October 2024 Summaries

Unified.to offers a seamless integration with Indeed, one of the largest job boards, simplifying the process of connecting recruitment applications to a broad audience of job seekers. By utilizing Unified.to's pre-built Indeed integration, developers can easily publish jobs, automate updates, and remove job listings without the hassle of managing the complex Indeed API directly. This integration centralizes recruitment data across multiple job boards, enhancing the functionality of recruitment applications. Unified.to's real-time Unified API approach standardizes API requests and maintains ongoing updates for over 40 ATS integrations, including Indeed, ensuring a consistent and efficient experience. Developers can quickly activate the Indeed integration through Unified.to's dashboard, enabling automated workflows for job postings and candidate retrieval, thus accelerating the launch of recruitment application integrations.

Unified.to has introduced significant updates in October 2024, including the integration of Indeed to their platform, which allows users to post jobs in real-time to customers' Indeed accounts through a unified ATS API. The platform has expanded its offerings with seven new pre-built integrations across various categories like e-commerce, accounting, task management, and data enrichment, enabling seamless data management for AI agents, insights, and automation. Unified.to now supports SCIM across all HR integrations for improved identity management, as well as multiple response formats including CSV, XML, and NDJSON for enhanced data processing flexibility. Additionally, Accounting Orders are now supported through the Unified Accounting API, streamlining procurement and sales activities. The platform has also introduced a Svelte Authorization component, complementing existing support for React, Angular, and Vue, and offers a new guide for importing existing customer integrations using API tokens or OAuth 2.0.

To obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials and configure API permissions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications, you need to register your application in Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, which serves as the identity platform for secure authentication. By registering, you establish a trusted connection that allows access to Dynamics 365 data via Microsoft Graph and other Microsoft APIs through delegated access, where your application acts on behalf of the signed-in user, using permissions granted by both administrators and users. The process involves obtaining a client ID and client secret, configuring the application with appropriate permissions for Microsoft Graph and Dynamics 365, and ensuring that these permissions include OpenID permissions like user_impersonation for necessary access. Once set up, these credentials can be entered into Unified.to, enabling you to use the Dynamics 365 integration seamlessly in your application.

The guide provides detailed instructions on importing existing integrations into Unified.to, a platform that enables secure connections between applications and third-party accounts using existing customer credentials. Before starting, users should have a Unified.to account, existing customer credentials, and a basic understanding of REST APIs and authentication flows. Unified.to supports API token authentication, which requires either a single token or multiple credentials, and OAuth 2.0 authentication, which involves client credentials, access tokens, and possibly additional user information. Users need to check the Unified.to Core API for specific integration requirements and construct connection objects with appropriate credentials. The process involves making API requests to get integration details, constructing the connection object based on the authentication type, and creating the connection via a POST request. The guide emphasizes best practices, such as using a non-sandbox environment, including only necessary permissions, and securely storing the connection ID for future calls.

ATS Activity has introduced a new "sub_type" field to its schema, which allows for more detailed classification within the existing "type" field, an enum with values such as NOTE, TASK, and EMAIL. The "sub_type" is a freeform string that can hold any value, adding flexibility to the categorization of activities. This new field is currently supported on JobAdder and BullHorn platforms. JobAdder supports all three unified types and includes sub-types like WhatsApp, SMS, and Phone call, among others, while BullHorn, which supports only the NOTE type, includes sub-types such as Attempted Contact, Coordination, and Business Development. This enhancement provides users with a more nuanced way to track and manage activities within these platforms.

Unified.to has expanded its API capabilities by introducing support for multiple response formats, offering users greater flexibility in how they receive and process data. The newly supported formats include JSON, CSV, XML, SCIM+JSON, and NDJSON, each accessible by specifying the desired format in the Accept header of an API request. These formats cater to different needs, with SCIM+JSON specifically designed for HRIS endpoints to facilitate integration with identity management systems, while NDJSON is optimized for AI workflows, allowing efficient streaming of large datasets. This enhancement is particularly beneficial for developers using popular data science tools and machine learning frameworks, as NDJSON's structure supports efficient data processing, reducing latency and resource requirements in machine learning pipelines.

September witnessed a series of significant updates from Unified.to, including over 100 integration enhancements, SCIM support for 120+ integrations, and new resources for developers. These updates aim to streamline identity management and improve the performance and functionality of integrations, as showcased by Sync2Hire's rapid deployment of 16 integrations. New features like the Integration Explorer and updated troubleshooting guides enhance user experience, while a JavaScript tutorial allows developers to customize authorization flows. Unified.to also announced its inclusion in the prestigious C100 network and the successful closing of a $1.1 million pre-seed funding round, which will support its growth and innovation efforts.

Unified.to has introduced SCIM API support to facilitate user provisioning across a broad range of systems by virtualizing SCIM for over 360 integrations, including those that do not natively support it. SCIM, a standardized API for managing user identities, often faces adoption challenges due to limited native support among services; however, Unified.to's approach enables seamless identity management across numerous services by providing SCIM endpoints for any integration compatible with the Employee object. This update ensures wide integration coverage, simplified implementation, and full compliance with SCIM 2.0, while also supporting extended attributes for detailed user management. The new SCIM support offers significant benefits, allowing developers to implement consistent identity management without mastering multiple APIs and enabling businesses to streamline user provisioning, enhance security, and reduce administrative efforts. Unified.to's SCIM support is now available as part of their unified API offerings, reflecting their commitment to expanding integration capabilities and simplifying software ecosystem management for businesses.

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) is a standardized API designed to manage user identities across various systems, and the guide details how it can be used with Unified.to to enhance seamless identity management across multiple integrations. Unified.to offers SCIM-compliant endpoints that return data in the standard SCIM format, allowing developers familiar with SCIM to easily connect their existing implementations to a broader range of integrations. The platform supports several SCIM extensions, facilitating detailed user attributes specific to different platforms, and enables SCIM to be used with any integration that supports the Employee object, thereby expanding the number of SCIM-compatible integrations to over 100 different service providers. This flexibility allows for the virtualization of SCIM behavior, ensuring compatibility even with APIs that do not natively support SCIM, thus broadening the scope of integrations developers can achieve through Unified.to.

Sync2Hire successfully accelerated the market launch of its post-application collaboration and communication platform by leveraging Unified.to's real-time unified API platform, which allowed them to integrate with 19 enterprise-ready Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) in just two weeks, saving a year of development time. By using Unified.to, Sync2Hire not only achieved seamless data synchronization and real-time updates, enhancing communication between hiring teams and candidates, but also secured strategic partnerships with eight ATS providers, boosting their market credibility and revenue potential. This strategic partnership enabled Sync2Hire to focus on product innovation rather than integration maintenance, as Unified.to handled all ongoing API updates, providing the necessary tools for monitoring integration health and addressing issues quickly. The collaboration with Unified.to allowed Sync2Hire to offer a robust communication hub for hiring teams, meeting the demands of enterprise customers while freeing up engineering resources to concentrate on core product development.