Target uses Workday Extend to build apps for its unique business needs.

To help all families discover the joy of everyday life. That’s Target’s purpose. And that quest to bring joy is brought to life by an outstanding team of over 400,000 global team members.To support that workforce, Target continues to evolve the company’s Workday HR system so that team members enjoy quick and easy-to-use digital workflows.For Target, the value of the Workday Extend platform accelerates app development and simplifies the user experience. Team members access the new functionality within the same Workday UI enabling them to solve unique business needs using Workday Extend. Target engineers built solutions leveraging open-source technology. However, each custom app has to extract, transform, and in most cases replicate data from Workday. Many of the custom satellite HR applications created had the same user base, underlying data, and security rules as Workday. This process added additional overhead to both up-front delivery and ongoing maintenance. We have proven we are abl...