Workday is taking its partnership with ADP for global payroll to the next level in a move that should benefit both vendors as well as customers. Here are the key details from the announcement at Workday Rising in Dublin:
Multinational organizations can leverage ADP Global Payroll functionality from within Workday's user interface in one process for managing their global workforce.
Customers can enter comprehensive local data directly into Workday where it is automatically validated and utilized by ADP to create a more streamlined global payroll experience.
Workday combines the latest advances in integration technology with ADP's REST APIs to enable dynamic page creation, rendering the fields for local payroll information from ADP so multinational organizations can better manage payroll requirements around the world.
Legislative updates from ADP can be made on a timely basis via the Workday user interface, ensuring that customers are up to date with country-specific and local regulatory changes for a smoother payroll process.
Multinational organizations looking to invest in Workday and ADP's best-in-class HR and global payroll solutions can take advantage of a seamless experience for global payroll management.
The integration will be co-developed by Workday and ADP, however, it won't surface until the second half of next year.
Customers can expect the approach to reflect how Workday will develop integrations with partners moving forward, the vendor said in a briefing with Constellation Research.
A Win-Win Situation
"Payroll is one of the most complex pieces of HR software, and with an increasingly dynamic legislative environment it is not easy for even the largest software vendors to stay on top of the many changes in statutory and regulatory requirements in the payroll space," says Constellation Research VP and principal analyst Holger Mueller. "At the same time, there are no margins for error. Changes have to be implemented timely and correctly, and employees paid as required."
"What we see in the this partnership how modern software can create a win- win for customers and software vendors," Mueller adds. "Workday users win, as they have a common user experience and know that Workday now has a strong payroll partner under the hood, Workday can focus less on payroll compliance and commit R&D spending elselwhere, and ADP gets more scale out of its existing payroll investment."
However, "the real benefit is for customers," Mueller notes. "They have the confidence and scale from ADP, and the Workday user interface for their users."