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Enterprise Class Software as a Service ERP Solutions

Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday provides unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud and leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 200 customers, spanning mid-sized organizations to Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday.

Real SaaS: A New Day, A Better Way

Workday was started with a very simple premise: We can do better. Using the latest technologies available, Workday is able to provide your organization with advantages that were never possible with heavyweight, rigid on-premise systems.

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
  SaaS is the latest evolution of technology delivery models that can provide cost savings and additional business value to your organization. With SaaS, there is no hardware, software, middleware, database, or business intelligence tools to buy, install, or maintain. Enterprise applications can be accessed anytime, anywhere, via the Internet, shifting the cost and burden of managing the underlying IT infrastructure and operations from you, the customer, to Workday.
• Rapid Deployment and Faster Time to Value
  Gone are the elongated implementations and endless upgrade cycles of traditional on-premise ERP. Workday deployments can start immediately and are delivered on time and on budget—a track record almost unheard of with legacy on-premise applications. Through the SaaS delivery model, Workday’s solutions are less complex, more cost-effective, and much simpler and faster to deploy.
• Continuous Innovation and Adoption
  Workday eliminates the cost and complexity associated with traditional upgrades by rapidly delivering easy-toadopt 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 There is no risk of becoming locked on outdated versions of an application.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 reliability and performance.

Built for the Global Enterprise

No longer do you need to implement multiple instances of your applications to support differing languages, currencies, formats, or regulations. Workday starts from a foundation that assumes a globally distributed organization and workforce. An adaptable global core supports everything your business needs to manage your company efficiently as a whole while still adhering to local requirements. With Workday, you can increase visibility into your global workforce and financial results, align people and work to business objectives, and optimize your talent deployment around the world.

Consumer Web 2.0 User Experience

A modern, simple-to-understand user interface facilitates rapid end-user adoption, enabling even the novice user to get around the system with minimal training. Workday provides a consumer Internet-like user experience to deliver strategic insights that are actionable by managers and improve operating results. Administrators and executives around the globe can get status updates in real time, and employees can quickly access information about themselves, their company, or their work—all from a single, unified system.

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Workers can also get instant access to the system through their mobile devices, including the iPhone®, the iPad®, or any other device with a web browser. All Workday mobile apps adhere to the exact same security protocols and provide the same streamlined, easy-to-use interface.

Embedded Real-Time Analytics

Workday inherently comes with the ability to view, analyze, and take action on data right from the source—without the need for an additional bolt-on analytics system. By utilizing the data that is already stored in the system, business users and administrators alike can access the information they need to perform their jobs more effectively. IT can be freed from the tedious task of writing queries and running reports, but still be confident users can only create reports on data they have permission to see.

Contextual information is available to inform immediate business process decisions, and most aggregated numbers can be drilled into for more detail. By presenting information when it’s relevant and removing the barriers to action, Workday can help your workforce be better informed, make informed choices, and get business done more efficiently.

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.

Workday accomplishes this adaptability by leveraging several technology innovations. Thanks to objects, Workday can represent real-world entities—employees, benefits, budgets, organizations, etc.—so you can avoid the technical complexity of trying to manage a relational database. Workday also leverages in-memory data management for speed and efficiency as well as standardized web services—today’s standard for inter-system communication—so data can be easily communicated with other applications.

Additionally, Workday delivers a powerful business process configuration tool that enables you to define business processes and rules and ensure they are adhered to. You can establish consistency across organizations or address specific needs in different organizations. You can also easily reconfigure business processes at any time. Finally, you can monitor and audit all of your business processes and transaction statuses to ensure control, visibility, and compliance throughout your entire global organization.

Don’t Be Left Behind

Workday is reinventing business applications to help organizations run more effectively. If your organization is feeling constricted by legacy systems, consider the advantages you can reap by adopting a unified, global business management solution. With an innovative, fresh foundation and a SaaS delivery model, you can invest in a solution that can grow and adapt with your organization over time. Leave behind the legacy systems of the past and forge into the future with Workday.