Generate Impact Analysis Reports

Set up the Adoption Agent. See Set Up Adoption Agent.

In your Preview tenant, the Release Impact Analysis skill uses the Adoption Agent and the

What's New in Workday

report to estimate the impact of upcoming, automatically available features based on enabled functional areas and tenant usage.

You can generate release impact analysis reports for functional areas where:

You have appropriate security access.

There is at least 1 automatically available feature.

When accessed through a proxy session, the Adoption Agent might not return accurate results.

Access the

Adoption Planning

report.

Click

Generate Impact Analysis

Select a Workday release and functional areas.

Workday displays the number of release notes to be analyzed.

Functional areas that did not have release notes for the given release won't display in the

Select Functional Area

prompt.

Click

Generate Impact Report

Workday analyzes the first 10 release notes. After 5 minutes, click

Refresh

to view the output. Workday will begin to analyze the next 10 release notes.

Workday assigns 1 of these

Generated Impact Analysis

types to the What’s New Item:

Access Blocked

Configuration Required

No Impact

Review Only

Testing Recommended

Unknown Impact

Workday also provides customized guidance on the impact of the What’s New item on your tenant, available in the

Impact Summary

column. This content was generated by AI. Review content before use. See Release Impact Analysis.

From the

Adoption Planning

report, you can review and export all impact analysis reports by selecting

Features Releases > Impact Analysis Reports

If you've customized the Adoption Planning Hub, you may need to add the

Feature Releases

You can also create adoption items from a release analysis report. See Create Adoption Items from Impact Analysis Reports.