Technology Foundation

Technology Foundation

Experience Modern Cloud Technology Built for Speed, Scale, Mobility, and Collaboration

The Technology Foundation powers Workday Adaptive Planning. At its heart is an in-memory planning and analysis engine that enables instantaneous calculations. Workflow and business process tracking allows teams to collaborate in real time. And our Integration framework provides always-connected integration with your ERP, CRM, and HCM systems.

Learn how Workday Adaptive Planning's powerful cloud technology can help your organization.

Streamline and Automate Your Financial Consolidation Processes

Consolidation’s intuitive, Excel-like interface and debit/credit format streamline intercompany eliminations, journal entries, and more. It’s easy to categorize pre-eliminations, eliminations, and adjustments. Minority interest and ownership percentages are user-defined and automatically calculated. Our automated currency conversion and cumulative translation adjustment simplify complex multi-currency financial consolidations.

Integration Power Makes Connecting to Your ERP, CRM, and HCM Applications Simple

The Integration framework simplifies and automates integration across multiple data sources, whether you’re importing a spreadsheet or directly integrating data from your cloud or on-premises business apps. Our pre-configured, click-not-code integration speeds connectivity to ERP and CRM systems so that you always have the latest data at hand.

In-Memory by Design, Built on Cloud Standards

In-memory technology underpins Workday Adaptive Planning's planning, consolidation, and analysis, providing real-time calculation and aggregation across metrics, dimensions, and business structures. Based on cloud standards, our relational database store ensures the utmost data integrity as well as a level of reliability that proprietary data stores simply can’t deliver.

Powerful Process Tracker Drives Collaboration

Successful performance management requires that everyone be on the same page. Our process tracker makes it simple to track tasks, share status updates, monitor progress indicators, discuss issues, and close tasks. Better yet, it’s accessible from any device, at any time.

100% Web and 100% Mobile for 100% Flexibility

Created for the cloud from the ground up, Workday Adaptive Planning applications are accessible from anywhere and from any browser. Responsive design lets managers plan and analyze using their tablet of choice—optimized for any form factor. Our native iOS app for Discovery puts dashboards in the hands of managers and executives when needed most.

Autonomous, Yet Connected: Powerful Multi-Instance Technology

Every department and subsidiary in your organization has different needs. That’s why we created our unique multi-instance technology. You can deploy multiple distinct planning models to meet individual functional needs, while never losing the integrated and consolidated perspective.

Unified Security From Data to Dashboard

With Workday Adaptive Planning, you can easily manage what users can see or change, whether that’s dashboards, reports, sheets, calculations, or individual cells. Create once, and our security model does the rest. Standards-based single sign-on makes secure access to Workday Adaptive Planning easy, while SSAE 16, EU-US Safe Harbor, and TRUSTe compliance ensures your peace of mind.


Technology Requirements

A web browser is all that’s needed to use the products in the integrated Workday Adaptive Planning. There’s no hardware to install, and no on-premises, database, or operating system software. You and your IT team won’t need to install patches or upgrades because upgrades are managed by Workday Adaptive Planning and occur automatically.

Windows-Based Browsers

• Internet Explorer 11
• The latest version of Chrome
• The latest release of Mozilla Firefox and the latest ESR* release of Mozilla Firefox

*The Extended Support Release (ESR) is an official release of Firefox for desktop for use by organizations, including schools, universities, businesses, and others who need extended support for mass deployments.

Mac Configurations

We support the following Apple Macintosh platforms:
• Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
• The latest version of Chrome
• The latest release of Mozilla Firefox and the latest ESR* release of Firefoxr.

Language support

Workday Adaptive Planning supports these languages:
• English
• Spanish
• French
• Japanese
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• German
• Dutch*

*Dutch translations are done by Workday Adaptive Planning partners, so there may be discrepancies in the way text is presented or areas of the application where translated text is unavailable.

All text in the user interface is displayed in the user’s language. Numbers and dates on sheets and reports are displayed in the appropriate format for the user’s locale and users can enter, store, and display data in their language. Users can enter textual data in any language, including accented characters and ideographic characters (such as in Chinese and Japanese). All entered text will be displayed correctly.


SaaS Performance

Uptime

Workday is committed to delivering world-class customer service. This includes not only delivering top-notch uptime, but also publicizing our actual performance.

This chart displays uptime, measured as a percentage of time the hosted service is available, excluding scheduled maintenance.

Speed of Response

Workday monitors and measures server response times of our hosted service using a third-party tool, and also runs continuous automated 24- and 48-hour performance tests.

This chart displays length of time, in seconds, that our server spends evaluating user interactions.

The Workday Adaptive Planning Integration platform

Workday Adaptive Planning provides a range of connectivity options allowing customers to seamlessly leverage cloud data integration platform. Workday Adaptive Planning's pre-configured adapters enhance user control and autonomy, are purpose-built to accelerate time to market and minimize ongoing cost of ownership. The data integration platform allows for an ‘extract once, load (data) anywhere’ capability across all Workday Adaptive Planning applications. In addition to the portfolio of pre-configured adapters, Workday Adaptive Planning also provides rapid time to value with a ‘purpose built’ cloud adapter that allows access to any cloud source API targeting the Workday Adaptive Planning applications.

‘Intelligent’ Pre-Configured Adapters

GL and CRM adapters such as those pre-configured for NetSuite, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Intacct, enable automated, accurate data imports between Workday Adaptive Planning and the source system. Pre-configured adapters are ideal for customers wanting automated data extraction and self-service preparation ability – from automating imports, with most commonly used tables exposed, auto-mapping of Workday Adaptive Planning-built custom objects to the source GL system, scheduling tasks, application of business rules and the ability to handle multiple entities within the source GL system. See the Integration data sheet for more information.


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