Workday consulting
Workday Optimisation Services
Post go-live Workday optimisation: health checks, process simplification, security clean-up and reporting rationalisation.
- Scope
- Defined enterprise requirements
- Delivery
- Implementation and optimisation
- Support
- Post-go-live ownership
- US & UK
- Discuss your regional requirements
What to decide before requesting a proposal
Turn Workday optimisation into a prioritised remediation backlog
Start with the manual workaround, broken report or approval bottleneck. Agree the business outcome and test case before assigning configuration effort.
- 1
Baseline symptoms and business impact
- 2
Design or data root cause and cross-system dependencies
- 3
Acceptance tests, accountable owners and post-change monitoring
What to share: Explain which live process is failing, who it affects and what a successful fix would look like. Anonymised examples are sufficient initially.
A Workday tenant that went live three years ago rarely reflects how the business runs today. Dandee Consulting runs structured optimisation — we assess what is configured, what is used, and what is quietly costing your team time, then fix it in priority order.
In detail
What An Optimisation Engagement Covers
We start with evidence from your tenant rather than a generic maturity model.
- Tenant health check across configuration, security, integrations and reporting
- Business process simplification — removing redundant steps, approvals and conditions that slow transactions
- Security model clean-up and segregation of duties review
- Reporting rationalisation: retiring unused custom reports and rebuilding the ones people actually run
- Adoption analysis using usage data to find where users abandon or work around Workday
- Feature adoption review against releases you have paid for but never turned on
- A prioritised roadmap with effort, benefit and sequencing
Engagement Models And Indicative Pricing
- Health check — two to three weeks, fixed fee, with findings and a prioritised roadmap.
- Remediation sprints — fixed-scope blocks working through the roadmap in priority order.
- Continuous improvement — a retained monthly block combined with managed services.
- Day rate — senior consultants from GBP 750 per day.
Most organisations start with the health check, then choose which findings to fund. There is no obligation to buy remediation from us.
Signs You Need An Optimisation Review
- Approval chains that take days for low-value transactions
- Hundreds of custom reports, a handful of which are actually run
- Security roles accumulated through exceptions rather than design
- Teams maintaining spreadsheets alongside Workday
- Features included in your subscription that were never enabled
How The Review Runs
- 01
Data pull
configuration, security and usage data extracted from your tenant
- 02
Interviews
process owners and heavy users interviewed about friction points
- 03
Analysis
findings quantified in time, risk and cost terms
- 04
Roadmap
recommendations sequenced by benefit against effort
- 05
Delivery
agreed items implemented in fixed-scope sprints with your team involved
Book An Optimisation Review
Tell us how long you have been live and where the friction is, and we will scope a health check. 📞 Contact us or 📞 book a call.
Turn Workday optimisation findings into an agreed backlog
Start with the business process that needs to improve, not a general request to optimise the tenant. Bring examples of manual workarounds, slow reporting, close bottlenecks or recurring errors and explain their business impact.
- Separate configuration, source-data, integration, access and ownership issues. Rank proposed changes by business impact, dependencies and delivery risk.
- Agree the baseline, acceptance scenarios, accountable business owners and evidence needed to approve a change. Include regression testing for affected downstream processes.
- Distinguish assessment recommendations from implementation effort and ongoing support. Prioritise an agreed first scope rather than committing to an undefined transformation.
Explore managed services for ongoing operational support. For a stalled rollout or unresolved go-live risk, discuss implementation rescue instead.
Discuss your optimisation prioritiesFAQs
Frequently asked questions
A health check is a fixed fee over two to three weeks. Remediation is quoted per sprint so you can fund findings selectively. Senior day rates start from GBP 750.
Contact
Talk to us about Optimisation
Send a short brief and a Workday specialist reviews it and replies personally.
- UK+44 20 7183 3436
- UK+44 7454 539583
- US+1 650 278 4421
- info@pearllemongroup.com
- Kemp House, 160 City Rd, London EC1V 2NX, UK
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