Moving to the Public Cloud: Lessons from the Front Lines with Christian Delcid
Description
Workday customers will eventually be required to migrate from Workday’s private cloud to a hyperscaler-hosted public cloud — but many don’t yet understand what that actually means in practice.
In this episode of Workday Gold, Christian Delcid shares a firsthand look at his organization’s migration: what went smoothly, what nearly broke, and how they decided when to “rip off the band-aid.” His story reveals that the biggest lift wasn’t configuration — it was coordination across IT, security, vendors, integrations, candidate experience, and communication strategy.
Christian also breaks down the timing strategy, including why they migrated on a Thursday instead of a Saturday, and how payroll continuity became the anchor constraint. From vendor responsiveness to URL dependencies hidden across the business, this conversation turns the theory of migration into a real-world playbook. If you’re an HRIS, Financial Systems, or Workday Admin planning (or dreading) your own move, this episode will help you prepare for the parts no checklist fully captures.
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