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WorkdayHCM

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.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 7, 2026 4 min read

A payroll supervisor lays decades of paper pay-rule memos in a long row across a table in a county finance office.

WorkdayHCM

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.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 2, 2026 5 min read

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WorkdayHCM

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.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskSeptember 1, 2026 4 min read

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WorkdayHCM

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.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskAugust 30, 2026 4 min read

An architect at a planning table sorts a heap of vendor papers into three trays while her own binder of process rules stays open.

WorkdayHCM

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.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskAugust 28, 2026 4 min read

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WorkdayHCM

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.

BizAppsVerse editorial deskAugust 27, 2026 4 min read

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SAPWorkdayArchitecture

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.

Noah ValeJuly 28, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayOracleHCM

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.

Noah ValeJuly 6, 2026 6 min read

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WorkdayMicrosoftHCM

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.

Amani ReedJune 27, 2026 6 min read

Related guides

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WorkdayGovernance

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.

Priya NwosuSeptember 10, 2026 5 min read