Release Impact Analysis
The Release Impact Analysis skill is available in the
Adoption Planning Hub
. It uses AI and the What’s New in Workday
report to compare automatically available features against your tenant usage to recommend suggested actions such as testing or review.The Release Impact Analysis skill helps you identify potential dependencies by comparing release notes to actual usage data in your tenant. This output helps identify specific reports, fields, and processes that might require review as a result of a release.
Impact Analysis Reports
The Release Impact Analysis skill assigns 1 of these
Generated Impact Analysis
types to the release note based on your historic usage:Generated Impact Analysis Status | Description |
|---|---|
Access Blocked
| The Adoption Agent relies on your security access. The analysis excludes items you cannot view, so the test plan is incomplete. |
Configuration Required
| Workday recommends that you test and configure this feature, as it likely affects your tenant. |
No Impact
| You don’t use the functionality that’s changing. Workday doesn’t expect this feature to affect your tenant. |
Review Only
| The changing functionality is relevant to your tenant, but likely doesn’t affect your existing processes or end users. Workday recommends that you review the feature for potential action. |
Testing Recommended
| Workday expects this feature can impact your existing processes or end users. You can test this functionality using the test plan available from More Details.
|
Unknown Impact
| Workday cannot determine the impact on your tenant. See the Impact Summary column for more details. |
The skill also provides these insights:
Column | Description |
|---|---|
Feature Summary
| Summarizes the release note. |
Impact Summary
| The impact analysis of the feature on your tenant, based on your historic usage. |
Target User
| The intended feature user. |
More Details
| Displays a test plan for verifying feature functionality, and a list of actions performed by the Adoption agent in its analysis. |
Release Note
| A link to the release note on the Release Center. Release notes on the Release Center can include additional information such as change logs and videos. |
Release Note Corrected Date
| The date that the release note was last corrected. Example: We correct the name of a new task. |
Updated Date
| The date that the release note was last updated. Example: We added a video or documented an additional feature enhancement. |
Feedback on Report
column.Security Access
The Adoption Agent relies on the worker's security access to analyze the impact of feature changes to your tenant. When accessed through a proxy session, the Adoption Agent might not return accurate results.