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Workday Consulting Services—Quickly Migrate Your Core Business Services, HR, Finance and Payroll, to the Cloud
Current Situation
HR and Finance organizations within the enterprises are more broadly adopting SaaS solutions such as Workday to help them meet business objectives such as cost savings, business agility and scalability. According to recent research by Saugatuck, ~50% of HR departments plan to deploy SaaS-based core HR applications by the end of 2012.
SaaS applications such as Workday for HR and Finance promise to help organizations achieve cost savings while delivering a superior user experience. Typical Workday customers see significant benefits including:

However, SaaS is a new model for consuming and delivering software and therefore raises some new questions, especially when it comes to migrating core business services such as HR and Finance.

Appirio Services
Appirio provides a range of services to ensure that enterprises realize the full ROI of migrating HR, Finance and Payroll processes to Workday. Key elements include:
- Discovery, mapping and modeling of HR, Finance and Payroll processes
- Early prototyping of new processes in Workday
- ROI/TCO analysis in the discovery and project phases
- Configuration of Workday to enable best practice HR, Finance and Payroll processes
- Migration to Workday from legacy on-premise systems and integration with other core systems (both cloud and on-premise)
- IT and business user training and change management
Why Appirio?
Appirio has broad expertise across cloud platforms and experience helping 180+ enterprises adopt and connect leading cloud applications and platforms such Salesforce, Google and Workday. This means we can help enterprises not only adopt or develop a single application but also build a comprehensive cloud adoption plan.
A cloud adoption plan brings together multiple cloud applications and platforms so that enterprises multiply the benefits of their cloud applications across their business, not just a specific area. Appirio’s unmatched experience, innovative technology, cloud focus, strategic partnerships and expert team ensure that you realize the step change benefits that are possible with cloud applications and platforms.
- Unmatched Experience: Unmatched experience at the forefront of cloud computing—180+ enterprise customers including some of Workday, Salesforce.com, and Google's largest customers. In addition, we run our own business entirely in the cloud on Salesforce, Google Apps and Workday (for HR and Financials).
- Innovative Technology: Appirio’s cloud solutions are powered by innovative technology that is honed from hundreds of real-world customer engagements. Our Cloudsourcing library packages our best extensions and tools to ensure success with cloud development and our CloudFactor solutions bring together Workday information with your other cloud applications to increase business and IT productivity.
- Cloud Focus: Complete dedication to cloud computing—we only partner with pure cloud providers, we run our own business 100% in the cloud and our service delivery model is optimized for iterative development in the cloud.
- Strategic Partnerships: Appirio has strategic partnerships with the leaders in enterprise cloud computing including Salesforce, Google, Amazon and Workday.
- Expert Team: Experienced and highly qualified team - our acceptance rate of <2% is lower than MIT or Caltech!


