Workday is a leader in cloud-based enterprise software solutions. It provides unified human capital management, payroll, and financial management applications designed for modern organizations. Over 280 customers, from medium-sized to Fortune 50 companies, use Workday. It offers lower costs, rapid deployment, continuous innovation, and a consumer-like user experience compared to traditional on-premise software.

1. About Workday
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Why Workday?
solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership • Real, enterprise-class SaaS
• Built for the global enterprise
with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft
• Consumer Internet-like user experience
veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday provides unified Human
• Embedded real-time analytics
Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed
• Modern and adaptive technology
for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud and foundation
leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative • Leadership with a proven track record
to traditional solutions. More than 280 customers, spanning medium-sized • Commitment to customers
organizations to Fortune 50 businesses, have selected Workday.
Key Benefits
• Faster time to value and rapid delivery
of innovation
“I started Workday to bring passion • Predictable and on-going cost savings
and customer focus back to the • Agility at the speed of business
• Global business management and
business of enterprise applications.” visibility
• Higher user adoption and empowerment
Dave Duffield, Co-founder & CEO, Workday
• Improved HR, Finance, and IT
productivity
Real SaaS: A New Day, A Better Way Workday Solutions
Workday was started with a very simple premise: We can do better. • Human Capital Management
Using the latest technologies available, Workday is able to provide your ◦◦ Global Human Resources
organization with advantages that were never possible with heavyweight, Management
◦◦ Global Talent Management
rigid on-premise systems.
• Payroll
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership ◦◦ Workday Payroll for U.S. and Canada
SaaS is the latest evolution of technology delivery models that can provide ◦◦ Payroll Co-Sourcing Services
cost savings and additional business value to your organization. With ◦◦ Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll
SaaS, there is no hardware, software, middleware, database, or business • Project and Work Management
intelligence tools to buy, install, or maintain. Enterprise applications can be ◦◦ Project and Work Tracking
accessed anytime, anywhere, via the Internet, shifting the cost and burden ◦◦ Job Costing
◦◦ Resource Management
of managing the underlying IT infrastructure and operations from you, the
• Spend Management
customer, to Workday.
◦◦ Procurement
• Rapid Deployment and Faster Time to Value ◦◦ Expenses
Gone are the elongated implementations and endless upgrade cycles of ◦◦ Contingent Labor
traditional on-premise ERP. Workday deployments can start immediately • Financial Management
and are delivered on time and on budget—a track record almost unheard ◦◦ Core Finance
of with legacy on-premise applications. Through the SaaS delivery model, ◦◦ Revenue Management
Workday’s solutions are less complex, more cost-effective, and much ◦◦ Business Assets
simpler and faster to deploy. ◦◦ Project Accounting

2. • Continuous Innovation and Adoption
Workday eliminates the cost and complexity associated
with traditional upgrades by rapidly delivering easy-to-
adopt updates three times a year. By providing smaller,
more easily consumable updates, Workday gives you
the ability to control the rate of functionality absorbed.
There is no risk of becoming locked on outdated versions
of an application.
• Enterprise-Class Security and Operations
Workday is a trusted partner for large enterprises
wanting to take advantage of the many benefits of SaaS.
Rest easy knowing that Workday adheres to the highest
standards and continually passes the toughest third-party
security audits and certifications in the industry, including
ISO 27001, SAS70 Type II, and Safe Harbor. From world
class data center operations to rigorous physical, network,
application, and data level-security, Workday ensures
the safety of your sensitive data with enterprise-class themselves, their company, or their work—all from a
reliability and performance. single, unified system. Workers can also get instant
access to the system through their mobile devices,
Built for the Global Enterprise including the iPhone®, the iPad®, or any other device
No longer do you need to implement multiple instances with a web browser. All Workday mobile apps adhere to
of your applications to support differing languages, the exact same security protocols and provide the same
currencies, formats, or regulations. Workday starts streamlined, easy-to-use interface.
from a foundation that assumes a globally distributed
organization and workforce. An adaptable global core Embedded Real-Time Analytics
supports everything your business needs to manage Workday inherently comes with the ability to view, analyze,
your company efficiently as a whole while still adhering and take action on data right from the source—without the
to local requirements. With Workday, you can increase need for an additional bolt-on analytics system. By utilizing
visibility into your global workforce and financial results, the data that is already stored in the system, business
align people and work to business objectives, and users and administrators alike can access the information
optimize your talent deployment around the world. they need to perform their jobs more effectively. IT can be
freed from the tedious task of writing queries and running
Consumer Web 2.0 User Experience reports, but still be confident users can only create reports
A modern, simple-to-understand user interface facilitates on data they have permission to see.
rapid end-user adoption, enabling even the novice user
Contextual information is available to inform immediate
to get around the system with minimal training. Workday
business process decisions, and most aggregated numbers
provides a consumer Internet-like user experience to
can be drilled into for more detail. By presenting
deliver strategic insights that are actionable by managers
information when it’s relevant and removing the barriers
and improve operating results. Administrators and
to action, Workday can help your workforce be better
executives around the globe can get status updates in real
informed, make informed choices, and get business done
time, and employees can quickly access information about
more efficiently.

3. Modern and Adaptive Technology Foundation
Today’s enterprises are constantly evolving to keep up with
changing regulations, economic tides, and an increasingly
distributed and mobile workforce. Rigid, complex ERP
systems simply weren’t designed to keep pace with today’s
businesses and therefore struggle to do so. Workday can
grow, change, and evolve to support the needs of your
global enterprise. No coding is ever required because
configuration options are simple to set up or maintain
by any business user with the appropriate permissions.
Human Capital Management (HCM)
Workday accomplishes this adaptability by leveraging
Workday Human Capital Management is the leading
several technology innovations. Thanks to objects,
enterprise-ready, unified HR and Talent Management
Workday can represent real-world entities—employees,
cloud solution on the market today. By combining HR
benefits, budgets, organizations, etc.—so you can
and Talent Management in the same solution, Workday
avoid the technical complexity of trying to manage
can provide you with unique insights and capabilities
a relational database. Workday also leverages in-
unavailable in standalone solutions.
memory data management for speed and efficiency as
well as standardized web services—today’s standard
• Global Human Resources Management
for inter-system communication—so data can be easily
Workday Global Human Resource Management is
communicated with other applications.
designed to help you organize, staff, and pay your
Additionally, Workday delivers a powerful business process global workforce.
configuration tool that enables you to define business
◦◦ Workforce Lifecycle Management
processes and rules and ensure they are adhered to. You
◦◦ Organization Management
can establish consistency across organizations or address
◦◦ Compensation Management
specific needs in different organizations. You can also
◦◦ Absence Management
easily reconfigure business processes at any time. Finally,
◦◦ Benefits Administration
you can monitor and audit all of your business processes
◦◦ Cloud Connect for Benefits
and transaction statuses to ensure control, visibility, and
compliance throughout your entire global organization.
• Global Talent Management
Workday Global Talent Management works seamlessly
Workday Solutions with Workday Global Human Resource Management to
Workday delivers business management solutions that let you align, assess, reward, and develop your
take advantage of the best of what today’s technology workforce—all from a single, unified solution.
has to offer.
◦◦ Onboarding
◦◦ Goal Management
◦◦ Performance Management
◦◦ Succession Planning
◦◦ Career and Development Planning

4. Payroll Solutions Spend Management
Workday offers multiple payroll options to meet your Companies spend a significant portion of their operating
global payroll needs. From an advanced, innovative costs on goods, services, contingent labor, and other
approach to U.S. and Canadian payroll, to partnerships employee-related expenses. Workday Spend Management
and integration with leading global payroll providers, you enables organizations to gain optimal control and
can effectively and accurately pay your people anywhere visibility over organizational spend.
around the world with Workday Payroll Solutions. ◦◦ Procurement
◦◦ Employee Expense Management
• Workday Payroll allows you to group employees,
manage calculation rules, and pay employees in the ◦◦ Contingent Labor
U.S. and Canada, according to their organizational,
policy, and reporting needs. Financial Management
• Payroll Co-Sourcing Services are now available Workday Financial Management helps organizations
through OneSource VHR to help you securely and achieve high levels of business performance and
confidently pay your workers while outsourcing financial excellence by providing a full range of financial
settlement services, tax administration, and garnishment capabilities, relevant analytics, real-time business
administration to a trusted service provider. insights, and fully auditable process management.
• Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll allows companies ◦◦ Core Finance
to more easily build and maintain integrations with ◦◦ Revenue Management
third-party payroll solutions. ◦◦ Business Assets
◦◦ Project Accounting
Project and Work Management
Workday Project and Work Management allows you to Don’t Be Left Behind
focus on all of the critical components that make your Workday is reinventing business applications to help
company successful. By utilizing Workday as the system- organizations run more effectively. If your organization
of-record for the work being done in your company, you is feeling constricted by legacy systems, consider the
can seamlessly link strategy, people, work, and results. advantages you can reap by adopting a unified, global
business management solution. With an innovative, fresh
◦◦ Project and Work Tracking
foundation and a SaaS delivery model, you can invest in a
◦◦ Job Costing
solution that can grow and adapt with your organization
◦◦ Resource Management
over time. Leave behind the legacy systems of the past
and forge into the future with Workday.
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