Workday Terminology
Avaap
Based in Columbus, OH, Avaap is the Workday implementation partner for Miami's implementation. Avaap has been a Workday Certified Implementation Partner since 2015.
Build
A term referring to the pulling together of independent workstreams into a tenant for viewing, assessment of configuration, and testing.
Business Processes (BP)
Business processes in Workday are simply repeatable workflows of actions that are standardized. Examples of Processes include Recruiting, Hiring, Paying, Reporting, and Transacting.
Cloud
Systems that are hosted on-site and available via a browser are referred to as cloud-based systems. Workday is an example of a cloud-based system.
Employee
A person working for the university - otherwise known as "We couldn't do this without you." All university employees are an integral component of this Workday implementation effort, whether directly involved or indirectly impacted.
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning system - such as Banner (migrating away from) and Workday (migrating to).
Finance
A component module within the Workday Platform system. This encompasses all of our budgetary and financial transactions and the various reporting needs for internal and external uses.
Functional Area
A collection of domain or business process security policies that are related to the same set of product features. For example, Benefits or Procurement.
HCM
Human Capital Management - the HR component module within the Workday Platform system. This encompasses every action for an employee at the university from recruitment through retirement.
Platform
The Workday Platform is the collection of Financials/HR/Payroll components within the Workday tenant.
SOR/SOT
System of Record/Source of Truth - The authoritative data source for a given data element or piece of information.
Student
Workday Student is designed to serve students, faculty, university leaders,
and parents. It includes modules for Admissions, Financial Aid, Advising, Student
Finance, and Student Records.
and parents. It includes modules for Admissions, Financial Aid, Advising, Student
Finance, and Student Records.
Tenant
This is the term for a single Workday environment consisting of all modules in use. Tenant types typically include Implementation, Preview, Test, and Production.
Transformational
The Workday system provides Miami the opportunity to engage in major transformational activities surrounding our financial, budgetary, personnel, and student processes.
Workbook
An Excel file that is leveraged to load data into Workday.
Workday
Workday is a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
Workstream
A term referring to a defined set of project efforts (functional or technical).
