02 , The Solution
Structure Hub: Fix the Foundations, Then Migrate
Decision Inc built Structure Hub specifically to solve the hierarchy problem inside Workday Adaptive Planning. Rather than migrating your data as-is and cleaning up later - which is slow, costly, and disruptive - Structure Hub automates the hard work upfront, so you go live on a clean foundation.
It does six things:
01
Rename, Consistently
Rename any part of your planning structure - departments, cost centres, reporting nodes - across the entire environment in one automated step. No manual errors. No missed references.
02
Merge Intelligently
Combine divisions, consolidate overlapping structures, and clean up legacy reporting lines - without losing data or breaking allocations. Essential after mergers, acquisitions, or organisational redesigns.
03
Rebuild the Structure
Redesign your planning hierarchy to reflect how your business actually looks today, not how it looked when the system was first set up. New rollup paths, new accountability lines - without disrupting live planning.
04
Back Up and Restore Safely
Before any change is made, Structure Hub captures a full snapshot of your environment. If something doesn't work as expected, you can roll back completely. Every step is logged and auditable.
05
Preserve Your History
Structure Hub connects your historical data to your new structure through Workday's Planning Hub - so you can compare the past to the present, even after a restructure. This is what makes AI and forecasting actually work.
06
Run in Parallel Without Downtime
Structure Hub allows your teams to continue working in live production while structural changes are developed and validated in a sandbox environment. Changes are only promoted when they are ready - so migrations happen without forcing the business to stop.
Why Parallel Environments Matter
- Traditional migrations force a hard cutover: the old system goes down, the new one goes live, and any problems surface in production under pressure.
- Structure Hub changes this. Production and sandbox environments are kept in sync throughout the migration. Teams can plan, budget, and report in production as normal while the new hierarchy is built and tested in parallel.
- When the structure is validated and sign-off is complete, the transition is controlled, predictable, and low-risk. Business continuity is not a side benefit - it is built into the process.
"Structure Hub doesn't just migrate data. It establishes the structural integrity that modern AI-driven planning requires - without asking your organisation to pause while it does."
03 , Why This Matters for AI
AI Doesn't Fix Bad Data. It Scales It.
Finance teams across every industry are being asked to do more with AI - faster forecasts, smarter anomaly detection, better scenario planning. Tools like Microsoft Copilot for Finance and Workday Illuminate are already here.
But every one of these tools has the same dependency: the data structure underneath them has to be trustworthy.
A human analyst can look at a number, sense that something's off, and investigate. An AI model cannot. It will take your data at face value, learn the patterns baked into it - including the wrong ones - and produce confident, polished, incorrect outputs.
The result is not just bad forecasts. It is a loss of trust. Boards and executives stop believing the numbers. Analysts spend their time defending outputs instead of improving them.
The 12% problem: according to Informatica's 2025 CDO Insights survey, data quality is the number-one obstacle to AI success - yet only 12% of organisations say their data is genuinely AI-ready. Structure Hub is how you join that 12%.
04 , The Strategic Case
A Migration Is a Rare Chance to Start Clean. Most Organisations Waste It.
ERP migrations are usually treated as a technology project - something to get through on time and on budget. Decision Inc sees them differently.
A migration is one of the only moments in an organisation's life where you have a legitimate reason, a clear window, and executive attention to rebuild your data foundations from scratch. Most organisations carry years - sometimes decades - of accumulated mess in their planning structures. A migration handled the traditional way simply moves that mess into a shinier system.
Traditional Approach
- Move existing data as-is
- Keep old hierarchies intact
- Historical data left behind
- Fix problems after go-live
- Downtime during structural changes
- AI deferred to Phase 2
Decision Inc Approach
- Audit, clean, and restructure first
- Redesign to reflect current accountability
- History bridged via Planning Hub
- Validate everything before migration
- Parallel environments keep business running
- AI-ready data model at go-live
Finance teams that get this right close faster, report more accurately, and deploy AI tools in weeks rather than spending months on remediation. That is not a technical outcome - it is a competitive one.
05 , Why Decision Inc
We Have Solved This Problem Before. Many Times.
Structure Hub is not a generic tool adapted for Workday. It was built specifically for the hierarchy challenges that arise inside Workday Adaptive Planning, through hands-on experience with some of the hardest migration scenarios our clients have faced.
What that means in practice:
- Speed without shortcuts. Automated scripts handle thousands of structural changes with a consistency and precision that manual processes simply cannot match.
- Nothing is irreversible. Every change is preceded by a backup. Every step is logged. You can move fast and still sleep at night.
- History stays intact. Our Planning Hub integration means time-series AI models can function across structural boundaries - a capability most migration approaches don't even attempt.
- No disruption to live planning. Parallel environment management means your business keeps running while the migration is built and validated alongside it.
- We advise, not just execute. We help you design hierarchies that will support AI-native planning - not just fix what's broken today.
- Deep Workday knowledge. Fewer surprises, faster delivery, and a solution built to get the most out of every capability the platform offers.
06 , What to Do Next
The Window to Get This Right Is Open. It Will Not Stay Open.
AI-powered planning is not a future scenario. It is arriving now, and the gap between organisations with clean data foundations and those without is going to widen quickly. Those with clean structures will deploy new tools in weeks. Those without will spend months - and significant budget - on remediation that could have been avoided.
Every month that passes with unresolved hierarchy debt is a month your AI future is being quietly undermined.
Whether you are at the start of a Workday Adaptive Planning migration, mid-implementation, or already live and managing the consequences of a lift-and-shift, Decision Inc and Structure Hub can help you build the foundation your plans require.
