Forbes had Workday #1 on its Stocks on the rise in 2019 list in a magazine I had late last year. shyt been on a tear since then.
I gotta ask, of all the companies you have researched, what made Workday stand out to you?
I’m a Workday Consultant. They are really changing the way HR is handled. A few things to consider.
1. They offer more HR services than most of their competitors. HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Talent Management, Time Tracking, Absence Management, Payroll, Financials, Reporting and Benefits. That makes it much easier for all your systems to work together and talk with each other, and once you have one, it makes it more enticing to just use Workday for everything else for optimal performance. Analytics is also “built-in” to the system, so most objects are actionable to allow you to put insights via Reporting.
2. Their implementation methodology is strict. Everybody always operates on the same version of the software. Twice a year a new planned release is automatically introduced with a description of all the new functionality and every customer has to go through a testing process. So it significantly lowers the upgrade costs from year to year. The implementation process is also strictly monitored. Workday itself doesn’t do most of its implementations, but they have checkpoints and reviews to make sure their partners are implementing the software based on best practices, down to making sure you don’t have crappy setup that negatively impacts system performance.
3. They recently introduced Higher Ed and Government HR software. If that ever takes off like the others, it’s a wrap.
4. Functionally, using Workday is like using Apple products. It looks cleaner, most things are very intuitive and work similarly from workstream to workstream. So if you can use Workday for HCM, you should be able to for anything else.
There are shortcomings to the software. It’s not as customizable as some other software. But that’s because that makes maintenance much more difficult and expensive. So they standardize it as much as while still allowing the normal expected differences from customer to customer
Oh yea, they also have “Brainstorms” where customers can request new functionality (to update existing functionality) to address a business need. If enough customers vote up the brainstorm, Workday will most likely add the functionality in a later release. Clients love that.