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Mark Nittler
Mark Nittler is vice president at Workday and sets the strategic direction for Workday's Financial Management solutions.
Mark brings to Workday more than 20 years of broad experience in key financial application disciplines including accounting, ERP, procurement, contract management, compliance, and security. Mark's experience includes executive leadership positions in both product strategy and marketing, including vice president of application strategy at PeopleSoft, vice president of strategic marketing at Commerce One, and vice president of strategic marketing at Symantec.
A California CPA , Mark holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree in management from University of California, Irvine.
Why Finance Gets Strategic HR
January 24, 2012 by Mark Nittler on Financial Management
A colleague, Laura Schroeder, who has an eye for the interesting and important pointed me to this article some time ago that qualifies as both: "Finance Keener on HR strategy than HR." Read Entire Blog >>
Add SaaS to the New Alphabet of Accounting
November 9, 2011 by Mark Nittler on Financial Management
As a finance guy involved in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world for the last six years, I’ve been truly amazed at the technical elegance of SaaS and the radical improvements it has made to enterprise software economics. But after hearing, “Yes, but it’s just technology, the business user doesn’t care,” one too many times—and after giving this quite a bit of thought—I can strongly say that idea is absolute nonsense. Read Entire Blog >>
SaaS Sounds Good—But Does It Really Improve Upon Traditional ERP?
April 28, 2011 by Mark Nittler on Cloud
I work for a software company that is the poster child for replacing traditional ideas with a new approach. Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri founded Workday on the principle that traditional ERP software is irreparably broken and the world needs an alternative. Our products are brand new from the ground up, based on a new delivery model (Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS), a new Web-based technology stack, and a new business foundation—and it sounds really good! Read Entire Blog >>





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