Accenture and Workday Rise and Shine: It’s time to be extraordinary

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The Accenture Workday alliance stands out in the field of cloud-based human resource (HR) and finance software providers by helping organizations get more from their investments than they ever thought possible. Workday brings leading-edge applications, functionality and experience. Accenture brings additional strategic thinking, as well as the technical know-how, skilled teams and support services that help clients not only incorporate Workday solutions into their ecosystems more easily, but also achieve value even more quickly. Our clients bring their willingness to change. Together, we create something extraordinary: a nimble, responsive and productive organization, whose employees and leaders are empowered with new insights and better ways of working.

The long-standing Accenture and Workday alliance is focused on one thing: helping our clients thrive in the digital world.

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Workday was one of the first service providers to recognize digital’s potential to transform how organizations manage their operations, particularly in the areas of talent and financial management. Since 2007, it has offered a suite of human capital management and financial management applications that are as easy to use as they are easy to love. These cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications offer the functionalities organizations need to optimize their human capital and finance capabilities.

• In the area of human capital management, organizations can use Workday solutions to consolidate their HR, talent management, payroll and time-tracking functions within a single application. They strengthen their abilities to attract, retain and engage top workers by making exceptional employee experiences the norm. And they use Workday to provide a “single source of truth” about workforce productivity, labor costs, skills and experience. Those insights help organizations make better and faster decisions. And those decisions translate into business efficiencies and strategies for moving the business forward.

• In the area of financial management, organizations use Workday to gain better visibility—and control—of their finance business. Top-notch finance and accounting capabilities. Fast and accurate transaction processing. Security. Compliance. Reporting. All of these capabilities and more are delivered via a scalable cloud application. The result is a financial management capability that can readily adapt to business changes. With reliable and harmonized financial systems, better metrics, and access to real-time insights, Workday customers are prepared to thrive in today’s complex business environments.

In 2008, Accenture became the company's first large implementation partner. We saw the value of Workday solutions from the very beginning. We also saw the value that we could bring to help organizations get the most from their Workday investments.

While most organizations recognize that digital solutions can improve their talent and financial operations, many lack a clear understanding of what is possible in the digital world. Even those that do have a solid vision often don’t have the skills to bring the digital potential to life. Fewer, still, know how to manage and build on that digital potential over time. That’s where Accenture comes in.

We’ve designed our Workday capabilities around a single goal: to help our clients get more from their Workday Human Capital Management and Financial Management solutions than they ever thought possible. As a trusted ally, we help ensure that the decisions they make today will put them on a solid path to sustainable growth. We keep initiatives on track. Our strategy, digital, technology and operations skills, coupled with our project management know-how and our industry knowledge and insights, help our clients overcome any obstacles in their way. Our specific services include:

Strategic transformation. We are strategy advisors. We routinely work with HR, finance and IT leaders to envision (and plan for) the long-term value of Workday solutions. We evaluate the organization’s needs, technology landscape and objectives, and then help plot a specific

path forward. This effort might include: adapting processes, policies or data models; establishing or enhancing shared services; simplifying HR and finance operations; and selecting the appropriate mix of Workday applications.

Application implementation. Our human capital and finance management professionals help business and education leaders design and deploy a Workday solution that brings core processes together. We manage the implementation from end-to-end. That means we get our clients’ solutions (and our clients’ workforces) up and running fast. We scale the solution to meet specific needs. And we design our implementations to be future-ready. In these ways, we turn a maze of legacy systems and processes into a highly integrated, efficient and agile capability.

Application management. With our proven application management services, our clients can be confident that their Workday solutions will keep on doing what they need them to do. We offer application management services—planning and strategy; ecosystem assessment; application development and maintenance; release management; and additional services such as social media integration, advanced analytics, mobile solutions, business process transformation and business process outsourcing—all adaptable to our clients' needs. With these services, we can assist you in driving down costs and risks, while driving up peace of mind.

With our end-to-end Workday services, organizations can achieve high levels of efficiency and productivity across their talent and finance operations

Accenture: A trusted strategic collaborator

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We are committed to helping businesses and higher education institutions turn their Workday investments into business value. In achieving this goal, we offer:

Cloud leadership and innovation. Our experience in delivering SaaS solutions is second to none. With 6,600 SaaS professionals around the world, we bring business smarts, deep industry experience, and proven strategy and technology leadership to clients that have chosen cloud computing solutions. To date, we have worked on more than 8,000 cloud projects in 50 countries, and have led hundreds of successful enterprise SaaS implementations.

