Workday Inc. history, company profile (overview) and corporate video
Workday, Inc. is an enterprise management cloud and software company headquartered in Pleasanton, California, United States.
HISTORY
Workday was established in 2005 when Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri decided to form a start-up that would sell cloud-based applications for finance and HR. Dave Duffield was the founder and CEO of PeopleSoft (established in 1987), and Aneel Bhusri had held a number of leadership positions at PeopleSoft.
In 2006, Workday announced its first application, Workday Human Capital Management.
In 2008, the company signed a large contract with Flextronics to provide human capital management software services. Other large, multinational companies that have publicly disclosed contracts or deployments of Workday include Aviva, Chiquita Brands, CAE Inc., Fairchild Semiconductor, Rentokil Initial, Thomson Reuters, and Time Warner.
In 2012, the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
PRODUCTS
- Workday Financial Management;
- Workday Human Capital Management;
- Workday Adaptive Planning;
- Spend Management;
- Talent Management;
- Payroll and Workforce Management;
- Analytics and Reporting;
- Professional Services Automation;
- Platform and Product Extensions;
- Workday Peakon Employee Voice.
With more than 15.000 employees, Workday, Inc. is considered one of the Largest Public Companies in the World, according to Forbes.
*Information from Forbes.com, Wikipedia.org and www.workday.com.
**Video published on YouTube by “Workday“