A purpose-built ETL platform for Sage People (formerly Fairsail) to Oracle Fusion HCM migration. Salesforce-platform-aware extractors for Worker__c, Employment_Record__c, Salary__c, Leave_Request__c. HDL emitters, governed crosswalks, full UK HMRC/RTI integration mapping.
Most Sage People migrations fail in the Salesforce-platform discovery, Apex inventory, and HMRC payroll integration re-engineering — not in the extract or load.
Sage People customers carry years of Salesforce-platform customization: Apex triggers on Worker__c, custom Visualforce pages bolted into self-service, Process Builder flows driving onboarding and offboarding checklists, MuleSoft integrations connecting Sage People to Sage 50 Payroll or third-party HMRC RTI providers. Consultant-led Fusion migrations spend the first three months just cataloguing what exists in the Salesforce org. By the time real ETL work starts, half the budget and timeline are gone.
Syntra ETL inverts the sequence. Pre-built Sage People extractors hit the standard custom objects (Worker__c, Employment_Record__c, Salary__c, Leave_Request__c, Position__c) on day one. A discovery engine that reads the Salesforce Metadata API, ApexClass, ApexTrigger, Flow, and ProcessBuilder catalogs produces a complete customization inventory in days, not months. The conversation that consumed the first three months of every traditional project happens in week two, with hard evidence.
Whether you're migrating because of M&A consolidation onto an Oracle HCM standard, hitting Sage People's mid-market scale ceiling, or rationalising your Salesforce Platform licence cost at the corporate level, the same engine handles the workflow — with the same reconciliation rigour and HDL-grade audit trail.
And how the Syntra ETL platform addresses each one — before they consume your timeline.
Sage People IS a Salesforce org. Extraction means SOAP/REST/Bulk API calls, API limit management, and custom-object schema handling. Syntra ETL's extractor is Salesforce-platform-native, runs through an Integration User, and stays within standard API limits.
Discovery crawls ApexClass, ApexTrigger, Flow, ProcessBuilder, Visualforce metadata. Every customization gets a Fusion-equivalence recommendation: native, HCM Design Studio, VBCS, OIC, or retire. Typical outcome: 50–70% retired outright.
Sage People customers in the UK feed payroll into Sage 50 or third-party HMRC RTI providers via MuleSoft or native Salesforce data loader. Syntra ETL extracts the field mappings, accrual rules, and submission cadence so Fusion Payroll UK lands configured.
Standard reports, custom report types, dashboards, list views — all replaced by OTBI, BI Publisher, HCM Design Studio dashboards, and Smart View. 50–70% of legacy reports are retired during the cleanup; only critical ones get rebuilt.
Existing integrations between Sage People and SSO, learning systems, benefits providers, or recruitment platforms get re-pointed to Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) — with cutover orchestration so no downstream system loses a beat.
5+ years of Worker__c, Employment_Record__c, Leave_Request__c history don't all need to land in Fusion HCM. The archival path puts cold periods in queryable Parquet — keeping Fusion lean and your Salesforce licence retireable.
A repeatable, governed workflow built for Sage People's Salesforce-platform complexity. Typical HCM-only timeline: 10–14 weeks.
Discovery engine reads the Salesforce Metadata API: ApexClass, ApexTrigger, Flow, ProcessBuilder, Visualforce, custom field definitions on Worker__c and Employment_Record__c. Output: complete customization inventory, Sage People object usage analysis, sized migration assessment with risk register.
Worker__c → HDL Worker mapping, Employment_Record__c → HDL Assignment, Salary__c → HDL Salary, position and department hierarchies, leave policy translation, UK payroll integration spec. Reviewed and signed off by HR, payroll, and (where in scope) recruitment leads.
Sage People extractors pull Worker__c, Employment_Record__c, Salary__c, Leave_Request__c, Position__c and all dependent objects via Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 + REST. Output staged as Parquet with row hashes and partition manifests. API consumption stays within standard org limits.
Crosswalks applied, Salesforce custom-object data shaped into Fusion HDL business objects, effective-dated history sequenced, HDL bundles generated and validated against Fusion 26x release templates. Errors surfaced locally with row-level diagnostics.
HDL bundles submitted to Fusion HCM, monitored to completion, reconciled at row, headcount, and salary-sum level. In parallel, critical OTBI and BI Publisher reports rebuilt and validated against Sage People dashboard equivalents.
1–2 pay cycles in parallel (Sage People + Fusion HCM), deltas captured and replayed, reconciled to the cent on salary, hours, and leave balances. Sign-off pack issued. Sage People moves to archive-only; production HR traffic flows to Fusion.
No more bespoke SOQL scripts or hand-rolled Bulk API jobs. Just configure scope, run, reconcile.
Worker__c, Person__c, Contact records, Employment_Record__c, Personal_Information__c. Full effective-dated employment history preserved for HDL load.
Employment_Record__c, Position__c, Job__c, Department, Location, Cost Centre, Org Chart hierarchies. Position-to-worker assignment chain reconstructed for Fusion HDL.
Salary__c, Bonus, Allowance, Salary Review cycles, Pay Component definitions. Current and historical compensation with effective dating for Fusion Compensation Workbench.
Leave_Request__c, Absence Policies, accrual balances, carry-over rules, public holiday calendars. UK statutory leave (SSP, SMP, SPP) preserved with HMRC-relevant context.
Timesheet entries, Project time allocations, billable/non-billable splits, Expense Report header + lines with receipt metadata. Bridges into Fusion Time and Expenses or remains in archive.
