A new technology curve changes how business applications are implemented.

Workday is changing the game. Gone are the elongated implementations and endless upgrade cycles experienced by customers of traditional on-premise ERP vendors. With Workday, companies don’t need to purchase additional hardware and servers, install and tune database software, or physically install the application software. By leveraging the new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology delivery model, Workday is transforming implementations altogether, offering solutions that are less complex, more cost-effective, and much simpler to deploy.

In order to take full advantage of the SaaS delivery model, Workday realized it had to develop its applications on new core technologies that addressed the key weaknesses of legacy ERP applications. Workday could not simply create another relational database management system (RDBMS) system. It had to be radically different. It had to be:

• Powered by a multi-tenant architecture
• Developed on an object-oriented database
• Built with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Workday Solution Center:

• Workday controls the schedule, deliverables, and performs the “heavy lifting”
• Uses a controlled scope/limited integrations approach
• Requires a minimal footprint in terms of customer resources
• Offers a fixed fee option
• A “high touch” model that is focused on knowledge transfer and the customer’s self sufficiency

An example of a company choosing the Workday Solution Center approach is StoneRiver (formerly Fiserv), which came to Workday with a complex business requirement. They were being divested from their parent company and needed to be off their existing system and up and running on a new system in roughly two months. They had resource constraints, needed to be into production quickly, and preferred a structured deployment schedule that Workday would help control. Workday accepted the challenge, bringing StoneRiver into production with core business functions in 38 business days, from kick off to go-live.

For customers like StoneRiver, the Workday Solution Center makes the most sense because it focuses on cost containment, a rapid time to value, knowledge transfer, and developing a Workday expert on the StoneRiver team. The average deployment timeframe within the Solution Center is approximately 90 days with 100 percent of projects coming in on time and on budget.

Workday Rapid Application Deployment

For customers who prefer to deploy the solution on their own timeline and schedule, Workday offers a more traditional, equally flexible delivery model. Customers still leverage the Workday Rapid Application Deployment methodology, but they are able to adjust the schedule and milestones to meet their specific business needs.

A company that chooses the more traditional Rapid Application Deployment approach will likely have an experienced deployment team, a specific set of functional requirements, and the desire to achieve a rapid time to value for their deployment.

Workday will work arm-in-arm with the customer to get them into production with core business functions (including Compensation Management, Performance Management, Employee and Manager Self Service, and the Core HR business processes) as quickly as possible, often in as little as 90 days.

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