Customer Case Studies

“Simple” may not be the word that comes to mind for an organization of over 4 million members offering an array of services from emergency roadside assistance to insurance to travel services. Yet simplicityand a focus on membership are the central themes for AAA Northern California, Nevada, and Utah. Siobhan McFeeney, CFO for the organization, repeats these two themes to describe AAA’s business approach and why it turned to Workday — and how it saved an estimated 60 percent over its legacy ERP system.

Inverness Medical is a major global provider of advanced consumer and professional medical diagnostic products that target more than 100 different disease states or conditions.

A public company devoted to helping discover, preserve, and share family histories clearly has a strong interest in people. And as its presence began to spread across the globe, Ancestry.com turned to Workday to help bring all its people together—and to gain a solution that could efficiently support the company’s global growth.

Aviva is one of the world's largest insurance companies, with 46,000 employees in 28 countries. The London-based company's strategy is to operate as a single global organization that rapidly responds to customer needs.

Brown University, an Ivy League institution located in Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1764. While Brown is the seventh oldest college in the country, it's recognized for a unique and modern curriculum and learning philosophy. The Brown community includes approximately 8,400 students, 700 faculty, and 3,000 staff members.

CareerBuilder.com is the nation's largest online job site with more than 22 million unique visitors and 1.5 million jobs. More than 300,000 employers take advantage of CareerBuilder.com's easy job postings, 23 million resumes, Diversity Channel and more.

Medical technology leader CareFusion has an ambitious mission: to improve the safety and lower the cost of health care for generations to come. With such iconic clinical brands as Pyxis® dispensing and Alaris® infusion products, the company is well positioned and already doing just that.

Powered by a brand name found in households around the world, Chiquita Brands International is a leading international marketer, producer and distributor of quality fresh fruit, processed fruit and vegetable products.

Colleges and universities cherish individuality. Every institution is different, and all contain schools and units with distinctions of their own. But there is still a drive to efficiency, especially in this era of diminishing resources. How do you combine the decentralized requirements of a university with its need to operate more effectively?

A venerable technology company with its roots deep in the innovative spirit of Silicon Valley, Fairchild has always been very good at looking to the future. And when it was time to jettison its outdated HR systems, that’s what Fairchild did.

"Simplicity drives execution." According to Mike McNamara, CEO of one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, this sums up the reason Flextronics chose Workday.

As the world leader in thermal imaging, CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives) detection, and integrated surveillance systems, FLIR knows about looking inside. And when it came time to look inside its own global workforce, FLIR turned to Workday Human Capital Management to gain the visibility necessary to better manage its highly trained staff.

Georgetown University, founded in 1789, is a major international research university that includes four undergraduate schools, graduate programs, a law school and a medical school. Based in Washington, DC, the university employs 7,000 staff and faculty members and uses hundreds of contractors. In July 2010, Georgetown University became Workday’s first customer in higher education.

H.B. Fuller has a rich history, which began in 1887 in Minnesota with one man's vision. Today, the adhesives provider is just as forward-thinking, with a reach that extends around the globe to 43 countries and a worldwide workforce more than 4,000 strong.

When it comes to getting in shape, Life Time Fitness, "The Healthy Way of Life Company," is the expert. When the company wanted to get its HR, payroll, and financial infrastructure in order, Life Time Fitness turned to Workday.

Before discovering Workday, McKee maintained and supported a 14-year old ERP system for its human resources and payroll management. Once state of the art, the system had become cumbersome and difficult to use as the company’s needs changed and as employees increasingly leveraged the Web to get work done.

A privately held, family-run company relies on trust—the trust of its customers, its employees, and its suppliers and partners. The trust between McKee Foods and Workday has led to an extraordinary ROI for McKee Foods and an appreciative, strategic customer for Workday.

With 27,000 employees around the world and a portfolio of well-known brands, the company is moving aggressively into emerging markets and needs to keep costs in line while strategically cultivating talent. That’s why they turned to Workday Human Capital Management.

Through its products for and services to the aerospace, defense, and security industries, QinetiQ North America uses its people and knowledge to make the world safer.

As part of the company’s "Capability" agenda, the Rentokil Initial team had some decisions to make. Would they bring in a large HR staff? Would they build an on-premise software system, hiring the IT staff that would be required? Or would they invest in a next-generation HR system that would support the business most effectively?

With 47,700 customers, salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). The company’s portfolio of SaaS applications includes an award-winning CRM solution. Its Force.com PaaS enables companies to build their own powerful on-demand applications to meet specific business needs.

Education is vital to our future, which is why Sallie Mae is always looking toward the future to offer tuition payment plans, savings tools, and education loans to its 23 million customers. And looking toward the future is why Sallie Mae chose Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management as its unified platform.

The state of Nebraska, with 80 government agencies and 18,000 employees (22,000 in the summer), went looking for a talent management solution. What they found was Workday Human CapitalManagement—and a way to streamline all their HR processes into one easy-to-use, cost-effective system.

As a legendary provider of security, storage, and systems management solutions—and the home of the iconic Norton security brand—Symantec has long placed an emphasis on effective, innovative technology.

A genuine game-changer in the world of travel planning, TripAdvisor believes in moving fast. "We're really interested in delivering the best we can for our visitors to the web site, as quickly as possible," according to Stephen Kaufer, president and CEO of TripAdvisor. They call their philosophy "speed wins." And that's why they chose Workday.

A company that began in gold mining and became a global leader in laboratory supplies distribution knows something about how to transform itself. So, when the time came to transition to a new HR system, at VWR International, LLC knew they needed to embrace the future as they had done many times before. That’s why they turned to Workday Human Capital Management.

As one of the world's most popular web destinations, Yahoo! is an expert in helping people find what they want. So it’s no surprise that when HR leadership went searching for a new approach to managing the company’s HR organization, they found exactly what they were looking for: Workday Human Capital Management (HCM).