Workday Learning Sets New Bar
With Next-Level Video and User-Generated Content Capabilities for
Greater Employee Engagement
PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 27, 2016) -
WORKDAY RISING -- Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY),
a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human
resources, today announced the availability of Workday Learning, an
application that offers a personalized, meaningful learning
experience for organizations to encourage career development at
every stage of the employee lifecycle. Leveraging a consumer-like
approach with recommendations and leading-edge video and
user-generated content capabilities, Workday is reimagining
professional learning to help companies improve employee
engagement. Built into the core of Workday's unified suite of
applications, including Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and
Workday Financial Management, Workday Learning extends customers'
ability to cultivate their workforces and enables them to better
align employee development and workforce productivity to drive
better business outcomes -- all in a single system.
Learning Designed for
Ever-evolving Individuals and Organizations
Today's constant rate of change and disruption has forced companies
and institutions to reinvent themselves in order to keep pace,
prompting a transformation of people, cultures, and entire
organizations into adaptable enterprises. Workday Learning was
created to meet the evolving needs of organizations and employees
with a personalized approach to learning and development, similar
to the experiences sought out with consumer technologies. With
greater parity between personal and professional learning, people
can learn at work as they do in their everyday lives in a more
engaged and productive manner. As a result, employees can benefit
from broadened skillsets, additional growth opportunities, and
greater control of their career paths while organizations become
more change-ready and able to retain their best people and close
talent gaps, ultimately boosting their bottom line.
Customers using Workday Learning, including early
adopters CareerBuilder, Commerce Bank, Hootsuite, McKee Foods,
TalkTalk Group, and Unum Group, benefit from:
- Peer-to-Peer Learning:
Utilizing the latest collaboration and social learning
technologies, Workday empowers people to consume as well as create
and share content anywhere, any time, and on any device. By doing
something as simple as shooting and sharing a video tutorial using
their smartphone, employees can foster a more interactive community
that promotes learning, teaching, and coaching across all levels
within the workforce.
- Contextual Content: Because
it's unified with Workday HCM, Workday Learning is interconnected
with all of an organization's people practices and can recognize
individuals and recommend content based on their preferences and
topics of interest. Workday anticipates the evolution of the system
to encompass the ability to make recommendations based on an
employee's current role and their career goals. For example, a
person preparing for her first management role would receive a
notification when a new management seminar opens up for
registration. Later, once that same employee is promoted, the
system could automatically push relevant content such as new
video-based management training and coaching tips to her in order
to support development in this area.
- Democratization of Video:
Workday takes the complexity out of video so users can focus on
creating and sharing content. With unlimited storage, a smart video
player that supports standards like HTTP live streaming (HLS), and
a cloud infrastructure that encodes, stores, and streams video via
a top-tier global content delivery network, Workday Learning
ensures the highest quality video experience. It also supports
existing packaged learning content in SCORM and AICC formats. As an
example, in a few clicks, new employees can learn about their
company's core values by watching a short video created by
colleagues, on any device -- all without streaming delays.
- Targeted Campaigns: Workday's campaign management leverages
system data to push required and relevant content to targeted
employee groups. For example, HR leaders can create a learning
campaign for managers leading teams with remote workers, ensuring
that they have the relevant resources and communication training
needed to effectively guide and motivate individuals from
afar.
- Built-in, Actionable
Reporting and Insights: Workday Learning
makes it possible to measure the ROI and effectiveness of learning
activities for better alignment with business priorities. For
example, after a new manager development course has finished,
business leaders can track manager effectiveness by capturing
upward feedback from teams in the following months to gauge the
impact and value of that learning experience, and then determine if
it's worthwhile to run the program again for others.
Comments on the News
"With Workday Learning, we are delivering an
application unlike any other -- one that goes beyond compliance and
accreditation to provide a high-quality, consumer experience that
encourages social sharing and collaboration," said Leighanne
Levensaler, senior vice president, products, Workday. "At the same
time, our rich context allows organizations to create data-driven
learning experiences that can predictively steer employees toward
content that helps them grow. For the learner this means continuous
development and enrichment, and for the business, the evolution of
workplace learning from a cost center to a growth engine."
"Adding learning to our existing investment in
Workday's financial and HR suite provides us with a robust, unified
system that will help us further connect employee development with
strategic goals that drive the business forward, enhance our suite
of total rewards, and reinforce our culture of accountability,
agility, integrity, and growth," said Wendy Walker, director, HR
Portals, eLearning & Innovation, Unum Group. "We are committed
to the personal and professional development of our employees so
that they thrive and can deliver for our customers when they need
us most. By encouraging career growth and creating new
opportunities for our people, Workday Learning will help us sustain
the competitive edge that enables Unum to be the leading provider
of employee benefits products and services."
"To support our colleagues in today's changing
environment, we needed to re-ignite learning as an essential and
daily quality of the employee experience," said Louisa Fryer, group
development manager, TalkTalk. "Workday allows us to do this in a
way that's mobile, modern, engaging, and impactful."
"We needed a learning system that could meet the
social and digital expectations of today's workforce, while still
fulfilling our basic organizational needs for compliance," said
Mark Newsome, director of corporate human resources, McKee Foods.
"Workday Learning has very effectively married the consumer world
with the necessary and contemporary aspects of learning, and
utilizes our rich data in Workday HCM to create an entirely new
experience that will help our people advance and adapt to new roles
and projects. With Workday Learning, I am confident our employees
will be able to better develop their careers and grow with the
company, and as a result, McKee Foods will be better equipped to
drive our business forward."
"In today's dynamic business environment,
organizational success is heavily influenced by employee
engagement," said Josh Bersin, principal, Bersin by Deloitte,
Deloitte Consulting LLP. "To drive that engagement, we're seeing a
big shift in the market as solution providers try to make learning
more compelling through discovery and personalization, with a wider
variety of content in formats popular in our consumer lives, such
as video and mobile. By bringing on-demand video learning,
user-generated content, campaigns, and intelligent recommendations
to the enterprise, Workday is well positioned to help make
workplace learning a far more personal, engaging, and exciting
experience for employees."
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
This press release contains forward-looking statements including,
among other 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, 2016 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.
© 2016. Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday
and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc.
With built-in, actionable reporting and insights,
Workday Learning enables administrators and business leaders to
measure the ROI and effectiveness of learning activities.:
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Because it's unified with Workday HCM, Workday
Learning knows the learner and can recommend content based on their
preferences and topics of interest.:
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Workday Learning offers a personalized,
consumer-like approach to workplace learning with recommendations
and leading-edge video.:
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Workday Learning was purposely built to provide a
high-quality video experience - and includes unlimited storage and
streaming.:
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Workday
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