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In this post we’ve laid out some basics for navigating Workday notification settings to help you in understanding, troubleshooting and even testing email notifications in your tenant.
If you are using Workday Benefits to manage life insurance plans, you could be unknowingly shorting your worker's life insurance benefit.
This post is intended to provide you insight into important components to consider when figuring out how to bring benefit deductions into Workday payroll.
Lear now to leverage Workday Questionnaires to handle COVID-19 employee communication.
Understanding the purpose and process behind creating a roadmap for future Workday endeavors and enhancements.
Things to think about in relation to Workday® Absence configuration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kognitiv proves it is possible to use a client’s existing tenant to completely re-configure their FDM with nothing more than EIB’s and thinking outside the box.
Tips to ensure successful ACA administration in Workday®.
Reinforcing Workday's® Power of One, Prism has a familiar user experience and security model. Users can blend Workday® data with external data and generate visualizations using reports, dashboards, scorecards, and Data Discovery. This article explains some factors to consider before implementing Prism including the Analytics Roadmap, Time & Effort, and Common Questions. Prism is a separate SKU that requires subscription. For pricing information, please contact your Workday ®sales representative.
A review of Same Store reporting in Workday®.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could load your credit card statements into Workday® and leverage bank reconciliation functionality to reconcile your credit card payments? In this blog post I want to share a solution that can speed up your reconciliation process and free up more time to focus on discrepancies.
Workday Composite Report Writing is typically a time-consuming process. What if I told you there is a trick that could save you substantial development time?
Is your Workday tenant set-up to listen to the insights your data is telling you and incorporate it into core business processes?
As with all moves, migrating from your legacy system into Workday involves stress, sacrifice, and the unexpected. What are the most common things we see lost in the chaos, and why is it important to revisit these items once the dust has settled?
Stuck on a Business Process rule? Don’t know where to start? Here are some tips to make your life easier and tackle any condition rule.
It’s Here! Merit season has arrived and you are working tirelessly to calculate the budget and test your Workday configuration. Well, maybe not so much the second part but that’s where Kognitiv comes in! Prepare to conquer merit season with these tips.
A look at how foreign currency revaluation is processed in Workday.
Learn about using Workday Surveys and Campaigns to better communicate with your workforce, and download tools to help you leverage the functionality.
Whether your organization has successfully adopted Workday or you are mid- implementation, here are some helpful tools to help ensure your reports are well maintained and being used to their full self-service potential.
Workday has a great distribute document task for static documents. What if you need to distribute a custom BIRT document? Here’s one way.
Those integrations built at go-live aren't getting any younger. They could use a tune up but where do you begin?
Report elements are contained within the 'print' button when looking at Composite reports in Workday. All the details can be found two clicks away!
• How many integrations do we have? • How often do my integrations break? • How often have they failed over time?
Are you contemplating activating Workday’s® Retroactive Processing functionality (“Retro”) and don’t know if Retro is right for your company?
Many Workday® clients integrate their system with Fidelity® to manage Benefits, and one important part of the integration suite is the Fidelity® Demographic Integration
Bad data, lack of validation procedures, lack of attention to detail… as a veteran of over 50 Workday projects, it’s a theme I’ve seen repeated over and over again.
System support should be simple. If a client has a system problem, they should contact their respective consultancy/support mechanism to get an answer.
Something that has always chapped my ass, and has made the maintenance of roles in Workday harder than it needs to be, are redundant role assignments.
Over the past few months, we have had several people ask – ‘How do you do it?’ – with regard to Kognitiv, Workday, and our ability to acquire business.
Being a tenured member of the ERP community, I’ve done a lot of reporting in my day. A lot.
In my previous post “Business Process Booklet” I talked about regression testing business processes after making security changes. Today we talk reports.
It is safe to say I have been doing Workday security for quite some time. Over my years I have come across a few reports that no matter what project, client, size, or shape, I use, ALWAYS.
If you’ve ever had to configure business process definitions in Workday, you likely know what it’s like trying to accommodate a myriad of use cases and conditions with one configuration.
One of the things that became evident to us when getting involved in our first few Workday sales cycles was that the real selling is done by the Solution Architects and Lead Consultants, not the sales team.
I spent the better part of 5 years as a Workday implementation consultant, holding project roles as Data Conversion Lead, HCM Lead, Compensation Lead, Benefits Lead, Absence Lead, and Project Manager.
Formula 1 may not be everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to spectator sports. In fact, it wasn’t my cup of tea until a few years ago. I would say “Who watches that?
My colleague recently wrote about one of Workday’s lifesaver features. I decided to compliment that with a favorite of my own: Report Fields and Values.
One of the areas in Workday that can really take time and patience is security configuration.
When I started in the Workday Eco-system back in 2011 as a data conversion consultant at Meteorix, we would often talk about how to handle the security responsibilities on our go-lives.
I have spent my entire working life in the arena of Consulting. I have worked for massive consulting firms and tiny ones that were just trying to make a name for themselves.
