Functional Program
The bulk of sessions will fall into this category - customer panel presentations and Workday-led product functionality reviews. In this track, you'll find practical tips and techniques and everyday advice to help you optimize (and enjoy) your Workday system. (Alphabetical order.)
* Indicates session offered twice
Business Management: Vision, Strategy and Roadmap
Presenters: Mark Nittler and Lisa Macalka, Workday
The world SO does not need another ERP system. Workday Business Management is a different approach; an alternative to heavy, complex, expensive ERP for managing the enterprise. In this session, learn why the world needs this new approach and how it adds value; the guiding principles behind product concept, design, and development; and where the solutions that make up Workday Business Management – Financial Management, Business Resource Management, and Revenue Management – are heading tomorrow and beyond.
Business Process Tips and Techniques: A Customer Panel Discussion
Moderators: Lisa Faucher and Marshall Edgison, Workday
This session aims to give you an understanding of how other customers are using Workday’s configurable business process framework. Our Workday customer panel will share their practical experiences working with the business process framework, providing real-world examples on how to start defining your own business processes, and sharing their insights and lessons learned. This will be a great opportunity to ask your peers how to get the most out of the business process framework.
Change Management and User Training Panel
Moderator: Jen Phillips, Workday
Are you a Workday implementation project manager that also has been assigned the task ensuring that change management is applied to your project? Hear from other Workday customers that have been charged with building support for change management within their organizations. During this session, our customer panel will discuss what worked and what did not work for them. They will talk about how they addressed resistance to change and strategies they put in place to overcome opposition. Additionally, the panel will provide tips and techniques they used to design their own Workday custom training sessions that they rolled out to managers and employees.
*Compensation -- Pay for Performance
Presenter: Laura Schroeder and Kevin Jarvis, Workday
This session will walk you through the pay for performance process after your performance reviews are complete. You’ll learn how to set up merit plans, associate plans with a merit increase matrix, use Workday to generate a merit increase pool based on performance results and your merit plan configuration, roll out organizational merit increase budgets to managers, propose merit increases, and review and approve merit increase proposals.
Presenter: Barbara Creech, Workday
Come learn more about our enhanced time-off tracking capabilities. You’ll first see how your employees and administrators can request time off and view current balances. We’ll then show how you can configure time-off plans (including tracking paid vs. unpaid time off, eligibility, and carryover limits) for your organization using our flexible calculation engine. Finally, we’ll complete the picture with an overview of how time off is picked up by both Workday Payroll and Workday Payroll Interface.
Moderator: Colin Forth, Workday
Human Resource professionals supporting global companies have a need to access employee data regardless of the country where an employee works, their nationality, their relationship to the organization, or their local currency. Find out how customers are leveraging Workday’s global-at-the-core functionality to get a current and consistent view of their global organizations. Learn more about how they are using Workday to support all of their “multi’s” (language, currency, business entity, etc.) in a single global instance.
Implementing Workday Best Practices Panel
Moderator: Brian Ahern, Workday
Hear Workday customers share unique perspectives on their implementations: How many resources did they commit to their project? What were the skill levels and backgrounds of team members? What project management principles and techniques did they follow? How was IT involved? Did they go live in phases or all at once? How did they execute user acceptance testing? If they could do it over again, what would they change? What were the surprises, if any? Hear the answers to these questions and more firsthand from customer project managers.
Implementing Workday Payroll at McKee Foods
Presenters: Mark Newsome, Rhonda Lastine, and Floyd Walterhouse, McKee Foods
Come hear and learn about implementing Workday Payroll from McKee Foods – our first Workday Payroll customer (currently targeting to go live on 01 January 2009)! They will share their involvement/experiences in the development of Workday Payroll, key reasons they selected Workday Payroll (including specific features and functions), their implementation approach and recommendations, and their overall experience working with the Workday team. The Workday team will then join McKee Foods as we open the floor for comments and questions.
Introducing Procurement and Resource Tracking & Accounting
Presenters: Mark Nittler, MJ Guru, and Heike Weimann, Workday
Workday BRM combines the functionality of Procurement, Resource Tracking & Accounting, and Expenses into a unified solution to manage the complete procure-to-consume business process – requisition, sourcing, ordering, matching, approval, accounting and management – for everything you use – things, rights, services, and contract labor—to support your workers and deliver value to your customers. Come see how a clean slate, a new approach, and a bit of innovation can change the game in this critical area of business management.
