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Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping: Most traditional business software revolves around transactions — the movements recorded in purchase orders, stock movements, bills of materials, invoices, journals and every other document that has evolved to record business operations over the past several centuries. But this is a roundabout way of representing reality that has evolved through...; Tags: Asset, Payroll, ERP, Procurement, Workday, Operational Accounting, Purchasing & Procurement, Asset Management, Finance, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-20
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Workday: a tipping point?: Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...; Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Putting Workday on SAP's radar: Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Workday lands big Flextronics deal: Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14

RIA wars heat up with arrival of Adobe's AIR and Flex: In the world of Rich Internet Applications RIAs, the battle for hearts and minds -- not to mention eyeballs and desktops -- heated up this week when Adobe Systems took the wraps off its Adobe Integrated Runtime AIR. Adobe AIR, according to the buzz on the...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Application, Adobe AIR, Rich Internet Application, Workday, Flex 3.0, Human Resource Management (HRM), Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-02-27
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings: Cloud computing is getting hot, as in hot promises, hot press releases, and some hot contentions about who's platform is going to win the latest battleground in on-demand/SaaS. The answer my friend, is largely blowing in the wind. But not for long…. To be sure, there's a...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Cape Clear Software, On-demand, Vision, Workday, Microsoft Corp., Cloud, Sales Force Management, Strategy, Sales, Management, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Web 2.0 company buys SOA company: hmm...: Acquisitions are a dime a dozen (okay, make that a billion a dozen) in the SOA space, and we've seen plenty of specialized SOA vendors get swept up by larger infrastructure players over the past couple of years. From enterprise service bus to integration on demand --...; Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Cape Clear Software, SOA, Workday, Ronan, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, Middleware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Another ERP vendor buys into middleware: The scale may be different, but the same market forces that fueled Oracle's acquisition of BEA have sealed another acquisition announced today: that of SOA middleware vendor Cape Clear Software by on-demand enterprise applications vendor Workday also covered today here on ZDNet by Dan Farber and Dana Gardner. Increasingly, customers...; Tags: Acquisition, Cape Clear Software, Oracle Corp., ERP, Workday, Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Workday acquires Cape Clear to deliver integration as a service: On demand enterprise software provider Workday is adding integration services to its stack with the purchase of Cape Clear, an Enterprise Services Bus ESB provider. Workday had already integrated Cape Clear's bus into its HR and financial applications, such as providing report services via Excel. ...; Tags: Cape Clear Software, Workday, Integration, Financial Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Vertical Industries, Financial Planning, Finance, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Middleware field consolidates in services direction as Workday acquires Cape Clear: On-demand business applications provider Workday has acquired SOA and enterprise integration middleware vendor Cape Clear Software, the companies announced Wednesday. The acquisition is novel in several respects. A middleware software vendor is being absorbed by a software as a service SaaS provider to expand its enterprise solutions...; Tags: Acquisition, Cape Clear Software, Consolidation, Workday, Integration, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-02-06
SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.com: SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.comByDesign Brings Competition for the First Time to SaaSAs I've been saying, the real news behind ByDesign is it brings competition to SaaS for the first time:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/saps-a1s-brings-competition-to-saas-for-the-first-time/This is a good thing for the market. Choices will only accelerate adoption.RE: SAP's challenge to NetSuite,...; Tags: Sales force management, Software as a Service (SaaS), SAP AG, NetSuite Inc., Workday, Salesforce.com Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-09-21
SAP's challenge to NetSuite, Workday and salesforce.com: This week SAP finally introduced its on demand Business ByDesign suite, aimed at the mid-market (companies with 100 to 500 employees) and starting at $149 per per month per user but with a $54 a month option for a set of five users with limited usage of the software. ...; Tags: Strategy, Salesforce.com Inc., NetSuite Inc., Customer, SAP AG, ERP, Workday, Business ByDesign, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-20
ERP's armageddon: Fellow Irregular Brian Sommer has penned a detailed assessment of the potential impact Workday could have on the ERP industry. Entitled: Workday = New Day for ERP? The report will be issued shortly. it takes a shot across the bows at the incumbent players. It should be required reading by...; Tags: Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-08-29
Simplifying the enterprise: the next big thing: One of the key messages to come out of the recent Workday financials launch is the notion of modeling the business from the business reality perspective rather than the accounting oriented approach that typified many so-called ERP implementations of the 1990s and early 2000s. In the ensuing discussion among my...; Tags: Financials, ERP, Workday, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-08-22
Podcast: News to know midday: Skype and patches; Workday; Digital watermarking: On today's podcast: Skype says patches had a role in its outage. Ryan Naraine has more. Dan Farber on how Workday tries to reinvent ERP. Team coverage from Dennis Howlett and Phil Wainewright. Digital watermarking could be worse than DRM. by Larry Dignan; Tags: Podcast, Patch Management, Skype Technologies S.A., Workday, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-20
Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags: Since Workday publicly appeared on the scene in January 2006, it has been self-described as a "revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterprise's performance," with applications that will be "dramatically easy to use, be responsive to your organization's changing needs and will...; Tags: Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Workday, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-08-20
Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags: Workday unveils Financials and Work TagsAre there any writers on staff?"The sales pitch from Workday, which was co-founded by PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield his former vice chairman Aneel Bhusri following the contentious acquisition of the PeopleSoft by Oracle, sounds similar to what SAP is saying about its mid-market A1S product...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Workday, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-08-20
Workday: Forget ERP, start over: Workday: Forget ERP, start overWorkday may be a good nameThey may last a little bit longer than that, but since many people have been saying since the early 1990s that OODBMS would replace RDBMS "real soon now" and no OODBMS vendor has ever gained any significant market share whatsoever, it...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Financial Suite, Workday, ERP; Discussion threads 2007-08-20
Workday: Forget ERP, start over: Ever since businesses first started using computers to automate their operations, they've had to compromise within the limitations of the technology. Each fresh generation of technology has brought some new freedoms, but never as much as its proponents originally hoped. And so every decade or two, the old generation is...; Tags: Application, Database, Business, ERP, Workday, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-08-20