How Workday Extend integrates with Workday.
Build custom apps that share Workday data, business processes, security, and user experience — and connect to external systems with APIs and orchestration.
What is Workday Extend?
Workday Extend lets teams build custom apps that are native to Workday. Teams build by extending the platform components they already use: business objects, business processes, domains for security, reporting, pages, APIs, and orchestrations. The result is custom functionality that works in the context of Workday data, security, and user experience.
Native integration with Workday data and business processes.
Extend apps can extend the Workday object model with business objects and attachment objects, automate governed work through business processes, secure app data through domains, and report on app data through the Workday reporting model. This lets teams add new experiences without modifying Workday-delivered functionality.
Shared platform components
- Business objects and attachment objects for application data
- Business processes for approvals and workflow automation
- Domains for app-data security
- Reports for analytics in the Workday context
- Pages and predefined widgets for Workday experiences
Connect external systems with APIs and orchestration.
Workday Integrations support connections across Workday and third-party systems. Teams can use APIs and orchestration to automate end-to-end workflows, manipulate data, and support real-time or batched processing.
For example, a business process can launch an orchestration to provision access in an external system when a worker is hired, then launch another orchestration to revoke access if the hire is rescinded. This helps keep Workday and external systems aligned.
Security and governance for custom apps.
Extend apps use Workday’s security model. Domains secure app data, business processes govern how data moves through approvals, and actions are auditable. Because teams build around Workday-delivered functionality rather than modifying it, custom apps are designed to be update-safe as Workday evolves.
Frequently asked questions.
How does Workday Extend integrate with existing Workday applications?
Extend apps use Workday data, business processes, security, reporting, and UI components, so they integrate natively with Workday applications rather than through a separately maintained app stack.
How does Workday Extend connect to third-party systems?
Teams can use Workday Integrations, APIs, and orchestration to connect custom apps and workflows across Workday and external systems.
What are the benefits of building apps directly in Workday?
Apps use the same security, data model, and business-process context as Workday, reducing the complexity that can come with separate systems and point-to-point integrations.