Concept: People Analytics Activities

Workday automatically runs the

Data Quality

module when you install or reinstall People Analytics, but you can also run it manually. The

Data Quality

module checks your field mapping configuration data to verify that the data satisfies the usefulness, completeness, and correctness requirements of People Analytics and Storyteller.

The

Data Quality

module currently checks the field mapping configuration data for the Worker and Hiring pipelines, not the Skills pipeline.

Only 1 Data Quality activity can run at a given time.

People Analytics uptakes the latest configuration settings saved in the

Configure People Analytics

report and runs them against the series of processes that comprise the installation workflow.

At high level, the installation workflow consists of:

Acquiring data.
Securing source data (if configured).
Publishing the input source data to run through Storyteller.
Publishing the output source data in the form of stories and explanations.
Creating a discovery board where you can view KPIs, business questions, and related metrics.
Exporting input source data to the machine learning development environment to improve the detection algorithms used in the People Analytics product.

Only 1 installation activity can run at a given time. If you make changes to your current configuration and reinstall the application, these changes to your application run as an installation activity and not an update activity.

The

Data Quality

activity runs automatically when you run the installation activity.

People Analytics runs automated updates every Sunday at 3:00 AM in the tenant time zone. These updates deliver any newly available content to production tenants to ensure that all users are on the latest version of the product.

New content delivered to tenants as part of the automated update activity might result in changes to the Worker and Hiring pipelines and the Storyteller configuration. Most of these changes don't require a change in your People Analytics configuration and don't alter the configuration settings you ran during the latest installation.

However, some updates require that you change your People Analytics configuration in order to uptake the newly delivered content. In the

Configure People Analytics

report, the pipeline configuration card for the pipeline that contains the update displays the badge

New Content

.

Example: People Analytics ran an automated update on Monday, December 13, 2021, that delivered the configuration inputs to enable the new topic area VIBE Index™. To enable and configure this topic area in your tenant, you must enable the topic and map the newly delivered field Intersection 1 in the Worker pipeline.

To change your configuration to uptake new content, you must reinstall People Analytics. A reinstallation of People Analytics displays in the

People Analytics Activities

report as an installation activity and not an update activity.

On the first Sunday of every month, the automated update activity also checks for and loads any new data that is available since the last data refresh. People Analytics appends the new data to your current data history. The data refresh process doesn't load data retrospectively.

Example: The

People Analytics

report displays that you have Data as of September 2021. Your analysis consists of 13 months of data history. When the monthly data refresh runs on the first Sunday of November 2021, People Analytics loads any new data from October 2021 and appends this data to the current data history. Any data that was loaded into Workday during the month of October 2021 that reflects previous months (August 2020 - September 2021) isn't added to the analysis.

The update activity doesn't run in implementation tenants. If you want to ensure that your implementation tenant is on the latest version, reinstall People Analytics using the

Configure People Analytics

report.

The

People Analytics Activities

report (secured to the

Manage: People Analytics

domain in the People Analytics and Prism Analytics functional areas) displays all new and historical activities for your tenant.

By default, the activities table displays the status and details for the activity at the top level. You can expand an activity to see the status and details of each intermediate step in the activity workflow.

You can customize your view of activities by filtering and sorting them. We recommend applying these customizations when activities are collapsed and showing only details at the top level.

Workday recommends that you regularly view activities to ensure that scheduled updates are successful.

You can right-click an activity at the top level to access the related actions menu. The related actions menu enables you to:

Cancel the remaining steps for an activity that is in progress.
When you cancel an activity, it might take time for remaining steps to terminate and display the status
Canceled
.
Retry a canceled activity.
Retry any failed steps that exist for a given activity.

Cancel

and

Retry

actions are only available for the latest activity of a given activity type.