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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Steps: Prepare for People Analytics Installation

Steps: Prepare for People Analytics Installation

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature based on your organization’s subscription service agreement. To determine your subscription service agreement:
  • Access your profile avatar on Community.
  • Select
    Profile.
  • On your profile page, select your organization’s name, which is beneath your name and next to your job profile.
  • View your
    Subscription Service Agreement
    value.
If the value is:
  • MSA
    , you must enable this feature through Innovation Services using the
    Enable Innovation Services Features and Machine Learning Data Contribution
    step.
  • UMSA
    , in the
    Data Contribution for Workday AI
    task, under
    Data Contribution for ML Features
    , the
    People Analytics Insights Contribution
    option is enabled by default. This feature is optional. You can check the option to disable it.
  • Review setup considerations for People Analytics.
  • Create a Setup Feature request to enable the setup of People Analytics and Prism Analytics on your tenant.
  • For Workday Peakon Employee Voice customers: enable the API data export toggle in your Peakon account. See Concept: Raw Data Export API.
Workday People Analytics uses augmented analytics technology to surface key metrics and business questions and their underlying drivers so that you can understand and act on workforce trends.
  1. You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization’s subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.
    On the
    Innovation Services Opt-In
    task, select the
    People Analytics
    service on the
    Available Services
    tab in the
    Analytics
    category.
  2. Work with a Workday consultant to set up the security groups needed for People Analytics.
  3. (Optional) On the Workday
    Home
    page, click the gear icon to add the
    Configure Analytical Apps
    and
    People Analytics
    worklets.
  4. Work with a Workday consultant to select the configuration inputs (topics, fields, population filters, prompts, security settings, and data history) to apply to your configuration of People Analytics.
  5. Work with a Workday consultant to create tenant-wide calculated fields that you need for your configuration based on your field selection.
  6. Work with a Workday consultant to set up features in Workday that are needed to complete certain topic configurations in People Analytics.
    Example: Skills Cloud in Workday.
  7. (Optional) Raise a Customer Care ticket to turn on the export API toggle in your Workday Peakon Employee Voice account.
Your tenant is ready for People Analytics installation.
Using the
Configure People Analytics
report, work with a Workday consultant to:
  • Complete your configuration.
  • Run Data Quality and correct any defects in your configuration.
  • Install the application.
You can access the
People Analytics Activities
report after the installation has started to monitor installation progress.