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Workday and Netflix

Netflix is the world’s leading internet television network with over 109 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries, and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause, and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments.

Workday products: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Expenses, Payroll, Procurement, Time Tracking, Extend

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We needed a cloud-based solution, truly cloud-based, adaptable and flexible.

Director of International Finance

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Shome Mukherjee:	Netflix is a streaming internet television provider. We have a presence is 50 countries and we are going live with another 50-plus in the next year.
Riaan du Preez:	As the leading internet streaming company out there, we are expanding globally pretty quickly, so Workday is helping us achieve that by scaling our resources. One of the main reasons we chose Workday was because it's in the cloud, and it's a multi-tenant SaaS. There are a lot of other companies out there that say they're in the cloud when in reality, that's not true because it's mostly a hosted solution.
Shome Mukherjee:	I came from a background in ERP that had siloed modules that exchanged data through interfaces. When I saw Workday's business process framework, I was completely blown away by it. It's a single business process that you can tailor to your business requirements from start to finish, and we use it every day. We see it every day in action.
Riaan du Preez:	We were on probably 11 separate applications across HR, payroll, and financials. We migrated to Workday HCM in 2012, and then we actually migrated over to Workday Financial Management and Workday Payroll. So we managed to actually consolidate all those applications into Workday—a single application.
Shome Mukherjee:	Netflix, of course, is big on originals, and every time we have a new original show or new original movie, we have to create a legal entity for that company and set up the banking and everything. Again, that takes literally minutes to set up and add to a consolidated framework that we have.
Riaan du Preez:	What Workday allows us to do is actually configure the statutory financials within the application itself, instead of the old process where we would export data and then use the various consulting firms to actually get that work done for us.
Shome Mukherjee:	With Workday, I think the way we build reports and the way we share reports, we have become better partners with our finance team. There's no real silo between IT and our finance now; it's really one big team.

Overview

Challenges

Multiple, disparate back-office systems
Manual processes among the 11 back-office systems
Usability challenges due to clunky workflows and limited visibility

Solutions

Results

One, unified solution for financial management, human capital management, and payroll
Improved efficiency and increased agility
No silos among the IT, finance, and HR teams

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Workday and Netflix

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Challenges

Solutions

Results

Why Netflix Loves Workday Payroll

Netflix Uses Workday to Remove Silos Among IT, Finance, and HR Teams

Workday and Netflix

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