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

Steps: Prepare for People Analytics Installation

You must subscribe to Innovation Services to use this feature. Contact your Customer Success Manager to request the Innovation Services Addendum (ISA), or see Workday Innovation Services in the Workday Community for more information.
  • 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.
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. Access the
    Innovation Services and Data Selection Opt-In
    report.
    On the
    Innovation Services Opt-In
    task, select the
    People Analytics
    service on the
    Available Services
    tab in the
    Analytics
    category.
    On the
    Maintain Innovation Services Data Selection Opt-In
    task, click
    Next
    .
    Security:
    Manage: Innovation Services
    domain in the Innovation Services functional area.
  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, securing entity, 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. 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.