Predict and Prepare

Top 10 Predictions for HR in 2010

What’s in store for HR organizations in 2010? In a follow-up to Workday’s Predict and Prepare Webinar, we are offering a Predict and Prepare whitepaper that offers the predictions of three leading analysts—R “Ray” Wang (Altimeter Group), Naomi Bloom (Bloom & Wallace), and Jason Averbook (Knowledge Infusion)—for this year (and beyond).

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Integration On-Demand

Don't shoulder the heavy weight of integration alone

Workday is committed to helping customers solve their enterprise systems integration problems. Read this whitepaper to learn how Workday applies the strict use of open standards, provides complete integration solutions to leading vendors, and includes easy-to-use tools that help solve common integration use-cases.

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The Continuous Innovation Advantage of Software-As-A-Service

Jason Corsello, Knowledge Infusion

This report defines the next-generation system-of-record, outlining the changes and challenges with current technology and discusses how continuous innovation has now become critical for any “new” system of record. The result: SaaS-based ERP solutions now offer a compelling advantage for companies looking for a more flexible and innovative path to managing their workforce. Today’s reality is that shrinking budgets combined with great demand for workforce insight make it difficult and economically-unfeasible for companies to continue to invest in legacy ERP systems.

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The ROI of Software-As-A-Service

A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Long-Term Value

Companies switching to software-as-a-service (SaaS) realize the short-term cost benefits over traditional on-premise applications. However, many organizations wonder if the value of SaaS continues. Is SaaS a long-term win as well? A recent report from Forrester Research, “The ROI of Software-As-A-Service,” examined a range of companies that chose SaaS solutions and found that SaaS does in fact result in long-term value.

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Configure or Customize

Workday’s New Approach to Optimizing Business Applications

With Workday, business systems can be configured to fit the business. This means the configuration happens more quickly and without the need to involve programmers, Workday professional services, or third-party consultants. In this paper, we examine the high cost of making and supporting customizations to client/server-based applications as well as the differences between configuration and customization.

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System-of-Record - Human Resource Management at a Crossroad

Naomi Bloom examines the "HR Leader's Dilemma"

How do HR leaders deliver human resource management at the lowest responsible cost while retaining the best balance of quality, risk, and positive organizational impact? Find out in the complimentary whitepaper, written by Naomi Bloom, Managing Partner at Bloom & Wallace and leading independent voice, strategy consultant, and thought leader in the HR technology. This whitepaper is essential to understanding how a solid system-of-record delivers strategic value to your organization.

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Revolutionizing Enterprise Application Deployment

How SaaS and the Next Generation of Technology Can Change the Game

Learn how Workday is delivering a completely new paradigm in total cost of ownership that is untouchable by ERP vendors. In this paper, we discuss how Workday is transforming implementations by offering solutions that are less complex, more cost-effective, and much simpler to deploy than traditional ERP.

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Moving Beyond Monolithic

What’s Next for Enterprise Application Architectures?

In this whitepaper, Workday CTO Stan Swete reviews the current state of enterprise application architecture and presents a prediction on what might come next. In addition, he outlines Workday’s vision for human resource management application architectures based on a core system-of-record.

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Total Cost of Ownership

Craft a Strategy to Lower Your Total Cost of Ownership

The current economic crisis is driving companies to assess their present and planned HR footprint in an effort to identify cost savings and business improvement opportunities. The purpose of this white paper is to provide a road map for assessing the total cost of ownership of your HR technology footprint and to support building a business case to improve it.

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Performance Management in a Challenging Economy

Back to Basics with Workday

With identification, retention, and development of top talent a priority, HR teams are looking for ways to deploy and manage successful Performance Management software programs while helping the organization save money.

By choosing a Performance Management system that is seamlessly tied to the core HR software system-of-record, organizations can also save significant expense.

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Shape Your Apps Strategy to Reflect New SaaS Licensing and
Pricing Trends

In this Forrester Research report, R "Ray" Wang discusses:

Forrester’s review of 11 vendors in SaaS enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) confirms that, motivated by heavy competition for new customers, these resource management software vendors remain vigilant in mitigating such end-user concerns. In fact, SaaS vendors continue to improve and refine subscription models for new buying scenarios beyond cost/user/month.

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Global at the Core

The business and technology benefits of Workday’s global approach to enterprise applications.

In this whitepaper we discuss:

• The truth hurts: Global business can’t be served by legacy applications
• Workday: SaaS solutions designed for global organizations
• HR Software with a world view: Key tenets of Workday
• How we do it: Workday’s global solution delivery

 

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The Workday User Experience

Workday Re-invents the User Experience in Enterprise Applications.

In this whitepaper we discuss:

• Provide your enterprise with applications that everyone can use
• Redistribute responsibility for data management across the enterprise
• Shift application management responsibility out of IT
• Nurture a culture of insight and action, delivering a competitive advantage to your enterprise

 

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Nothing Short of Revolutionary

Four Steps toward More Effective Enterprise Finance

Workday reinvents Financial Management technology to better serve CFOs and business. In this white paper we discuss:

• The Gap Widens: Why Traditional ERP Systems Fail CFOs
• From Here to Modernity: How Workday is Changing Enterprise Financial Management
• How Workday Fundamentally Improves Enterprise Finance

 

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Innovation from the Ground Up

The Next Generation of Enterprise Business Solutions

This paper describes -- in three steps -- the approach we are taking to create the next generation of enterprise business solutions "from the ground up."

• Step 1 - Start with SaaS (Software-as-a Service)
• Step 2 - Use a modern application framework
• Step 3 - Model the business not the data

 

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From Applications to Services

The Shift to On-Demand

In this whitepaper we review:

• How current on-premise software solutions fall well short of meeting today's business needs.
• How object technology provides flexibility for your business
• How the current tools and applications companies rely on to remain competitive and adapt to rapid change fall well short of what's needed.
• The cost advantages of Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS, versus traditional on-premise solutions.

 

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Redefining Enterprise Software

Human Capital Management for today's information-driven company

In this whitepaper we review:

• What changes are impacting business and human capital management today and how the HR department and its resource management systems need to respond
• How existing enterprise systems do not solve today's business challenges
• What today's workforce expects from their business systems
• What's required in a modern HR software system
• What your new HR system allows you to accomplish
• How your enterprise can maximize its workforce to be competitive