Own360 vs Workday
A Workday alternative for HR data you keep in-house.
Workday is delivered as a cloud subscription, usually on terms of three years or more. OwnHRMS covers attendance, leave, rostering and payroll on your own infrastructure, under a licence you buy once.
Side by side
| Own360 | Workday | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Self-hosted: on-premise, private cloud or air-gapped. | Delivered in Workday's cloud [1]. |
| Licensing | Perpetual licence (CapEx), or a managed subscription (OpEx). | Subscription with terms typically three years or longer [1]. |
| Renewal | Nothing to renew for the licence you own. | Renewal at the end of every subscription term [1]. |
| Where employee data lives | On your servers, inside your security perimeter. | In Workday's cloud. |
| Scope | OwnHRMS for attendance, leave, roster and payroll, sharing one model with expense, finance and IT service management. | HCM and financials suites. |
| Time to go live | Stack live in two weeks, with OwnETL migrating data and business logic. | Depends on scope and deployment partner. |
When Own360 is the better fit
Employee data must stay in your country or perimeter
Payroll and personal data never leave infrastructure you control.
HR cost keeps rising with headcount
No per-seat pricing, so growth does not raise the software bill.
HR, expense and finance should share one record
Joiners, payroll runs and reimbursements flow through one model, with AI agents working across them.
When Workday may still suit you
You want a fully vendor-managed HR cloud and have no appetite for self-hosting. You rely on Workday-specific partner integrations with no replacement planned.
Sources: [1] Workday, Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal year 2019 (SEC filing). Competitor details are taken from public sources and may change; check with the vendor before you decide.
Buy it once. Run it on your infrastructure.
Own360 is sold as a perpetual licence to enterprises that want their business software as an asset, not a subscription. Here is how a licence comes together.
- 01
Discovery call
Walk us through the stack you run today and the renewals coming up. We map which OwnApps replace which tools.
- 02
Free stack audit and written quote
You get a migration plan and a licence quote for the apps you need. Perpetual licence (CapEx) or managed subscription (OpEx).
- 03
Deployed on your infrastructure
On-premise, private cloud or air-gapped. The stack is live in two weeks, with OwnETL moving your data and business logic.
- Perpetual licence: you own it
- No per-seat pricing
- Self-hosted, your data stays with you
- Live in two weeks