Workday Prism Analytics Use Cases
Put your data to work.
What drives business forward? Reliable data and insights. With Workday Prism Analytics, you can ingest and prepare high volumes of data from any source and use it to deliver trustworthy, actionable insights where plans and decisions are made.
Common HR Use Cases
Get answers to your most pressing people questions.
Break down data silos to gain deeper workforce insights. Workday Prism Analytics blends external and Workday data, giving you context to guide your top HR priorities.
Better understand your total workforce.
Workday Prism Analytics helps you give HR leaders a complete picture of the workforce by bringing together data from legacy HCM systems, contingent worker systems, and systems acquired through M&A.
Gain a comprehensive view of compensation.
External payroll and stock rewards systems? No problem. Bring them all together to show employees their total rewards, compare plans to actuals, and use third-party data for spot-on benchmarking.
Fuel workforce optimization.
Integrate external time, leave, and absence data in one place, so you can see what’s working and what’s not. And then use that data to make informed workforce decisions.
Get to the heart of employee sentiment.
Bring in external employee survey data to understand what your people really want and how they respond to organizational change.
See your talent pipeline from end to end.
Leverage data from external recruiting, onboarding, and learning systems to get the full picture of your talent pipeline, including quality of hire by source, time to hire, and more.
“With Workday Prism Analytics, the turnaround time for data requests that required consolidated information went from three weeks down to 24 hours.”
—Perri Ma, Group VP, Global People Operations, Analytics & Systems Strategy
Common Finance Use Cases
Unlock rich financial insights.
Workday Prism Analytics enables you to access data from any source, giving your finance team granular insights to take action that moves your business forward.
Increase profitability.
Analyze all your HR, finance, and operations data from Workday and third-party data sources to increase profitability, reduce revenue leakage, and optimize resource allocation.
Set up mergers and acquisitions for success.
Integrate data across systems to track and analyze pre- and post-merger revenue performance, close the books on acquired companies, and more.
Optimize your spend.
With full visibility into spend and supplier data, you can control your costs, proactively mitigate risk, and deliver unprecedented spend insights to procurement.
Understand the cost of your workforce.
Enable more informed people decisions by understanding the financial impact of workforce trends. And optimize the financial impact of attrition, hiring, and role changes.
Boost operations and collaboration.
Workday Prism Analytics helps you deliver financial and operational insights tailored to your industry, so you can enhance productivity, simplify cross-functional data collaboration, and drive time savings.
“With Workday Prism Analytics, we are more in control of our data management and can provide accurate, timely, consistent data to stakeholders across the university.”
—Assistant Vice President, Finance and Information Systems
Industry Use Cases
Tailored insights for your industry.
No two industries are the same. The one thing they have in common? Organizations of all kinds can gain powerful insights from Workday. Discover the types of questions you can answer and the metrics you can generate, unique to your industry.
Banking
Transform your siloed financial, HR, instrument, and risk data into actionable profitability insights.
Communications
Integrate data from any source—network, vendor management, call record, and more.
Government
Enhance financial transparency and accountability, measure program effectiveness, and control costs.
Healthcare
Consolidate high volumes of clinical, supply chain, and financial data to better support physicians and patients alike.
Hospitality
Get the full picture of your business, down to region, restaurant, cost center, and more.
Insurance
Get insights to understand policyholder behavior, improve retention, and streamline finance processes.
Investment Management
Get greater returns on your data by blending it together in one hub for HR data, finance data, operational data, and more.
Media and Entertainment
Measure return on advertising spend, optimize royalties calculation processes, and analyze title profitability.
Professional Services
Optimize project profitability, reduce revenue leakage, and manage resources more effectively.
Retail
Integrate high-volume external data including point-of-sale (POS) and foot traffic with financial and workforce data.
Technology
Unify HR, finance, and external data to forecast revenue, optimize budgets, and reduce high employee turnover.
Customers who are unlocking more value from their data.
