Workday shelfware is the most common form of waste in enterprise HR-tech estates. Learning, Peakon, Strategic Sourcing, Extend — bundled at signature, never deployed. We document it, quantify it, and convert it into renewal leverage.
Shelfware audit and recovery package. Forensic deployment review across all 14 modules, dollarized waste quantification, and renewal-leverage playbook. Fee fixed at engagement start.
Our fee is a percentage of verified annual shelfware reduction achieved at renewal. No reduction, no fee. We only earn when the dollars stop going out the door.
Workday's go-to-market favors bundles. A new HCM customer is offered Recruiting, Learning, and Peakon as a package; a FINS customer is offered Adaptive, Prism, and Strategic Sourcing. The price advantage of the bundle is real on day one. The bundle becomes shelfware when the deployment team prioritizes core HCM or FINS and never returns to the adjacent modules — but the invoice keeps coming.
Shelfware recovery is a two-step engagement: find it (deployment review against contracted modules across 14 Workday products) and recover it (convert findings into a renewal narrative Workday's deal desk accepts). The recovery only counts when the next order form is smaller than the last one — not when you receive a polite credit memo that disappears into a future deployment.
Every Workday module on your current contract. Every SKU, edition, and tier. Every annual cost. The complete what-you-pay-for picture, module by module.
What's actually deployed in production. What's deployed but unused. What's never been turned on. Hard evidence — usage logs, tenant configurations, transaction counts.
Annual dollar value of the gap between contracted modules and deployed value. Conservative methodology that Workday's deal desk will not dispute.
Package findings into the next renewal. Drop, swap, or right-size shelfware modules. Convert dead spend into renewal leverage on the modules that matter.
We had three modules we'd been renewing for four years that nobody could remember signing off on. Once we documented zero usage, the renewal conversation changed completely.
That's when findings convert to dollars. Fixed Fee or Gain Share.
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