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Workday pros and cons

Vendor: Workday
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Workday provides flexibility to integrate with various systems through pre-built interfaces and tools.
It consolidates transactions and configurations in a single in-memory system, eliminating the need for multiple data sources.
Workday enhances productivity by reducing the number of systems and manual data entries required, leading to streamlined operations.
It offers robust reporting and analytics capabilities, simplifying the reporting process for users.
Workday is highly intuitive, making configuration and navigation easy for first-time users without extensive training.

CONS

Analytical tools and reporting require reliance on consultants and need improvement.
Lack of localized and standard payroll features for all countries complicates payroll management.
Complexity in configuration and missing functionalities for specific countries such as payroll options for Germany.
Slow performance with navigation and report customization due to lack of user-level access.
Cost is high, making Workday an expensive choice for some organizations.
 

Workday Pros review quotes

it_user107274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate (Management Consulting) at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 18, 2016
The reporting capability is perfectly adequate in 90% of cases, given the requisite training.
it_user515598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2016
We use Workday for HR services and found the software to be very user-friendly compared to the previous software.
it_user517446 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 28, 2017
It is more efficient than any methods/processes I have used in other companies.
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AC
Senior Director Services Engineering at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Provides flexibility to integrate with the product. It has several tools, out-of-the-box, for integrations. It delivers pre-built interfaces for specific vendors, pre-built generic integrations to extract or push data into Workday through configuration.
ST
Payroll Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 15, 2018
It stores everything for the employee. It has also been able to store the information that we use for our payroll demand.
it_user1116780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of People Experience Operations at PEXA
Jun 11, 2019
We have fewer systems, less manual data entry, and less processing.
it_user1182807 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-CIO & Enterprise Architect at a printing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 23, 2019
Performance and good usability are the two most valuable features of this solution.
reviewer1200543 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Oct 3, 2019
The solution is extremely stable.
it_user1118469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner - Co-Founder at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 24, 2019
It's actually a cloud-native solution and based on the community for development. It is a very good open architecture and able to interconnect with other systems. And it is very stable and very fast in terms of response.
NS
Managing Principal Consultant at Dodai Consulting Corp
Oct 28, 2019
This product is leaps and bounds above the competition. Part of the reason is that it is built with modern technology. It has no legacy coding in it at all.
 

Workday Cons review quotes

it_user107274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate (Management Consulting) at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Sep 18, 2016
It's great for operational / detailed reporting and some low-level analytics, but for heavy-duty analysis against large data sets, I find it's a bit lacking.
it_user515598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2016
It does not integrate with some of the career management softwares, like LinkedIn.
it_user517446 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 28, 2017
The ability to drive more analytics on a customizable level would be helpful.
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AC
Senior Director Services Engineering at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Analytical tools have needed improvement. Workday has just released Prism Analytics, to replace the current analytical tools, so it’s in the early stages.
ST
Payroll Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 15, 2018
They don't have worker payroll in the product. We have to solve our payroll. I hope one day they will be able to have their own localized standard payrolls for all countries.
it_user1116780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of People Experience Operations at PEXA
Jun 11, 2019
There is a lot of complexity in the configuration of this solution.
it_user1182807 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-CIO & Enterprise Architect at a printing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 23, 2019
It has missing functionalities. Specific countries, like Germany, didn't have the option to do payroll. Now we need to look for another product for HR.
reviewer1200543 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Oct 3, 2019
Setting up reports can be a bit tricky.
it_user1118469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner - Co-Founder at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Oct 24, 2019
Reporting systems should be improved. If you want to report it on paper, if you want something more BI oriented, more high level predictive or more data-driven, it should be improved.
NS
Managing Principal Consultant at Dodai Consulting Corp
Oct 28, 2019
It is good that much of the development is based on community input but often that can lead to details being ignored and small, nagging issues are ignored.