Skandia Selects Workday to Support Efficiency and Digitalisation

PLEASANTON, CA and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN--(Marketwired - Dec 2, 2015) - Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that Skandia, one of Sweden's largest independent, customer-owned banking and insurance groups, has selected Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to increase efficiency and digitialisation of its HR-related business processes.

Being an innovative company with more than 2,000 employees in Sweden, Denmark and Lithuania, Skandia made a decision to replace its legacy HR systems with a modern cloud system that could keep pace with Skandia's transformation agenda and support its continued success into the future. After a thorough review of the main suppliers in the market, Skandia selected Workday with Cloudator as its deployment partner.

With Workday, Skandia plans to:

• Equip business leaders with access to the real-time data required to facilitate informed workforce decisions.
• Establish a single system of record for organisational and employee information.
• Reduce manual routines by standardising and digitalising HR business processes, thereby increasing operational efficiency.
• Drive employee engagement with an intuitive user experience for employees to access information as well as perform tasks online such as setting goals and providing feedback.

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"We wanted to move away from our old, proprietary HR system and create a new experience for Skandia's employees and managers when it came to accessing relevant information and performing people-related processes and routines. Workday is the optimal partner with a very reliable, cloud-based system to achieve this goal," said Marie Ågren, Head of HR, at Skandia. "Out of the suppliers we reviewed, Workday offered the most proven system when it came to the features, information security, and continual delivery of new functionality required to digitalise our HR operations. We were also attracted by the high levels of satisfaction that other customers shared with us about their Workday experience."

"We take pride in maintaining a high customer satisfaction rating which currently sits at 98%, and we believe that we continue to attract new customers like Skandia to the Workday family as a result of this customer-centric approach," said Chano Fernandez, president, EMEA, Workday. "With Workday, Skandia will have one, cloud-based HR system built to break down data silos, streamline operations, and arm employees and managers to access, analyse, and act on the right information when and where they need. This combination of greater efficiencies, a more engaging user experience, and workforce insights embodies the Workday experience for our growing community of satisfied customers globally."

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