Item: Workday Adaptive Planning
Rating: 8
Author: James Egan

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Workday is used by OVO across the whole organisation to silo all of the relevant HR information for each and every employee. It is a centralised hub that allows a user to be able to log in at their pleasure and view any and all important documents pertaining to their employment.

Pros and Cons

One stop shop for employee and employer information.
Ability to ask for, view and give colleague feedback.
Ease of use, easy to navigate.
Easy to download important documents.

Some overlap between areas can be confusing for a new user.
Logging on from a new device can be a bit fiddly.
At first the time off scheduler can be a bit confusing.

Key Insights

Do you think Workday Adaptive Planning delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Workday Adaptive Planning's feature set?

Yes

Did Workday Adaptive Planning live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Workday Adaptive Planning again?

Yes

Usability

From and end user perspective it is great, but there are times that as a new user you can get confused, I feel that the help and support online could be easier to access and understand.

Support Rating

I don't really deal with the support from an integration point of view, but I feel that the user documentation could be better and easier to understand.

Other Software Used

Workfront, Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk), Slack

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say that Workday is great for day to day use by employees as it is a centralised hub where they can access everything that they may of before needed to contact HR for. It may not be suitable for smaller businesses as they may not need it's powerful functionality.

Makes my Workday easier from an HR perspective

Overall Satisfaction with Workday Adaptive Planning