http://blogs.workday.com/en-usFri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:41 -0700Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:00:41 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/Blog/5_things_large_companies_need_to_know_about_software_as_a_service.htmlNext week I’m heading down to L.A. for the annual InformationWeek500 conference. Sony Pictures, H.B. Fuller, and Flextronics will return this year to participate on a Workday customer panel, and Valspar will make its debut on the panel. Last year’s panel was a success, with IW500 attendees packing the room to ask our customers about their decisions to go with SaaS for their core HR systems.Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x211.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/why_bolted_on_business_intelligence_does_not_work_for_hr.htmlMy friend and industry colleague Bill Kutik, a leading expert on human resources technologies, asked me some time ago why I had left the analyst world and joined Workday. Were the industry watchers correct, he asked, in assuming Workday hired me to help it build out the best talent-management suite in the world?Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x210.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/built_in_business_intelligence_and_actionable_analytics.htmlWhen most people think about business intelligence (BI) they think about dedicated BI tools such as IBM’s Cognos, SAP’s Business Objects, and Oracle’s Hyperion products. You don’t hear them talk about applications that offer great BI.Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x209.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/choose_saas_vendors_that_secure_data_better_than_you_can.htmlThe Workday customer panel had barely started the discussion when the first hand shot up from the audience. Those attending the recent event were CIOs and HR managers wanting to learn more about Workday and its SaaS offerings. It’s not surprising the first question was about data privacy.Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x208.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/real_workday_software_as_a_service.htmlWhen the Workday sales team met at headquarters last week to kick off the second half of a fantastic year, one of the topics we discussed was how team members should differentiate Workday’s SaaS from competitors’ “SaaS options” for on-premise software.Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x206.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/business_driven_talent_management.htmlHR consulting firm Mercer recently released a study showing that employers plan to make changes to their talent programs as the economy emerges from the recession. Mercer also noted that employers made “dramatic changes” to talent programs during the recession. With all this change going on, are we getting better at managing talent?Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x205.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/improving_upon_the_generations.htmlI've been looking for opportunities to innovate for more than 40 years, having always been captivated by each new generation of technology and the gains it can bring to business—from the mainframe through client-server and now to SaaS and the Cloud. I've founded five companies in my career, and it's no secret that Workday is likely my last—and it also feels like the best. For one simple reason: We're clearly saving our customers time and money.Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x199.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/traditional_companies_embrace_innovation.htmlThere’s a bit of age discrimination going on with enterprise software, and it’s based on the assumption that older, tradition-bound companies view SaaS with a gimlet eye. Older companies, with all their legacy and cultural issue—the assumption goes—have left the SaaS party up to the young companies selling this newfangled stuff to other young companies with little or no established IT infrastructure.Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x200.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/survey_says_workday_top_choice_for_human_resource_deployments.htmlThe tough economy has hit IT budgets hard, but there’s one area where many companies continue to invest, and it might surprise people. According to a new Towers Watson survey, 83% of respondents said they are maintaining or increasing spending on HR software in 2010.Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x201.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/welcome_to_the_present.htmlAs an admitted technology junkie, I love watching as companies such as Google, Salesforce.com, Apple, Facebook and a revitalized Microsoft continue to deliver innovation at such an unrelenting pace. I’ll openly admit to having a first-edition iPad, Droid and even a Palm Pre (which is a better device than its market traction suggests).Wed, 12 May 2010 17:05:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x194.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/Delivering_Data_Analytics_Through_SaaS_ERP.htmlToday we present a sponsored podcast discussion on how software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications can accelerate the use and power of business analytics. We're going to use the example of a human capital management (HCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) SaaS provider to show how easily customizable views on data and analytics can have a big impact on how managers and knowledge workers operate.Fri, 07 May 2010 09:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x192.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/convergence_of_human_resources_and_talent_management_software.htmlIt has to be one of the biggest software industry no-brainers of all time -- the idea to converge human resources management and talent management software.Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x184.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/workday_10_includes_talent_management.htmlIt seems counterintuitive that HR systems haven’t always included t he ability to track and record such things as employee skills and goals -- along with hours worked and absences -- since the quality of a workforce is so important to any company’s success.Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x187.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/getting_saas_and_onsite_software_to_coexist.htmlBoth the software and the media industries love a good David vs. Goliath story, which is why SaaS is often cast as the spunky new alternative to on-premises software. You know, Workday vs. SAP, Salesforce.com vs. Oracle, Google vs. Microsoft, and so on.Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x119.