The fact that the market is excited about Workday would be an understatement.\u00a0 Hype around this company\u2019s products and functionality appear to be racing quite past reality and approach mythical levels.\u00a0 Perhaps the confidence in the HR industry for Dave (Duffield) to deliver another great HR application is deservedly high.\u00a0 Or perhaps the marketing of Workday is simply a lesson in how marketing should be done.\u00a0 While I\u2019d suggest that both might have some level of truth, there also seems to be an unrealistic expectation that customers have.<\/p>\n
The promise of Workday was that they could reinvent applications and the way users interacted with them.\u00a0 This was spectacularly show in their HR application where they completely redesigned the way they see the organization structure.\u00a0 Many of us remember and still work with the rigid org structures that are in just about any HRMS system.\u00a0 They become a unflexible way to manage security, workflow, reporting, etc.\u00a0 However, in todays HR world that is driven more by cross functional and end to end processes, inflexible organization structures were a significant barrier to our ability to reinvent how we see other functionality.<\/p>\n
The core areas of Workday\u2019s HCM application (like the org structure and the core technology and UI) are great.\u00a0 However, as they move into sales and marketing, the demand for their applications seems fairly high, and customers are beginning to demand more traditional functionality.\u00a0 As buyers buy, they like the idea of a very innovative application, but they feel that they need the old functionality they have always had.\u00a0 Workday is now in the situation where they wanted to do something very cool and different, but are needing to meet the realities of customer demands.\u00a0 What will their talent management applications look like?\u00a0 Will they have the opportunity to create something new and amazing (the way Taleo did) or will they cave to the cries of the customer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The fact that the market is excited about Workday would be an understatement.\u00a0 Hype around this company\u2019s products and functionality appear to be racing quite past reality and approach mythical levels.\u00a0 Perhaps the confidence in the HR industry for Dave…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2,29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-solutions","category-hr-technology","category-hrms","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}