate predictions, prepare data, and build models without writing code. When paired with CData Connect AI, you get instant, cloud-to-cloud access to UKG Pro HCM data for building custom machine-learning models, predicting customer churn, generating texts, building chatbots, and more. This article shows how to connect to Connect AI from Amazon SageMaker Canvas using the RDS connector and integrate live UKG Pro HCM data into your ML model deployments.

CData Connect AI provides a pure SQL, cloud-to-cloud interface for UKG Pro HCM, allowing you to easily integrate with live UKG Pro HCM data in Amazon SageMaker Canvas — without replicating the data. CData Connect AI looks exactly like a SQL Server database to Amazon SageMaker Canvas and uses optimized data processing out of the box to push all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc) directly to UKG Pro HCM, leveraging server-side processing to quickly return UKG Pro HCM data.

Configure UKG Pro HCM Connectivity for Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Connectivity to UKG Pro HCM from Amazon SageMaker Canvas is made possible through CData Connect AI. To work with UKG Pro HCM data from Amazon SageMaker Canvas, we start by creating and configuring a UKG Pro HCM connection.

1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection

2. Select "UKG Pro HCM" from the Add Connection panel

3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to UKG Pro HCM.

   Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the UKGProHCM Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\UKGProHCM.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for UKGProHCM (see below).

   UKGProHCM API Profile Settings

   UKG Pro HCM uses Basic authentication combined with a customer API key to authorize access to the API. To connect, you will need your UKG Pro HCM credentials and a customer API key issued by UKG.

   Set the following connection properties to authenticate:

   • AuthScheme: Set this to Basic.
   • User: Set this to your UKG Pro HCM username.
   • Password: Set this to your UKG Pro HCM password.
   • ProfileSettings: Set this to a semicolon-separated list containing:
     • Host: Your UKG Pro HCM tenant hostname (e.g., yourcompany.ultipro.com).
     • CustomerAPIKey: Your UKG customer API key. This is passed as the US-CUSTOMER-API-KEY request header on each API call.

   To obtain your customer API key, contact your UKG Pro HCM administrator or refer to the UKG Developer Portal at https://developer.ukg.com.

   
4. Click Save & Test
5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add UKG Pro HCM Connection page and update the User-based permissions.

Add a Personal Access Token

When connecting to Connect AI through the REST API, the OData API, or the Virtual SQL Server, a Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each service to maintain granularity of access.

1. Click on the Gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open the settings page.
2. On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
3. Give the PAT a name and click Create.
4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

With the connection configured and a PAT generated, you are ready to connect to UKG Pro HCM data from Amazon SageMaker Canvas.

Connecting to CData Connect AI from Amazon SageMaker Canvas

With the connection in CData Connect AI configured, you are ready to integrate live UKG Pro HCM data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas using its RDS connector.

1. Select a domain and user profile in Amazon SageMaker Canvas and click on "Open Canvas".
2. Once the Canvas application opens, navigate to the left panel, and select "My models".
3. Click on "Create new model" in the My models screen.
4. Specify a Model name in Create new model window and select a Problem type. Click on "Create".
5. Once the model version gets created, click on "Create dataset" in the Select dataset tab.
6. In the Create a tabular dataset window, add a "Dataset name" and click on "Create".
7. Click on the "Data Source" drop-down and search for or navigate to the RDS connector and click on " Add Connection".
8. In the Add a new RDS connection window, set the following properties:
   
   
   • Connection Name: a relevant connection name
   • Set Engine type to sqlserver-web
   • Set Port to 14333
   • Set Address as tds.cdata.com
   • Set Username to a Connect AI user (e.g. [email protected])
   • Set Password to the PAT for the above user
   • Set Database name the UKG Pro HCM connection (e.g., API1)
9. Click on "Create connection".

Integrating UKG Pro HCM Data into Amazon SageMaker Canvas

With the connection to Connect AI configured in the RDS, you are ready to integrate live UKG Pro HCM data into your Amazon SageMaker Canvas dataset.

1. In the tabular dataset created in RDS with UKG Pro HCM data, search for the UKG Pro HCM connection configured on Connect AI in the search bar or from the list of connections.
2. Select the table of your choice from UKG Pro HCM, drag and drop it into the canvas on the right.
3. You can create workflows by joining any number of tables from the UKG Pro HCM connection (as shown below). Click on "Create dataset".
4. Once the dataset is created, click on "Select dataset" to build your model.
5. Perform analysis, generate prediction, and deploy the model.

At this point, you have access to live UKG Pro HCM data in Amazon SageMaker that you can utilize to build custom ML models to generate predictive business insights and grow your organization.

SQL Access to UKG Pro HCM Data from Cloud Applications

Now you have a direct connection to live UKG Pro HCM data from Amazon SageMaker Canvas. You can create more connections, datasets, and predictive models to drive business — all without replicating UKG Pro HCM data.

To get real-time data access to hundreds of SaaS, Big Data, and NoSQL sources directly from your cloud applications, see the CData Connect AI.