Companies are rapidly embracing the importance of a cloud based ERP systems. Go back 10 years and you may have been asked “what’s the cloud?”, or perhaps even “what’s an ERP system?” We help you demystify some of these concepts in this, the first of our monthly blogs on who Zeneesha is and how we help our clients.
ERP SYSTEMS IN THE PAST
In simplest terms, an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system can be defined as an integrated suite of business software applications that are managed in a single system. These were traditionally hosted on site-based servers and had to be managed by local IT professional. Over time, and with improvements on data centre technology, server architectures and high-speed data connection, we have migrated to resilient and reliable cloud-based ERP systems.
HOW IS WORKDAY DIFFERENT?
Many of these legacy systems retained much of the inflexible data structure commonly associated with on-premise solutions when migrated to the cloud. The resulting systems retained much of the clunkiness of their predecessors and process execution didn’t get the speed boost desired by most companies in the increasingly digital business environment we are in today. Workday is different as it was built in the cloud from day one. Most CEO’s will tell you that they need faster process execution. Success today is all about acting and reacting faster than your competition. In a data driven culture, your underlying infrastructure helps you stand out from the crowd.
Workday provides a single, actionable view of your business, from financials to the people in your workforce. Workers can securely access insights when they need them, collaborate and take action – all without leaving Workday. It provides unified finance and human resources lifecycle management cloud applications designed for the way people work in today’s organisations.
The Workday suite of applications comprises Human Capital Management, Financial Management. Because Workday is unified, integrations between applications are eliminated and business processes are cross-functional. Everyone has a consistent, personalised, real-time view and more pleasant experience.
Workday is built with your growth in mind and supports your organisations evolving needs, mainly as it takes an object orientated approach and utilises in-memory data management. Scalability is therefore powerful, easy, and makes use standardised web services for data exchange.
WORKING TOGETHER
Much of what companies face today is getting everything to work together – the so-called islands of information. Configuring and enabling high speed data exchange between disparate IT systems and services has become a bit of an artform where savvy IT professional are in high demand. The workday architecture lends itself well to integrations running in the Workday cloud, and provides approved connections to third party applications and services.
ZENEESHA IS MULTI-SKILLED
Here at Zeneesha we have spent the majority of our careers working on business infrastructure projects, and knowing the difficulties involved in companywide IT projects, we have embraced the Workday methodology when working with our customers. Our customers rely on platforms such as Workday, and more importantly, on implementation and support from our multi-skilled team.
Why not contact us today for an initial chat on how might be able to work with you on your future business planning.