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/knowledge_is_power_in_the_cloud.htmlI’ve been a journalist for 20 years and have been writing about cloud computing for several years, so I was delighted when Workday asked me to get involved with an exciting new editorial project that would shed light on cloud computing. After two decades I’ve developed a pretty good nose for major industry shifts, and I think this cloud thing is here to stay.Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x116.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/enterprise_ready_introduction.htmlIt's no secret that the media landscape has changed dramatically. Major publications that used to dig deep into technology and enterprise software have substantially narrowed their focus or evaporated entirely. In their place are new independent experts, populating the Web with focused reporting and insight on an incredible range of topics – and from an equally astounding range of perspectives.Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x118.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/optimism.htmlI am generally an optimistic person, and looking ahead at 2010 things feel pretty good. Conversations with HR and IT professionals are more upbeat than they’ve been in a long time. And even though analyst predictions for IT spending are only looking a little better than last year, companies seem to be back to planning and starting projects.Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:00:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x115.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/lead_the_recovery_with_naomi_bloom.htmlIn this Webinar, Naomi will reprise and update her wildly successful closing keynote from the 2009 HR Technology Conference, updating her advice on how HR leaders and every of us can seize the opportunity of the recovery to deliver improved business outcomes for our organizations and improved career outcomes for ourselves through effective, highly automated human resource management (HRM).Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x89.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/the_details_are_never_far_away.htmlHuman Resources and Financial applications are traditionally robust and feature rich, yet complicated, requiring a lot of information from the user in order to accomplish a task or complete a transaction. Most of us only touch our HR and Finance applications once in a while. So Workday’s design and development teams work hard to provide expert users the rich capabilities they need, while helping occasional users accomplish things quickly and accurately.Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x88.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/re-inventing_the_wheel.htmlQuite a while back, we were reviewing functionality in an upcoming Workday update. Onboarding a temp was one of the new capabilities included in the product, and during the demonstration the product manager said, “so to onboard a contingent worker, you click here, open a requisition and…” And someone interrupted him. “Actually, I don’t. When I need a person to do a job, I look for a person…requisitions and contingent workers are things that HR or Finance people do. I find people to complete the work that my team is committed to for a given project.”Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x87.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/integration_in_the_cloud.htmlAs 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.Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x86.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/the_future_of_work.htmlOur 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.Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x85.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/ray_wang_at_rising_2009.htmlAltimeter 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.Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x83.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/off_to_a_great_start.htmlDave 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.Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x84.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/workday_rising_2009_day_1_photos.htmlWorkday Rising 2009 is Workday's annual user conference. Workday delivers human resource (HR), financial and payroll software on-demand via SaaS.Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x81.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/workday_at_hr_technology_conference.htmlCongrats 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!Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x80.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/chiquita_and_workday_at_the_hr_technology_conference.htmlWorkday’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.Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x79.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/get_ahead_in_the_cloud.htmlA 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 .Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x78.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/milestones.html2009 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.Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x77.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/back_online.htmlThe 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.Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x76.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/the_pace_of_change.htmlThe advent of SaaS has created an environment where delivering new functionality and value is near real-time. To put a sharp point on it, between the time of Bill's visit and the publication date, Workday has moved from 92 customers to 98, and Workday 9 will be on display at the HR Technology Conference in just two weeks.Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x75.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/the_future_of_software.htmlSome great takeaways from the InformationWeek 500 panel on the future of software today. Bob Evans moderated a panel with Ray Wang of Altimeter Group, Christopher Lochhead of SuccessFactors, and Workday's Aneel Bhusri and Stan Swete.Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:00:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x74.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/keeping_the_lights_on.htmlI recently had the opportunity to spend a few days with 300 of the smartest folks you are ever going to meet-- IT leaders attending the CIO 100 Conference in beautiful Colorado Springs. This event is held each year to “honor leading companies that demonstrate excellence and achievement in innovation and business value.” In other words, how to turn technology investments into business advantage for their firms.Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:45:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x72.