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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2026-05-01
Steps: Set Up Tenant for Prism Analytics

Steps: Set Up Tenant for Prism Analytics

You need to create a Tenant Management case with Workday and create a Tenant - Setup Feature request to provision Prism Analytics hardware for your tenant.
Security:
Security Configuration
domain in the System functional area.
Set up Prism Analytics to enable data administrators and data analysts to create tables and datasets for blending Workday and non-Workday data that data analysts can analyze inside Workday.
  1. Create User-Based Security Groups.
    Create security groups for your data administrators and data analysts, and assign users.
    Example: You can define these security groups (administered by the Security Configurator group):
    • Prism Data Writer
    • Prism Data Administrator
  2. Create security groups for your data administrators and data analysts, and assign unconstrained security groups. This security group type doesn't accept users directly. Instead, you associate 1 or more unconstrained security groups with the group.
    Example: You can define these security groups (administered by the Security Configurator group):
    Group Name
    Unconstrained Security Group to Associate
    Prism Data Writer (Prism Access)
    Prism Data Writer
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access)
    Prism Data Administrator
    Security Administrator (Prism Access)
    Security Administrator
    Security Configurator (Prism Access)
    Security Configurator
  3. When you create a role-based (constrained) security group for any of the dataset-related roles, you must select
    Role has access to the positions they support
    for the
    Access Rights to Multiple Job Workers
    option.
  4. Access the
    Maintain Functional Areas
    task.
    Select the
    Enabled
    check box for the
    Prism Analytics
    functional area.
  5. Edit Domain Security Policies.
    Create or edit a security policy for the domains in the Prism Analytics functional area
    Workday suggests that you use the security groups you created for these domains:
    Domain
    Security Groups
    Task Permissions
    Prism Datasets: Create
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access), Prism Data Writer (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism Datasets: Manage
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access)
    Security Configurator (Prism Access), Security Administrator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    View only
    Prism Datasets: Owner Manage
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access), Security Administrator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism Datasets: Publish
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access), Security Configurator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism: Manage Data Source
    Security Configurator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism: Manage Relax Sharing
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism: Tables Create
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access), Prism Data Writer (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism: Tables Manage
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access)
    Security Configurator (Prism Access), Security Administrator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    View only
    Prism: Tables Owner Manage
    Prism Data Administrator (Prism Access), Security Administrator (Prism Access)
    View and Modify
    Prism: Manage Connection
    Prism Data Administrator, Prism Data Writer
    View and Modify
    Prism: Manage File Containers
    Prism Data Administrator, Prism Data Writer.
    View and Modify
  6. Activate Pending Security Policy Changes.
  7. (Optional) Enable users with Dataset Viewer permission to see dataset transformations. Workday recommends not enabling this option if you've shared a dataset that contains potentially sensitive data.
    1. Access the
      Edit Tenant Setup - Reporting and Analytics
      task.
    2. Select
      Enable Prism Dataset View Transformations
      in the Prism Analytics section.
  8. (Optional) Customize notification settings.
    1. Access the
      Edit Tenant Setup - Notifications
      task.
    2. Select the
      System
      notification group in the
      Notification Delivery Settings
      section.
    3. Customize these notification settings:
      • Prism Data Acquisition Notification
      • Prism wBucket Complete Notification
    4. Select the
      Prism Analytics
      notification group.
    5. Customize these notification settings:
      • Manual Dataset Publish Notifications
      • Prism Data Change Notification
      • Scheduled Dataset Publish Notifications
      You can only mute or unmute email notifications.