Aon Selects Workday Financial Management to Help Drive Global Growth

PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 19, 2015) - Workday, Inc. (NYSE: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced that  Aon plc (NYSE: AON), the leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resource solutions and administration services, is expanding its Workday footprint to include Workday Financial Management. Aon's selection of Workday Financial Management, coupled with its recent deployment of Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), makes Aon one of the largest organisations to use Workday's unified suite of applications to manage and drive insights from its financial, people, and operational data.

With more than 70,000 employees across 120 countries, Aon is one of the world's leading risk and insurance brokers and employee benefits consulting firms with global business units including Aon Benfield, Aon Hewitt, and Aon Risk Solutions. With a focus on optimising financial and people resources to ensure client success, Aon recognised the value in expanding its Workday deployment and establishing one system to further unify the organisation and drive global growth.

To deploy Workday Financial Management globally, Aon will leverage the expertise of its Cloud Solutions unit within Aon Hewitt -- which has helped deploy and support Workday for more than 200 clients.

With Workday's unified suite of applications, Aon expects to:

• Utilise built-in reporting and analytics to equip organisational leaders with real-time, actionable insights that will enable them to more quickly and confidently make informed decisions that drive client and shareholder value.
  
  
• Increase financial data transparency and relevancy with one unified financial application for all accounting and reporting needs across business units and global offices. Using Worktags, Aon will also be able to easily analyse, drill down into, and report on data using dimensions such as a region, department, or customer, and take action to better drive results.
  
  
• Realise efficiencies and improve productivity by reducing time spent on manual processes such as extracting and consolidating data for spreadsheet calculations. As a result, Aon will be able to redirect resources to more high-value work which will greatly impact business effectiveness.
  
  
• Further empower its on-the-go, global workforce to access information and take action, where and when needed.

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