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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2026-06-26
Concept: Workday AI for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers

Concept: Workday AI for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers

To determine your company's subscription agreement type:
  1. Access your Community profile.
  2. Beneath your name, click the
    name of your company
    .
In the
Subscription Service Agreement
field:
  • MSA
    indicates the Main Service Agreement type.
  • UMSA
    indicates the Universal Main Subscription Agreement type.
Workday often relies on data contributions to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) features. For customers who are subject to the UMSA, Workday automatically enables data contributions for AI features in your purchased SKUs. Workday may use this data to train or enhance the associated AI feature.
Workday activates AI features for UMSA customers in stages:
  • Workday enables AI features in the next service update, such as the weekly maintenance window.
  • We populate data contributions in the
    Data Contributions for Workday AI
    task within 24 hours.
  • We provide AI recommendations in your tenant within 14 days.

Data Contributions

UMSA customers can manage their data contributions using the
Data Contribution for Workday AI
task, secured to the
Manage: Data for ML Features
and
View: Data for ML Features
domains in the Innovation Services functional area. See Manage Workday AI Data Contributions for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers.
Workday groups data contributions by the AI feature that uses the data, so you only share the specific data needed for each feature. You can manage contributions for each feature individually or at the product line level.
To view the data categories needed for each AI feature, see Reference: Workday AI Data Contributions.
When you disable data contributions for an AI feature or a product line, you no longer contribute data and Workday deletes your past data contributions within 30 days.
Disabling data contributions can impact the performance of certain AI features. The impact of disabling data contributions will vary by feature, from a degraded experience to the feature not functioning at all.
To understand how disabling contributions may affect a feature, see the feature's Workday AI Fact Sheet.
You can manage data contributions for Enhanced Features by Product Line or AI feature through the
Data Contribution for Workday AI
report. For any Enhanced Feature that is not included in the
Data Contribution for Workday AI
report, customers can opt out of data contribution for training and improvement by initiating a Workday support request.
These reports can also help you view contribution details:
  • AI Features Data Details
    , which is secured to the
    View: Data for ML Features
    domain and displays the data contributions associated with all AI features available across Workday, filtered by product line.
  • Intelligent Features Report
    , which is secured to the
    Manage: Data for ML Features
    and
    View: Data for ML Features
    domains and displays AI features for all SKUs and AI features for your purchased SKUs.

AI Feature Notifications

You can enable notifications about upcoming changes to AI features by configuring the
AI Features and Third Party Notification
domain in the Innovation Services functional area. See Steps: Set Up Notifications for AI Feature Data Contributions.
Members of security groups with access to the
AI Features and Third Party Notification
domain receive these notifications.
Notification Type
Delivery Timing
Purpose
AI Feature Availability
On the day of feature release.
Confirms the AI feature is available in your Production tenant and starts a 14-day period for you to manage your data contributions before data extraction begins.
Description or Technical Updates
Weekly, as initiated by changes.
Reports updates to feature descriptions and changes to data fields used by the AI feature.
Upcoming AI Features
30 days before release.
Provides a notice of upcoming AI features applicable to your purchased SKUs.
Workday doesn't extract data for the new AI feature until 14 days after the Workday release. You can disable data contributions the day of the AI feature release.

Testing AI Features

AI features that require data contributions don't function accurately in your Sandbox tenant. To test AI features that require data contributions before deploying them to your Production tenant, use your Implementation tenant.
You can use these tasks to test your configuration in your Sandbox Preview or Implementation tenants.
Task
Description
Maintain Weekly Data Contribution Activation for Implementation Tenant
Manages future weekly data extracts. After you select the
Activate for Implementation Tenant
check box to enable a feature in your Implementation tenant, we automatically run the report on Mondays to refresh data.
Run On-Demand Data Contribution Activation for Implementation Tenant
Extracts data and subscribes the tenant to future weekly extracts.
To ensure accurate testing, Workday recommends you refresh your Sandbox Preview or Implementation tenant before running these tasks. Because AI features require a certain amount of data, we might take up to 2 weeks to provide recommendations.