Workday 33

Getting Ready for Workday 33

As we know we are currently on Workday 32 as of today (08/08/2019), there is a new release in the coming month Sep '19 i.e. Workday 33

August       3,  2019 - Features available for Preview

September 7,  2019 - Workday 33 will be available in all tenants

So we have the features available to preview in our preview tenants. Along with that, we get couple of documents where you can see and identify the new features or enhancements.

Below are the documents / resources you can follow:

Announcing and Feature Considerations Workday 33 ALL

What's New in Workday Preview as of 2019-06-28

What's New in Workday Report for Workday 33 - Additional Items

Workday Tenant Policies and Pricing

Tenant Policy and Pricing

Customers initially deploying the workday product for the first time will get below number of Initial tenants depending up on the size of the organization. Workers include both Employees and Contingent Workers (Contractors).

Core HR:

1. 3,501 - 20,000 Workers (4 Tenants)
2. 20,001 - 40,000 Workers  (5 Tenants)
3. Over 40,000 Workers  (5 Tenants)

Core Financials:

1. 3,501 - 20,000 Workers (5 Tenants)
2. 20,001 - 40,000 Workers  (5 Tenants)
3. Over 40,000 Workers  (6 Tenants)

Core HCM + Core Financials:

1. 3,501 - 20,000 Workers (7 Tenants)
2. 20,001 - 40,000 Workers  (7 Tenants)
3. Over 40,000 Workers  (8 Tenants)

Student Records or Admissions + Student Recruiting:

1. Less than 3000 Students (3 Tenants)
2. 3,501 - 9,999 Students (4 Tenants)
3. 10,000 - 19,999 Students (5 Tenants)
4. Over 20,000 Students (5 Tenants)

Adding other products like Payroll (1 Tenant) or Prism Analytics(2 Tenants) or Expense or Procurement (1 Tenant) will add the tenant count in addition to the above said.

Pricing:

It's not wise on my part to put the pricing, if you are interested please check the Community portal. 

All the pricing is dealt per month per tenant basis and categorized below number have different price attached to it.

# of Workers: <3,500

# of Workers: 3,501 - 10,000

# of Workers: 10,001 - 40,000

# of Workers: 40,001+

Points to Ponder:

• The additional tenants have a 3-month minimum duration.
• Customers can request to purchase a tenant by entering a purchase / renew tenant management request.
• Customers can purchase additional Implementation tenants at any time on a subscription basis, which can be used for training, implementing new functionality, testing changes to existing functionality, and more.
• The Initial HCM, Financials, and Student Implementation tenants expire 60 days after the customer’s Gold tenant is moved to Production. 
• The minimum duration for a purchased tenant is 3 consecutive months.
• The maximum duration for a purchased tenant is 1 year. A new order form will need to be processed after 1 year.
• At the end of the initial term, the tenant auto-renews on a 3 consecutive month bases for 1 year.
• Prism Analytics on additional tenant gives you 1 TB Storage with Published Rows up to 100,000,000

Additional Reads:

Workday Tenants

Workday Schedules ( Service Updates )

Feature Releases and Service Updates

There are two Types of Schedules that you can notice in Workday. One is Feature release which is like an upgrade and the other being Service updates which is like regular maintenance, or applying patches, fixes.

 Feature release:

Workday Feature releases occur 2 times per year. Version Change happens with every Feature release. (Not Future release)

Do remember every single customer will be on the same version and it is the latest version.

This includes New or Feature releases, Enhancements, Bug Fixes, additional Packaged Integrations etc.,
When Workday rollout the updates, the customer system automatically converts to the newest release.
Tenants are not available during the Feature release Weekend (which happens 2 times every year)

Dates: ( 2019 - 20 - 21 Schedule )

Previous Version - 32

February 4, 2019 - Features available for Preview

March     9,  2019 - Workday 32 available in all tenants

Previous Version - 33

August       3,  2019 - Features available for Preview

September 7,  2019 - Workday 33 available in all tenants

Here on the Versions are called with Year and Release, Example: 2020R1 , 2020R2 instead of WD34, WD35

Previous Version - Workday 2020 Release 1

February 1,  2020 - Features available for Preview

March      7,  2020 - 2020R1 available in all tenants

Previous Version - Workday 2020 Release 2

August        8,  2020 - Features available for Preview

September 12,  2020 - 2020R2 available in all tenants

Upcoming Version - Workday 2021 Release 1

February 6,  2021 - Features available for Preview

March    13,  2021 - 2021R1 available in all tenants

Service Updates:

Fixes are applied every Friday during Scheduled timings in the service updates.

During the scheduled updates you will notice the tenant will be down and a message saying "Workday is currently unavailable." with the duration of outage. Its generally a 12 hour window on a weekend for Non-Production environments.