Bosley Solutions
Workday for the AI era - AI powered implementation and ongoing support services to maximise your investment.
Workday GO gives Australian mid-market organisations a single platform for HR and payroll, live in weeks. AI is how we deliver it and how we make it pay off. We accelerate the build at every phase, then help you get the full value of Workday's own AI, including Sana, and extend the platform well beyond go-live. One accountable Australian team, from selection into year two.
A unified HR and payroll platform, live in weeks not years.
Most mid-market organisations run their back office on a stack of disconnected systems. It is expensive to maintain, hard to report on, and not ready for AI because the data sits everywhere. Workday GO replaces that with one AI-native platform, using preconfigured best-practice packages so you can activate quickly. The question is no longer whether to consolidate. It is how to activate safely, and with the value compounding afterwards.
One unified platform
Core HR and payroll in a single system with a single source of truth, replacing a fragmented stack of point solutions.
Fast, low-risk activation
Preconfigured packages and best-practice defaults mean faster activation with a materially lower risk profile than a custom build.
Built-in AI from day one
Workday's own AI ships inside the platform: Illuminate for self-service, workflow optimisation and anomaly detection, and Sana as a natural-language front door. Bosley makes sure it is switched on and used.
Predictable investment
A prescriptive scope means a predictable, board-explainable cost, with a clear pathway to extend capability and new geographies later.
Activate. Adopt. Grow.
One commercial relationship across three phases. The same faces from selection to go-live and beyond, so Bosley's investment in your organisation compounds rather than restarts.
Activate
Get live on Workday GO
Configuration, data migration, testing, training, go-live and hypercare, compressed by Bosley’s AI-accelerated methodology where it matters. We deliver alongside Workday’s own activation team under shared governance.
Adopt
Stabilise and optimise
Bosley runs your platform as managed service partner. We progressively enable and tune Workday’s AI, Illuminate agents and Sana, measure adoption, and manage each of Workday’s two annual releases as a structured cycle.
Grow
Extend the platform
Extend the platform as you grow: new geographies, new modules and new AI capability built on Sana skills and agents. Reporting and analytics lift onto live Workday data. The platform scales with you rather than being outgrown.
Core HR, payroll and AI, live from day one.
Workday GO delivers core capability out of the box, with Workday Illuminate AI embedded throughout. Bosley scopes precisely what your organisation needs at go-live and sequences the rest onto a roadmap.
Core HR
Employee records, organisation and position management, workflows and mobile self-service for managers and employees.
Payroll
Australian award-compliant payroll with audit trails and ongoing regulatory updates built into the platform.
Time and absence
Timesheets, leave, scheduling and award interpretation for multi-shift, multi-award workforces.
Talent and performance
Goals, reviews, feedback and succession, connected to the same skills and workforce data.
Benefits and compensation
Benefits administration and compensation managed on the same platform and the same employee record.
Reporting and analytics
Real-time dashboards and workforce analytics, ready for institutional and board-grade reporting.
Workday's AI, shipped with the platform and switched on by Bosley
Workday GO includes embedded AI from day one: Illuminate agents for payroll, self-service and business-process optimisation, a Deployment Agent that accelerates activation, and Sana, Workday's natural-language front door rolling out across the platform through 2026. Bosley turns these on, tunes them to your configuration and drives adoption, rather than leaving capability switched off.
AI as method, not marketing.
"We use AI" is meaningless on its own. Here is exactly where it bites in a Bosley Workday GO engagement, and what is real today versus what is on the roadmap.
Layer 1
Live today, on engagement one
Bosley’s AI-accelerated methodology
AI acceleration through every phase: process extraction, fit-gap analysis, configuration drafting, data migration, test scripting, training collateral and hypercare triage. Workday’s Deployment Agent accelerates the platform build. Bosley’s methodology compresses the human-heavy work around it, so the whole programme moves faster without cutting corners on quality.
Layer 2
Shipped with the platform
Workday’s own AI: Illuminate and Sana
The AI built into Workday: Illuminate agents for payroll, self-service and business-process optimisation, and Sana, the natural-language front door that turns everyday HR and payroll tasks into a conversation. Bosley helps you get the most from both, enabling and tuning them after go-live, measuring adoption, and making sure the capability you are paying for is switched on and used.
