Workday Release Management

Helping your Workday system stay up-to-date with the latest features
and enhancements.

Workday Release Management Services refers to the planning, tracking, testing, and deployment of Workday bi-annual major feature updates and weekly service updates in a controlled manner to minimize disruption to ongoing operations and to ensure a smooth transition for end users.

Workday releases updates to its cloud-based ERP platform twice a year, introducing new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to improve functionality, security, and user experience. As Workday releases can be complex and time-consuming, our Workday Release Management Services are helpful for organizations with limited resources or expertise.

How does Kastech streamline your Workday release management process?

We follow a structured approach to ensure continuous feature adoption.

Release Planning
We understand that planning well in advance allows you to engage the right resources and perform thorough testing to have a successful rollout of new functionality with minimal risk. So, we work closely with you to understand your business priorities and constraints, and develop a release management plan that aligns with your organizational goals and timelines.

Impact Assessment
We conduct a thorough impact assessment to evaluate how each Workday release may affect your existing configurations, customizations, integrations, reports, user experience, security and permissions. We identify any potential risks or compatibility issues.

Testing & Validation
Prior to deployment, we perform comprehensive testing to validate the functionality and compatibility of the new release with your Workday environment, ensuring that critical business processes, such as payroll calculations, key integrations, and custom reports, remain uninterrupted.

Feature Analysis
Our team will analyze the mandatory and optional features, and help you build a feature adoption roadmap to maximize your investment in Workday.

User Training & Support
We provide end-user training and support to familiarize them with new features and functionality introduced in each Workday release, ensuring a smooth transition and facilitating quick user adoption.

Benefits of outsourcing Workday release management to a Workday Consulting Partner?

Peace of mind

With our experienced team managing your Workday feature releases and updates, you can have complete peace of mind knowing the updates are handled efficiently and professionally with minimal disruption to your business operations.

Cost Savings

Workday releases can be complex and time-consuming and require a structured approach. By outsourcing release management to our team of experts, you can save time and resources on planning, analyzing, testing, and deployment activities, allowing your internal IT staff to focus on strategic initiatives.

Feature Adoption Planning

A Workday consulting partner can help you manage your feature adoption process within Workday by creating, prioritizing, and categorizing adoption items along with building a roadmap timeline to track deadlines for feature implementation.

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Why Choose Kastech?

We bring deep ERP experience and Workday expertise. ​
  • Our team consists of highly experienced Workday consultants with extensive experience in release management and cloud software deployments.
  • Our balanced mix of technical depth, functional expertise and innovation helps you with comprehensive impact assessment and feature adoption planning.

We follow industry best practices.

  • We follow industry best practices and proven methodologies to ensure successful planning, testing, and deployment of Workday releases.
  • We regularly participate in key collaboration events such as Workday Rising and Workday Community to stay updated with the product roadmap and access insights from Workday customers.

Our customer-centric approach makes us your reliable Workday consulting partner.

  • We prioritize customer satisfaction and work closely with you to tailor our release management services to meet your organization’s unique needs and objectives.
  • We become an extension of your team and provide strategic guidance at every stage to help you take full advantage of Workday software releases.
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the Workday Release Schedule and Types?

Workday’s bi-annual major feature updates (delivered in March and September) and weekly service updates are the two types of Workday releases or updates.

  • New and enhanced features for your existing Workday subscription.
  • New products that you may not have subscribed to.

You can test releases during the 5-week release preparation window, also known as the sandbox preview window, before deployment in production. New functionality is enabled in your Workday sandbox preview environment, which is a copy of your production tenant, to test new features and business processes.

  • Assess your team’s capacity and capabilities to determine your readiness to manage Workday releases.
  • Develop a feature adoption blueprint for the next 12 months that incorporates your annually recurring organizational events, one-time events, functional/systems activities, and Workday-related activities.
  • Conduct frequent reviews of your feature adoption blueprint with key stakeholders to ensure alignment with your business priorities.
  • Have a report or dashboard view of your Workday usage metrics.

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