If a picture is worth a thousand words, why aren’t we using them?
Being a tenured member of the ERP community, I’ve done a lot of reporting in my day. A lot. Starting out as a PeopleSoft developer, the tools available to report on enterprise data were plentiful. The options for making that data visually impactful, however, were …
Workday Report Sharing – What Reports Can My Managers See?
In my previous post “Business Process Booklet” I talked about regression testing business processes after making security changes. Today we talk reports. While these two exercises are similar, today we are going to answer a slightly different question: not “how do I know what reports …
Business Process Booklet – If You Don’t Know, Now You Know
It is safe to say I have been doing Workday security for quite some time. Over my years I have come across a few reports that no matter what project, client, size, or shape, I use, ALWAYS. The “Business Process Booklet” report is one of …
Workday Rule-Based Business Process Configuration
If you’ve ever had to configure business process definitions in Workday, you likely know what it’s like trying to accommodate a myriad of use cases and conditions with one configuration. As much as possible, we as implementers attempt to streamline and standardize the organization’s approach …
Project “Foot-in-Door” – Open Source Workday Consulting
One of the things that became evident to us when getting involved in our first few Workday sales cycles was that the real selling is done by the Solution Architects and Lead Consultants, not the sales team. In short, the product experts sell, not the …
Workday Implementation – The Other Side of the Table
I spent the better part of 5 years as a Workday implementation consultant, holding project roles as Data Conversion Lead, HCM Lead, Compensation Lead, Benefits Lead, Absence Lead, and Project Manager. Last year, I moved away from a Workday Partner and to Kognitiv inc, where …
The Ultimate Team Sport
Formula 1 may not be everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to spectator sports. In fact, it wasn’t my cup of tea until a few years ago. I would say “Who watches that? It’s a bunch of machines going around a track. How is …
Workday’s Report Fields and Values: the tool to find the data you need
My colleague recently wrote about one of Workday’s lifesaver features. I decided to compliment that with a favorite of my own: Report Fields and Values. Back in 2014, I was one of the first ecosystem partners to get certified in Workday’s then fledgling recruiting product. …
Maintain Security Permissions – The Best Task in Workday You Never Knew Existed
One of the areas in Workday that can really take time and patience is security configuration. As someone who has done more than my fair share of Workday security over the past 6 years, I have seen time and again clients and consultants alike struggle …
Security for Securable Item: The Best Report in Workday
When I started in the Workday Eco-system back in 2011 as a data conversion consultant at Meteorix, we would often talk about how to handle the security responsibilities on our go-lives. 99% of the time the security configuration gets assigned to the HCM lead, but …