Performance review cycles, Goal__c, 360 Feedback records, Succession Plan entries, Career Development records. Bridges into Fusion Talent Management or routed to archive per retention policy.
A typical Sage People to Oracle Fusion migration (HCM-only, 5–8 years of worker history, 2,000–10,000 active employees) runs 10–14 weeks with Syntra ETL versus 8–12 months with consultant-led approaches. The acceleration comes from pre-built Sage People extractors that hit the Salesforce platform via SOAP and REST APIs against the standard Sage People custom objects (Worker__c, Employment_Record__c, Salary__c, Leave_Request__c, Position__c), governed crosswalks for Salesforce-platform field types to Fusion HDL business objects, and HDL bundle emitters validated against the current Oracle Fusion 26x release. Customers with heavy Apex customization or MuleSoft-based integrations add 2–3 weeks to inventory and re-engineer that layer for Fusion.
Sage People (originally Fairsail before Sage Group's 2017 acquisition) is a strong mid-market HCM built on the Salesforce Platform, but customers outgrow it for several reasons. M&A consolidation onto an Oracle HCM standard is the most common driver — large acquirers running Fusion HCM rarely keep Sage People for an acquired entity. Scale and global complexity is the second driver: Sage People targets mid-market services firms, and customers crossing 10,000+ employees or expanding into 50+ countries hit the platform's natural ceiling. The third driver is total cost: Salesforce Platform licensing for HR records is expensive at scale relative to Fusion HCM's per-employee pricing. Finally, Oracle Fusion's embedded AI for workforce analytics, talent matching, and payroll anomaly detection has pulled significantly ahead of Sage People's Salesforce-native reporting.
Syntra ETL supports the full Sage People HCM footprint. Core HR: Worker__c, Employment_Record__c, Position__c, Department, Location, Cost Centre. Compensation: Salary__c, Bonus, Allowance, Salary Review cycles. Absence and Leave: Leave_Request__c, Absence Policies, accrual balances. Time: Timesheet entries, project time, billable allocations. Talent: Performance reviews, goals, 360 feedback, succession plans. Recruiting: Candidate, Application, Offer (where Sage People Recruit is in use). Onboarding and Offboarding: workflow state, checklist completion, document collection. UK Payroll Integration: where Sage People feeds into Sage 50 Payroll or third-party HMRC RTI providers, we extract the integration mappings so Fusion Payroll for UK can be configured equivalently.
Sage People is built entirely on the Salesforce Platform — every business record is a Salesforce custom object (suffixed __c) with custom fields and standard Salesforce metadata (record types, page layouts, validation rules, sharing rules). Syntra ETL's extractor uses the Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 for large object extraction (Worker__c, Salary__c, Leave_Request__c at hundreds of thousands of rows) and the standard REST API for smaller reference objects. The extractor reads the org schema dynamically — including any custom fields a customer added on top of the standard Sage People model — so customer-specific data isn't lost. Field-level security and sharing-rule visibility are honoured by extracting through an Integration User with explicit object permissions, with the access pattern logged for SOX evidence.
Apex code and Visualforce don't migrate directly — Fusion has no Apex runtime or Visualforce equivalent. What Syntra ETL does is inventory every Apex class, trigger, Visualforce page, Lightning component, Process Builder flow, and Salesforce Flow in the source Sage People org, classify each by business purpose, and produce a Fusion-equivalent recommendation: native Fusion HCM functionality, HCM Design Studio configuration, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) integration, Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) page extension, or BI Publisher report. Customers typically find 50–70% of Sage People customizations are redundant under Fusion's native capabilities (because Sage People customizations often patch gaps that Fusion fills natively, like advanced compensation workflows). The remaining 30–50% get re-implemented in Fusion-native tooling.
Sage People reports run on Salesforce reporting (standard reports, custom report types, dashboards, list views), plus optional integrations with Salesforce Einstein Analytics / Tableau CRM for advanced analytics. None of this translates directly to Fusion's OTBI and BI Publisher stack. The Syntra ETL assessment inventories every report and dashboard in production use, classifies by business value and audience, and proposes Fusion replacements: OTBI for ad-hoc HR analytics, BI Publisher for operational reports like payroll registers and contract letters, HCM Design Studio for personalised manager dashboards, and Smart View where Excel-based analysis is critical. 50–70% of legacy Sage People reports are duplicates or low-value and get retired during the migration.
Salesforce orgs have daily API request limits (15,000 for Enterprise Edition; higher with API call add-ons). Sage People extractions of Worker__c, Employment_Record__c history, and Leave_Request__c can run into millions of rows — naive extraction would burn through limits in hours. Syntra ETL uses Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 (which counts as one job not millions of API calls), chunks extraction into 10,000-record batches, runs during low-usage windows, and throttles concurrent jobs. A full Sage People HCM extraction for a 5,000-employee customer typically consumes 200–400 API calls and 4–8 Bulk API jobs — well within standard limits. We coordinate with your Salesforce admin on timing.
No. Syntra ETL's Sage People extractor runs as a dedicated Integration User with read-only access to the relevant Sage People custom objects. Bulk API jobs run asynchronously without impacting interactive Sage People users — payroll runs, manager self-service, employee leave bookings all continue normally. No Sage People configuration changes, Apex modifications, or Salesforce org changes are required. The Integration User pattern is the standard Salesforce approach and is familiar to any Salesforce admin team; we provide the exact permission set and field-level security spec on day one.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll walk through your Sage People org footprint, Apex customization profile, UK payroll integration, and target Fusion HCM modules — and give you a concrete timeline and budget before the call ends.