Workday Projects Benefits and Insights

Why use Workday Projects?

Key differentiators & advantages of Workday Projects

Intelligent Resource Staffing: Seamlessly builds employee profiles based on past work performance, competencies and availability, helping managers assign projects.
Streamline Payroll: Get real-time labor cost reporting for simplified billing processes. Its enterprise-grade calculation engine provides real-time calculations and information before payroll runs to eliminate manual interpretation of pay rules around rates, hours worked and overtime.
Expense Visibility: Gain actionable insights into spending and expenses. Get real-time visibility into actual versus budgeted spending. Approved transactions are immediately displayed in reports. Drill down to view business dimensions for any immediate action on spending categories, workers, customers, contractors and regions.
Spend Reporting: Permit or freeze expenditures to plan, control or halt spending. Each transaction is recorded for audit transparency, and embedded analytics helps detect trends and provides insight into authorizations and administrative decisions.
Analyze Work: See current statuses with dashboard widgets for key initiatives and projects at a glance. Evaluate the quality of completed work. Provides leverage outcomes to gain insight into future process enhancements.
Global Capabilities: Multi-currency, multilingual, multi-book and more are integrated to support multinational requirements. Models several operating entities and business units to easily carry out intercompany transactions, allocations, adjustments, disposals and consolidated reporting.
Integration: Integrates with third-party applications for efficient workflows. Seamlessly unifies with Workday products for better alignment, implementation and outcomes than stand-alone project systems, allowing organizations to maximize productivity, motivate employees and achieve results.

Industry Expertise

Workday Projects can be deployed and used by medium and large enterprises. It serves industries like communication, finance, energy and resources, health care, hospitality, insurance, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail, technology, professional and business services.

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Average customer reviews & user sentiment summary for Workday Projects:

2069 reviews

83%

of users would recommend this product

Key Features

Planning Work: Set up a work plan project with phases, tasks and milestones to monitor progress over time while estimating budgets. Assign projects under larger initiatives or work hierarchies to ensure timely completion of projects and boosting accountability.
Resource Management: Source employees from talent pools for projects. Project staff and work teams with available and skilled employees and independent contractors. Review vacation and work schedules to ensure appropriate coverage for employees.
Notification: Get instant notifications on projects and approvals. It also indicates when the specific condition or threshold has been met with a notification trigger.
Dashboard Shows process milestones for better overall visibility to keep projects on track. Provides in the moment insight and a workflow to update plans as changes are made.
Expense Management: Eliminate manual paper processes with its proprietary OCR technology that reads and interprets receipt data accurately, while allowing for improved accuracy over time. Capture, submit and approve expense reports on any device, increasing accounting accuracy and allowing more timely refunds.
Employee Scorecards: Shows objectives based on the metrics that matter most to the company. Aligns performance and objectives with key milestones and results. Succession plans and talent pools indicate the need for users to fill skill gaps or talent shortfalls before they impact the organization.
Time Tracking Management: Streamline time-entry and approval processes with automatic dates, timestamps and location-based detection when employees check-in/check-out. Employees can also access their activity history. Managers can initiate mass approvals, handle exceptions and get approval alerts, eliminating approval delays.
Collaboration: Integrate with external collaboration software to streamline team discussions. Using the Workday conversational interface, users can ask questions through a collaboration tool like Slack and receive answers to queries directly from Workday without leaving the window.

Limitations

Some of the product limitations include:

Does not offer offline capabilities.
Limited scope for customization.

Suite Support

Workday provides 24x7 support, every day of the year. Due to security policy, it does not provide direct assistance via email or phone. Support is provided through the Customer Care Portal. Users need to log in using an email and password. Customers can open a JIRA comment for the community team to investigate issues by providing them with screenshots, device information, specific URL links and browser.

Email: Email support is not provided.

Phone: Workday experts contact customers and collaborate on submitted cases.

Training: Provides in-person, on-demand, remote, virtual and independent training options. It offers an Education Service to address training requirements based on preferences and budget. It also offers accredited programs to acquire expertise in the tool. The Adoption Kit helps speed up the growth of end-user training and the use of features and functionality of self-service, including a combination of videos, facilitation guides, job aids, graphic assets, and marketing materials. The Touchpoints Kit consists of a collection of details to help users understand connection points within the Workday suite across all product areas.

Tickets: Submitting tickets is available within the Customer Care Portal. Customers submit cases, choose severity level and track until the issue is resolved. Level 1 cases escalate response within 60 minutes.

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