Workday Valuable Features
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reviewer1974729
Senior Research Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of the solution are the usability, learning, and compliance tools.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Workday is its user-friendliness. I like that you do not need to do a lot of coding to use Workday, unless you are using Studio. Even in Studio, you only need to write code for heavy integrations.
I also like that Workday is hierarchy-based and business object-based. This makes it easy to understand and use. Previously, when we used PeopleSoft, we needed to have knowledge of SQL (NPL SQL) to create integrations or reports. However, this is not required with Workday. We just need to apply the right logic, and Workday will do the rest.
I also appreciate that Workday is well-organized. There is a step-by-step process that we need to follow to configure the system. This makes it easy to implement and use.
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Workday
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Workday. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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ArunKumar2
Consulting Manager - ERP at Cognizant
The software is easy to learn and use. When compared to SAP HR and SAP HCM, the tool is easy to access and understand. We have a hierarchy and structural connectivity in Workday. There is a certification for the solution and when we do it, we become the certified partners of the company.
View full review »Workday is highly intuitive from a customer experience perspective. It was effortless for us to understand what to do even though we didn't have any related training. It was easy to use without guidance.
View full review »I like the usability and responsiveness of the application.
The interface is fine.
It's easy to set up.
It is stable.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Workday is the ease of use which is overall user-friendly.
View full review »In terms of customization, while it may not be fully customizable, you can configure the features based on the foundation that Workday offers. This allows you to take the basic features and tailor them to the specific needs of your company or business. It provides a lot of configuration flexibility.
View full review »The product is easy to use and user-friendly. It saves a lot of time for onboarding processes.
View full review »I think that the key component here is to have everything centralized and that is most valuable for me. The reason this feature is valuable is that when you're working with people in different geographic regions or with those who may or may not be in the office, this solution helps in getting everything organized.
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reviewer1883799
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is a lot to like about it. I really enjoy the business process framework. It's something that's really seamless. It allows you to have people within the flow. They get assigned a task to complete something to approve, etc. That's a really good piece of functionality that Workday offers. Their out-of-the-box reporting framework is also really powerful in terms of what it provides. These would be two things that I would highlight.
View full review »We like the fact that this solution is very user-friendly, with a straightforward user interface.
View full review »It was more efficient for the agents for their performance reviews, but when it came to HR and the recruitment team, it sometimes worked, and sometimes, it didn't work.
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Chris Chandler
IT Advisory Senior Staff at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The payroll and benefits engine is the most valuable Workday solution in my opinion. It is also easy to access.
View full review »It helps the users to enroll for the benefits automatically and update their life events without the involvement of HR individuals or back-office staff. It enables a person to take action on their own. It reduces the administrative burden on HR and puts the ownership on the person that is going through the life event, whether it is having a child, taking a leave of absence, or something else.
There are easy ways to integrate Workday with your common benefits. At least in the USA, it can be integrated with common benefits providers such as Fidelity, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, etc. It has got a connector that is able to connect with the vendor or the third party to which you are trying to send the eligibility file. It basically allows us to automate or set up the tool, and the integration with the provider is a lot quicker than competing tools.
When it comes to reporting on just eligibility and SLSA, it is a lot more user-intuitive. Depending on the purpose of what you are doing, you can grant security rights or roles, for example, you can control whether someone is a benefits administrator doing an independent audit. Workday makes it very easy to do that. It significantly simplifies the reporting process.
View full review »Workday is easy to use. Timesheet and resource management are also easy.
View full review »I'm not a user. I don't get too involved in that.
I don't have any issues with this solution.
Workday is a secure product.
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reviewer1742631
Data Product Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It is easy to use and straightforward.
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Shailesh Kulkarni
Practice Head at Vyom Labs
Workday is a holistic HR solution.
View full review »I primarily used the report writer; have some experience with EIB integrations as well.
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reviewer1392276
Senior Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is a one-stop solution for everything. You can look for information about other employees or you can track your information. There is a directory, so you can search for other employees. You can also see and track your personal details and salary details on the employee profile page.
It allows you to do everything related to career management. For example, you can give an employee reference. You can also refer people from outside the organization.
It also helps you with leave management. If you want to apply for leave or track your leaves, you can do that.
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reviewer1752237
Business Graduate Student at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The entire HCM module, specifically the recruitment process compared to other modules, is way easier to use.
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NickStuchbery
Managing Principal Consultant at Dodai Consulting Corp
The feature I think that is the most attractive is the security. But there are other features that are valuable as well, such as the BP (Business Processes) — like the social security business processes — the HCM (Human Capital Management) modeling component, Absence (for monitoring time and attendance), Payroll (for payroll processing), Financial Management (core financial management) and the Benefits module (self service employee benefits management). All of those take care of essential business needs.
