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IT teams at many enterprises spend up to 30-40% of their productive hours on manual user account management tasks, like creating new accounts, updating permissions, or de-provisioning access.
When you multiply that across hundreds or thousands of employees, the cost in time, risk and operational drag becomes enormous.
In today’s evolving workplace, the entire workforce lifecycle, starting from onboarding, through role changes, to off-boarding, requires a great balance between HR systems and identity/IT systems. However, if your human resource management system (HRMS), like Paycom, is isolated and your directory services like Active Directory (AD) is isolated, you end up with:
To tell you, you’re not just managing an employee’s entry and exit, you’re managing risk, cost, access rights and productivity. That’s where being able to get your Paycom system to integrate with AD (or its cloud counterpart) is a strategic necessity for organisations that are looking for world-class workforce management solutions.
When Paycom is integrated with Active Directory (AD), it acts as a tool to bridge the gap between HR and IT environments. HR and IT systems become intertwined, turning employee lifecycle management into a seamless, secure, and automated process. Instead of leaving employee data and access separate from this, application integration enables everything changing on Paycom to integrate with AD instantly to avoid inconsistencies, errors, and potential compliance failures.
Think of a fast-growing retail company that adds dozens of retail associates each month. Before integration, the HR team needed to manually send onboarding info to IT, who had to create each employee’s AD account, assign email IDs and then set up access to the system, typically taking two or three days. In Paycom to AD integration, when HR adds a new hire in Paycom, the new employee’s AD account is immediately created with the correct role-based permissions. By the time the employee walks in on day one, all credentials, access to the system, and email are ready, no tickets, no delays.
Here’s how Paycom to AD (or Entra ID) integration changes that experience:
It reduces the quantity of HR/IT tickets and manual overhead by automatically allocating access rights, creating group memberships, and provisioning new hires in AD.
The integration helps to enforce identity and access governance by triggering the proper access changes in AD when an employee switches departments or roles within Paycom.
The system quickly removes orphan accounts and reduces the possibility of insider threats by rescinding access upon termination. Up to 20% of security incidents are caused by stale accounts.
You can conduct access reviews, monitor role-based access control (RBAC), and assist with compliance requirements when IGA workflows are integrated.
A “first day at work” experience where systems are ready, permissioned and accessible, boosting retention and impression of HR-IT alignment
A “first day at work” experience where systems are ready, permissioned and accessible, boosting retention and impression of HR-IT alignment
By following these practices, you embed identity governance and administration into your workforce management solutions, making your HR-IT integration a strategic capability.
Hire2Retire is a Lightweight IGA (Identity, Governance and Administration) product that manages workforce lifecycle from HR systems to Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta and Google Directory provisioning identity, privilege, 3rd party system access, and assets and resources to automate onboarding, offboarding and role transition to provide superior first day at work, reduce operational cost, mitigate security & compliance risk and help improve security posture.
Hire2Retire removes the manual burden of onboarding, offboarding, and role transitions by integrating it directly with Paycom. The platform maintains complete compliance and security visibility while automating identity creation, updating privileges in real time, and deactivating accounts upon separation.
Hire2Retire enables:
For a closer look at how RoboMQ’s integration capabilities work in action, explore the Paycom to AD integration process – a perfect example of how automation seamlessly bridges HR and IT systems to eliminate manual effort.
When manual tasks take over your employee lifecycle management, you lose more than time; you lose productivity, security and control. Combining Paycom with Active Directory and adding identity governance transforms the process into a strategic asset. Automation brings you from isolation to seamless coordination between HR and IT; from manual work to efficient workflows; from risk exposure to governed identity lifecycle management.
If you’re ready to cut manual overhead, strengthen identity governance, and implement a true workforce lifecycle management engine, let’s explore how Hire2Retire can make it happen.
RBAC uses the employee’s job role from Paycom to automatically assign the precise set of permissions needed, enforcing the “least privilege” principle.
Terminated employees remain connected, creating a serious security leak, 20% of security incidents are caused by stale accounts.
The Paycom to Active Directory (AD) integration automatically provisions new user accounts and assigns system access before Day One, ensuring new hires are immediately productive with all necessary resources ready. This process eliminates manual IT delays, providing a superior “First Day at Work” experience important for employee retention and engagement.
It cuts manual overhead, strengthens identity governance, and transforms lifecycle management into a strategic, secure asset.
It’s a Lightweight IGA solution that automates the entire workforce lifecycle from HR systems to AD, reducing manual burden and risk.
Sujata Swarnim is a Marketing Enthuasiast with a majors in Marketing , working at RoboMQ. She thrives on connecting the dots, between people, ideas & opportunities - turning creative insights into meaningful imact & power brand stories.
