“When will Workday open up it’s platform?” was a question commonly heard across the Workday Community. Interaction with Workday historically has either been within their UI, or via integration and reporting in order to get data in and out of the system. With Workday Extend, we now have the power to build our own screens, objects and APIs within the same technology stack that Workday’s developers use for the core product.
Workday Extend (formerly known as Workday Cloud Platform) enables customers and partners to utilize Workday technology to build applications and extend the delivered capabilities of Workday to meet their unique business needs. Generally available since May 2020, the tool provides a highly configurable solution for business analysts to extend Workday using the Workday designer tool. By using the ‘Power of One’ technology it enables organizations to provide employees with the same familiar end user experience whilst leveraging the same single source of data and security model.