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/tipping_points_in_enterprise_saas.htmlA core tenet of SaaS has always been that it is a lot cheaper than on-premise software. This is based on the fact that there are no upfront license fees, and no hardware, maintenance or upgrade costs. As with all technology shifts, this promise has been met with healthy skepticism and not a little FUD from the incumbent on-premise vendors.Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x63.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/talking_with_mark_newsome.htmlMcKee Foods Corporation, Workday customer #7, worked closely with us in the development of our Payroll product and on 2nd April 2009 they went into production on both Workday HCM and Payroll. McKee replaced an on-premise ERP system and is now using Workday to process more than 350,000 paychecks/year for 6,500 empoyees in 7 plants across the U.S.Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x45.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/cloud_maintenance.htmlMcKinsey tells us that the “Cloud” is over hyped and users can get better TCO through “aggressive virtualization”. Google responded , saying that there is more to the Cloud than just virtualization. They point out that very large scale hardware infrastructure is hard to do, the “Cloud” is more about software than hardware, and finally, that the Cloud delivers a constant stream of innovation—something that is very hard to do by just virtualizing your applications.Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x52.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/living_the_dream.htmlToday we announced support for the iPhone. As Ray Wang told IDG , enterprise solutions that don’t address mobility are ’so last century. It’s a pretty cool app that allows a our users to complete things like hiring (or firing) approvals, fill in expense claims and do lots of other things, while they are on the road.Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:35:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x53.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/message_and_messenger.html“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.” No, it’s not a quote from an embattled CEO of a automaker/large bank. It was in fact written by Sophocles in the 5th century BC. Confusing the messenger and the message has a long history!Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:20:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x54.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/predicting_2009.htmlCliche, perhaps, but please indulge me as we start the year. As I sat down to think about the year to come, what’s interesting is that in spite of all the talk of global uncertainty there are some things about 2009 that seem pretty crystal clear. Let me know if you agree.Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:20:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x55.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/inhaling_our_own_fumes.htmlOn re-reading the last post I wrote, I was wondering if it was a little over the top? Was I spending too much time inside Workday drinking a little too much of our own kool aid? believing too much in our own hype? (as you can see, this sentence could go for ever).Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:55:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x56.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/taking_a_swag_at_the_cloud.htmlOn re-reading the last post I wrote, I was wondering if it was a little over the top? Was I spending too much time inside Workday drinking a little too much of our own kool aid? believing too much in our own hype? (as you can see, this sentence could go for ever).Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:55:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x57.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/the_total_cost_of_ownership.htmlThe markets stink, the global economic mood is depressed, people aren’t spending money and every day the papers and Web news sites have new, bad news. Strange as it may seem, I’m excited. This is the ideal time for Software-as-a-Service.Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:55:00 -0800http://blogs.workday.com/x58.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/concrete_cloud_computing.htmlBenefits administration is a headache for HR people, balancing the needs of the employee for great coverage with the needs of the organization to maintain a reasonable cost profile. To make things simpler, organizations often integrate the benefits provider’s online capabilities with their HRMS, eliminating some of the pain associated with keeping employee records accurate.Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x59.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/cloud_computing.htmlThe term “Cloud Computing” is getting a lot of air play these days — it is the computing equivalent of a U.S. Presidential Election. It has loads of twists and turns, plenty of eager participants, lots of money being spent on it and it gets to consume large amounts of the news cycle…often without a lot of new information. So what exactly is “Cloud Computing”? I’m gonna have a crack at answering that question and (as an encore) talk a little about where Workday stands in the whole Cloud Computing debateThu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x60.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/putting_the_focus_on_people.htmlNow, some of you out there may say that enterprise software solves complex problems and therefore it must be hard to use in order to accomplish its mission. But as Robert X. Cringely noted in a recent post, big enterprise software companies regularly made their software harder to use than it needs to be.Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x48.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/change_can_be_a_good_thing.htmlA lot of the debate about “change” in ERP gets focused on the database. For a whole set of very obvious reasons, the relational database, has a crucial role in any business software system. Upon first encountering ERP, many of my smart friends would tell me that that the big source of system complexity is the thousands of database tables. Indeed, a colleague of mine from a very large bank told me they spent $50m a year to keep a global, single instance of a traditional ERP system running. This seems like a lot of money just to manage a few thousand tables!Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x47.xmlhttp://blogs.workday.com/Blog/erp_outside_in.htmlSo this is how it starts. Here you have a guy with absolutely no ERP or application experience, co-writing a blog about ERP applications. It′s great!Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:55:00 -0700http://blogs.workday.com/x46.xml