Workday 2026R2 is in your tenant, Agent Passport included
Workday 2026R2 reached production on a Saturday. The automatic and optional change split is Monday's problem, and Agent Passport deserves harder questions.
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Financial Management
Source-linked reporting organized by product, platform, and the topics that connect them.
Latest coverage
Workday is a Leader in a new workforce management quadrant
Workday is a Leader in the first Gartner workforce management quadrant. A first edition changes how much weight that position can carry in a shortlist.
What a Workday take-private would change for customers
Workday shares jumped on a report that take-private financing is coming together. Nothing is signed, and here is what a tenant owner should ask anyway.
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.
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.
Analysis and architecture
Planning next to the ledger or in a model of its own
A plan only means something next to actuals, and a separate model only earns its keep if planners can change it. Dimension ownership decides which one works.
Why a group of companies usually needs one Workday tenant
A group of companies almost always belongs in one Workday tenant. Here is when a second one is genuinely right, and what the single tenant costs you.
Keep people analytics in Workday until you need a join
Workday already enforces who may see whose record. Copying worker data out buys you joins and hands somebody the job of rebuilding that access model.
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.
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Stop Workday calculated fields from multiplying
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