Infrastructure Program
In this track, you'll chose from sessions that take a look at the technology and issues that support Workday's functionality - the user experience, integrations, data privacy, and so on. (Alphabetical order.)
* Indicates session offered twice
Moderator: Jennifer Phillips, Workday
There are a number of ways to establish a custom integration (inbound or outbound to Workday), but what are the pros and cons of different approaches, and how do you align these technical approaches with your business requirements? Come to this session to learn how other customers planned, designed, built, and delivered their custom integrations – where they started, security implications, and how they delivered them with limited support from IT.
Introducing the Workday Community
Presenter: Ginger Taylor, Workday
We've been busy building an exclusive collaborative website for Workday customers and partners, with features such as a Workday calendar of events, customer and developer discussion forums, Workgroup presentations, and update details. We're in beta mode and ready to demo, and we'd love to hear your input on our plans. Please join us for this sneak peek and feedback forum.
Understanding Workday's On-Demand Operations
Presenter: Jim Hopp, Workday
Learn about the systems, processes, and infrastructure behind Workday's on-demand operations. We'll cover the Workday data centers, disaster recovery, network and systems architecture, automation support, and performance measurement.
Moderator: Mike Burkert, Workday
You’ve got your human resources data loaded in Workday, but now you’re unsure of how to access the information. Learn how other customers are using the Workday Report Writer to easily develop powerful reports and to generate web services and RSS feeds to external systems. Understand how they’ve successfully leveraged Workday’s innovative Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) to send custom Workday reports to an SFTP endpoint. Also find out more about our on-demand report writer classes designed to provide you with the knowledge you’ll need to get started on developing your own custom reports.
*Reporting Tips and Techniques
Presenter: Paul Gustafson
Join us for an overview and demo of key features and important enhancements to the Workday Report Writer available in Workday 6. You’ll hear our overall strategy for reporting and current plans for availability. You’ll learn how we’ve focused our efforts on the Report Writer to make it a simple and flexible tool for your organization. And you’ll see how the Report Writer can be used to easily support your integration needs.
The Workday Application Security Model
Presenters: Ralf Schroeder and Kathy Hansen, Workday
In this session, you’ll study the key concepts and features of the security model behind Workday applications as they are today and hear our plans for future enhancements. The discussion will include definition and usage of roles, how they are used to secure transactions and access to business objects, and how they can participate in business processes. You will also take a look ahead and review plans for configurable security as well as delegation and proxy.
Presenter: Christian Pantel, Workday
We’re sharply focused on ensuring that you have a great experience using Workday. Come learn about the latest innovations in the Workday user interface technology and get a sneak peak at some exciting features we’re working on to make the your Workday experience even better.
Unlocking the Full Value of Your Workday Investment
Presenters: Saideep Raj, Global Software as a Service Practice Lead, and Geoffrey M. Halaburt, Global Lead, HR Applications and Processes, Accenture
A truly successful SaaS implementation requires making real changes to business processes and applying a new philosophy to how your business and IT collaborate. Realizing the rewards from your Workday investment also requires an effective integration of the various components of your human resources ecosystem. In this session, learn several keys to rapidly developing enterprise-ready HR capabilities, while harnessing the flexibility of SaaS to achieve and maintain sustainable high performance.
Workday Integration Product Strategy
Presenters: David Clarke, Workday
Learn how Workday's hosted integration solutions are delivered and how they interact with on-premise systems and data. Hear about our plans for further embedding integration capabilities into the heart of our applications and for simplifying your integration experience.
*Workday Integrations: The Workday Benefits Network
Presenter: Domenick Trecasse, Workday
So your benefits plans are all setup in Workday – now you’ll need to integrate with benefits providers. Traditionally, this would mean additional time and cost added to your project. The Workday Benefits Network takes a different approach. That is, you can choose from an on-demand benefits provider catalog and configure -- rather than customize -- integrations directly to your third-party providers, all hosted and managed by Workday. In this session, we’ll cover the Benefits Network: what it is, how it works, current and future plans. Finally, you’ll see a demo that shows how to configure a benefit provider integration in five steps.
*Workday Integrations: The Workday Payroll Interface Network
Presenter: Tyson Pardue, Workday
So you’ve chosen Workday, but you have questions and concerns about how you will effectively transfer your HCM information and changes to your payroll system in a reliable manner. In this session you’ll learn more about the overall architecture of our various payroll interface projects, how to properly configure and test them, and other implementation strategies and issues. We’ll discuss what’s new for payroll interfaces in recent Workday updates, and most importantly, share some of our future plans for this mission-critical solution.
