Workday's development framework enables application developers to define and develop applications without complex relational databases or massive amounts of code. This approach dramatically improves developer productivity and application agility, which allows the Workday development staff to more rapidly build and deploy new functionality, while customers can configure Workday to meet their specific requirements.

Revolutionary approach to application development

Traditional client-server style applications contain millions of lines of code that interact with hundreds or thousands of relational database tables. The cost of this is immense, and enterprises are now beginning to understand the significance of making changes to these traditional architectures. Upgrades are like re-implementations, and it's easier to add new functionality on the edges than it is to change anything in the core. And the core is where many of the changes need to happen.

A fundamental design principle of Workday's applications is the ability to change as rapidly as your business does, so the applications stay current with business reality. Workday's development framework enables this agility by providing developers:

• A purely object-oriented approach to modeling applications—no object-to-relational mapping is necessary. Changes to the structure of the object model do not require changes to the underlying persistence layer.
• All application logic consists of methods that are defined by completing forms in the development framework, not by writing code. The resulting meta-data definitions are interpreted into business transactions and reports by the framework.

The Workday Development Framework is foundational to Workday's ability to deliver a fundamentally different approach to application design, with the goal of addressing the real needs of today's enterprises and workers.

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