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Last Updated: 2024-09-20
Reference: Tenant Analyzer

Reference: Tenant Analyzer

The
Tenant Analyzer
(secured to the
Set Up: Tenant Setup - Tenant Analyzer
domain in the System functional area) is a preconfigured profile of reports for reviewing your payroll, absence, reporting, and financial management configurations to enable you to:
  • Verify your tenant configuration against Workday recommendations.
  • Troubleshoot performance issues.
As your tenant grows, you can also use
Tenant Analyzer
to get a quick inventory of your payroll, absence, reporting, and financial management setup.
Absence Profile Group
Report
Description
Example Use
Validations
Displays absence configurations that don't meet Workday recommendations.
Security:
Set Up: Time Off (General)
domain in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
Identify and resolve accruals that are missing a time off plan.
Calculation Exception Audit
Displays the number calculations with exceptions. You can drill down on the number to view and resolve exceptions.
Security:
  • Set Up: Time Off (Calculations - Generic)
    domain in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
  • Set Up: Calculations - Generic
    domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify and resolve calculations that reference other calculations with a different category.
Payroll Profile Group
Report
Description
Example Use
Pay Groups
Displays all pay groups and related configuration, such as:
  • Number of employees.
  • Run category.
  • Gross and net pay accumulations.
  • Period schedule.
Security:
Set Up: Payroll - Pay Group Specific
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Verify that all pay groups use the same gross and net pay accumulations.
Accounting
Displays all account posting rule sets and related configuration, such as:
  • Posting rules.
  • Posting rule conditions.
  • Condition dimensions.
Security:
Set Up: Payroll - Company Specific (Accounting)
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify any companies and rule types associated with account posting rule sets.
Validations
Displays payroll configurations that don't meet Workday recommendations.
Security:
Set Up: Payroll
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify any pay groups that have no calculated pay periods, and investigate whether you need them.
Calculation Exception Audit
Displays the number of payroll calculations with exceptions. You can drill down on the number to view and resolve exceptions.
Security:
  • Set Up: Time Off (Calculations - Generic)
    domain in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
  • Set Up: Calculations - Generic
    domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify and resolve deductions that are retrieving values from benefit plans they aren't associated with.
PCGs for Payroll Calculations
Displays payroll calculations and their associated pay component groups.
Security:
Set Up: Payroll (Calculations - Payroll Specific)
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Verify that a pay component is in all of the appropriate pay component groups.
Results/Result Lines
Displays these statistics for each pay group:
  • Results.
  • Result lines.
  • Related result lines.
Security:
Reports: Pay Calculation Results for Pay Group (Results)
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify any pay groups with more results than expected and investigate whether you can optimize the run criteria.
Reporting Profile Group
Report
Description
Example Use
Payroll Reporting Validations
Displays custom reports that use data sources for which an equivalent indexed data source filter is available.
Security:
Set Up: Payroll
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify custom reports that you can update to improve performance.
Performance Profile Group
Report
Description
Example Use
Payroll Performance Validations
Displays payroll configurations that don't meet Workday recommendations.
Security:
Set Up: Payroll
domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify run categories that don't use a specific status and use a generic Active or Terminated status instead.
Financials Profile Group
Report
Description
Example Use
Financials Accounting Configuration
Displays all account posting rule sets and related configuration, such as:
  • Posting rules.
  • Posting rule conditions.
  • Condition dimensions.
Security:
  • Set Up: Funding Sources
    domain in the Financial Accounting functional area.
  • Set Up: Matching Rule Set
    domain in the Banking and Settlement and Financial Accounting functional areas.
  • Set Up: Payroll - Company Specific (Accounting)
    domain in the Core Payroll functional area.
Identify any companies and rule types associated with account posting rule sets.
Financials Tenant Analyzer Validations
Displays financial management configurations that don't meet Workday recommendations.
Security:
Set Up: Time Off (General)
domain in the Time Off and Leave functional area.
Identify companies with no open ledger period.