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The structure of an enterprise has changed over the last several years. Today’s enterprises are more permeable, less clearly defined, and more fluid than ever. An organization’s relationship with its employees, partners, and vendors is increasingly complex and demands a digital foundation that facilitates adaptation instead of hindering it.
The Workday Technology Strategy: Architecture, Guiding Principles, and the Power to Adapt
The Workday Tech Strategy
Get the inside story on some of the tough choices we made early on, and what we’ve done to stay on top of the latest technology innovations. It takes a lot of thought, planning, and hard work to make something that’s both powerful and intuitive. Here, for the first time ever in one place, we detail the Workday technology strategy.
In the following chapters, you’ll learn more about the Workday technology strategy and architecture, and how we help you not just cope with change, but also to leverage it. We deal in software, but we care most about people and partnerships—so our greatest priority is to help your organization innovate more, grow faster, and
ignite employee engagement. If you do those things, the future can be yours. The Workday system enables them all, and this publication shows you how.
Workday delivers the power to adapt through innovative applications and a technology platform that eliminates the digital barriers of legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP). Workday was born in an era of constant change and adaptation, and has rapid innovation built into its core operating principles. It’s also tested and proven through thousands of deployments around the globe.
The definition of an enterprise has changed. Today, it's more permeable, less clearly defined, and more fluid than ever. An organization’s relationships to employees, partners, and vendors are increasingly complex and demand a digital foundation that facilitates adaptation instead of hindering it.
Workday delivers the power to adapt through innovative applications and a technology platform that eliminates the digital barriers of legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP). Workday was born in an era of constant change and adaptation, and it has rapid innovation built into its core operating principles. It’s also tested and proven through thousands of deployments around the globe.
In the following chapters, you’ll learn more about the Workday technology strategy and architecture, and how we help you not just cope with change, but leverage it. We deal in software, but we care most about people and partnerships—so our greatest priority is to help your organization innovate more, grow faster, and ignite employee engagement. If you do those things, the future can be yours.
Introduction to the Workday Tech Strategy
CHAPTER 1
At a breakfast meeting between two technology veterans and friends, the quest to build enterprise software that people actually liked was launched. Workday’s founders crafted a design philosophy that, like most things in life worth doing, is simple to explain but takes patience, care, and ongoing effort to do right.
At a breakfast meeting between two technology veterans and friends, the quest to build enterprise software that people actually liked was launched. Workday founders crafted a design philosophy that, like most things in life worth doing, is simple to explain but takes patience, care, and ongoing effort to do right. The concept was to deliver a simple, intuitive experience underpinned with a sophisticated architecture that could be continuously modern.
Fast forward to today and we see a rapidly changing world of work and technology. Yet Workday continues to deliver an intuitive experience on an architecture that is continuously current. Let’s explore how this is possible.
Grab your coffee—we’re going on a tour of the Workday development process and architecture. Our true cloud approach allows us to focus our attention on innovation while ensuring Workday products are secure and ready to meet compliance requirements.
Overview of Workday
CHAPTER 2
Grab your coffee—we’re going on a tour of our development process and architecture. Our approach helps make Workday products secure and ready to meet compliance requirements— there are no backdoors when a single security model continuously applies to all data.
CHAPTER 3
Exploring the Workday Architecture
Put on your metaphorical walking shoes for a guided tour of how the different elements of Workday come together to deliver an enterprise management cloud platform designed to help organizations increase their power to adapt.
Put on your metaphorical walking shoes for a guided tour of how the different elements of Workday come together to create an intuitive and powerful user experience. See how we engineered an architecture that stays true to our founders’ first principles while taking advantage of new technology.
With the Workday Enterprise Management Cloud Platform, IT can reduce its effort spent on maintenance and open up more capacity for innovation; businesses can increase their responsiveness through flexible processes, ready insights, and self-service; and users have a more engaging experience, whether in a casual, managerial, professional, or administrative role.
Put on your metaphorical walking shoes for a guided tour of how the different elements of Workday come together to deliver an enterprise management cloud platform designed for organizations to grow their power to adapt.
With the Workday Enterprise Management Cloud Platform, IT can reduce their effort on maintenance and open up more capacity for innovation; businesses can increase their responsiveness through flexible processes, ready insights, and self-service; and users have a more engaging experience, whether in a casual, managerial, professional, or administrative role. In this chapter, you’ll see how we engineered an adaptable architecture that stays true to our founders’ first principles while continuously innovating, taking advantage of new technology.
In this chapter, you’ll see how we engineered an adaptable architecture that stays true to our founders’ first principles while continuously innovating by taking advantage of new technology.
CHAPTER 4
Architecture for your adaptable future of work
The future of work is changing and with Workday innovation, you'll be ready. This next chapter focuses on two key areas of innovation designed to help you navigate the changing world. First, we dive into the value of machine learning and our machine learning services; and, second, we explore our platform and how we’re opening Workday up to unleash the innovation in our ecosystem of business developers and bring even more value to our customers.
An Open and Connected Future
Our CTO Joe Korngiebel likes to remind people that even though we are a transformative company, there is a universe of technical breakthroughs happening outside our walls. As we embrace a more open and connected future, we also recognize that augmenting our applications with machine learning and artificial intelligence—empowered by people who analyze and apply machine learning algorithms—will make for a smarter Workday.
Next: Design Philosophy
Next: DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Back: Workday History
Next: Overview of Workday
Next: Overview of workday
Next: Development Process
Next: Development process
Back: Development approach
Next: The workday Architecture
Back: development approach
Next: the workday architecture
Back: Development process
Next: Workday Security
Back: development process
Next: workday security
Back: The Workday Architecture
Next: Exploring The Workday Architecture
Back: the workday architecture
Next: exploring the workday architecture
Next: user interface services
Back: a deeper look the Workday architecture
Next: integration services
Back: A deeper look
Back: user interface services
Next: object management services
Back: INTEGRATION services
Next: persistence services
Back: OBJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Next: ANALYTICS SERVICES
Back: PERSISTENCE services
Next: OPERATIONS services: the "ops" in DevOps
Next: OPERATIONS services
Back: ANALYTICS services
NEXT: Architecture for your adapatable future work
Next: An Open and Connected Future
Operations Services: The "Ops" in DevOps
Machine Learning Services
Back: OPERATIONS services
Next: an open and connected future
Operations Services
Next: MACHINE LEARNING SERVICES
Chapter 4
next: The “Why” Matters—Now and Into the Future
Next: DELIVERING AI AND MACHINE LEARNING SERVICES
Back: ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE OF WORK
Back: getting more, making more
Next: augmenting human intelligence
Next: Workday Extensibility Services
Back: MACHINE LEARNING SERVICES
Back: The “Why” Matters—Now and Into the Future
Next: a data-driven approach
Next: THE WORKDAY EXTEND APP DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
Back: DELIVERING AI AND MACHINE LEARNING SERVICES
Back: augmenting human intelligence
Next: coda
Next: summary - the power of a technology strategy
Back: Workday Extensibility Services
Back: a data- driven approach
Next: Unpacking the Power in Workday’s Power of One
Back: The Workday Extend App Development journey
BACK: What’s Next?
An Adaptable and Intelligent Future
Coda
Summary - the Power of a Technology Strategy
Adapting to Change
Chapter 5
Unpacking the Power in Workday’s Power of One
NEXT: Strengthening the Power of One
A Data-Driven Approach
NEXT: Adaptive Insights
BACK: Adapting to Change
Strengthening the Power of One
Next: What’s Next?
Back: Strengthening the Power of One
Adaptive Insights
Next: Coda
BACK: Adaptive Insights
Next: CODA
What's Next?
