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From the ashes of defeat, 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.
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 technological innovations. It takes a lot of thought, planning, and hard work to make something that’s powerful, flexible, and intuitive. Here, for the first time ever in one place, we detail the Workday technology strategy and architecture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Overview of Workday
CHAPTER 2
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 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.
CHAPTER 4
An Open and Connected Future
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.
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.
CHAPTER 5
Unpacking the Power in Workday’s Power of One
As the needs of our customers are becoming more complex, we are growing with them to offer more ways to solve their most challenging business problems. Bottom line: when we advise prospects to avoid bolt-on solutions, we mean it. That’s why with every acquisition, we devote a tremendous amount of time and resources to make sure all our solutions are integrated into our foundational Power of One model.
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Workday History
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Design Philosophy
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Development Approach
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Development Process
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The Workday Architecture
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Next: Workday Security
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Workday Security
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A Deeper Look
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User Interface Services
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Integration Services
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Object Management Services
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Persistence Services
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Analytics Services
Operations Services
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NEXT: machine learning services
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Machine Learning Services
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Next: Getting More, Making More
Chapter 4
Using History as Our Guide
next: The “Why” Matters—Now and Into the Future
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Getting More, Making More
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Next: augmenting human intelligence
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The “Why” Matters
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Next: a data-driven approach
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Augmenting Human Intelligence
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Next: coda
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A Data-Driven Approach
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Chapter 5
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Adapting to Change
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Strengthening the Power of One
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Adaptive Insights
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What's Next?
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Coda
