Workday Tutorial

This Workday Tutorial talks about the basic functionalities,features and offerings of Workday software.

WORKDAY OFFERINGS

Workday is building a complete suite of on-demand products to help you run your business.

Human Capital Management-  Workday’s HCM suite includes Staffing, Absence, Benefits, Performance, Compensation, and Development.

Payroll – Workday is delivering a powerful new payroll product that allows you to group employees, manage payroll calculation rules, and pay employees according to their organizational, policy and reporting needs. We also offer the ability to integrate with leading outsourced payroll providers such as ADP Payforce.

Financial Management – Workday delivers all the core financial management processes including Financial Accounting and reporting, Resource management (procurement, asset management), Supplier accounts, customer accounts, cash management, and revenue accounts.

Worker Spend Management – Worker Spend Management gives you ability to track expenses, spending on contingent labor, and handle desktop procurement.

Workday Benefits Network – Delivers pre-built integrations to over 70 benefits providers.

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WORKDAY ARCHITECTURE

Workday’s applications run entirely in-memory, in a highly object-oriented structure. Persistence is mainly for the sake of data safety …but not entirely. In earlier releases, Workday kept absolutely everything in RAM. However, certain things are kept only on disk, such as:

• Audit files.
• Certain documents (notably resumes)

The main components of Workday Architecture include :

UI Server provides the following:

• Entry point for end users
• Flash/Flex based
• Wide Browser Support
• UIs will be automatically generated for
• iPhone
• Mobile HTML
• PDF export
• Excel export

Object Management Server(OMS) is responsible for the following :

• main processing engine
• services UI and data requests that comes from the UI server and Integration Servers.

Integration Server :

Workday only talks to the outside world via web services.

• Workday is heavily into SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).
• It translates SOAP into whatever else might be needed for integration, and also does reliable delivery.
• All that said, Workday sees integration among various SaaS offerings as an area needing significant future attention.
• It also provides transformation services according to the data formats that it is integrating with.

Persistent Strore :

• All the workday application changes will be captured in Database.
• Workday uses GPLed MySQL/InnoDB.
• This is responsible for data replications and Data backups.

Core concepts and Navigation Basics

Core Concept: Workday Foundation

• supervisory organization :The Foundation of Workday HCM. This type organization groups worker into a management hierarchy.
• Staffing Model: Defines how jobs and position are created and filled in a supervisory organization
• Job Profiles: Defines generic features and characteristics of a job and a position that is built off that profile.
• Compensation: The umbrella term for compensation packages grades grade profile and plans.
• Security: A security group is a collection of user or a collection of objects that are related to users. Allowing a security group access to a securable item in a security policy grants access to the users associated with the security groups.
• Business Process: A sequence of one or more tasks that accomplishes a desired business

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Lianamelissa is Research Analyst at Mindmajix. A techno freak who likes to explore different technologies. Likes to follow the technology trends in market and write about them.