In today’s interconnected enterprise, a flexible and unified foundation is essential for maximizing the value of your core business applications. Acting as the technological backbone of the entire Workday ecosystem, the Workday platform allows organizations to seamlessly build, deploy, and maintain custom integrations while exchanging data between Workday and other applications.
By leveraging internal artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities, the Workday Platform empowers users to customize applications, extend functionality, and automate workflows beyond standard configurations. Read on to learn more about how the platform drives innovation and how our senior-level Workday consultants can help you unlock its full potential.
What is the Workday Platform?
Workday is a human capital management vendor known for quick implementations, user-friendly interfaces, and easy-to-use applications. The Workday platform is a comprehensive, cloud-based solution that allows users to be proactive and adaptable, ensuring their Workday applications operate as expected and their organizational needs are met.
Workday offers many intelligent applications to facilitate better payroll processing, employee data management, benefits administration, and human capital management capabilities. Here are some perks of the Workday platform:
- Provides real-time reporting and analytics capabilities, integrated workforce scheduling functions, and a consolidated HR database to help businesses manage their employees, information, and procedures more efficiently.
- Enables users to track personal time, attendance, and benefits data, while also helping organizations manage their internal team members and day-to-day tasks.
- Enables companies to manage all aspects of human resources (HR), including payroll, compensation, benefits, learning management, recruiting, and talent management, on a single, secure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform.
Features of the Workday Platform
Here are some key features of the Workday Cloud platform for business users:
Time Tracking
Workday simplifies time and attendance functions across the entire organization by allowing users to clock in and out for shifts using their desktops, tablets, or mobile devices. For companies that require them, physical time clocks can also be integrated with Workday through an intelligent API connection.
Talent Management
The Workday Talent Management suite offers resources to support employee growth and development, reward employees, and facilitate better career planning, goal-setting, and performance management in the long run.
Analytics and Reporting
Workday’s advanced analytics and reporting features offer several tools to help users keep track of employee performance statistics and make well-informed business decisions based on real-time data.
Recruiting
The Workday Recruiting platform efficiently identifies, screens, and hires candidates and facilitates a more efficient hiring process across teams. With the help of this intelligent software, recruiters have access to a single platform that controls every phase of the hiring process, from finding candidates to reviewing applications and conducting interviews.
Employee Self-Service Tools
The Workday platform offers an easily accessible employee portal that provides important paperwork, onboarding information, and other business documents to facilitate more efficient data entry and management processes across the board.
Self-service tools also allow managers to personalize the onboarding process for each employee by leveraging a checklist that displays their progress throughout each phase of the employee lifecycle. Employees can also access the Workday website and its mobile app capabilities to record their time, clock in and out from any location, and keep up with regular and overtime hours, vacation time, and PTO requests.
Benefits Administration
The Workday Benefits platform delivers a single source of truth for human capital management and benefits data, allowing customers to switch from tactical work to strategic plans and improve accessibility and visibility for critical benefits providers, plans, and packages.
With intuitive employee benefits management capabilities and intelligent Workday Benefits features, HR teams are empowered to focus on more important tasks, like building relationships with employees and ensuring business processes are aligned with current industry standards and company objectives.
From desktop to mobile, Workday’s employee benefits administration tools provide a seamless benefits experience, allowing users to easily ask questions about specific plans, compare program requirements, assess eligibility, modify benefits, and complete enrollment tasks with greater efficiency.
Financial Management
Instead of manually recording employee transactional data, balancing accounts, and looking for exceptions, Workday Financial Management allows employees to use their time on more strategic initiatives that boost profitability and support goals for global growth.
With Workday Financials, users can adapt to the ever-changing demands of a complex business environment and ensure their finance processes provide the functionality needed to do so.
Traditional financial planning solutions are rigid and resistant to change, limiting the amount of time you can save and reallocate to more important business activities and making it harder to evaluate real-time financial performance and make corrections accordingly. With Workday, users can leverage intelligent financial management software and an in-memory architecture to support critical financial tasks and improve financial accuracy across the board.
Benefits of Workday
Let’s take a closer look at the key advantages of Workday that set it apart from other providers:
Intelligent Data Core
The Workday platform offers an intelligent data core that blends Workday data with external data, offers real-time data analytics and insights, and improves decision-making across your entire organization.
True Cloud Architecture
Workday is built and managed on a true cloud architecture, enabling Workday users to drive innovation across teams and withstand company and industry change over time.
Custom Framework
With a flexible framework and customization features, users can change their Workday software without requiring IT to rewrite code or install new hardware.
Personalized, Multi-Channel Experience
Workday provides a tailored experience across devices and offers pre-built connections with tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack to work where your employees are and improve connectivity across your entire technical landscape.
Embedded AI and ML
Workday utilizes AI and ML capabilities to facilitate more efficient workflows, more accurate analytics, and more personalized user experiences, enabling true business flexibility across the entire landscape.
Business-Focused Developer Environment
The Workday platform is adaptable, interoperable, and open, making it easier to connect with other systems and quickly develop new applications and functionality within their Workday system.
How Can We Help?
Whether you’re looking for a robust set of technological solutions to streamline your day-to-day tasks or just a team of experienced, unbiased Workday consultants to give you a hand with your Workday Human Capital Management implementation, Surety Systems is here to help.
Our senior-level Workday consultants have the skills, experience, and expertise needed to help you successfully implement new Workday systems and maximize your overall Workday investment, no matter the complexity of your project.
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