Workday

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Workday

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legal form Corporation
ISIN US98138H1014
founding 2005
Seat Pleasanton , California, United States
management
  • Dave Duffield (Chairman of the Board)
  • Aneel Bhusri (CEO)
Number of employees 8200 (2018)
sales $ 2.14 billion (2018)

Workday, Inc. is a provider of cloud- based computer software for accounting , human resource management, and business planning . Workday was founded in 2005 by David Duffield , founder and former CEO of ERP provider PeopleSoft, and former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bushri, after Oracle took over Peoplesoft in a hostile manner . In Germany, Workday has been represented by Workday GmbH based in Munich with a location for software development since 2008 and has been active in sales since 2015. Its headquarters are in Pleasanton , California.

history

Workday was founded in 2005 and the first product was launched in November 2006. In 2012, Workday went public on the NASDAQ technology exchange and was initially valued at $ 9.5 billion. At the time, Workday had around 310 customers.

In January 2015, Workday became active in the DACH region. At that time, around 170 customers were using the Workday service in Germany. This number has now grown significantly. Well-known customers in Germany include a. Siemens and Deutsche Bank . Workday has over 2,600 customers worldwide.

product

Workday offers the cloud service on the basis of a single platform that was developed organically at Workday. Workday's main products are human resources management, financial management, and a business planning product. Within personnel planning, Workday u. a. Functionality for master and organizational data management, recruitment, learning, time recording, personnel cost planning and remuneration. In the area of ​​financial management, Workday offers accounting, controlling and reporting, consolidation, planning, purchasing, administration, expense management, inventory management and project management.

Competitors

Workday's main competitors are enterprise software providers such as SAP and Oracle . The cloud company Salesforce is a partner of Workday.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Form 10-K Workday, Inc. , United States Securities and Exchange Commission , accessed January 30, 2019
  2. ↑ Martin Schindler: Workday is expanding in Germany. January 22, 2015, accessed on January 29, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Customers are talking among themselves about Workday - and that's paying off. In: diginomica. August 31, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ IT Finanzmagazin: Deutsche Bank replaces four old HR systems with the cloud-based personnel management system “Workday”. In: IT financial magazine. March 1, 2017, accessed on January 29, 2019 (German).