As Ray Wang tweeted today, Workday are dusting off the Cape Clear Eclipse technology and planning on making it more widely available to our customers. Why are we doing this? Well, there is one very simple reason: We want to make it easier for our customers to consume the powerful Web Services that we expose.

Our newly minted Vice President of HCM strategy, Leighanne Levensaler, hosted Workday customers Chiquita, Flextronics and Intuit today on a keynote panel discussing the future of work.

Altimeter Group’s Ray Wang launched right into an animated discussion of the current and future state of enterprise information technology today during his keynote at Workday Rising.

Dave and Aneel kicked off Workday Rising 2009 this morning, our largest conference ever. It is astounding to see Workday’s growth from the perspective of this conference, which has expanded from an intimate gathering in 2006 to more than 500 very enthusiastic participants here today in San Francisco. A huge thank you to our conference sponsors, to our customers and to all the potential customers in our audience for bringing great energy to the sessions this morning.

Workday Rising 2009 is Workday's annual user conference. Workday delivers human resource (HR), financial and payroll software on-demand via SaaS.