Workdays quiet leadership
In 2009, I wrote a blog about Parker Harris, the co-founder of Salesforce.com titled The Loneliness of a Pioneer. I wrote “..in some ways he wishes the larger vendors would be there today. There are common engineering and plumbing challenges every competitor hits which are useful to share experiences around. It would be good for the […]
Salesforce and Workday Get Closer
I started getting rumors last week when a reporter called me to ask about Oracle buying Salesforce. She was riffing on the announcement over the summer by Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, that the two companies would use some of each other’s technologies and make it easier for […]
Workday Rising Comfort Food in a Complex World
The keynote this morning by co CEOs Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri was a study in contrasts. There were plenty of reminders of the complex world we live in. Mike McNamara, CEO of Flextronics, talked about his 30 country, $20+ global operation. George Tenet, former CIA director, now a Workday customer discussed the geopolitics of […]
The end of vaporware
It was a striking sight. It was end of day in last week’s Technology Summit after Workday had showed us countless demos of new functionality, when under non-disclosure they announced plans to develop a Recruiting module. It would be next-gen, not just applicant tracking, but would allow for candidate identification through traditional and social channels, […]
A snapshot of enterprise cloud adopters at Workday Rising
Enterprise cloud applications vendor Workday, fresh from its recent IPO, held its annual convention this week. With many of its 350 customers and 200 prospects in Las Vegas for the event, it gave a good feel for the profile of the typ…
Workday interview: Insights from a deep enterprise cloudist
Great interview with Workday Co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who discusses cloud, ERP, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, NetSuite, investing, and other hot topics.
Workday during Hurricane Dreamforce
As kids in the Northeast found in the wake of Irene, there are Snow days even in the summer. Hurricane Dreamforce blew into San Francisco (what else can you call an event with an attendance of 45,000?) this week and many of us bloggers and analysts found ourselves in the middle of a Workday. A […]
5 success tips from Workday for enterprise mobile apps
Any ISV wanting to extend enterprise apps to mobile platforms will benefit from these five tips I gleaned from a full-day tech briefing with Workday in San Francisco today.
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business And Cloud Computing
Executive Profile Series Delivers The Inside View On Disruptive Technologies Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and Social Business. The interviews should provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. The transcript of the 30 minute […]
What an exhilarating Workday!
We run into each other at various industry conferences – a group of industry analysts, consultants and bloggers focused on enterprise software. Rarely though 20 of us are we in a room for a whole day – many of us have competitive business models, others honestly cannot stand each other. So, it is even more […]
