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Workday 9: Transforming the Manager and Employee Experience in HR and Financials
New User Experiences for Managers and Employees Provide Easy Access to Rich Business Information and Analytics While Speeding Time-to-Action
| Source: Workday, Inc.
PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - November 3, 2009) - Workday, Inc., the leader in
enterprise-class, global SaaS-based Human
Resources (HR) and Financial solutions, is redefining the user experience for employees and managers
with Workday 9, adding new homepages and streamlined business processes
that work more like consumer Web sites than traditional enterprise
applications. Workday 9
also delivers new project management and goal tracking capabilities; mobile
applications for the BlackBerry, iPhone, and other smartphones; and support
for 197 countries.
What's New: Transforming User Experience for Fast, Easy Access
Modeled on consumer Web applications, Workday 9 adds brand new user experiences designed to make it even easier
for managers and employees to get work done, complementing Workday's more
detailed "expert-user" interfaces for HR and other back-office
professionals.
-- While traditional business software has focused on back-office
processes such as administration and accounting, Workday is delivering
capabilities that are easy to access and useful for every person in the
enterprise, providing managers and employees with information to get
work done and the ability to act on it in real-time.
-- New manager and employee landing pages feature simple, graphical
access to the key capabilities people need, such as compensation,
talent management, staffing, personal details, and reporting. The
pages are role-based and configurable, so companies and users can
select the functionality they want based on individual requirements.
What's New: Simplified Business Processes and Collaboration
Workday has simplified business processes and added collaboration capabilities to help
workers get things done more quickly.
-- Accelerated inbox handling and approvals make it simple for busy
managers to access, organize and take action on groups of processes
awaiting review or approval.
-- New business process "views" focus on the key fields required for a
given transaction, while providing easy access to additional detail --
making it easier for managers and employees to quickly complete tasks
such as staffing and compensation.
-- Users can now add personal comments to approvals and workflow
steps, allowing organizational collaboration and providing context
around key business processes to speed execution and improve decision
making.
What's New: Project and Goal Management to Optimize Business Performance
Workday 9 tracks individual, team and corporate goals, as well as projects and results to help organizations
manage and optimize business performance.
-- Workday Projects lets managers and employees track projects,
workers, project budgets and spend details.
-- Managers can also see projects as a component of a worker's skills
and abilities in order to determine both qualifications and real-time
availability.
-- Goal tracking includes weighting, goals as part of the review
process, and configurable reporting.
What's New: Enhanced Reporting and Integration Services
Workday solutions are built to provide useful, real-time business
intelligence to every worker and manager in an organization, with
actionable analytics, contextual reporting, and drill-down on data. New
capabilities include:
-- Added dimensions for drilling into and exploring aggregated data,
allowing workers to gain deeper insight into business operations.
-- Definition of unique calculated fields based on multiple data types
such as dates, text, numbers and values. Calculated fields can be used
in reporting; as conditional logic to trigger business processes,
recurring processes, and alerts; and incorporated into integrations
with third-party solutions.
What's New: Expanded Capabilities for Global Enterprises
Throughout 2009, Workday has broadened its capabilities significantly to
support global
organizations. Major enhancements in Workday 9 include:
-- Support for multiple jobs, enabling organizations to manage and
track employees that regularly work across different roles in an
organization.
-- Support for 197 countries, including country codes, region
definitions and formatting. Workday customers are currently using our
solutions across more than 50 countries worldwide.
What's New: Mobility for BlackBerry and Other Smartphones
In addition to existing support for iPhone, Workday Mobile is now available
for BlackBerry and all smartphones with a browser.
Comments on the News
Aneel Bhusri:
"With Workday 9, we are delivering business applications that are all about
just that -- the business," said Aneel Bhusri, Workday co-CEO. "We've
worked closely with our customers to re-think the way employees and
managers access business information -- from staffing and hiring to
performance and compensation -- with a user experience that is simple and
intuitive, yet robust enough to let people get business done quickly and
efficiently.
"The addition of Workday Projects to our offering is also a major
milestone, as we move to help companies manage, develop and optimize their
people, initiatives, projects and spend -- providing a comprehensive and
actionable view of the entire business."
Naomi Bloom:
"When we research, discuss, review or purchase all kinds of goods and
services on Amazon, our expectations are set about how systems should
behave," said Naomi Bloom, managing partner at Bloom & Wallace. "We expect
new features to appear frequently, without disrupting our productivity or
interfering with our ability to do simple things in a simple way. We
expect our privileged data to be secured but available when we need it and
also used in cross-customer aggregations to inform our buying options and
experience. We expect to find not only the means of executing complex
business events but also a wealth of embedded intelligence to guide us and
help us to avoid mistakes or misunderstandings. This is today's world of
Web-delivered consumer automation, and every employee, manager, applicant,
etc. expects -- increasingly demands -- that same level of capability in
their organization's business systems," Bloom continued. "Early attempts
at HR self-service were nothing more than distributed data entry, and it
felt like the HR department was asking us to do their work. Workday feels
much more like a consumer application, one that helps me do what I want to
do in the way I'm already used to working."
About Workday
Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human
resources and financial management, providing new levels of business
agility for a fraction of the cost of buying, deploying and maintaining
legacy on-premise systems. More than 100 customers, spanning mid-sized
organizations to global Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday.
Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management use
modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of
agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability. For more information
about Workday, please visit www.workday.com.
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