“The legislature has pressed all public sector entities in the state of Texas to first and foremost move from on-premise to cloud-based solutions, from homegrown solutions to solutions that are managed by a third party. All recent regulations over the last four years have said we must look at the cloud first.”
“We operate in a very, very competitive worldwide environment, We have to be able to redistribute people and activities whenever it’s necessary. As the marketplace changes, as currency changes around the world, we have to be able to move production from one part of the world to another. Or, if there are new technologies being created, we have to make sure we have relevant manufacturing technologies for those new products as they come out,” he continues."
"With Adaptive Planning, we've increased the efficiency of our planning process by 25 to 40 percent."
“We are able to better manage operations with Workday. We are just so much more efficient and are much less manual.”
"Workday has been a real lifesaver for us. Workday has a 98% customer satisfaction rate and we are definitely part of that group of happy customers."
“At Flex, we want to keep things as simple as possible. We want to spend as little as possible on implementation, on bringing up new systems. And we need to be able to scale up and down, adding functionality and capability as we need it. SaaS can do that.”
“The aesthetic quality of paper timesheets printed from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets didn’t reflect our values as an art college."
“We rely on a lot of adjunct faculty who have their own architecture firms or design firms. And they are accustomed to high design standards. So we wanted to create a very seamless and modern user experience for them.”
“We were having challenges getting information out of our systems, For example, end users had no visibility into personnel information. If a manager wanted to look up a staff salary, he couldn't do it without going through HR or payroll [teams]. And then if he reached out to Payroll to get information, it was sometimes different than if he contacted HR, because the data wasn't in one system.”
“We were inundated with calls from managers needing to know the salaries of their current employees. They didn't even have access to that level of information.”
"Workday Financial Management is very unique; it’s designed to provide insight into the business. The end user can get value out of a core financial product."
“Like a lot of companies, we’re very acquisitive. Morrison. When you’re bringing in a brand new culture and a brand new organization, the first things new employees have to encounter are your HR and benefits policies. And we don’t have to deal with the issues of, ‘Oh, look at this HR solution. It’s clunky. It’s slow. It doesn’t do this. It doesn’t do that.’ That can be a huge turnoff when you’re trying to culturally integrate companies. That never comes up. Workday just makes it really seamless when we bring these organizations into the Cardinal family.”
"The clarity, capabilities and insight of Workday are ensuring our innovative culture follows through into HR and, increasingly, financial planning."
“We are now able to take full account of all headcount costs—from salary and wages to country-specific social security costs, annual incentives, all kinds of bonus plans and so on."
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