Business Intelligence

Workday Business Intelligence is built into Workday's solutions, enabling users to directly access, analyze and take action on current business information directly from Workday without the expense and hassle of bolt-on business intelligence solutions. Workday reports provide multi-dimensional drill down on data, charting and filtering capability, and the ability to take action directly from the report. Workday provides hundreds of packaged reports and the ability to create custom reports. The result is that users across the company—from line managers to HR and Finance power users—can find, analyze and take action directly from the data in Workday.

Built-In Business Intelligence

Traditional applications were designed to gather transactional data and produce reports that satisfied after-the-fact HR and financial regulatory reporting requirements. An entire Business Intelligence industry came into existence because the ERP systems where the data was generated did not build the business intelligence capabilities today's enterprises need. The result is expensive, hard-to-access data that business users can't access when and where they need it.

Workday believes a business management system should provide the business intelligence you need, where you need it. With Workday, you can get accurate head counts, allocate costs, calculate results and analyze data from an unlimited number of business dimensions. And executives, managers and knowledge workers alike can take action on decisions directly in the Workday system.

Intelligence where you need it, when you need it.

Workday Business Intelligence is fully embedded throughout Workday's solutions—both in reports and directly in-line—and is requires minimal training. The data business users expect to view and dissect is presented alongside transactional and business process information.

Workday Business Intelligence includes:

• Secure access to data. Reports are generated using the role-based security and business logic built into Workday's Object Management Server (OMS). There is no direct ("SQL") access to data.
• Hundreds of packaged reports. Workday's Business Services contain hundreds of packaged reports. These reports are accessible as related tasks in context as you navigate (through search) or from menus.
• Custom report creation. Workday customers can create their own reports or Worklets, using Workday's report writer, without having to go to a third-party tool. Custom reports may be private or shared with one or a list of other users.

• Take action via links and related tasks. All reports and Worklets include the ability to click on a hyperlink to receive details about a piece of data on the report or to click on the related task icon to take action related to a piece of data on the report.
• Embedded graphics. By choosing to graph numeric data in grids, customers can analyze data in reports. All grids containing numbers can be converted to graphs at the push of a button. Worklets can be set to display grid data graphically by default.
• Drill down on numbers. Select reports allow drill down on aggregate numbers (sums, counts, averages). Users click on the number to see details or click on an icon near the number to see dimensions in which they can drill down.
• Seamlessly link to personal productivity tools. All reports may be exported to either PDF or Excel with a single click.