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Workday Release Insights

What's New in Workday 2025R1: Key Changes for Enterprise HR Teams

A practitioner's breakdown of the most impactful 2025R1 changes — business process updates, security changes, and what to test before go-live.

Q1 2025 · 8 min read

Payroll Governance

Building a Workday Payroll Governance Model That Actually Works

Why most Workday payroll governance frameworks fail — and how to build one that keeps compliance, accuracy, and change management in lockstep.

Q4 2024 · 12 min read

Security Best Practices

The Workday Security Debt Problem: How Organizations Fall Behind and How to Recover

Security configurations that made sense at go-live rarely survive the first two years. Here's how to diagnose and remediate role drift.

Q3 2024 · 10 min read

HR Transformation

Why 'We're Live on Workday' Is Not the Same as Workday Transformation

The gap between deployment and transformation is where most organizations stall. A framework for moving from go-live to realized value.

Q2 2024 · 9 min read

Workday Release Insights

Workday Extend: When to Build, When to Buy, and When to Wait

Decision framework for organizations evaluating custom application development inside the Workday ecosystem.

Q1 2024 · 7 min read

Payroll Governance

Parallel Testing in Workday Payroll: A Practical Enterprise Guide

Methodology for structuring parallel payroll runs — what to validate, how many cycles to run, and how to define cutover confidence.

Q4 2023 · 15 min read

Guides & Whitepapers

Frameworks for Workday leaders.

WHITEPAPER

Workday Optimization Playbook

A step-by-step framework for organizations looking to close the gap between their current Workday configuration and its full potential.

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MATURITY MODEL

AMS Maturity Model

How enterprise organizations evolve from reactive Workday support to proactive, continuous improvement. Includes a self-assessment scorecard.

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GOVERNANCE GUIDE

Workday Security Governance Guide

Comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a secure, audit-ready Workday environment — role design, domain security, and change control.

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