It's hard for me to believe we're announcing Workday 14. When I joined Workday (just shy of two years now), we were preparing to deliver Workday update 9. It was also the beginning of our journey to build out talent management, now a robust solution in Workday HCM. As I type this post, my heart fills with pride and gratitude for being part of a fantastic team, and I continue to be in awe of our ability to quickly deliver great new features for our SaaS-based solutions that are actually adopted, since they're part of our regular updates that go out to all customers.  Read Entire Blog >>

The term “Enterprise 2.0” has evolved over the years from the original idea of using blogs and wikis in business, to incorporate that very powerful thing we call social networking. TechWeb is hosting the “Enterprise 2.0 2010” conference in Santa Clara, Calif., this week, where the focus is on technologies that “liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email.”  Read Entire Blog >>

When 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.  Read Entire Blog >>

When 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.  Read Entire Blog >>

There’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.  Read Entire Blog >>