Workday Extend empowers our customers to confidently build, deploy, and manage new business capabilities for finance and HR. Architected on the same platform as Workday’s applications, Extend delivers enterprise-scale and speeds development.
Digitalization has revolved the world into a different era. The stipulation for better digital capabilities seems perpetual. New business, system requirements, recent opportunities, and competitors appear erratically. External vents also affect us and our aura while working with any organization. Altogether, this creates a digital stimulation while most of the companies are struggling to scale up with the rapidity of modifications requiring IT teams to deliver advanced digital business functions faster than ever before while being vigilant and secure.
In the past, interactions with Workday were either within their UI or through integration and reporting in order to obtain data from the system. With Workday Extend, we are now able to build our own screens, objects, and APIs in the same technology stack that Workday developers use for core products.
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Workday Extend
Workday Extend (formerly known as Workday Cloud Platform) enables customers and partners to use Workday technology to build applications and extend Workday’s delivery capabilities to meet their unique business needs. This platform is available since May 2020 and bestows highly configurable solutions for businesses to extend Workday with its designer tool. By using the “power of one person” technology, it enables organizations to provide employees with the same familiar end-user experience while leveraging the same single data source and security model.
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Workday Extend is a technology platform that can build, deploy, and manage new business functions for finance and human resources. Workday Extend and Workday’s applications are built on the same platform to scale up the business development. Applications developed with Workday Extend can be accessed from Workday users’ home screens, dashboards, or related operations — preserving the consistent and familiar user experience that Workday brings, simplifying use, and ultimately increasing user acquisition. The business functions provided by the Workday Extend application enormously interact with core Workday data and processes, and these interactions cannot be replicated by external systems.
Workday Extend’s two powerful state-of-art capabilities
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Workday Orchestrate
Every Workday Extend subscription includes a workday orchestrate that mobilizes the processes that run within Workday and interact with external systems. With Workday Orchestrate, developers can use an intuitive drag-and-drop user interface (UI) (called Orchestration Builder) to build business processes. Orchestration Builders provides guided functions for defining flows, mapping data, and performing transformations – designed to reduce the development time and the workload.
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Business Objects and Business Processes
Support new data and logic components for developers to build their own business objects and business processes to store, process, and protect Workday Extend application data. These new customer delivery objects and processes extend Workday’s data model-this is a unique feature of Workday. Customers can equate these newly constructed objects with the business objects, and processes delivered by Workday to build complex data models. Moreover, by leveraging the existing Workday security model, the new objects and processes inherit the same security, auditable, and resilient features customers expect from the Workday application.
Workday Extend extends support for companies creating and deploying new capabilities in their Workday environment—capabilities that sit right next to and orchestrate across trusted finance and people data processes.
Benefits of Workday Extend
Let us unwrap these benefits one by one, and see how Workday customers are applying these capabilities.
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Build faster
Workday Extend provides information technology (IT) teams with a deep scalability platform, giving them the confidence to build applications and experiences. Moreover, because developers can reuse established data structures and design patterns, the construction and deployment of applications may take weeks instead of months.
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Simplify the technology stack
IT spends more time managing their toolset and less time building new business functions. Building new features from your trusted system can reduce these costs, leverage existing skills, and free up IT resources to address the widening gap in digital acceleration.
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Develop more securely
When data is extracted from the core system, transformed, and captured between technology stacks—data movement inherently increases security risks and IT management costs. Any opportunity to use data without moving data between systems, thereby avoiding data islands and reducing security vulnerabilities, can be rewarded handsomely.
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Workday Extend application
Workday Extend customers can also take advantage of the Workday Extend application catalog to save more time. The catalog provides a series of application templates and reference applications. These application templates and reference applications solve common business scenarios and can be quickly configured and deployed according to the unique needs of each customer.
With more than 200 Extend applications in production, let us see how the value of Workday Extend plays a role in the various financial and human resource needs of different organizations.
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Netflix
Built an employee self-service stock option plan registration application for open registration and new employee registration. Using the new data component of Workday Extend, they built configuration rules controlled by program administrators. By simplifying the stock registration process, the initial feedback from more than 7,000 eligible Netflix employees was very positive.
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Unum
Welfare provider Unum has built a Recognition Badging app to gamify their Inclusive and Diversity Championship program. The application will store and display the “champion badge” in the employee’s Workday profile. After completing the workday course, employees can earn badges to help them improve their skills and practice inclusive strategies.
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Workday
Built a charity donation application and a request credit card application (both applications are available from the Workday Extend application catalog). The credit card application allows organizations to streamline all approvals, data integration, and notifications by using Workday Orchestrate as part of the requesting credit card process to issue credit cards faster. This application reduces the amount of work required by the finance team to support this high-volume process.
Conclusion
Workday Extend online training helps customers build new digital business capabilities faster, turning the digital acceleration gap into a digital transformation opportunity. Customers continue to prove that Workday Extend is a seamless and secure way to build and deliver unique and prime processes or experiences.
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