Concept: Content Delivery Network (CDN)

When you initially sign in to Workday, your browser downloads and caches static content needed to run the browser user experience. Example: Fonts, images, CSS, and JavaScript used to render Workday pages. Caching this static content within your browser improves the performance of subsequent sign-ins by removing the need to download the static content again over the internet. Workday ensures the static content cached in your browser is always current by automatically downloading any updates.

When enabled, the Content Delivery Network (CDN) can speed up your initial Workday sign-in. CDN can deliver this static content from third-party servers closer to your users.

The CDN provides:

High bandwidth, lower-latency access to static content.
Reduced dependency on network performance between your users and Workday data centers.

Workday stores and downloads all customer data directly from Workday data centers. Customer data doesn't pass through the CDN. In the case that the CDN isn't reachable, Workday automatically reverts to downloading static files from Workday data centers instead.

Workday automatically enables the CDN in your tenant. You can disable the CDN by clearing the

Enable Content Delivery Network

check box in the

System Setup

section on the

Edit Tenant Setup – System

task.