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Charito Garcia
Tech support at Melbourne Institute of Technology, Sydney Campus
The product is useful for storing employee records.
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Andy Huntley
Director of HR at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
The solution really is so simple to use for the end-user.
If you're one of those end-users that need reports, it will create it for you on the fly. The search engine for creating reports is so of-the-moment. I've not found that any place else - and I have either vetted or worked with the top 150 of the HRS platforms out there.
The report creation just makes sense. It's AI-driven, which some of these older programs that are out there are not yet. With AI, it's continuously building, so that the more you use it, the more it becomes comfortable with who you are. Essentially, in the case of a hospital, it's 9,000 different users over seven campuses, and those are individual users. They're not being treated as part of all the nurses, as it depends on how they use it.
The mobile platform works very well. It's very seamless. It is very self-serving, as the op center of the hospital was shut down early, several months early. Therefore, the clients, if you will - in this instance, the doctors and nurses, and so forth, and the other employees - found the mobile app to be very, very comfortable and very easy to go back and forth on. It even gives you a mini screenshot of where you were before, kind of like you do with TV. And that was helpful. It made it so that you didn't have to go in and out all the time. It would just take you on a journey that was self-created.
The solution is going faster and smoother than ever. It's really working well.
We used the solution alongside Epic briefly. Epic was used as a training platform. I can't really speak to the process, however, it's my understanding that its training is even better than Workday's.
The initial setup is very straightforward.
The seven hospitals weren't really used to talking to each other previously and now they're going to have to. It's helping to integrate them all together.
The solution was very good at reconfiguration and customization of their software. It helped us to meet federal regulations.
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Rahul Goyal
Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The reporting feature is quite easy for a layman to use, and the look and feel of the application is good. Its security is robust. You will never find a use case that cannot be covered.
View full review »I like that it's easy to use and flexible.
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reviewer1200543
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The business process framework is excellent. You can create a business process very easily using the drag and drops. You don't need to get an IT consultant to be able to use Workday, you can have people in the business that aren't IT consultants putting new works processes together. So that's really good to use. The Workday experience is definitely the best on the market. There's no doubt about that.
View full review »It has lots of built in reports. I can copy the report and modify it instead of spending time on studying which table is the one I need to use. Each field also has its description, although sometimes it may not be clear what it means. The GUI is beautiful and we don't need to provide much training for the users because it is easy to navigate.
View full review »Workday's best features are planning and finance.
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Anthony Collier
Senior Director Services Engineering at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The 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.
Workday also delivers tools that allow you to build your own custom interfaces. So for me it is the ease of integration with the product.
In addition to the integration tools, I would also say the system being a fully consolidated system. All the transactions and configuration are co-located in one fully in-memory system, so there is no need to go to different data sources (multiple DBs) to pull data; it’s all in one place.
View full review »The API’s have enabled us to really deliver reliable automation to the company. This isn’t just critical, because we can create ease of use, though that is really nice. Reliable, auditable integration has reduced the complexity and cost of our ongoing audits. Users get the access they need, when they need it, and it is removed when we need it removed. Workday, for us, is the tip of the spear for so much of what we do downstream.
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reviewer8495269
Management Information Analyst at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I found the analysis features to be very useful for our company. I also found the modules installed to be aligned with our company's KPIs. These were the two features that stood out. So, the data part of it was what stood out while using this software.
It was also easy to navigate.
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reviewer1201137
Chief Strategy Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Workday is the ease of navigation to browse the application. The solution can hold information about the company and people with accounts can be discovered by others in the whole company.
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NeilCarfagna
Independent Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature is the ease of reporting.
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reviewer1281651
Global Payroll Project Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
I haven't had a chance to go into things too deeply yet, but I like that it's intuitive to use, a very usable tool and it's easy to find the data you're looking for. I've worked with SAP before, and that's much more complicated. I also use the My Learning tool regularly. It's very good.
View full review »I would say the most value comes from the annual review features. It is well laid out and easy to complete. It makes the process of annual reviews simple and concise.
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Paylead5646465
Payroll Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is quite user-friendly. We can store all the employee data information on it.
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PulkitAgarwal
Workday Integration Lead at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
- Easy to use
- Interactive
- Cloud
- SaaS VF
Stability in one single version is the most valuable feature of this solution. 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.
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AmitRai
Senior Software Engineer at SOAIS
The most valuable feature is the reporting. HCM prepares reports that describe the performance and other details.
The user interface is good and very easy to use.
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reviewer1286721
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The platform itself is very robust and I generally like the reporting and analytics capability.
View full review »Performance and good usability are the two most valuable features of this solution.
View full review »We use Workday for HR services and found the software to be very user-friendly compared to the previous software.
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reviewer1753278
Senior Human Resources Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The integration and access levels that provide consolidated information has been most valuable.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the HCM, where all of the information and processes are in one place.
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Workday
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Workday. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.