Workday Financial Management vs. Workday Professional Services Automation

Workday is well suited for managing employees throughout their full life cycle. It excels at housing employee data from the start of their time with the company through their departure. Workday is less suited to payroll functions, which could be more robust.

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If you are a company with very little administrative or IT staff that can be dedicated to run, train, and launch - this is the perfect tool for you because it requires very little on the set up end and training. It looks like a social network so a platform many are already used to seeing. Its definitely a very powerful product with an easy interface, providing a stellar customer experience

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• The flexibility of going beyond handling the accounts, where we can handle cash, assets, and accounting simultaneously for the customer.
• The single platform offers grants management where you can organize the lifecycle of the grants and synchronize it with any criteria of grant closing out scheme.
• I personally liked Project billing with the essence of evaluating project revenue and nice reporting templates that can be shared with the customer at any stage of the project while having the flexibility of auditing the reported cost.

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• Consolidated data resource. Allows Workday to be the authority for pay and benefits.
• Advanced automation for administrators.
• Self-serve for employees. Allows users to self manage their information.

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• Some of the Workday updates last till like 10 in the morning which prevents employees to clock in and check their times and some cases their schedules
• Workday can work on opening documents quicker instead of taking couple of minutes or notifying the user when they are ready to download

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• Would like to be able to use it for clocking in and out
• The dashboard user interface could be improved to include more pertinent information
• Would be nice to hide features that we use other applications for (i.e. org chart, pay, expenses)

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Workday is easy enough navigate, as long as it is properly set up. With that said, it can be put together in a modular fashion as well, allowing for a very high degree of flexibility in terms of design and process delegation. Finally, it makes consolidation achievable in times previously unthinkable.

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Its getting more streamlined with update but still has many tools that are unexplained/ not defined well

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Our support team has been awesome. They are extremely knowledgeable and have been able to guide us through all of the challenges we have faced. Workday's community online is also extremely helpful with many trainings and help topics that can be reviewed at your convenience.

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With workday support options, I would like to see a more immediately responsive response option. Possibly a chat or a responsive email response team would be helpful.

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Despite Airtable also being easier to use one thing that differentiates and put forth Workday Financial Management tool above is it's key features and better suited functionality for handling confidential data. The other positive note where Workday Financial Management performs high is it key analytics tool that's easier to use and representation of information into insightful dashboards.

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I was not on the selection team for Workday Profession Services Automation; it was the HR system used by our parent company. However, I have had several opportunities to work with Workday in other HR roles, and have also worked extensively with Oracle products. Workday Professional Services Automation seems more dynamic than the Oracle Suite I've utilized in the past.

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• We were able to combine 4 different HR modules into one system.
• We reduced data breach incidents by 95% after shifting to Workday. One of our legacy softwares had vulnerabilities.
• The initial learning curve was higher than projected. We spent about a week to 10 days extra time deploying it, which affected the profit center that year.

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• All in one platform great for businesses with locations across the country
• We don’t use its learning/training features, or it doesn’t have, which would be nice
• Reporting features are extensive and, though can be hard to figure out, there is clearly great capability there

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