In this post we’ve laid out some basics for navigating Workday notification settings to help you in understanding, troubleshooting and even testing email notifications in your tenant.
If you are using Workday Benefits to manage life insurance plans, you could be unknowingly shorting your worker's life insurance benefit.
This post is intended to provide you insight into important components to consider when figuring out how to bring benefit deductions into Workday payroll.
Lear now to leverage Workday Questionnaires to handle COVID-19 employee communication.
Understanding the purpose and process behind creating a roadmap for future Workday endeavors and enhancements.
Things to think about in relation to Workday® Absence configuration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kognitiv proves it is possible to use a client’s existing tenant to completely re-configure their FDM with nothing more than EIB’s and thinking outside the box.
Tips to ensure successful ACA administration in Workday®.
Reinforcing Workday's® Power of One, Prism has a familiar user experience and security model. Users can blend Workday® data with external data and generate visualizations using reports, dashboards, scorecards, and Data Discovery. This article explains some factors to consider before implementing Prism including the Analytics Roadmap, Time & Effort, and Common Questions. Prism is a separate SKU that requires subscription. For pricing information, please contact your Workday ®sales representative.
A review of Same Store reporting in Workday®.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could load your credit card statements into Workday® and leverage bank reconciliation functionality to reconcile your credit card payments? In this blog post I want to share a solution that can speed up your reconciliation process and free up more time to focus on discrepancies.
Workday Composite Report Writing is typically a time-consuming process. What if I told you there is a trick that could save you substantial development time?
Is your Workday tenant set-up to listen to the insights your data is telling you and incorporate it into core business processes?
As with all moves, migrating from your legacy system into Workday involves stress, sacrifice, and the unexpected. What are the most common things we see lost in the chaos, and why is it important to revisit these items once the dust has settled?
Stuck on a Business Process rule? Don’t know where to start? Here are some tips to make your life easier and tackle any condition rule.
It’s Here! Merit season has arrived and you are working tirelessly to calculate the budget and test your Workday configuration. Well, maybe not so much the second part but that’s where Kognitiv comes in! Prepare to conquer merit season with these tips.
A look at how foreign currency revaluation is processed in Workday.
Learn about using Workday Surveys and Campaigns to better communicate with your workforce, and download tools to help you leverage the functionality.
Whether your organization has successfully adopted Workday or you are mid- implementation, here are some helpful tools to help ensure your reports are well maintained and being used to their full self-service potential.
Workday has a great distribute document task for static documents. What if you need to distribute a custom BIRT document? Here’s one way.
Those integrations built at go-live aren't getting any younger. They could use a tune up but where do you begin?
Report elements are contained within the 'print' button when looking at Composite reports in Workday. All the details can be found two clicks away!
• How many integrations do we have? • How often do my integrations break? • How often have they failed over time?
Are you contemplating activating Workday’s® Retroactive Processing functionality (“Retro”) and don’t know if Retro is right for your company?
Many Workday® clients integrate their system with Fidelity® to manage Benefits, and one important part of the integration suite is the Fidelity® Demographic Integration
Bad data, lack of validation procedures, lack of attention to detail… as a veteran of over 50 Workday projects, it’s a theme I’ve seen repeated over and over again.
System support should be simple. If a client has a system problem, they should contact their respective consultancy/support mechanism to get an answer.
Something that has always chapped my ass, and has made the maintenance of roles in Workday harder than it needs to be, are redundant role assignments.
Over the past few months, we have had several people ask – ‘How do you do it?’ – with regard to Kognitiv, Workday, and our ability to acquire business.
Being a tenured member of the ERP community, I’ve done a lot of reporting in my day. A lot.
In my previous post “Business Process Booklet” I talked about regression testing business processes after making security changes. Today we talk reports.
It is safe to say I have been doing Workday security for quite some time. Over my years I have come across a few reports that no matter what project, client, size, or shape, I use, ALWAYS.
If you’ve ever had to configure business process definitions in Workday, you likely know what it’s like trying to accommodate a myriad of use cases and conditions with one configuration.
One of the things that became evident to us when getting involved in our first few Workday sales cycles was that the real selling is done by the Solution Architects and Lead Consultants, not the sales team.
I spent the better part of 5 years as a Workday implementation consultant, holding project roles as Data Conversion Lead, HCM Lead, Compensation Lead, Benefits Lead, Absence Lead, and Project Manager.
Formula 1 may not be everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to spectator sports. In fact, it wasn’t my cup of tea until a few years ago. I would say “Who watches that?
My colleague recently wrote about one of Workday’s lifesaver features. I decided to compliment that with a favorite of my own: Report Fields and Values.
One of the areas in Workday that can really take time and patience is security configuration.
When I started in the Workday Eco-system back in 2011 as a data conversion consultant at Meteorix, we would often talk about how to handle the security responsibilities on our go-lives.
I have spent my entire working life in the arena of Consulting. I have worked for massive consulting firms and tiny ones that were just trying to make a name for themselves.
