WORKDAY TECHNOLOGY

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WORKDAY TECHNOLOGY
Stan SweteCTO - Workday
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Company History
Workday Founded
WORKDAY CONFIDENTIAL
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Workday - A Fresh Start

• New Delivery Model
• Software-as-a-Service
• Vendor takes on maintenance, upgrades, etc.
• Rapid delivery of functionality
• New Technology
• Object Oriented approach
• Rich graphical UE
• Web services for integration
• Fresh Approach to Business Problem
• Designed for todays requirements
• Include BI, Global, Governance in the core
• Designed to work the way you work

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Workday Business Services
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SaaS Acceleration
The State of Human Capital Management Solutions
Workday
Oracle
Product Releases
SAP
PeopleSoft
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2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
SaaS
On-Premise
(Source Knowledge Infusion)
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Workday Technology

• Benefits
• Delivered Value
• Immediately usable
• Built-in BI
• Less dependence on IT
• Configure not customize
• Development Approach
• Rapid delivery of new functionality
• Single global instance
• Updates not upgrades
• Deployment Model
• Speed of implementation
• Reduce operating costs
• Improved service levels

DeliveredValue
Development Approach
DeploymentModel
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Pure Internet Delivery
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Workday Architecture Overview
Customer Site
Workday Services Architecture
Users
Object Management Server (OMS)
UI Server
Internet Browser
Systems
IntegrationServer
DataServices
PersistentStore
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Workday Architecture Overview

• OMS
• Processing Engine
• Services UI data requests

• UI Server
• Entry point for end users
• Flash / FLEX based
• Wide browser support

Customer Site
Workday Services Architecture
Users
Object Management Server (OMS)
UI Server
Internet Browser
Systems
IntegrationServer
DataServices

• Integration Server
• Entry point for data requests
• Transformation capabilities

PersistentStore

• Persistent Store
• Captures all app changes
• Replication backups

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Workday Maintained
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Workday - Software as a Service
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Workday Data Centers

• Primary Site
• Equinix
• Ashburn, VA
• Production
• e mirror of primary

• Secondary Site
• Savvis
• Atlanta, GA
• Implementations
• Sandbox
• Production mirror

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Comprehensive Security
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Comprehensive Security
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Comprehensive Auditing

• Record of all updates
• XML causing change
• Timestamp and user submitting
• Recorded in system, not a database log
• Non-destructive updates
• Data is never destroyed
• New value timestamp user recorded
• Can see the value at any point in time

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Workday Technology

• Benefits
• Delivered Value
• Immediately usable
• Built-in BI
• Less dependence on IT
• Configure not customize
• Development Approach
• Rapid delivery of new functionality
• Single global instance
• Updates not upgrades
• Deployment Model
• Speed of implementation
• Reduce operating costs
• Improved service levels

DeliveredValue
Development Approach
DeploymentModel
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Rapid Application Development Framework

• Definitional development (no coding)
• Object oriented design (no relational mapping)
• Framework handles development complexities
• Multi-tenancy
• Data security
• Transaction management
• Memory management
• Object to relational persistence
• UE - consistency

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Scalable Transaction Processing

• Efficient read / write concurrency
• Consistent reads without blocking writes
• Background (batch) processing
• Reports
• Process
• Integrations (EIB)
• Scheduling / monitoring
• Reports
• Processes
• Workflow alerts
• Integrations (EIB)
• Configurable calculation engine
• Payroll
• Absence

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Global Infrastructure

• Unicode support
• User defined language preference
• Translation tools
• Multi currency support
• Locale specific formats
• Date / time
• Number
• Currency
• Name
• Address
• IDs
• Locale specific content / processing
• Personal data

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Workday Technology

• Benefits
• Delivered Value
• Immediately usable
• Built-in BI
• Less dependence on IT
• Configure not customize
• Development Approach
• Rapid delivery of new functionality
• Single global instance
• Updates not upgrades
• Deployment Model
• Speed of implementation
• Reduce operating costs
• Improved service levels

DeliveredValue
Development Approach
DeploymentModel
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Integration On-Demand
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Workday Integration On-Demand
User-builtIntegrations Customer- or
Partner-built
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Workday Integration Tools
Create Integration
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Integration On-Demand Strategy
Web Services API Continue to increase functional
footprint Simplify essential complexities Provide
additional security choices and
standards Integration Tools Provide increasingly
powerful, easy-to-use integration tools Empower
building of complex integration use-cases
Simplify implementation Integration
Network Continue to increase packaged
Integrations catalog Partner and customer
generated content Provide integration sharing
within our Community
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Workday Technology

• Benefits
• Delivered Value
• Immediately usable
• Built-in BI
• Less dependence on IT
• Configure not customize
• Development Approach
• Rapid delivery of new functionality
• Single global instance
• Updates not upgrades
• Deployment Model
• Speed of implementation
• Reduce operating costs
• Improved service levels

DeliveredValue
Development Approach
DeploymentModel
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Thank You
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WORKDAY TECHNOLOGY
Stan SweteCTO - Workday