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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.
In the last quarter, Workday brought in $2.2 billion in revenue — a 16% increase from last year. The company doesn't break out revenue by customer type. Workday's stock is up 14% in the past year.
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.
Among the newcomers is Workday, a finance and HR software company that now ranks number 490 out of the largest U.S. companies by revenue. Workday had a breakout year, pulling in $7.3 billion in ...
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.
For Workday itself, AI will help advance the management software company's offerings — while keeping its pricing affordable. "We have not come to market like a lot of others and said, "We're ...
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.
But cloud software company Workday is adding a twist to that template, intentionally using a co-CEO model to transition to a new chief. Carl Eschenbach, previously a partner at Sequoia Capital for ...