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Workday: 'parity' with SAP in 18 months

Peoplesoft founder and former CEO Dave Duffield wowed attendees at SaaScon today with his endorsement of the software-as-a-service model, which his new venture Workday has espoused to deliver ERP to medium-sized and large enterprises. "Why didnt we call it Peoplesoft On Demand? If the name hadnt been taken, perhaps...

Tags: ERP

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Apex signals a shift in the software landscape

The software landscape is changing. PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is heading up Workday, which is a pure on demand, Web services enterprise software play, following salesforce.coms lead, due for official launch on November 6. He was in attendance at Salesforce.coms roll out yesterday of its latest edition and Apex programming...

Tags: Apex, Salesforce.com Inc., Workday

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Duffield's Workday beginning next month

Dawn Kawamoto has some details on what PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is up to with his new company, Workday. Duffield has been quite secretive about what he is cooking up, but is expected to launch the first product--an on demand HR service--next month.

Tags: Dave Duffield, Workday

Blog posts 2006-04-20

The NeXt PeopleSoft?

Dave Duffield, one of the key people behind Peoplesoft is apparently starting a new business aimed at developing and supporting a new ERP/SCM package that mixes open source with traditional business methods to compete with Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft. Here's how his Davesnextmove.com website describes the problem they want...

Tags: ERP/SCM, Dave Duffield

Blog posts 2005-06-28

The NeXt PeopleSoft?

Dave Duffield, one of the key people behind Peoplesoft is apparently starting a new business aimed at developing and supporting a new ERP/SCM package that mixes open source with traditional business methods to compete with Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft. Here's how his Davesnextmove.com website describes the problem they want...

Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, PeopleSoft Inc., Dave Duffield

Blog posts 2005-06-28

'Safety Net' fund embodies spirit of PeopleSoft

Signs of the remarkable culture at PeopleSoft still shine even if the company is no longer in the hands of its employees. AMR Research reports that former employees have created a fund called The Safety Net, or TSN, to help colleagues who suffer financial problems as a result of the...

Tags: Dave Duffield, PeopleSoft Inc., former employee

Blog posts 2005-03-31

What's next for PeopleSoft?

PeopleSoft's board fired CEO Craig Conway left, which leads to speculation that the founder and chairman, and now CEO, Dave Duffield has a plan to get the company's sales back on track, that he will make a deal to sell the firm to hostile suitor Oracle, or get deeper in bed with IBM or another...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Craig Conway, Dave Duffield

Blog posts 2004-10-01

Additional Resources

Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war

Diversity rulesIt's good to see choice in the market place, some companies ourselves included elected to cancel the subscriptions in favour of managing our own hosted CRM from WiredContact in the UK. The control we had was the significant deciding factor not the cost. Having said that we spent less...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2009-08-21

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Analysis of Workday's capital infusion

Yesterday, Workday announced it had raised $75 million in Series E venture financing. The investors in this round included company founder Dave Duffield, Greylock Partners a firm Aneel Bhusri joined after his PeopleSoft days, as well as VC firm NEA Ventures. NEA is the new player in the mix. ...

Tags: Valuation, Financing, Workday, Analysis, NEA Ventures, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Workday lands $75 million in venture funding

Workday, a human resources software as a service provider, said Wednesday that it has landed $75 million in Series E funding.  Workday, the brainchild of Dave Duffield, who cooked up PeopleSoft, said in a statement that New Enterprise Associates, Greylock Partners and Duffield participated in the round....

Tags: Workday, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

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

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

SuccessFactors shows a path to Enterprise 2.0

SuccessFactors is one of the software-as-a-service success stories. The company, which delivers human resource automating performance and talent management, took in more than $100 million in its IPO in November 2007. Along with Taleo (also a public company with over 1 million users) and Workday (chaired by PeopleSoft founder Dave...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Seating Chart Application, Source Quality Chart, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web 2.0, Performance Management, Workforce Management, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Human Resources, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-14

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 financials: accounting isn't real

"Accounting happens last in our system because accounting isn't real," is hardly the way you'd expect a company to describe a freshly minted financial application, but that's how Mark Nittler, vice president application strategy at Workday is pitching the company's latest offering. While it may sound bizarre, there's plenty of...

Tags: Accounting, Oracle Corp., Workday, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-20

SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader

SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software vision

Over 35 years since co-founding SAP, Hasso Plattner has been seeking to transform business software. Speaking at SAP annual Sapphire conference in Atlanta, Plattner gave a seminar on next-generation software, in which he detailed many of the main principles behind the companys next-generation product A1S business suite, without mentioning the...

Tags: IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Salesforce.com unbundles Apex platform from CRM apps

As promised, salesforce.com is unbundling its Apex development platform from its CRM suite of applications. With the new Salesforce Platform Edition, developers can build and deploy applications independent of salesforce.com’s CRM applications. The company expects to have applications in new categories, such as ERP, ecommerce, financial services, human resources...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-04-22