Layer 3
Roadmap, deployed through managed services
Bosley’s proprietary delivery agents
A growing portfolio of proprietary agents that accelerate implementation and managed services: fit-gap, delivery health, data validation, tenant build and release-impact assessment. Built progressively as our practice scales. You become an early adopter, not a test case.
Workday's biggest AI shift is Sana. We help you own it.
Sana is Workday's natural-language front door. It collapses dozens of tasks into a single conversation and brings hundreds of AI skills to the platform. Most organisations will switch it on and use a fraction of it. Bosley helps you adopt it deliberately: rolling the Sana experience out to managers and employees, tuning Sana Agents and Sana Learn to your organisation, and building new capability on top as Workday extends the platform. You get the full value of Workday's AI investment, guided by a team that does this for a living.
AI elevates the people who deliver your service. It does not replace them.
Workday is the platform. We are the expertise that makes it land.
Roughly three in four HR technology implementations underdeliver on their business case. Not because the technology fails, but because operating model, change and adoption were not designed alongside the build. Bosley combines workforce transformation experience across more than 50 global organisations with rigorous, AI-accelerated delivery.
Australian-led, Australian context
Local delivery with genuine understanding of Australian awards, payroll and the mid-market. Not an enterprise playbook run at mid-market scale.
Transformation pedigree at the lead
Big-four quality of thinking without big-four pricing or pace. Our engagement leads come from global HR transformation practices.
AI is our method, not a feature
We accelerate delivery with AI at every phase, then get you the full value of Workday's AI, including Sana, long after go-live. Specific, measured, and tuned to Workday GO.
Build first, pitch second
We demonstrate working capability before we ask you to sign anything. Continuity from selection through go-live into managed services.
Common questions about Workday GO in Australia.
What is Workday GO?
Workday GO is a preconfigured edition of Workday built for midsize organisations. It combines core HR and payroll in a single system with embedded AI, using proven best-practice configuration so organisations can go live in weeks rather than years. Workday GO launched in Australia and New Zealand in May 2026.
How long does a Workday GO implementation take?
Workday GO is designed for fast activation. The prescriptive, preconfigured design removes most of the custom build work that makes traditional HCM programmes long. Multi-award and multi-entity payroll complexity is the main factor that shapes a timeline, and Bosley scopes for it honestly rather than compressing past what is safe.
Is Workday GO available in Australia?
Yes. Workday launched Workday GO in Australia and New Zealand in May 2026, with Australian award-compliant payroll and a local partner ecosystem. It targets the mid-market, which accounts for the large majority of ANZ organisations.
How is Workday GO different from full Workday?
Workday GO uses preconfigured packages and best-practice defaults instead of open custom configuration. That means faster activation, predictable cost and a lower risk profile, in exchange for a more prescriptive scope. It suits mid-market organisations that want Workday's platform without an enterprise-scale programme.
Who is Workday GO built for?
Mid-market organisations, typically running a fragmented stack of point systems for HR and payroll, who want a single AI-native platform without the cost and duration of a full enterprise deployment. In Australia this segment covers most organisations by count.
Does Workday GO include AI agents?
Yes. Workday GO ships with Workday's AI built in: Illuminate for self-service, workflow optimisation and anomaly detection, a Deployment Agent that accelerates activation, and Sana, the natural-language front door rolling out across Workday through 2026. Bosley turns these on, tunes them and drives adoption, and layers its own AI-accelerated delivery methodology on top.
What is Workday Sana and how does Bosley help clients get value from it?
Sana is Workday's AI platform, acquired in 2025, that acts as a natural-language front door to Workday: it brings AI-powered search, agents and learning together so everyday HR and payroll tasks become a conversation rather than a series of screens. Workday is rolling Sana across the platform through 2026. Bosley helps clients adopt Sana deliberately, tune its agents and learning to their organisation, drive adoption with managers and employees, and extend the platform with new AI capability over time.
What does Bosley add that Workday's own deployment tools do not?
Workday's Deployment Agent accelerates the platform build. Bosley accelerates the human-heavy work around it: discovery synthesis, fit-gap analysis, configuration drafting, test scripting and training collateral. Combined with HR transformation experience across more than 50 global organisations, that means faster time to value and a lower delivery risk than a self-managed activation.
What happens after go-live?
Bosley runs Workday GO as an ongoing managed service: release management across Workday's two major releases a year, production support, configuration optimisation, and progressive enablement of Workday's AI agents. One Australian team stays with you from selection through go-live and into year two and beyond.
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