What Workday's Gartner HCM recognition can't tell you
Eleven straight years as a Gartner Leader says Workday will keep investing in HCM. It says nothing about your pay rules, your ledger, or your integrations.
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What Workday's state and local go-lives say about timelines
Workday names a city live in five months and a state that took thirty. The gap is pay rules and fund accounting, and you can count both before you plan.
Workday's 5,500 agent customers, and what the count leaves out
Workday's Q2 release says more than 5,500 customers use at least one organic agent. The count says the switch is on. It says nothing about the work.
Workday's agent quarter still runs on business process rules
Workday says AI drove a quarter of new ACV. The condition rules and approval chains already in your tenant are what make those agents safe to switch on.
Workday's Q2 momentum belongs in your architecture plan
Workday's fiscal 2027 Q2 release reports a $27.4 billion subscription backlog and AI in a quarter of new ACV. Here is how to write that into a plan.
The Workday platform changes hiding in the Q2 results
Workday's fiscal 2027 second-quarter release lists a run of product changes under the revenue line. Here is how a tenant owner should sort them.
Products
Analysis and architecture
Why every modernization plan needs a retirement list
A modernization program that lists what it will build and never what it will switch off ends up paying for both. Put the retirements in the scope.
Workday and Oracle payroll cutover is a reconciliation job
The parallel runs, per-element tolerances, and sign-offs that decide whether a Workday or Oracle HCM payroll go-live is safe, and who should own each one.
When a Workday change completes and nobody owns the fix
A Power Automate flow can report success on a Workday employee event while the team that gets the ticket cannot see what arrived or how to correct it.
Guides for platform teams
Set Workday Extend governance before the first custom app
Workday Extend apps read HCM data by default. Decide who reviews access, who tests against real data, and who owns the app before it ships.