Ryan Selects Workday to Support Future Growth

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 10, 2015) - Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, announced today that Ryan, a leading global tax services firm with the largest indirect and property tax practices in North America and the sixth largest corporate tax practice in the U.S., has selected Workday's unified suite of applications, including Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). With Workday, Ryan will be able to focus on growth and international expansion while cultivating its flexible employee work culture and industry-leading client service.

Founded in 1991, Ryan provides a comprehensive range of state, local, federal, and international tax advisory and consulting services to over 9,000 clients in more than 40 countries globally. Understanding the synergies between employee engagement, client service, and business results, Ryan pioneered an innovative work environment, called myRyan, which provides employee freedom and flexibility in exchange for personal accountability for results.

Focused on increasing its global presence, Ryan chose Workday to replace its legacy on-premise finance and HR systems to gain the access and visibility its executives, managers, and employees need to maintain its myRyan work environment while pushing the business forward.

Global Business Growth
With one system for its financial, operational, and people data, Ryan will be able to the reduce time and energy spent on manual processes and spreadsheet consolidations. Executives and managers will have access to insights that will promote the optimization of workforce and business performance as it grows. For example, Ryan will be able to consolidate multiple account ledgers into a single ledger and have one view of global financial performance. With tools like Composite Reporting, regional or client managers will be able to combine financial and project information with HR data to create improved operational reporting to drive project profitability and better decision making.