Which feature allows you to include external data from integrations into reports?

• A. Custom Fields
• B. Matrix Report
• C. Standard Data Sources
• D. Simple Report

Answer: (A)

External data from integrations needs a place to live inside Workday so reports can read it. Custom fields provide that place by extending a Workday object with new data elements that an integration can populate. Once the integration writes values into a custom field, that field becomes a first-class part of the object's data, and you can include it in any report just like standard attributes.

Matrix reports and Simple reports are about how data is presented, not how external data gets into Workday. Standard Data Sources define where data comes from within Workday, but they don’t inherently bring in external integration data unless that data has been captured in a Workday field. So the mechanism that makes external integration data available to reports is the custom field.