WORKDAY WHITEPAPERS

Simplify HR to Drive Performance >>

Real Strategies from Real Workday Customers
Global organizations must be responsive to market realities to drive performance, whether those realities are new government regulations, healthcare reform, business model shifts, or industry upswings and downturns. What are the best steps to take to prepare for these inevitabilities?

Cloud Computing - A Silver Bullet for Finance? >>

The benefits of cloud computing—a high return on investment, greater staff efficiencies, optimization of IT resources, and enhanced visibility and access to information—have piqued the interest of CFOs and finance leaders who are actively evaluating the risks versus the rewards of the cloud delivery model.

Predict and Prepare for 2012 >>

Workday's Predict and Prepare for 2012 webinar featured four prominent experts in the HR and IT industries: Jason Averbook of Knowledge Infusion, Naomi Bloom of Bloom & Wallace, and R "Ray" Wang of Constellation Research Group.

Webster Buchanan Research Briefing Paper >>

A new briefing paper published by Webster Buchanan Research examines the evolution of SaaS in multi-country payroll, explaining the business implications of different approaches and exploring both the potential benefits and concerns.

Cloud Computing for Public Sector >>

In this report, we take a deep dive into the evolution of cloud computing technology, identify emerging trends, and hear the exciting implications cloud computing has for the future of service delivery.

Taking Measure of Talent >>

This Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper, sponsored by Workday, focuses on effective management of your human capital and gaining insight into your workforce's skill, knowledge, and experience through technology. As business models change, the pressure to leverage the true value of your human capital and better understand your talent management grows.

Visibility, Alignment, & Optimization, Part III: Workforce Optimization >>

Organizations committed to workforce visibility, alignment, and optimization are well positioned to dominate in the new economy. These high-performing organizations achieve their goals via a unified human resource management, performance management, and financial management solution. They are responsive and adaptable to market realities, create a culture that is skilled at optimizing talent, and are ready to outperform their competition.

Cloud Computing in Higher Education >>

This whitepaper outlines how cloud computing can meet the needs of truly global higher education institutions that employ faculty and staff around the world and can handle everything from complex payroll needs to multi-entity organizational requirements.

Innovation in Financial Management >>

Legacy financial management systems were not built to provide the kind of visibility and agility required by today's businesses. Sure, they can crank out financial statements, but it is virtually impossible to get real-time operational insight without purchasing and maintaining a huge and complex ERP technology infrastructure.

Workforce Alignment: Turn your Organization’s Defining Resource into a Competitive Advantage >>

Read the whitepaper to gain insight into how you can achieve true alignment within your organization.

Business-Driven Configurability >>

The flexibility of a system is measured in the ease of the initial application deployment. The agility of a system is measured in its ability to easily adapt post-implementation to the changing needs of the business. This document highlights the flexibility and agility of Workday business-driven configurability versus hard-coded, IT-driven customization required by many traditional ERP deployments.

Business Re-imagined >>

In this report, Brian Sommer, CEO of TechVentive, a leading market-strategy and content firm, discusses the confluence of new technologies that are opening up massive new opportunities for businesses and consumers SaaS.

Workday: A Whole New Approach to the HRMS Marketplace >>

Over the past year, Josh Bersin, principal analyst at Bersin and Associates, talked with three of Workday’s customers about the transformational benefits of adopting a unified HRMS solution.

Workforce Visibility >>

Do you know as much about your employees as you know about your customers, products, or systems? Imagine the organizational transformation that could be possible if HR could provide real-time, actionable insight into the talent of your organization.

10 Critical Requirements for Cloud Applications >>

Growing interest in cloud computing has prompted almost every enterprise software vendor to claim it's "in the cloud."  However, in the industry's rush to fulfill demand, some vendors may skip requirements that are critical to delivering the true benefits of cloud applications.

Winning with Work >>

The U.S. economy has undergone a massive shift—once based in manufacturing, the economy has migrated to services. To win in this environment, companies need to change their thinking. The ability to efficiently and effectively leverage people is what separates the winners from the losers.

The Real SaaS Manifesto >>

Defining "Real SaaS" and how it can benefit your business

Due to the proliferation and incorrect use of the term, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has often been misunderstood by both software vendors and business people. This whitepaper will define the key terms every company should know, understand, and evaluate when considering a SaaS vendor for their business.

Delivering Value to the Business >>

Your current HR systems are holding you back

Why is it so difficult for HR to demonstrate how it affects business growth and profitability? Find out in this whitepaper, written by Leighanne Levensaler, Workday vice president of Human Capital Management (HCM) strategy. In the paper, she discusses what is wrong with current HR systems and the ways they are holding you back. She then explains how Workday’s unified HCM solution helps you optimize your investment in the people doing the work of your organization.

SaaS: Now Serving Large, Complex Enterprises >>

Successfully transitioning from adolescence to adulthood

In this report, Brian Sommer of TechVentive, a leading market-strategy and content firm, outlines the reasons SaaS products are well positioned to grow in large enterprises.

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).

Simplifying Enterprise Integration >>

The Workday Approach: Integration in the Cloud

Workday’s approach integration is simple: connectivity to other applications and resources should be simple to build, deploy, manage, and evolve over time—a significant and long-awaited change from the cost, complexity, and rigidity of connecting to legacy ERP systems.

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.

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.

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. This whitepaper is essential to understanding how a solid system-of-record delivers strategic value to your organization.

Revolutionizing Enterprise Application Deployment >>

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

Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining the lower cost of SaaS with a modern approach to applications. By offering solutions that are less complex, more cost-effective, and simpler to deploy, Workday is transforming business applications altogether.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Innovation & HR—How ERP Has Changed >>

SaaS Takes the Stage

New technology and innovation are forcing companies to rethink their ERP strategy. SaaS is now mainstream—it has emerged as the next generation of technology for companies of all sizes and industries. Learn the reasons why in this informative report.