How Workday Prism, Discovery Boards, Worksheets, and Slides Work Together to Create a Seamless HR Analytics Experience for Your Stakeholders

Having access to real-time, comprehensive, and actionable data is crucial for effective decision-making in today’s business environment. Workday Prism Analytics, combined with Discovery Boards, Worksheets, and Slides, offers a powerful suite of tools designed to enhance HR analytics capabilities. Here is how these components work together to provide a seamless analytics experience for your stakeholders.

Workday Prism – The Data Integration Hub

Whether it’s external tools like learning management systems or multiple data streams within Workday itself, the process starts with blending data from these sources into a unified dataset.

  • Workday Prism acts as the central hub for integrating data from various sources,
  • It follows your existing security model, or it can be customised to suite your specific need.
  • Allows you to blend with external data and existing Workday data and apply calculations and derivations
  • Extensive capabilities with a full syntax library and multiple different capabilities to join or filter data pipelines.

Discovery Boards – Advanced Data Visualization

Discovery Boards serve as Workday’s business intelligence reporting and analytics tool, enabling users to create interactive and insightful visualizations. These boards are designed with an intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface.

  • Discovery Boards have an extensive visualisation library to choose from, for example Bar, Bubble and Waterfall charts allowing for interactive and impressive visualisations.
  • Creating visuals can take a short amount of time in comparison to Custom Reports, allowing for quick ad hoc analysis.
  • Designed to work seamlessly with Prism for speedy reporting.
  • Follows Workday’s security model, sharing permission for users or security groups in edit or view permission.
Discovery Board

Worksheets – Data Management and Automation

Worksheets allow for automating refresh schedules and creating detailed charts & pivot tables. It is particularly useful for creating complex data models and performing in-depth analyses.

  • Worksheets allows for data to be brought in via Workday’s Custom Reports.
  • Then create powerful visualisations or perform analysis on the data to produce pivot tables or other Excel style analysis.
  • External data can be brought in, albeit not in an automated fashion.
  • It’s the starting point to get data into Workday Slides to produce automated slide packs that can update on a monthly basis.
Worksheet

Slides – Automated Reporting and Presentation

The final piece of the puzzle is Slides, which utilize the data and visualizations created in Worksheets to generate automated, up-to-date presentations, enabling you to walk your audience through the story, step by step. Slides allow users to compile their analysis into a PowerPoint format, which can be easily shared with teams and leadership. The result – less time in data prep, and more in analysis and decision making.

  • Slides uses data from Worksheets to link to your charts and visuals.
  • Updated as often as your worksheet is, on an automated basis.
  • Worksheets is the building block for your data and charting, to then pull into slides.
  • Create monthly slide packs that automatically refresh without you needed to manual produce charts and update ppt packs.
Slide

Leveraging the combined power of Workday Prism Analytics, Discovery Boards, Worksheets, and Slides allows organisations to unlock the full potential of their HR data. This seamless integration ensures that all stakeholders, from managers to executives, have access to the insights they need to drive strategic growth and operational efficiency.

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  • Process Design
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Starting with a maturity assessment, we identify improvement areas, then use design thinking to reimagine HR processes and service models to drive efficiency & customer experience. By introducing innovation and leveraging technology, we ensure your HR function is agile and adaptable to business needs.

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Operational Support - Where are you On your journey?

ALIGN

HR leadership and governance to ensure consistent, compliant, business-aligned HR delivery.

INNOVATE

COE expertise to design, enhance, and deliver innovative solutions.

INTEGRATE

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EMBED & SUSTAIN

Ongoing delivery, reporting, and expertise to embed, sustain and continuously improve operations.

Learning - Where are you On your journey?

ALIGN

Define strategy and approach for learning creation & delivery.

INNOVATE

Plan and develop learning platform and content.

INTEGRATE

Deliver training content.

EMBED & SUSTAIN

Evaluate training impact and knowledge transfer.

Change - Where are you On your journey?

ALIGN

Define Change Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement Approach.

INNOVATE

Assess change impacts and develop key messages & change interventions.

INTEGRATE

Mobilise change interventions and deliver key messages. Manage change readiness & mitigate risks.

EMBED & SUSTAIN

Embed and sustain the change. Manage transition to BAU.

Process Design - Where are you On your journey?

ALIGN

Review current state processes and controls.

INNOVATE

Leverage tech and AI to design & test optimized end to end HR processes (global & local).

INTEGRATE

Prepare to deploy new processes. Develop process knowledge & content.

EMBED & SUSTAIN

Monitor process adoption and effectiveness measures, and design improvements.

Organisation & Service Design - Where are you On your journey?

ALIGN

Define HR Operating Model in alignment with business objectives

INNOVATE

Design future state HR organisation and develop HR Service catalogue & playbook

INTEGRATE

Deliver transition plan. Assess Operational Readiness for go live

EMBED & SUSTAIN

Monitor service metrics and refine service level agreements

Advisory - Where are you On your journey?

ALIGN

Vendor selection support, project/ programme management, feasibility and business case development.

INNOVATE

Conduct HR Maturity Assessment. Advise on AI/tech innovations.

INTEGRATE

Provide Workforce strategy advice during transition and resource Operational roles.

EMBED & SUSTAIN

Advise on adoption strategy and success metrics. Design reporting and analytics.