Leading Workday capabilities. Accenture is one of Workday’s most strategic, experienced and successful implementation partners. We now have 500 dedicated Workday professionals. They are located strategically around the world. And they hold more than 700 Workday certifications. To date, we have deployed more than 850 Workday integrations; approximately 1,200,000 Workday seats globally, in 20 languages, for clients in more than 100 countries. These projects reflect our deep understanding of global and local business environments, IT ecosystems, cultures, regulatory requirements and business rules. In recent years, we’ve redoubled our efforts to meet our client’s growing demand for Workday resources, solutions and services. Specifically, we’ve tripled our Workday practice headcount and opened five Workday delivery centers, which give us the flexibility we need to ramp up or ramp down resources, as needed, cost effectively. In addition to growing our practice and building our capabilities, we are currently collaborating with Workday

in the development of assets to support Workday implementations.

Global reach/Local delivery. One of the reasons Accenture is able to deliver such high-quality, economical solutions is because of our “industrialized” approach. With a proven track record of solid delivery, we clearly know what we're doing. We’ve developed repeatable processes and robust structures to make sure our clients get the best service possible. With our Global Delivery Network—which makes up the largest and most diversified group of management consulting, technology and business process outsourcing professionals in the world—we can quickly assemble the team of professionals that help you to get the job done. Our resources are there when our clients need them—locally and within our 40 cloud-related delivery centers, seven Accenture Cloud Centers of Excellence, or five Workday delivery centers around the world.

A start-up’s passion/A leader’s resources. Our Workday practice is an energized, innovative and determined group. Even though we have one of the largest Workday practices in the world, we operate much like a startup. It allows us to be nimble, focused and passionate about results. At the same time, we have the power of Accenture’s full set of skills and global resources at our disposal. That means we can assist our clients to get their Workday solution up-and-running. And we do it quickly and cost effectively.

Human capital management and finance management expertise. We have more than 10,000 professionals skilled in delivering human capital management solutions. In the past 15 years, we have delivered more than 1,800

IT projects across all major human capital management applications. Additionally, we have more than 4,000 professionals with deep finance and accounting capabilities in nearly 50 countries. We bring deep industry and functional knowledge, as well as an understanding of what our clients need and what they’re trying to accomplish.

Solutions that stand the test of time. We do more than help organizations deploy or manage their Workday solutions. We help them use Workday to drive business agility, responsiveness and efficiency for years to come. For more than 20 years, we've provided deep industry experience in more than 40 industries to our clients in 50+ countries around the globe. Today, some 60,000+ professionals support more than 1,000 clients worldwide.

Fast results, delivered through Accenture's Intelligent Tools. Accenture’s proven methodologies and tools minimize risk and get clients’ solutions running quickly and smoothly. They include benchmarking and assessment tools, accelerators, industry-specific solutions (which include configuration workbooks, process flows, and testing and training documentation) and a robust methodology for delivering implementation and application management services. The Accenture Workday Solution Factory is particularly helpful. As a highly collaborative delivery environment, it brings Accenture’s industry, function and technology skills together with deep knowledge of Workday solutions. The result is a high-quality solution with more predicable outcomes.

Start your Workday with Accenture

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The long-standing Accenture and Workday alliance is focused on helping businesses thrive in the digital world. We’ve done that for clients around the world. Consider the following:

• Accenture helped Telefonica Digital develop a centralized global HR operating model based on the Workday Human Capital Management cloud solution. The new HR system—which is used by 4,000 users in 14 countries—improved not only the company’s HR service, but also its ability to share (and report on) consistent HR data across different geographies and business units. This project was recognized as the best Cloud Project at the 2014 UK Cloud Awards.

• Accenture helped Huntsman, a global chemical provider, use Workday Human Capital Management to drive consistency of information and business processes. Specifically, Accenture helped Huntsman consolidate its HR systems into a single system of record. That, in turn, led to more efficient reporting and better data, an enhanced ability to harmonize and standardize HR, and a better view of the global workforce.

