Azure Application Gateway vs. Workday Business Process Framework

For building scalable and highly available applications, Azure Application Gateway does most of the job on behalf of you; automatically load-balancing traffic from a number of users to a number of back-end servers. This ensure scalability and availability. The in-built security is great as can be expected from Microsoft, and user has a variety of tools for monitoring the health of the load-balancing function as well as the health of back end servers behind it.

Incentivized

Workday is great for HR processes. All my HR stakeholders love Workday. We tried to use Workday for the business processes of procurement and finance, but we found many issues to customize the processes to the way my company needs. Moreover, the consulting service to implement the processes is also very expansive.

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• Easy integration with Load Balancer and Azure Scale Set to provide a full solution for traffic management.
• With rich routing rule, we could use one Application Gateway as the central point for all internal applications to expose to the external network.

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• Ability to customize, add objects, delete objects for users or roles if defined.
• Able to share report definitions across users.
• Sharing amongst the Workday community and ability to suggest BP delivered reporting from Workday directly.

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• Live examples in the Azure documentation
• Application Gateway UI Blade in Azure Portal can be streamlined
• Have more advanced feature set as WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Incentivized

• Support hotline to call in for problems can be frustrating
• Trying to log in outside of your employer network can be like jumping through too many hoops.
• Forgotten passwords can be difficult to recover.

Incentivized

I don’t like that it's part of the Microsoft brand. In general, I am not a fan of Microsoft products but Azure gets it right.

Incentivized

Not only can we receive dedicated support from Workday, but the Workday user community is a powerful tool to troubleshoot BP errors, brainstorm, and to dive deeper on a topic of interest.

Incentivized

Other load balancing tools in Azure (Azure LB and Azure Traffic Manager) are limited in their functionality in comparison with the Azure Application Gateway, and also, they don't provide security features. Azure Firewall, although it has security features, is more expensive, and most importantly, it's not a load balancer at all.

Incentivized

Workday has more features that fit my company's needs.

Incentivized

• Positive : Improved performance and scalability
• Positive : Better and enhanced Security
• Positive : Efficiency
• Negative: Cost
• Negative: More resources to manage.

Incentivized

• It's easy for employees to find answers on their own without having to speak with multiple departments.
• It ensures that there usually are no errors made when punching in and out.
• If there is a glitch with the system then it can cause a problem for an entire company which is something to consider.

Incentivized