Concept: Tenant Setup

A tenant is a unique instance of Workday that contains a set of data in a logically separated database. Workday secures each tenant through password-controlled access. You can configure your tenant to meet your needs.

Each tenant has a unique URL and is associated with specific IP addresses and DNS names. Your tenant URL includes the tenant base name, which you can customize. Once set, you can't change the tenant name. Best practice is to select a name close to that of your company email domain. The tenant base name must:

Contain only lowercase letters.
Have no more than 32 characters.

Workday performs most of the tasks that support your tenant. However, you can:

Workday provides several

Edit Tenant Setup

tasks for configuring specific areas of your tenant. You can access these tasks individually by using the full task name (such as

Edit Tenant Setup - Business Processes

or

Edit Tenant Setup - Financials

). Alternatively, you can access any

Edit Tenant Setup

task by navigating to the

Tenant Setup

report and selecting a tenant setup task.

The terms

deployment tenant

and

implementation tenant

are interchangeable.