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From Foundation to Real Platform Value

From Foundation to Real Platform Value
Foundation construction work

A strong foundation enables scalable expansion, credible AI, and a Workday tenant that actually runs your workforce strategy.

Align Workday Ambition with Customer Reality

This conversation is about two groups with aligned but different incentives: Workday and their customers. Workday’s go-to-market and account teams are motivated and incentivized to expand platform adoption where it drives value. Customers are focused on solving business problems in the most efficient way possible, where time, cost, and operational lift all matter. The friction sits in the middle. Expansion only works if the foundation is ready. Today, much of the opportunity lives inside Sold Not Implemented (SNI) and Sold Not Optimized (SNO) modules and inside data structures that were never designed for AI-scale execution.

 

Get the Data Model Ready for AI Scale

AI has raised the stakes. The current wave of AI SKUs, skills inference, talent marketplace, workforce planning, and embedded automation requires disciplined job architecture, normalized skills data, and governance rigor. Without the right foundation, AI does not operationalize. It remains incremental at best and frustrating at worst. The fastest path to credible AI expansion is not simply selling more, it is making the underlying data model production-ready. That is where Skillcentrix operates: auditing and restructuring job and skills frameworks, aligning configuration to business strategy, and building governance models that allow AI capabilities to scale rather than stall.

 

Activate the Full Value of Workday

The same dynamic applies to SNI and SNO. Across the installed base, there is meaningful functionality already purchased but not live or live but under-optimized. That represents trapped value for customers and stalled expansion potential for Workday. Our engagement model is built to unlock that friction: rapid diagnostic of SNI/SNO exposure, prioritized activation roadmaps, structured optimization sprints, and measurable value realization tracking. Converting SNI to live and SNO to optimized increases realized ROI, strengthens platform adoption, and creates a clean runway for incremental AI SKUs that customers can actually absorb.

 

Unlock Expansion by Optimizing Today's Footprint

The next steps are not theoretical. Customers should quantify their SNI and SNO exposure, assess the integrity of their job and skills architecture, and align ownership around total talent strategy, employees, contractors, automation, and AI agents. Workday teams should align expansion strategy to structural readiness and treat foundational remediation as revenue acceleration. Skillcentrix sits on that critical path, removing structural friction, operationalizing capability, and aligning incentives across both sides. When the foundation is sound, expansion becomes predictable, AI becomes functional, and Workday shifts from a system of record to a true operating system for workforce strategy.