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What is Workday Cloud Platform? Bringing the power of the Cloud to your organization

Building applications with your unique needs in mind using Workday Cloud Platform

At Alight, we strive to make Workday work for you and your company. That’s why we are using Workday Cloud Platform (WCP) to design, build, deploy and share applications that run on and integrate with your Workday system. In this guide, we discuss how our Workday team is using WCP to enhance the user experience, the basics of WCP’s functionality and what you need to do to bring the power of WCP to your organization.

Alight Workday Cloud Platform apps—Built with you in mind

At Alight, we’re using Workday Cloud Platform to build apps your organization can use to meet your specific needs. Here are some examples of the apps we are building.
 

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What is Workday Cloud Platform?

Workday Cloud Platform enables developers and business analysts to design, build, deploy and share applications that run on and integrate with Workday. It provides Workday customers enhanced customization of their system to create an engaging experience for end users. WCP is not designed to customize existing Workday pages or tasks and the custom apps created will be standalone. Primary, WCP is meant for new functionality and kept separate for upgradability.

How can Workday Cloud Platform be used?

Having the ability to customize your system to create applications that support your business processes whilst still leveraging the power of Workday provides you with endless possibilities. Below are some use cases for how WCP can be used:

  • Streamline and automate new workflows within Workday
  • Create new experiences within Workday
  • Bring Workday into natural workspaces
  • Create industry-specific extensions and applications

How can my organization build apps with Workday Cloud Platform?

WCP offers different tools for different user skill levels and application configuration complexity, allowing your organization to leverage the right functionality to meet your needs. The table below shows the different audiences these tools are targeted for.

Building Block Workday Administrator Professional Developer
Enablement Community & Developer Site Developer Site
Data Storage Custom object Custom objects, application business objects
Presentation Presentation Services Presentation Services & Canvas
Workflow Custom business process Custom business process & Studio
Logic Conditional rules Function service
Lifecycle / Deployment Push to deploy Apphub / Workday pipeline

WCP functionality for application creation

Below are all the different use cases for WCP, as well as who in your organization is best suited to use the different functionalities and how it impacts your workers’ Workday experience.

Building Block Functionality Target User End User Experience
Presentation Services Build your own custom pages leveraging the same adaptable UI components which make Workday's Canvas Design System great. Learn more Developer Organizational task-specific pages that cater to your unique business needs without straying from the uniformity of Workday's UI design.
Business Logic Create validations on forms, Workday API's for retrieving native Workday Data, custom business processes and external endpoints that allow you to integrate data from outside of Workday. Administrator / Developer (depending on complexity) Mitigate human error and pull in data specific to application tasks in Workday in a way that flows with your organization's processes.
Custom Business Process You can use create custom business processes for workflows specific to the needs of your organization and for which Workday doesn't provide delivered business processes. Administrator Utilize custom business processes to consolidate tasks previously handled outside of Workday all into one system, enhancing ease of use.
Outbound Webhooks A webhook is a user-defined HTTP callback and enable you to notify external systems when certain events happen in Workday. Developer Increases organizational visibility and accountability around business process and notification events.
Data Storage Business Objects will enable fully standalone objects where you can define related business objects. Administrator / Developer Store data related to your custom applications in Workday Custom Objects for greater reporting abilities.
Custom Objects Customized Workday business objects that house captured data outside of the Workday delivered business objects. Administrator Customize the UI and add custom validations versus the generic UI and validations given today for custom objects to better fit your organizational flow and data capturing.
Business Objects (coming soon) Created independently of Workday-delivered business objects and securable with new domains defined at the time of creation. Developer Enhance your organization's ability to report on and drill into the details of meaningful data.
Connect Services Customizable messaging templates that enable leaders to quickly get the word out about important initiatives and influence colleagues towards action. Administrator House your organization's primary communication system in Workday for more efficient and targeted reach.

Is Workday Cloud Platform available to all Workday customers?

Currently, Workday customers can purchase Workday Cloud Platform and all its features as an extra SKU in addition to delivered Workday modules. General availability for the product is targeted for May 2020. 

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