ForestAdmin vs Workday

ForestAdmin (Forest Admin provides an off-the-shelf admin panel based on a highly-extensible API plugged into your application.) and Workday both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ForestAdmin (rank #165) holds a narrow lead over Workday (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (51 vs 46). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ForestAdmin is ahead of Workday. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Workday is slightly ahead of ForestAdmin. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Workday is ahead of ForestAdmin. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), ForestAdmin is slightly ahead of Workday. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Workday is slightly ahead of ForestAdmin.

ForestAdmin carries 3,415 GitHub stars across 87 public repos, with 14 repositories active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors on record. Workday shows 1,102 stars across 57 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ForestAdmin's footprint is roughly 3.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ForestAdmin is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Workday looks better where community is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.