European companies continue to choose Workday's HRtech

Workday, Inc., a leader in cloud solutions for financial management and human resource management, has recently announced that its momentum in Europe is being reconfirmed.

Businesses are increasingly turning to Workday to support them in a changing HR world where jobs are being transformed by technology, where new ways of working are becoming the norm, and where agility is essential. Leveraging a Power of One-based technology architecture - a single data source, a single security model, a single user experience, and a single community - Workday is ideally placed to provide solutions to adapt to the plurality of professional statutes, new ways of working and ever more mobile employees.

Businesses across Europe are choosing Workday to help them transform their operations and achieve new levels of organizational agility. We help the world's largest companies adapt their processes to the realities of the digital age. By using organization-specific data, they can make faster, more informed decisions that help them keep pace with changes and grow.

Carolyn Horne, President, EMEA, Workday

Among the companies that have recently chosen the Workday HCM solution are:

• Capita, headquartered in London, is a consulting, digital services and software company. Every day, its 63,000 employees help millions of people by offering innovative solutions to transform and simplify relationships between businesses and customers, governments and citizens.
• Evonik, a RAG Foundation company headquartered in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is the world's largest specialty chemical company.
• Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, KION is the largest forklift manufacturer in Europe and a global leader in automation technology. More than 1.4 million forklifts and more than 6,000 automated warehouse systems are used by customers on six continents.
• Quadient, headquartered in Bagneux, France, is a global provider of digital communications, shipping and mail solutions.
• Siemens Healthineers, headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, with more than 50,000 employees in more than 70 countries, is a leading medical technology company that continues to shape the future of healthcare through more 170 years of experience and 18,000 patents worldwide.

Some of the companies that have recently deployed the Workday HCM solution include:

• DATEV, based in Nuremberg, Germany, is a cooperative society that provides technical information services to tax professionals, accountants and lawyers and employs more than 7,800 people.
• Groupe Renault, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt (France), is a French car manufacturer founded in 1899, and internationally active. The company that builds cars and commercial vehicles employs more than 180,000 people worldwide.
• Headquartered in Sandefjord, Norway, Jotun is one of the world's largest manufacturers of paints and coatings, with nearly 10,000 employees in 62 companies and 40 production sites around the world.
• Tikkurila, headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, is one of the leading Nordic paint companies that develops high-end products and services. The company offers its customers a quality that stands the test of time and weather. The company has 2,700 professionals working in 11 countries around the world.
• Transferwise, headquartered in London, is a money transfer company with more than 4 million customers. The company has 11 offices and more than 1,300 employees on four continents.

These companies join the Workday community alongside other large companies such as Aon, Amazon, AstraZeneca, Centrica, Lloyds Bank, Nordstrom, Sanofi, and Unilever. 

Our goal with the deployment of Workday is to streamline processes and improve people management, giving our HR and our managers time to focus on higher value-added activities. Workday will also provide us with an opportunity to encourage our employees to explore the vast opportunities for internal employment.

Anja Allouni, HCM Content Manager, Jotun

Workday customers are better equipped to plan, execute, analyze and grow, thanks to a unique system powered by machine learning and a firm commitment to customer service. In addition, Workday HCM allows these companies to:

• Improve the collaborating experience. Workday creates a personalized experience for each user to help employees feel better informed, agile and truly guided.
• Respond to changing skill needs and create opportunities. The Workday Skills Cloud and Skills Insights solutions enable machine learning to identify employees' skills and then connect them to suitable jobs, opportunities or projects.
• Make faster, more informed decisions. Using a single source of data, Workday can help customers make decisions that are supported by facts.
• Automate and digitize processes that take time. Workday streamlines and automates time-consuming manual processes, enabling HR to spend time on more strategic initiatives

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