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People First:
The primacy of people
in the digital age
Accenture Technology Vision
for Workday 2016

2.
Accenture Technology Vision for Workday 2016
Workday: At the Heart of
the “People First” Agenda
Enabling a workforce that
thinks and acts differently,
and is empowered
to do more, every day.
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People First: The Primacy of People in the Digital Age
Intelligent
Automation
Liquid
Workforce
Platform
Economy
Predictable
Disruption
Digital
Trust
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The Accenture Technology Vision 2016 identifies five technology trends fueled
by the people first principle and that are essential to business success in the digital economy.
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Trend 1
Intelligent
Automation
The essential new
co-worker for the
digital age
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Intelligent Automation
The Workday Impact:
Time and cost savings: Easily automate
formerly manual HR tasks at scale.
Improved User Experience: Embedded
analytics and self service capabilities shift
routine decision-making from the hands of HR
into the hands of managers—improving the
experience for both.
For one global communication company, after the first
four weeks of deployment, the new self-service and HR
tools caused employee satisfaction to increase by more
than 35 percent, and the adoption of dashboards and
automation for reporting helped manager satisfaction
increase by more than 25 percent.

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Intelligent Automation
The Workday Impact:
Discover and act on new insights:
Impacts of hiring decisions, sales targets,
and performance metrics are all available
through one unified solution—providing
insights to help plan and deploy the right
programs at speed.
One private university in the U.S. that recently
implemented financials and HCM expects to
benefit from increased real-time, cross-functional
reporting (such as measuring personnel costs on
grants) as well as stronger controls and more
efficient workflow.

7.
Trend 2
Liquid
Workforce
Building
the workforce
for today’s
digital demands
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Deliver the right experiences and interactions:
One global system is no longer a luxury—it is a
requirement for business to thrive and empower
their workforce: from the new must-have
capabilities, to understanding where talent resides
within your organization, to attracting, recruiting,
training, and retaining your people and more.
A global automotive parts company had more than 30
different systems of record across the world—none of which
were consistent and some of which were manual—for more
than 115,000 employees across 37 countries and in six
languages. Accenture helped create and convert the data
into one global system of record on Workday, providing the
company key insights into their workforce, as well as creating
a solution that can scale with company growth.
Liquid Workforce
The Workday Impact:

9.
Trend 3
The Platform
Economy
Technology-driven
business model
innovation from
the outside in
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Do more with capabilities built expressly as a
single technology: Workday Recruiting
integrates the needs of candidates, hiring
managers, recruiters, recruiting teams and
HR all within one platform.
A leading North American energy company
consolidated diverse legacy HR solutions, using live
recruiting candidate data—and went live during the
company’s peak recruiting cycle in a seamless
manner—optimizing the recruiting process and the
ability to make faster hires, as well as providing
improved data integrity and enhanced security.
The Platform Economy
The Workday Impact:

11.
Trend 4
Predictable
Disruption
Looking to digital
ecosystems
for the next
waves of change
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Drive a disruptive agenda at speed and scale
by operating as part of a real-time community, in a
multi-tenant cloud environment—creating new value,
new connecions to create benefits and growth that
can only be dreamed of today.
Workday Student helps higher education institutions meet
targeted enrollment through data-driven insights.
If every student used Workday Student to support their
progress from university application to admission, universities
themselves would be able to predict and plan their own
resource allocation far more effectively than before. Looking
ahead, Workday Student will not only connect students with
university systems, but also provide greater visibility into
curriculum management, student records, academic advising,
financial aid, and student financials.
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Predictable Disruption
The Workday Impact:

13.
Trend 5
Digital Trust
Strengthening
customer
relationships
through ethics
and security
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14.
Increase security compliance. It is a common
misperception that cloud creates added
security risks. In fact, companies are using
cloud applications to increase security
compliance.
Trust is integral to Workday and its ongoing success.
Workday was created a cloud first and cloud only service
from inception to address the inherent risks of providing an
internet facing application storing and processing some of the
most sensitive and regulated data on the planet
Workday Financial Management is built to equip
organizations with the insight they need to operate in a
complex, competitive, and fast-paced business environment.
Accenture implemented the full suite of Workday Financial
Management for the 18,000 employees of the private
university.
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Digital Trust
The Workday Impact:

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