Workday Development · Durham
Workday Development in Durham
Building on Workday for Durham organisations, where most of what gets called development is reporting. Custom reports and calculated fields are where the platform is genuinely extended day to day — and a calculated field written once and referenced everywhere becomes a piece of business logic that deserves the care given to code.
Why this comes up
The problem
Dozens of reports each recalculate headcount slightly differently, and no two of them agree at month end.
What you get
What we deliver
- Calculated fields built once, named clearly and reused rather than duplicated
- Report definitions agreed with the business before they are built
- Performance considered, since compound calculated fields become slow at scale
- Security on reports matched to who should see the underlying data
- Extend applications used where genuinely new functionality is required
- Everything documented, because a calculated field's purpose is not self-evident
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what workday development would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Workday
- Workday Extend
- Prism Analytics
- Workday Studio
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Professional services
- Higher education
- Retail
- Technology companies
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Workday Development in Durham — common questions
- Why treat calculated fields as code?
- Because they encode business rules and get reused. A field defining what counts as an active employee will end up in reports, processes and integrations, and if three near-identical versions exist the organisation has three definitions of the same thing.
- Do calculated fields affect performance?
- Noticeably, when they stack. Fields built on other fields built on others evaluate at runtime, and a report that was quick against a hundred rows can become unusable against tens of thousands — which usually appears after go-live rather than during testing.
- When is Workday Extend appropriate?
- When you need functionality the platform does not have and the data belongs in Workday. It is a real development capability with real costs, so it is worth confirming that configuration genuinely cannot meet the requirement before committing to build.
- Who should own report definitions?
- The business function that uses them, with a technical owner for how they are built. Reports created ad hoc by whoever needed a number are how organisations end up with several answers to a question that should only have one.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Workday Development in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise