Transforming the Manager and Employee Experience in HR and Financials
Workday redefines the user experience for employees and managers with Workday 9, by offering new optional homepages and streamlined business processes that work more like consumer web sites than traditional enterprise applications. Workday 9 also delivers new project management and goal tracking capabilities, mobile applications for the Blackberry, iPhone, and other smartphones, as well as support for 197 countries.
New Employee and Manager Experiences
- Simple, graphical access to key capabilities people need such as compensation, talent management, staffing, compensation, personal details, and reporting.
- Pages are role-based and customizable, so companies and users can select the functionality they want based on individual requirements.
- Comment threads utilize a Facebook-like visual structure, allowing employees to collaborate more effectively and provide context to speed execution and improve decision-making.
- Improved employee satisfaction with the new optional user homepage, and increased success rate of completing important business processes.
User Experience Whitepaper | Employee Experience Demo
Streamlined Business Processes & Analytical Tools
- Simplified business processes empower users to complete tasks, such as staffing and compensation, more quickly and accurately. Advanced users, such as managers, have easy access to additional information to help them make more informed decisions.
- Accelerated inbox handling and approvals make it simple for busy managers to quickly access, organize, and take action on groups of processes awaiting review or approval.
- Expanded business intelligence includes new calculated fields that allow organizations to establish unique metrics for operational measurement and to trigger business processes.
Manager Experience Demo | Calculated Fields Demo
Projects & Goals
- Workday 9 tracks individual, team, and corporate goals, projects, and results to help organizations track and optimize business performance.
- New Project Management capabilities lets managers and employees track projects, workers, project budgets and spend details.
- Managers can also see projects as a component of a worker’s skills and abilities in order to determine both qualifications and real-time availability.
- Goal tracking includes weighting, the inclusion of goals as part of the review process, and configurable reporting.
Workday Projects: Performance Meets the Bottom Line Demo
Global & Mobile Accessibility
- Workday mobile is now available for Blackberry and all smartphones with a browser.
- Support for multiple jobs, which enables organizations to manage and track employees that regularly work across different roles in an organization.
- Support for 197 countries, including country codes, region definitions and formatting. Workday customers are currently using our solutions across more than 50 countries worldwide.

