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Workday, Inc., is an American on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management, human capital management, and student information system software vendor. Workday was founded by David Duffield, founder and former CEO of ERP company PeopleSoft, along with former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri, following Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005.
This is a listing of Oracle Corporation's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products. Oracle's version [1] does not include value of the acquisition. [2] See also Category:Sun Microsystems acquisitions (Sun was acquired by Oracle).
PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided human resource management systems (HRMS), financial management solutions (FMS), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and enterprise performance management (EPM) software, as well as software for manufacturing, and student administration to large corporations, governments, and organizations.
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. [5] Co-founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world in 2020 by revenue and market capitalization. [6]
Raised in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, [1] Duffield graduated in 1958 from Ridgewood High School in nearby Ridgewood, where he was co-captain of the baseball team. [2] Duffield received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell University, and is the benefactor behind Cornell's Duffield Hall, [3] a nanoscale science (or nanotechnology) and engineering facility at Cornell.
In 2005, Workday was co-founded by David Duffield and Bhusri with funding from Greylock Partners. Workday sells software and services using the SaaS model. [13] [14] [15] Bhusri is the chief executive officer (CEO) at Workday. He is also a member of the company's board of directors, and served as chairman of the board from 2012 until May 2014.
Kainos was founded as a joint venture between Fujitsu and The Queen's University of Belfast business incubation unit (QUBIS Ltd) on 14 April 1986. [8] [9] In January 1987, the company began trading in the QUBIS building on Malone Road, Belfast and Kainos founder, Frank Graham, was appointed managing director.
Okta, Inc. (formerly SaaSure Inc.) is an American identity and access management company based in San Francisco. [2] It provides cloud software that helps companies manage and secure user authentication into applications, and for developers to build identity controls into applications, websites, web services, and devices. [3]