• Accenture helped a leading security services company consolidate more than 100 global human resources systems into a single cloud-based system of record. The Workday solution—across more than 50 countries and for more than 60,000 end users—helped increase the

Workday in Action

Accenture’s delivery assets and Intelligent Tools help speed migration to the cloud and help organizations achieve business results faster.Our tools include:

• Workday Playbook

• Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solutions for Workday

• Accenture Configuration Automation Toolkit for Workday

• Accenture Reusable Technical Library for Workday

• Employee Data Gathering Tool (EDG Tool) for Workday

• Accenture Data Reconciliation Accelerator for Workday

• Accenture Data Load Validator for Workday

• Accenture Payroll Reconciliation Accelerator for Workday

• Accenture Release Analyzer for Workday

consistency of information and business processes to improve usability, agility, flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Following the successful implementation, Accenture took on responsibility for the ongoing development and maintenance of the Workday solution with nearly 80 percent of the company’s employees and locations now using Workday.

• In just 12 months, Accenture helped a health care services provider redesign its HR model and implement 30,000 Workday seats. The effort—which transformed the provider’s HR operations—included design, build, test and deployment of solutions covering Workforce Administration, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Recruiting and Service Center Technology.

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Accenture shapes its Workday planning, deployment and application management services to address our clients’ specific priorities. With our deep skills and experience, organizations of all sizes and in all industries can take advantage of productive and responsive capabilities quickly. We help colleges and universities, for example, use Workday to more effectively manage their faculty, staff, researchers and student workers, and also allocate labor costs across different accounting dimensions such as grants, funds, programs and projects. And we show them how to manage compliance with external reporting requirements, and monitor proper stewardship of funds.

Regardless of industry or organization type, clients can count on Accenture to help them enhance the value of their Workday investment. Some of the most common benefits we deliver are:

Business agility. We help organizations cope with business changes, challenges and marketplace volatility by consolidating and optimizing their human capital management and financial management applications in the cloud, and on a global scale.

Improved employee performance and experience. We boost the responsiveness, efficiency and productivity of workforces in two ways: by facilitating easy access to information, applications and work processes anytime, from any device; and by simplifying and unifying human capital and finance-related processes. This not only makes workers more productive, but also helps attract and retain the best workers, reduces turnover costs and can even improve the end-customer experience.

Better insights/Faster decisions. With better access to reliable data, analytics and insights, finance and HR leaders can make better, faster decisions to drive the business forward.

Cost savings. We can help reduce operating costs by simplifying processes, introducing self-service features, and leveraging the Accenture Global Delivery Network for implementation and application management support. In the area of higher education, it’s not uncommon for our clients to achieve up to 40 percent reductions in administrative costs.

Accenture has 500 dedicated Workday professionals, holding more than 700 Workday certifications.

Rise and shine with Workday

Confidence. We are a global leader when it comes to SaaS, cloud and Workday management. By leveraging our SaaS delivery assets, tools and methodology, business leaders can more accurately predict (and manage) their costs. When clients team with Accenture, they can transform their human capital and financial capabilities with a high degree of confidence.

A platform for long-term success. Accenture is a trusted collaborator in the areas of planning, deployment and management. We approach all of our projects holistically; our strategies, solutions and management services are designed with clients’ long-term success in mind. As one of the world’s largest and most successful systems integrators and outsourcing providers, we know what it takes to help our clients realize value from day one.

Importantly, these benefits are multiplied when Workday’s Human Capital Management and Financial Management solutions are deployed, integrated and managed as a unified set of solutions. Accenture can help clients assess—and then realize—the potential value of linking these solutions.

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When organizations team with Accenture for help in planning, deploying and managing their Workday solutions, they can achieve something extraordinary. They save money. They reduce complexity. They become more nimble, responsive and productive. And they empower their employees and leaders with new insights and better ways of working.

It’s time for you to be extraordinary. It’s time to take advantage of all that Workday has to offer. It’s time to let Accenture show you the way.

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Contact Us Accenture has a team of advisors that is poised to help your organization manage and improve the business benefits from your Workday applications. Accenture welcomes the opportunity to learn about your goals and discuss how we can help you.

Beth Boettcher Global Workday Practice Lead, Accenture beth.a.boettcher@accenture.com