Workday implementation and optimization partner for higher education
Alchemy is a specialist implementation consultancy built around Workday—the HR, finance, and student information platform used by higher education institutions. The founding team includes two Workday alumni, and the org is deliberately narrow: 70+ higher-ed customer base, engineering and consulting roles dominate the headcount, and the project list is entirely Workday-adjacent (HCM, Student, Financials deployments, integrations, data migration). No adopting or replacing signals in the stack; this is a pure services-and-tools shop riding a single platform.
Alchemy partners with colleges and universities to design, implement, and optimize Workday deployments across HR, finance, and student information systems. The company was founded in 2016 by Mike Duffield and Bill Wilson, both former Workday employees. Alchemy operates with a library of pre-built integrations, data conversion scripts, and business process templates designed to reduce implementation effort and cost. Beyond go-live, the firm provides production support, end-user training, and optimization services. The customer base is concentrated in higher education; the team is structured around deep Workday expertise and change management for campus-wide adoption.
Alchemy is a specialist in Workday implementation and optimization for higher education institutions. The company focuses on deploying Workday Student, HCM, and Financials; designing integrations; managing legacy data conversion; and providing post-implementation support and training.
Alchemy's primary focus is Workday. The tech stack shows exposure to Ellucian, SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft, likely in integration and interoperability contexts with customer infrastructure, but Workday is the core competency.
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