Workday

By connecting data across HR, Finance, Sales, and functions—including skills, staffing, payroll, and revenue—we aligned priorities and broke down barriers. This enabled faster, smarter talent decisions. By migrating from legacy custom talent acquisition as well as learning solutions and aligned to global standards, we’re scaling rapidly in the markets and business where there is opportunity to grow.

We partnered with Workday to unleash our talent potential and prepare people for, not only a gen AI-enabled future, but for whatever is next on the horizon. Over the past four years, Workday has enabled us to continuously reinvent our business and talent models, unlock talent potential, innovate for our people, and make faster strategic decisions. Here’s how we did it:

We were clear on our ‘why’ from the start: to be faster and bolder than ever before. Whether it was our ability to re-organize our operating model in weeks, pivot to a single global recruiting platform, launch gen AI-enabled performance management tools in a few months, or deploy on average 475 new features a year to our people, we are now able to move faster than ever before.

Stoel Rives had inflexible HR and Payroll systems that required manual interventions, leading to increased task completion time, and wanted to implement a more modern and best-in-class solution for their HCM and Payroll systems. Stoel Rives turned to Workday and CrossVue.

Using a Workday Launch approach with pre-configured business processes, CrossVue helped Stoel Rives achieve faster time to value with their Workday deployment while limiting risk. Knowing this would be a significant change in technology for the firm, CrossVue partnered closely with Stoel Rives throughout the implementation to test, design, and deploy Workday HCM and Payroll, delivering industry best practices and meeting Stoel Rives’ business requirements.

With their Workday HCM implementation complete, Stoel Rives has enhanced their business drivers by removing manual processes, empowering HR with one comprehensive tool, improving efficiencies, and improving data integrity. The successful launch of the HR, benefits, payroll, and reporting systems has brought all Stoel Rives’ offices across the country into one cohesive system that provides more actionable real-time data and reports. They now have a full technology platform that supports processes, consolidates information better, and enables tasks to be completed quickly and efficiently, without requiring manual overrides or intervention.…

The organization’s work has expanded over the years, from providing child and family care to include research-based programs and a hospital. It has also grown its geographic footprint from a single square mile established in the early 1900s to multiple locations across multiple states. With this growth comes volumes of sensitive data that need the proper architecture, processes, and systems in place for the organization’s 3,000+ employees to keep children and families’ data secure and readily available when it is needed for things like background checks, healthcare records, and more. The organization chose Workday for its full platform solution including Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, Finance, and Supply Chain Management (SCM).…

To successfully move the organization over to Workday, CrossVue and the organization took a strategic approach knowing the implementation would be a multi-year, multi-phase project. Phase one involved implementing SCM first, which started by building an integration to the Epic medical records system. CrossVue prototyped and built the Epic integration in approximately six weeks, an extremely quick turnaround for a pivotal piece of the SCM implementation. CrossVue then established the core elements of HCM, Finance, and Payroll to satisfy interdependencies with Procurement, Suppliers, and Inventory, all core elements of SCM.…

With the completion of both phases of its Workday deployment, the organization now has a modern, cloud-based, mobile-first system that is a huge upgrade in capabilities for the entire organization. Workday’s automation features increase the speed and efficiency with which the organization operates, and it can maximize its energy and focus on providing critical services for America’s youth and families. Switching to Workday is a generational technology change, and the organization is excited to use the full platform for years to come. With CrossVue’s continued guidance and post-production services, the organization will achieve more and more value out of Workday that aligns to its long-term strategic plan.…

Despite Keystone Cooperative’s successful Workday implementation, they encountered significant challenges with post-implementation support and operational inefficiencies. These delays, combined with limited expertise and support flexibility, hindered Keystone’s ability to leverage Workday’s potential fully.

ERPA introduced weekly touchpoints to address issues in real-time, facilitated the timely deployment of Workday Help and Workday Journeys, and built comprehensive integrations for Keystone’s benefits providers.

By addressing critical challenges, automating key workflows, and providing responsive, expert support, ERPA has enabled Keystone to prioritize strategic initiatives and build a self-sufficient HR infrastructure for long-term success.

Despite being an early adopter of Workday, MSCI faced increasing complexity in managing HR technology at scale. With a lean internal team, tackling large-scale Workday projects-like payroll transformation and studio integrations-required external expertise. MSCI needed a partner that could complement its self-sufficient approach while providing deep technical knowledge, flexibility, and a collaborative working style. To bridge this gap, MSCI turned to ERPA to enhance its Workday experience and ensure ongoing success.

ERPA’s tailored approach provided MSCI with the expertise, flexibility, and hands-on support needed to execute complex Workday projects while reinforcing internal self-sufficiency. From payroll transformation to Workday Studio integrations and advanced compensation, ERPA’s partnership enabled MSCI to optimize its HR technology without disrupting operations.

MSCI’s first major project with ERPA was a payroll transformation. Payroll is a critical function with no room for error, and MSCI wanted to ensure a smooth transition. ERPA stepped in with deep payroll expertise to structure a seamless implementation, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and integration with third-party systems. The results? “Payroll was a tremendous success,” Fassero shared. “We’ve done at least four payrolls and our special compensation processes for the year-those have been exceptionally smooth.”

Integrating a robust system like Workday across multiple areas, including finance, procurement, and HR, can be daunting for any organization. Avēsis, which operates within a complex dental and vision insurance sector, faced the challenge of supporting Workday’s vast functionalities. The company’s rapid HR deployment, followed months later by Workday Financial Management, demanded seamless coordination and specialized knowledge. Hiring a full-time staff to manage this would have been prohibitively expensive. Thus, Avēsis looked for a proficient and economically viable partner to assist with their ongoing support of Workday.

Avēsis chose ERPA as their support partner for Workday. ERPA’s experts providing tailored solutions that addressed unique challenges. Collaborative communication, proactive service, and in-depth Workday knowledge were critical components of ERPA’s approach. Steve Gearhart, an integral part of Avēsis’ strategy, implemented a broad strategy document that encompassed finance, procurement, and HR integration.

Avēsis’ journey with ERPA exemplifies how a strong partnership can streamline complex systems and optimize organizational processes. ERPA’s expertise in navigating Workday, coupled with their cost-effective and relational service model, provided Avēsis with a unified and efficient operational framework. By addressing Avēsis’ unique needs and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement, ERPA has become an integral part of Avēsis’ success.

Within a 5-month period, nearly 60% of hiring cycle time was eliminated , 750K+ applications were processed, 4,623 hires were completed, and 2,500+ manual man-hours were reclaimed annually—all within the early operating window of a native Workday Extend foundation.

For talent acquisition transformation, the team integrated Paradox AI and HiredScore into Workday Recruiting, introducing recruiting automation across candidate engagement, screening, and scheduling. Core HR & Service Delivery deployed a multilingual assistant across 9 languages and roughly 3,000 knowledge-base articles. Learning & Development activated Cloud Connect with 20,000+ Skillsoft courses synced into Workday, plus a phased LMS migration roadmap.

The result: one connected Hire experience, engineered for pace, discipline, and long-term modernization.