Workday Unveils Workday Learning
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New Application to Offer More Personalized Learning Experience to Align Employee
Development and Business Growth
PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 29, 2015) - Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), a
leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today
unveiled Workday Learning, a new application intended to offer a more
personalized, meaningful learning experience for organizations to evolve and
encourage career development at every stage of the employee lifecycle. Workday
Learning will be built into the fabric of Workday's unified suite of
applications including Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workday
Financial Management, providing customers with a single system to cultivate
their workforce, close talent gaps, and drive business growth.
Announced at Workday Rising Las Vegas 2015, Workday Learning embodies a shift
from talent management to people enablement focused on engaging individuals with
more rewarding, diverse work experiences that drive greater alignment between
employee development, workforce productivity, and better business outcomes.
A Continuous, Meaningful Learning Experience that Knows the Learner
Traditional learning management systems (LMS) are generally perceived as
lackluster, tedious, and uninspiring. They sit outside of daily work, lack a
connection to an employee's day-to-day needs, and do not provide the kind of
training that will help an individual progress in his or her current role.
Built with the learner's needs in mind and incorporating feedback from employees
at organizations including athenahealth, California College of the Arts, Cornell
University, and McKee Foods, Workday Learning will address the gaps that exist
with current learning management systems. Taking advantage of rich data from
Workday HCM, Workday Learning will offer an intuitive, meaningful learning
experience that knows the learner and recognizes where the individual sits in
the employee lifecycle -- whether it's the first day on the job, a new manager,
or someone cultivating core skills and expertise in a current role.
Workday Learning is intended to provide customers with:
* A Collaborative Community to Gain and Share Knowledge - Leveraging the
latest collaboration and social learning technologies, Workday will enable
employees to consume, create, and share content on any device, at any time.
Whether it's shooting and sharing a video tutorial from a smartphone, or
flipping through pages of training material on a tablet, Workday Learning
will encourage an interactive community for learning, teaching, and coaching
that meets the needs of today's digital workforce.
* Content with Context - Workday Learning will be able to recognize users and
make tailored learning recommendations based on who they are, what they do,
and their stage in the employee lifecycle. For example, the system could
recommend a video to a new manager, accounting for personal preferences and
learning experiences completed by others in similar roles or at a similar
stage in their career.
* Support for Diverse Learning Experiences - Workday Learning will enable
customers to fully support a wide spectrum of developmental experiences
spanning short, easy-to-digest micro learning activities and in-depth jumbo
learning programs as well as mandatory certification and compliance
training.
* Built-in Measurement and Insights - In combination with Workday HCM and
Workday Financial Management, Workday Learning will equip customers with
complete visibility into day-to-day learning activities and overall learning
effectiveness. For example, a team manager could quickly understand how
employees are tracking against individual development plans, and
organizational leaders could better identify and optimize learning
initiatives that positively impact business goals.
Availability
Workday plans to make Workday Learning generally available to customers in the
second half of calendar year 2016.
Comments on the News
"Our customers have made it clear that they need a progressive solution that
enables them to offer more personalized learning, development, and career
opportunities in order to engage and retain their best people," said Leighanne
Levensaler, senior vice president, products, Workday. "Workday Learning will be
seamlessly unified with Workday's suite of applications to provide a smarter,
more intuitive system that knows employees, what kind of work they do, and what
they need to achieve job and career success. As a result, employees will be
empowered to connect more and share relevant content with each other -- creating
a collaborative work environment where learning is continuous and ubiquitous."
"Having the opportunity to help shape several Workday products over the years
has proven that Workday not only cares about what we as customers need, but
seeks to understand our experiences and create something far better than we had
imagined," said Mark Newsome, director of human resources, McKee Foods. "Workday
delivers on what it promises and creates viable alternatives to some of the old,
stale offerings we often see in the marketplace. I am confident Workday Learning
will be a fresh, new approach that addresses the gaps that traditional learning
environments have struggled with for so long, without sacrificing the core
infrastructure needed in a learning system."
"Workday Learning has the potential to solve distinct challenges higher
education institutions face in meeting the training needs of their staff,
faculty, and larger community," said Mara Hancock, chief information officer and
vice president of technology, California College of the Arts. "Learning built
into Workday HCM will serve as a community-wide tool that can help overcome many
of the boundary limitations found in a traditional LMS where the line between
community members are hardened, and social and collaboration components are
bolted on rather than unified in one system."
"Learning and career development are among the leading drivers of employee
engagement and organizational success," said Josh Bersin, principal, Bersin by
Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "With floods of expert content now available,
much of it published in video and mobile format, companies need a unified and
compelling platform to help make learning discoverable and personalized. With
its focus on making learning content easy to find, produce, share, and
intelligently recommended, Workday Learning has the potential to improve the
employee learning experience."
Additional Information
Please visit the Workday blog for additional perspective about Workday
Learning:
* Read the blog: An Inside Look at Workday Learning: Reinventing How Employees
Learn with perspective from Leighanne Levensaler, senior vice president of
products, and Amy Wilson, vice president of HCM products
* Read the blog: 3 Questions with Paul Sparta, a Founding Father of Learning
Management Systems
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and
human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human
capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest
companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. More than 1,000
organizations, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises,
have selected Workday.
Forward-Looking Statements
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things, statements regarding the expected performance and benefits of Workday's
offerings. The words "believe," "may," "will," "plan," "expect," and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-
looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the
risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ
materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks
include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our Form 10-Q for the
quarter ended July 31, 2015 and our future reports that we may file with the SEC
from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations.
Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any
such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our
website or other press releases or public statements that are not currently
available are subject to change at Workday's discretion and may not be delivered
as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday, Inc. services should make
their purchase decisions based upon services, features and functions that are
currently available.
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Contact Information
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Workday
+1 405 834 7777
Jeff.Shadid(at)Workday.com
Lisa Stassoulli
Workday
+44 (0)7568 377476
Lisa.Stassoulli(at)Workday.com
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