Manjit Singh, CIO of Chiquita Brands, on why he chose Workday

Does your IT team spend too much time and money on implementation, maintenance, upgrades and support of a system that′s 15 years old?

On-premise ERP applications have outlived their usefulness. You can′t run the business of today on a 15-year-old platform that′s inflexible and costs a fortune in maintenance, upgrades, bolt-ons, and IT support. The world is evolving and so is the technology to support it.

Workday Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions can help you dramatically reduce the cost of your IT infrastructure while providing innovation at a pace equivalent to that of your business:

  • Through configuration options—not low-level code customizations—Workday HR and Financial Management can support the unique business needs of your company and change them on the fly as your business needs evolve.
  • With a modern and intuitive user interface, users can learn the system easily, requiring less help and assistance from IT.
  • As a software-as-a-service provider, Workday owns the hardware, middleware, and software so you don’t have to. Deployments and updates are much faster and easier than what is required to upgrade a traditional ERP system.
  • Updates are released a few times a year, and all customers utilize the latest version. This means you will always be using the latest, most advanced tools available. You’ll never be stuck using or paying for maintenance for a system that was designed for last generation's business needs.

Workday can help your IT team get away from tedious maintenance on a broken system and get back to focusing on projects that are strategic to your business.

More information on the technology and innovation of Workday versus on-premise ERP:

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Is your on-premise system rigid and fragile? Is it helping or hindering the business?

You and your team should not be limited by your technology. While traditional ERP systems claim to be flexible, once they are customized, any change to the initial settings becomes extremely risky. That′s why Workday is designed to be configurable and reconfigurable at any time. Your business isn’t static, so your technology shouldn’t be either.

With Workday, the following tasks are accomplished in a minimum number of steps:

  • Reorganize reporting hierarchies without coding or IT intervention, and without breaking reports, processes, or other internal structures.
  • Configure business processes not only for your company as a whole but also by specific organization within your company. Different regions, departments, or teams may require special handling of specific processes. Workday can support all of them.
  • Track spend and revenue by tagging entries instead of asking IT for another chart field. Workday doesn’t utilize a static, clumsy chart of accounts. Instead, by using a special feature called Worktags, you can track and report on expenses by any project, team, or activity occurring in your company.

Workday is unique because it expects and welcomes changes to the system, and can handle the true nature of business in the real world. Can your traditional ERP system do that?

More information on Workday′s agility:

Whitepaper: Configurability Over Customization  Webinar: Eliminate the High Cost of Integration

ERP lifecycle costs are unpredictable because of unforeseen patches, upgrades, and implementations. And where is the innovation?

Planning an IT budget is almost impossible with traditional on-premise applications. You never know when your systems will need a patch, upgrade, or a team of third-party consultants. Workday has a predictable, subscription-based delivery model, which means our customers are always on the most current version. SaaS solutions can save companies money, implement faster, and reduce complexity by:

  • Reducing costs by eliminating the need to support your own hardware in-house.
  • Regularly applying upgrades as part of the service fee, without enormous upgrade and maintenance costs.
  • Focusing on configuration—not customization—of the software.
  • Using a subscription-based service as an incentive to maintain a productive working relationship.

Workday makes costs predictable and continually delivers new, innovative value over time.

More information on the cost benefits of Workday:

Webinar: New Economics of Enterprise Software  Report: The ROI of SaaS by Forrester Research