HR Software Review

Workday

Deep Dive Analysis

Workday is an enterprise HR and finance suite covering the full employee lifecycle at large scale.

Large enterprises with dedicated HR systems teams.

"The enterprise standard. If you are asking whether you need it, you do not."

HR, IT and payroll in one system.

Employer of record and global payroll.

Applicant tracking and recruiting CRM.

Public API

Offers a documented API you can build against.

Yes

Mobile app

Has a native app for iOS or Android, not just a mobile website.

Yes

Open source / self-hostable

Source is open and the tool can be run on your own infrastructure.

SSO (SAML)

Supports SAML single sign-on on at least one plan.

Yes

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