Workday - HRIS product of now and the future!
January 23, 2015
Workday - HRIS product of now and the future!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Version 22
Modules Used
- Human Capital Management
Overall Satisfaction with Workday
We are using Workday as a self-service tool organization-wide. Our HR department uses Workday as the system of record and the information integrates to our payroll department. We also use Workday for our performance review process and benefits enrollment. It addresses a previous business problem of inconsistency of stored data (we are an international organization and needed a system that would work for all locations). Workday also helps us with personnel data integrity by its report writing capabilities.
- Workday has excellent report writing capability. It provides hundreds of standard reports and also enables you to create custom reports. These reports can be shared with staff or kept restricted to certain departments.
- Workday offers a comprehensive way of managing position information through the use of position management, job profiles, job families, and job family groups. This is particularly helpful for market analysis and EEO and Affirmative Action reporting.
- High level security - highly customizable.
- Great opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions; there is a Workday Community for all users and this input is taken into account for future version updates.
- Workday users will need training - not all areas of the system are intuitive (report writing, for example).
- Version updates can be too frequent; although they reduced updates from four times per year to two, it can be challenging to our staff to reacquaint themselves with a newer version, particularly if it includes a redesign.
- Unless really customized, there are sometimes too many clicks to get through a process.
My previous company used Sage because it was significantly smaller than the company I work at now. Workday was implemented before I got here. We have stayed with Workday because it is a rapidly growing product and is being used more and more by many high profile companies. Workday continually updates their functionality and look, and their learning center is always offering courses for continued training.