eyko Beats for Workday
Workday manages your people. eyko Beats manages your people decisions.
You don't need a new system.
You need a decision layer above the one you already have. eyko Beats connects to your Workday, runs Playbooks against your HR data, and delivers the answer with the context behind it, in minutes.
The gap
Workday is doing its job. The gap is what happens after.
Workday runs your hiring, headcount, comp, and the system of record for your people. But every people question that matters still ends with HR pulling a custom report, and that's the gap eyko Beats closes.
Attrition risk lands too late
By the time the manager sees the report, the resignation has already landed and the signals were in Workday weeks earlier.
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eyko trends the attrition signals that precede voluntary exits and flags at-risk cohorts weekly.
Comp equity audits are a project
When the board asks for the latest comp equity scan, HR pulls a snapshot and the answer arrives weeks later.
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eyko runs comp equity as a Playbook against live data: pay band by role, level, gender, tenure, refreshed every cycle.
Cross-team decisions need an analyst
Headcount, hiring, and overtime live in separate Workday reports that nobody connects.
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eyko reads across modules natively and joins headcount, hiring, and labour cost into one cross-team briefing.
Why it's hard
Workday wasn't designed to answer questions. Here's what that means in practice.
NO DATABASE ACCESS
Workday has no SQL layer. None.
There is no database to connect to. All data access goes through REST APIs, SOAP APIs, or Report-as-a-Service XML outputs, each with its own integration pattern.
EFFECTIVE DATING
Every record has an "as of" date that changes its value.
Workday stores historical versions of every record. Headcount on January 1 is different data from headcount on March 1, so every query needs an explicit effective date.
INTEGRATION SETUP
You need an Integration System User before you can do anything.
Programmatic Workday access requires creating a dedicated Integration System User (ISU) with specific security groups. This typically requires a Workday admin.
eyko Beats handles Workday's API authentication and effective-dating complexity automatically, so your first Playbook returns current data from day one.
The conceptual frame
1 + 1 = 3
Your existing system. Your data. Your history.
Decision intelligence. Playbooks. Live analysis.
Answers. Context. Action.
You spent years and serious money on Workday. It adds a decision layer above your existing system. One that delivers answers, not dashboards.
How it works
From Workday to decision. Three steps. Same day.
- Connect or import
- 1
- Run a Playbook
- 2
- Get the answer, not just the chart
- 3
Point eyko Beats at your Workday via API, ODBC to your reporting tenant, or extract. No warehouse, no IT ticket; first Playbook ready in minutes.
Pick the question that's been sitting on your list. "Who is at risk of leaving this quarter?" "Where is overtime running hot?" "Where is comp out of band?" The Playbook scopes the data that matters and runs it.
eyko delivers an executive-grade briefing: what happened, why it happened, what to watch, and what to do next. A decision to act on, not a dashboard to interpret.
The Workday-only way
- Custom report request to HR analytics
- Wait for the cohort to be built
- Dashboard shows the number
- Clean data first, then value
- Six-figure analytics build
The eyko Beats way
- Ask the question directly
- Answer lands in minutes
- Playbook explains the cause
- Value this week; cleanup as you go
- Monthly subscription, cancel any time
The Building Blocks journey
You don't have to connect everything before you see anything.
Start where you are. Add what you need, when you're ready. Every block you add builds on the last. Nothing gets replaced.
Drop in a CSV or Excel from any system. Your first Playbook runs in minutes. No warehouse, no IT ticket.
You don't need to plan the full architecture before you connect your first system. Each stage works independently. Adding the next one doesn't change what you've already built.
Playbook examples
What eyko Beats surfaces from your Workday data
These aren't hypothetical. These are the Playbooks customers run in week one.
Actual vs budgeted FTE by department, with hiring pipeline gap analysis.
Actual vs budgeted FTE by department, with hiring pipeline gap analysis.
What "fast" looks like
No data warehouse. No multi-month project. No waiting.
Connect Workday, point eyko at the question you want answered, and the first people Playbook lands the same day.
- Time from connection to first Playbook
- < 30 min
- When first real insight lands
- Day 1
- Data warehouse, ETL projects, or system integrators required
- 0
Built on decades of HRIS integration expertise. eyko connects to Workday via API or reporting tenant ODBC, no warehouse required.
FAQ
Questions Workday teams ask before they start
Practical answers
How eyko Beats sits alongside Workday, what it costs, and what it takes to get going.
No. eyko Beats sits above Workday as a decision intelligence layer. Your Workday continues to run your HR, comp, and recruiting exactly as it does today. eyko adds the analytical and decision layer on top, so you get the benefit of both without replacing anything.
eyko Beats connects to Workday via direct API integration, ODBC against your Workday reporting tenant, or file-based import (CSV, Excel, or native report extract). Most customers are running their first Playbook within 30 minutes of connecting. There is no data warehouse required, no ETL project, and no IT ticket needed to get started.
No. eyko Beats is designed to work with real-world data, which means data that is messy, inconsistent, and incomplete. The platform surfaces data gaps as part of the Playbook process and handles deduplication, classification, and normalization automatically. You see value immediately. Cleanup happens around the answer, not before it.
eyko Beats is designed for people decisions, not just reporting. Typical questions include who is at risk of leaving, where comp is out of band, which teams are running hot on overtime, and which roles have the worst time-to-fill. Playbooks structure these questions into a repeatable briefing your team can run at any cadence.
Workday's native analytics tell you what happened. eyko Beats tells you what it means and what to do next. Prism is a great place to land data; Adaptive is a great planning tool. eyko Beats is built around the people decision the business needs to make, with the briefing and the recommended action, not just the table of numbers.
eyko Beats is a monthly subscription priced to let you start small and prove value before committing at scale. There is no six-figure implementation cost and no multi-year contract required. Most customers begin with one or two Playbooks, see value within the first week, and expand from there.
Workday has not released an official MCP server. Programmatic Workday access uses the REST API, SOAP API, or Report-as-a-Service (RaaS) depending on the data type. eyko Beats handles Workday's API authentication, effective-dating complexity, and tenant configuration automatically. For Workday's current API documentation, see the Workday Community APIs at https://community.workday.com/apis.
Your Workday is already doing its job. Let eyko Beats do the rest.
No new system. No data project. Connect your Workday and get a decision, not a dashboard.