Once the customer has met all of the exit criteria for the Test stage, they’re ready to move on to the Deploy stage. During the Deploy stage, the customer goes live on Workday in a Production environment using all of the features and integrations configured and tested during previous stages.

Some activities in this stage depend on the products deployed. Assume that all activities in the Plan stage are required unless otherwise noted.

Gold Tenant Build

• Review and approve all data converted into pre-Production (gold) tenant

Go-Live

• Approve the go-live checklist and authorization form

Post Production Data Conversion

• Converted data in the production system for operational balances as detailed in the post-go live cutover schedule 
• Enter catch-up transactions

Production Support

• Execute on post-production support model
• Complete post-go-live survey