Workday, Inc. unveiled a completely new desktop experience for its millions of users around the world. Designed in partnership with customers, including some of the popular consumer and social brands, the new user experience combines a redesigned visual interface built on HTML5, along with dozens of rich, intuitive features to enhance the usability customers already recognize with the company. The company also announced immediate availability of its latest update, Workday 21, which includes more than 240 new HR and finance features, approximately 65 of which were customer suggestions.

Workday 21 is the first update to be released leveraging the company's shift to a single code line for both development and production environments -- a transition that simultaneously increases the frequency of innovation delivered to customers, while minimizing disruption. Simplifying the User Experience for Employees, Managers, and Power Users. As a result, employees, managers, and power users across finance and human resources all benefit from an experience that is: Consumer-Driven: Familiar visual cues and patterns influenced by popular email services, social sites, search engines, and web commerce make it simple for new users to login and use Workday without training.

Clean: Increased whitespace, subtle iconography, and simple fonts are just starting points of a more approachable visual interface for users to discover priority information and actions at a glance. Consolidated: An overall shift to a single-page application view along with several new features reduces the clicks for a user to navigate through a business process. Contextual: More intelligent and predictive features personalize the relevancy and security of information based on a user's unique needs and previous behavior in Workday.

With new features in Workday 21, customers can: Better manage assets with enhanced capabilities that automatically group similar items into one pooled asset. Additionally, customers can more easily track the financial lifecycle of multiple, diverse assets that form one composite item. Ease international trade accounting by providing full visibility into deferred revenue recognition in multiple foreign currencies as well as multi-currency support for cash, customer, and vendor accounts.