Case Study: TripAdvisor achieves faster reporting and unified HR & finance in the cloud with Workday

Traveling to the Cloud on a Unified Suite of Applications

TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website known for its user‑generated reviews and fast‑moving “speed wins” culture, faced slow, on‑premise ERP systems after spinning out from Expedia in 2011. Legacy tools made reporting and analytics sluggish—“churning butter,” in their CFO’s words—creating a bottleneck as the company prepared to go public and scale global operations while giving engineers modern tools.

TripAdvisor adopted Workday’s unified suite (HCM, Financials, Payroll, Expenses, Procurement), deploying HCM in five months and Financials in seven—on time and on budget—with seamless payroll integration and a consistent user interface. The result: real‑time data and richer analytics, a significantly accelerated close (from over a week toward just a few days), mobile and global capabilities, stronger controls and SOX support, continuous updates, and improved employee engagement with lower training and support costs.

Tripadvisor

Julie Bradley

Chief Financial Officer