Presenter: Sandy Bishop, Workday
Join us for an overview and demo of the new U.S. payroll product available in Workday 5. You’ll see a pay cycle from start to finish, including capturing worker payroll data, running batch and real-time pay calculations, reporting, creating pay checks/advices, making payments, and generating accounting entries. You’ll also learn how our unique design and approach can streamline your payroll implementation and ongoing activities.
Introducing Worker Spend Management: Expenses, Procurement, and Assets for HCM
Presenters: Mark Nittler, MJ Guru, and Heike Weimann, Workday
Worker spend. From travel and IT to contingent labor, the visibility and control of this “spend” across an organization is often lost between the cracks of multiple disparate systems. Workday is changing that. Come see how Workday unifies the processes of employee expenses, procurement, and the tracking of assets in this exciting new approach to spend management, which focuses on the very core of your business: the worker.
Presenters: Danny Johnson and Lisa Macalka, Workday
Learn about Workday’s approach to payment processing, bank reconciliation, and reporting, and how your organization can benefit from Workday Financials. In this session you’ll learn about the latest efforts to break down the barriers of effective cash management. We’ll discuss how we’re providing more visibility into controlling your monetary outflows across your organization for supplier, expense, and payroll payments. Review tips and tricks for expediting bank reconciliations, and find out how Workday plans to give you a competitive advantage utilizing electronic commerce to achieve the next level of straight-through-processing (STP). In addition, examine ways to take advantage of the business process framework and look at new ways to organize data to make better decisions and to save your organization money in today’s challenging financial environment.
Presenter: Lisa Macalka, Workday
Company, cost center, region, team, matrix, pay group, supervisory – what do these all have in common? Come to this session to learn about the many types of organizations used within Workday business applications. We will discuss how different organizations types interact with one another and with our role-based security.
Moderators: Dan Lawrence and Lisa Macalka, Workday
In today’s fast-paced business world, widespread organizational changes such as acquisitions, reorgs, and right sizing are commonplace. These work place forces and trends require Workday customers to continually rethink and reshape their initial supervisory, company structure, and role assignments in Workday. Hear from Workday production customers on their strategies for using Workday to bring the vision of new organizations to life in Workday while effectively leveraging our role-based security.
*The Basics of Benefits and Beyond
Presenter: Nancy Weitl, Workday
Join us for an overview of the Workday Benefits solution and learn about all the new features we’ve recently added. You’ll see how we’ve expanded the overall foundation to provide more flexibility in running and processing benefits for your employees. You’ll also see how we’ve simplified the open enrollment process and added drill-down and notification functionality. Finally, we’ll discuss new automation capability for life events, as well as where we’re headed going forward.
*The Future of Performance Management
Presenter: Clay Tingley, Workday
Come learn about the five areas of focus for Workday Performance Management in the coming years: goals management, easier administration, improved user experience, introduction of multi-rater, and basic succession and career planning. This session will be a great opportunity to share your thoughts on what features and functions are most important to you.
*The Workday Configurable Business Process Framework
Presenter: Marshall Edgison, Workday
In this session, you’ll examine the key concepts and features of the Business Process Framework, focusing on how it enables you to configure Workday to meet your unique business needs. The discussion will include design options such as conditional routing, parallel and sequential branching, combining tasks, and automated notifications, as well as features that will help you manage your business processes once you go live. We will also highlight planned enhancements to the framework.
Presenters: Mark Nittler and Anke Mogannam, Workday
Join the Workday global business team and learn what we mean when we say “global at the core”. Managing a multinational enterprise and balancing global demands with local requirements, country by country, has always been a challenge. In this session you’ll learn how Workday’s global architecture and functionality -- from language translation, address modeling, and local “legs and regs” to multi-currency and revaluation – address this challenge to provide both headquarter executives and local line managers the information and processes they need.
Workday In Production Best Practices Panel I and II
Moderator: Kim Wong, Workday
Now that you’re up and running on Workday, what are the keys to your continued success? Learn how Workday production customers continue to build upon Workday functionality introduced with each update and how they manage conversion testing. Discover common challenges and helpful tips and techniques on how these customers plan and manage future implementation phases while continuing with their day-to-day operations. Gather information on different strategies and ideas on how to stay current with product capabilities and new functionality.
Note: You will hear from different sets of customers in the two panel discussions on this topic.
