Stormloop Technologies is excited to announce the soft launch of Janus, a groundbreaking security solution designed to defend your Workday tenant from unauthorized access. With Janus, your organization gains unprecedented control and visibility over API access, ensuring that external systems and internal accounts only access the data they are explicitly permitted to retrieve.

The hype is intoxicating—AI promises speed, efficiency, and insights that feel almost magical. My opinion is that (right now) it’s only as good as the people using it. And for business leaders, that’s where the hard work begins.

Open enrollment can feel overwhelming, especially when managing multiple plans or providers. However, with proper organization and a few best practices, you’ll find the process easier and more efficient. Here's a guide we put together of the things we have learned to do over the last few years. We hope this helps you navigate open enrollment with confidence.

It’s often debated that Data Conversion is one of the most critical parts of any Workday project. While we won’t decide for you what the most important part of a project is, we believe that Data Conversion ranks pretty high (if data is incorrect in Workday, reporting and integrations suffer). Accurate and complete data is essential for a successful migration and smooth transition into your Workday system. 

Workday has developed over 75 out-of-the-box capabilities for Workday Everywhere. With this integration, employees can take action directly within Slack. If a task requires logging into Workday, the notification will include a direct link to complete it.

The annual ritual of selecting health plans, retirement options, and other benefits can be a daunting task to employees, but what employees don’t see is how those elections get provided to the vendors. The integrations between Workday and vendors for Open Enrollment are the essential tool for an accurate plan year start. This will trigger benefit cards & ensure a smooth employee experience.

Decentralized operations within Accounts Payable (AP), procurement, and account settlement can create a unique set of challenges and inefficiencies. While some organizations find value in decentralization, understanding its implications and managing its complexities is crucial. Here, we explore what decentralized operations look like across various functions and provide strategies to drive centralization and efficiency.

By investing time and effort into establishing clear naming conventions, you can transform your Workday environment into a well-organized and efficient space that fosters collaboration and productivity. So, this spring, let's embrace the spirit of renewal and embark on the journey to declutter and optimize our workday experience. Your future self – and your colleagues – will thank you for it.

If you’re new to Studio, the user interface may be intimidating when first opened. You may have an integration developed during the initial implementation using Studio, and the developer has moved on to their next project. The business has requested a change to this Studio.

Stormloop is excited to present a comprehensive guide to the key dates and events that will shape your Workday experience in 2024. Our preliminary Workday calendar outlines critical milestones, with a focus on both HCM and Financial products. We encourage you to review the calendar below and reach out with any additional items or questions specific to your team's needs.

Workday Studio is a versatile integration tool that can significantly improve your Workday tenant’s integration capabilities, but when should you consider using one?

Under ACA State Filing, employers and insurance providers must report details about the health coverage they offer to employees and individuals. This reporting is used to ensure compliance with the ACA's individual mandate and to verify individuals have the required minimum essential health coverage. Learn how Workday and Experian make this easy!

By leveraging Workday Supply Chain, you can automate and optimize your procurement processes, making them more efficient and error-free. Say goodbye to manual paperwork and hello to streamlined workflows! With features like automated purchase order generation, real-time inventory tracking, and intelligent supplier management, Workday makes it easier than ever to manage your entire procurement lifecycle.

What is release optimization, is it just a big fancy marketing word? By now, you likely have seen many posts and documents circulating the Workday ecosystem regarding the upcoming release. Different teams will have different recommendations on the ideal playbook for ensuring the new functionality does not impact your tenant stability, but what does release optimization really mean?

Our goal in this blog is to provide insight into the various stages of testing during any Workday Project, from the implementation to post-production projects, we will outline each phase and the objectives. Testing can seem like a daunting and repetitive part of the implementation cycle; however, understanding each cycle can help increase the success and adoption rate post-go-live and improve morale around future Workday projects.

Today, we’ll review staff augmentation via a staffing agency or an independent contractor. Stormloop has engaged with many of the top agencies as well as offers our own augmentation through our Services Library.

Stormloop and Ascend partnered to share effective strategies and best practices to keep your Workday Financial system running optimally.

As the name implies a boomerang integration is Workday to Workday integration. In this integration design pattern, you are leveraging Workday data to automate work tasks. The source of data can be from audit reports you run on a regular frequency, tasks that are performed exactly the same way during a business process, or even leveraging prism or extend data.

Workforce planning continues to be a popular topic, within Workday Adaptive Planning implementations. Workday Adaptive Planning delivers an out-of-the-box functionality. If you are looking to maximize Adaptive Planning we invite you to read this blog to learn about scalable structures that are built to last and leverage the tool’s integration capability to its fullest.

Workday Extend is a platform that allows customers to customize and extend the capabilities of the Workday software suite. In this edition of In the Loop, the Stormloop Integrations Team outlines Workday Extend, provides some examples, and sheds light on the decision to invest in this application platform.