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- CEO interview: Workday's Aneel Bhusri on advancing SaaS and cloud models for improved ERP
- The thing that Dave and I both took away from PeopleSoft is that you have to stay on top of innovation, and that's what Workday is doing. We are innovating where the large ERP vendors have stopped. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, ERP, Workday, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Workday, SaaS, and failure: 'A matter of trust'
- interestingI for one applaud McCarty's proactive response.I agree with you that "even if rare, such outages are always unacceptable." For those SaaS naysayers, I'd counter that on-premise apps also have outages, although they are obviously organization-specific. Kudos for Workday for owning up to the problem the way that they did....
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, Manufacturing, software-as-a-service, Workday
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Workday, SaaS, and failure: 'A matter of trust'
- In an usual twist on downtime stories, SaaS vendor Workday actually increased customer loyalty after a 15-hour outage. Here's how they did it. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- 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
- How far will Workday go with its $75 million?
- Workday's latest $75 million round brings the SaaS poster child's total venture funding to date to $150 million. It all leaves me wondering how exactly the vendor will use the cash, and what the size of the investment tells us about the provider's ambitions by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Workday, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Workday lands $75 million in venture funding
- Workday lands $75 million in venture fundingProof that the SaaS business model is profitableThis is another example of a software as a service provider that is breaking out. We have been seeing the same kind of growth each month at here at DigitalChalk. Licensed software is dead.
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, Workday, Licensed Software
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- 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 update: deep not wide
- Workday update: deep not wideWorkday - Much Work to be done Yes - I have seen several presentations of Workday - One does need to dig too deep to realize there are some serious missing components- Workday states - Global at the Core, but they are missing quite a bit...
- Tags: Leadership, Benefits, Workday
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- HCM SaaS provider Workday's advanced architecture brings cloud business agility benefits to enterprises now
- By using a unified SaaS service as a way to achieve integration across many far-flung services and processes, the so-called "cloud of clouds" principle can be achieved early. This drives down complexity and cost. It allows enterprises to exploit cloud productivity benefits without building a cloud, and to integrate via...
- Tags: Workday, Integration, Software As A Service (SaaS), Benefits, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Workday update: deep not wide
- I've just come off an update briefing with Workday along with fellow Irregulars Susan Scrupski, Jason Corsello and David Terrar. Now on Update 7, due to be rolled out over the summer, Workday is going deep rather than wide. That means functionality may not seem that...
- Tags: Workday, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Planning, Marketing, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- SaaS provider Workday extends HR business processes to iPhone, mobile tier
- For busy managers flooded with expense report sign-offs and hiring and firing minutiae, the mobile access can be a godsend. It prevents slowed up processes, and also prevents the overloaded email in-box. Making SaaS apps reach the mobile tier -- but in an appropriate way that recognizes the use requirements...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Business Process, Software-as-a-service, Human Resources, Mobile, Workday, Mobile Solution, Advertising & Promotion, Software As A Service (SaaS), Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Workday builds out SaaS bellwether for human capital management services and costs controls
- The new services offer richer costs and compensation management features, more business services like payroll, and also improved access to global process insights and analytics. These additions are designed to effectively and swiftly help guide employees through change and to improve business productivity and responsiveness. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Compensation, Payroll, Human Capital Management, Workday, Benefits Network, Human Capital, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software As A Service (SaaS), Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Workday - Where HR and Finance Do More than Interface
- Workday update Workday hosted a conference call for the Enterprise Irregulars bloggers recently. The firm was announcing a number of functional enhancements to their integrated Finance and HR product line. What did we learn? The company now has...
- Tags: Human Resources, Workday, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Breaking away from ERP as bookkeeping
- Most traditional business software revolves around transactions â€" 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
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