Congrats to the team for a great event at the HR Technology Conference this week. Just a quick post to share some pictures of the new Workday booth. Great to see it packed with attendees!

Workday’s co-CEO and chief customer advocate Dave Duffield joined Chiquita Brands CIO Manjit Singh on stage today at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago. Chiquita is Workday customer #17 and Manjit has been a huge advocate of SaaS in the enterprise for a long time.

A couple weeks ago, I again had the opportunity to spend several days of quality time with IT leaders from top companies at the InformationWeek 500 Conference. Any place that is handing out awards for IT innovation is typically a good place to spot fantastic Workday customers, and Dana Point was no exception. Our friends from Flextronics, H.B. Fuller and Sony Pictures Entertainment discussed “How Software-as-a-Service Enhances Your Enterprise Application Strategy” to a full house, and our own Aneel Bhusri took the mainstage to discuss the Future of Software .

2009 has been another year of milestones for Workday. We’ve now passed the 100 customer mark and in spite of the toughest economic environment in a generation Workday is on track to grow bookings more than 50 percent this year. Customers are not just embracing Software-as-a-Service in large enterprises -- in the past quarter we are starting to hear large companies considering SaaS as a lower-risk option to an on-premise ERP deployment. That’s a huge change in perspective from a year ago.

The Workday team, like any SaaS provider or IT organization, does everything possible to eliminate the possibility of unplanned system failures. We also have detailed plans in place for getting customers back online as quickly as possible in the event of an unplanned outage.