Workday Services Partner
The Workday partner your CFO and your auditors can both trust.
We design, deploy, integrate, and operate Workday for higher-education, healthcare, and public-sector institutions — with senior, U.S.-based consultants who have lived inside FSCM and HCM environments for more than a decade.
Registered Workday Services Partner
Cynosure Technologies
Cynosure Technologies is a registered Workday Services Partner. The partnership grew naturally out of sixteen years of running enterprise ERP and HCM environments for the same institutions Workday now wants to serve — large hospital systems, research universities, and state agencies.
Our Workday practice pairs senior functional leads with experienced integration engineers, so the configuration choices made in the deployment room are the same choices that hold up under audit, under release after release, and under the inevitable reorganizations that follow a go-live. Education is our flagship vertical: we have deep expertise in Workday Student, Financial Management for higher ed, and the awkward middle of moving off Banner, Colleague, or PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
Capabilities
Implementation
01End-to-end deployments of Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, and Adaptive Planning. Phased rollouts, staged tenants, and cutover plans your steering committee can defend.
Integrations
02Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP, and middleware. From single-purpose feeds to mission-critical reverse-payroll integrations with downstream systems of record.
Reporting & Analytics
03Advanced reports, calculated fields, dashboards, Worksheets, and Prism Analytics. We build the reports executives actually open and the audit trails that survive testing.
Security & Audit
04Domain and business-process security design, segregation-of-duties review, and SOX-ready audit trails. Auditor-friendly evidence packages on request.
Optimization & Health Checks
05Tenant cleanups, configuration audits, release readiness for Workday's two annual updates, and remediation of inherited deployments that no longer fit the institution.
Managed Support
06Post-go-live ticket triage, ongoing configuration changes, release readiness, and Workday Community engagement — staffed by named consultants in your time zone.
Higher education is our flagship Workday vertical
We invested early in Workday Student and the related higher-ed footprint because our consulting roots are in research universities and academic medical centers. The work spans:
- 01Workday Student deployments and ongoing optimization
- 02Migration off legacy SIS — Banner, Colleague, and PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
- 03Workday Financial Management for fund accounting, grants, and gifts
- 04Workday HCM + Payroll for large faculty and staff populations
- 05Adaptive Planning for tuition, enrollment, and multi-year financial planning
- 06Reporting that reconciles to IPEDS, federal grant reporting, and trustees' financial statements
What success looks like
- A clean release uptake on every Workday update — no scrambles, no missed mandatory items.
- A month-end and year-end close your finance team can run without us in the room.
- Audit findings on Workday-related controls reduced or eliminated.
- An in-house Workday team that is more confident at the end of the engagement than at the start.
How we engage
Discovery (1–2 weeks)
01We sit with your finance, HR, and IT leadership, review the current state, and produce a written assessment with a recommended phased plan.
Deployment or remediation
02Fixed-scope where the work admits it. Time-and-materials where it does not. Either way, named consultants with skin in the outcome.
Hypercare and managed support
0330 days of hypercare after every go-live, with optional ongoing managed support that grows or shrinks as your in-house team matures.
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