This article explores the leading Workday partners and how their systems integrators and consultants deploy, configure, and manage Workday’s HR and finance applications.
We’ll start by taking a look at the benefits of Workday, breaking down our Workday partners list and wrap up with notes on how to choose the right Workday implementation partner for your organization.
Let’s get started!
What Can Workday Do for You?
Workday brings together financial management, human capital management (HCM), enterprise resource management (ERP), and information technology in unified cloud application environments designed for the way people work in a diverse array of organizations. In short, Workday is a cloud-based software vendor with the capacity to help businesses evolve.
Since their conception, the Workday suite of applications has redefined the world of enterprise software, providing a flexible, adaptable foundation that empowers businesses in their decision making, financial strategy, education and training, and team organization across verticals.
Workday applications are designed to help companies achieve breakthrough success in areas covering everything from expenses and procurement optimization to talent management, workforce performance tracking, recruiting, analytics, and so much more.
Due to the comprehensive nature of how Workday functions, a hand-selected group of companies, regional firms, and global systems integrators exist to help companies successfully deploy, implement, and integrate Workday. For a more detailed explanation of Workday, check out our guide to Workday Human Capital Management (HCM).
At Surety Systems, we provide Workday consulting services to help you amplify your enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems performance; maximize the benefits of existing technologies; and deliver successful client outcomes across the entire landscape.
What Fields Are Workday Partners Associated With?
The influence of Workday reaches across industries, though it is commonly implemented by partners working in IT, consulting, and HR. Below is a more detailed look at some of the types of firms and companies commonly associated with a Workday services partner.
IT Consulting Firms
An IT consulting firm consists, at root, of highly trained experts in a particular field of IT. These firms make both high-level and detailed recommendations based on an organization’s operations.
Because of the specialized nature of IT consulting firms, many are brought in specifically for consultation related to software and systems optimization. Some IT consultants may also assist with the day-to-day operations and maintenance, functioning as outside contractors working alongside your in-house IT department.
Global Systems Integrators
A global systems integrator is a type of company that helps integrate and bring together clients’ disparate software systems into a more unified IT solution.
One of the primary benefits of such a relationship is the simplification of complex processes that, in turn, help clients progress more efficiently toward targeted goals. Global systems integrators work in an ongoing capacity, meaning that once a solution is suggested and implemented, there is continual testing for improvement and optimization.
Boutique Technology Firms
Just like a boutique crafts store selling a smaller inventory of high-quality goods and supplies, a boutique technology firm is a smaller-sized firm offering a niche suite of services to a limited customer base.
While the specificity of the services will vary, most boutique technology firms employ a smaller number of consultants (often fewer than 100) compared to the world’s major consulting firms with offices across the world.
This concentration of specialized efforts allows boutique firms to provide a more personalized and specifically impactful experience for clients—for example, through Workday solutions like Workday Financial Management, Workday Payroll, or Workday Talent Management.
For more information about Workday consulting firms, click here.
The Top 5 Workday Partners
There are a number of Workday implementation partners capable of the deployment, optimization, and maintenance of Workday systems throughout a client’s entire Workday journey. Below is a breakdown of five of the top Workday partners and how they help customers achieve stellar results.
Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading digital, cloud, and security capabilities. As one of the Workday partners, Accenture works broadly in HR, IT, and finance capacities to help organizations better define their strategy, technology, and overall approach in order to become agile, strategic advisors that drive critical business outcomes and revenue.
Alight Solutions
Alight is a Workday partner capable of assisting clients of all sizes from almost any industry in order to help users realize the full potential of their Workday solutions. Alight provides comprehensive Workday deployment with the added help of their cloud optimization, payroll, and HR services to help users continue to perform well.
Deloitte
Deloitte is a multinational professional services organization working in consulting, audit, tax, and advisory services. Recognized as industry innovators, Deloitte is among the top Workday partners helping companies leverage the value of the platform. Deloitte offers Workday support that allows companies to increase impact, improve human and financial capital management, streamline analytics reporting, and ultimately make more informed decisions.
Mercer
Mercer is a leading Workday services provider that specializes in Workday implementation, business transformation, change management, and other Workday managed services to ensure companies are making the most of their investment in the long run. Mercer helps users create an implementation roadmap to ensure business operations across the Workday system are maximized to achieve targeted outcomes and provide a holistic view of their Workday solutions to leverage the full platform.
PwC
Price-Waterhouse-Cooper (PwC) is a leading provider of Workday implementation services, including support for next-level HR and Finance transformation, platform reinvention, Workday Adaptive Planning, and Prism Analytics. As a Workday partner, PwC helps companies implement their Workday products in accordance with their schedules and budgets, facilitate technology-driven change, and drive sustainable growth in the future.
Surety Systems—The Best Additional Workday Support For You
The deployment of Workday services in an organizational setting takes time and experience to do effectively, which is why you want a trusted ally with you every step of the way.
At Surety Systems, our senior-level Workday consultants provide the modern insights and know-how needed to make the most of your Workday investment, from implementation to deployment, change management, and re-optimization. As with any SaaS solution, we believe in the power of functional integrations, meaning a seamless collaboration with ongoing support, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach for program management or other maintenance services.
Our team also provides support for your data conversion efforts and current legacy system operations during implementation or integration projects, making it easier for your internal teams to gain a better understanding of their new Workday system.
And, to ensure your implementation partner is held accountable throughout the entire project, our team offers additional client-side project management support. This way, your internal teams can focus a little more on learning and using their new system, instead of trying to handle complex implementation or integration issues on their own.
Why Surety Systems?
Once you’ve decided that Workday is the solution to help you reach your goals, the next step is actually getting started; this is where the real work begins within your Workday platform, which can be both exciting and challenging.
At Surety Systems, our goal is to deliver full support (both functional and technical) for your Workday applications, while enhancing customer satisfaction and improving your bottom line.
Our senior-level Workday consultants help train your team on Workday HCM and Financial configurations, gap analyses, testing, and more. We combine our specialized knowledge with the know-how of your internal teams to allow for closer alignment on each project.
Thinking About Moving to Workday?
Are you interested in learning more about Workday consulting services? Surety Systems can help!
Our senior-level Workday consulting team can help you plan your Workday implementation and integration from start to finish. And, because Workday implementations affect so many people within an organization (not just HR departments), it’s important to be prepared.
At Surety Systems, we’re your unbiased partner for ERP, HCM, and CRM consulting with a specialization in Workday, Lawson, JD Edwards, UKG Kronos, SAP, and Salesforce.
Contact us today to take your organization (and your Workday solutions) to the next level!
