Q) What is Workday?
Ans. Workday is an enterprise resource planning application (ERP). Workday
offers modules like human resources, payroll, finance, and Student. It delivers
these applications in a cloud model that allows people to work collaboratively
in a real-time environment.
Q) What are the advantages of Workday?
Ans. Workday provides employees with more immediate access to data since
transactions are real-time. Workday also offers greater flexibility. The
reports that will be available to managers will give them more insight to their
data, allowing them to make data-driven decisions.
Employees will be able to view or run their own reports on demand rather than
having to request a report and waiting for the results of that request.
Employees will be able to access and manage their own HR benefit elections,
address changes, dependent changes, withholding exemptions, absence requests
and time tracking entries, to name a few.
Q) Workday HCM ?
Ans. Workday Human Capital Management Workday Human Capital Management is
the only application that unifies HR and Talent Management into a single
system-of- record. And with embedded analytics, manager and employee
self-service, and a user experience unlike any other enterprise application,
Workday redefines what it means to manage a global, mobile, and diverse
workforce.
Q) Key Features of Workday Human Capital Management?
• Talent Management
• Time Tracking
• Payroll Solutions
• Goal Management
• Performance Management
• Succession Planning
• Career and Development Planning
• Payroll Co-Sourcing Services
• Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll
Q) How much does Workday Human Capital Management cost?
Ans. Pricing model: One-time Licence, Subscription
Q) Who are the typical users of Workday Human Capital Management?
Ans. Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business
Q) Does Workday Human Capital Management support mobile devices?
Ans. Workday Human Capital Management supports the following mobile devices:
• iPhone
• iPad
Q) Does Workday Human Capital Management offer an API?
Ans. No, Workday Human Capital Management does not have an API available.
Q) What is the goal of Workday?
Ans. A cloud based system that can be updated in real time. Workday aims to
simplify the experiences of users.
Q) What are the major HCM Organizations?
Supervisory: Hierarchy of reporting
Company: The legal bindings of the company
Custom: Customization by each company
Cost: All companies and their costs
Regions: Global and affected areas
Q) What are the three teams that usually be working on the Workday
implementation?
Business Team "We need this!"
Functional Team "We can do this!"
Tech Team "We can create this!"
Q) What is DA?
Ans. Delivery Assurance: A team of Workday consultants that guide the
business in their implementation. This provides consistency and is a point of
contact for clients
Q) What are the stages of Workday deployment?
Plan - Establish project management and administration with an agreed upon
scope, create project goals, timeline, milestones, deliverable, resources and
responsibilities
Architect - Customer and the Workday project team find a common
understanding of customer needs. Design decisions are gathered in this stage.
Configure and Prototype - Data conversions for both configuration ad
operational data are executed.
Test - Configured Workday system sufficiently meets the needs of the
customers business. Each test effort has a different set of conditions and a
different purpose.
Deploy- The "go live" stage. All test scripts have met their
criteria and all configurations will be loaded into the "Gold Tenant"
Q) What are the different Staffing Models available in Workday?
Job Management
Allows flexibility and speed when hiring
No required number of jobs to be filled
Position no longer exists when the worker leaves
Does not maintain ongoing position history
Position Management
Provides Greatest control over hiring.
Must be an approved and available position prior to an EE
starting.
More narrowly defined positions. Pay scale/Job Skill/
Experience level can be different for each
