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Workday Passes 100 Customer Milestone; Continues Enterprise SaaS Applications Leadership
More Than 60 Customers Live on Workday Solutions Across 46 Countries; Recent Wins Include Bristow Group, Charles River Associates, Family Health International, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and The Valspar Corporation
| Source: Workday, Inc.
PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - September 28, 2009) - Enterprises continue to select Workday,
Inc., the leader in enterprise-class SaaS-based Human
Resources (HR) and Financial
solutions, for real innovation and fast time-to-value. New enterprise
customers include Bristow Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and The
Valspar Corporation. More than 100
companies have selected Workday, with more than 60 of those customers
in production. Workday solutions are now live in 46 countries around the
world.
Major Workday Milestones in 2009
-- New customer wins
include Bristow Group, Charles River Associates, Family Health
International, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and The Valspar Corporation.
Each is a recognized leader in its industry.
-- More than 60 customers are in production with Workday across 46
countries. Recent go-lives include AMN Healthcare, Edwards Angell Palmer &
Dodge, Elekta, McKee Foods, Savvis, The SSCG Group, and TD Williamson.
- McKee Foods is using Workday Payroll to process
paychecks for 6,500 employees in 7 states.
-- Workday has redefined the process of deploying enterprise-class business
applications, with a 120-day current average phase-one implementation
timeframe. (see
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Workday Solution Center leverages best practices in implementation
methodologies and standard configurations to deliver customers the fastest
possible time to value.
- StoneRiver deployed Workday HCM in 38 Days and
since, has also gone live on Worker Spend Management.
-- The cost to implement Workday now averages 50 percent the cost of a
3-year Workday subscription to our services, in stark contrast with
traditional on-premise systems where implementation typically costs two to
four times the software license fee or more.
- Workday is consistently bringing customers into production on-schedule
and on-budget, unlike on-premise deployments that typically result in time
and cost overruns.
- Workday's track record enables us to provide fixed-bid implementation
options, further extending the time and cost predictability of our
enterprise solutions.
-- Workday continued to deliver real product innovation with Workday 7 and
8.
- Workday has delivered significant new capabilities and performance
enhancements in 2009 to support global enterprises, production payroll, and
mobile workers.
- Updates typically require just 14 days for customer testing and
acceptance, vs. months of work and capital investment required to upgrade
on-premise software.
- All Workday customers are on our latest release: Workday 8. Customers
will move to Workday 9 starting this month.
-- Organizations continue to choose SaaS over on-premise solutions based on
superior TCO, pace of innovation and time-to-value.
- Forrester's recent report on the
ROI of Software-as-a-Service found that 'firms obtain long-term value
with SaaS solutions.'
- Workday is regularly replacing antiquated on-premise ERP systems and
best-of-breed HR systems.
-- Workday secured the largest venture funding round in the enterprise
technology space in Q2, with $75 million in series E funding led by New
Enterprise Associates. Existing investors Greylock Partners and Workday
co-CEO Dave Duffield also participated in the round.
Comments on the News
"From total cost of ownership to speed of deployment, Workday is
demonstrating every day the superior value proposition of our
enterprise-class SaaS application suite," said
Aneel Bhusri, Workday
co-CEO. "Over the past three years, we've delivered solutions that can
support the world's largest companies with the agility, intelligence and
ease-of-use required to deploy, develop and optimize their workforce around
the world. These accomplishments, our continued rapid growth, and our
ability to secure strategic funding in spite of extraordinary market
conditions demonstrate the massive opportunity we have to transform
enterprise software."
"From day one, customer success and customer partnership have been core to
Workday's values," said
Dave Duffield, Workday co-CEO and chief customer advocate. "The fact
that we now have more than 60 customers in production with Workday
solutions, that our team is now averaging around 120 days to get customers
into production, and that all our customers are on our latest release
clearly shows the ability for our SaaS solutions to deliver a far superior
customer experience to legacy systems. I am immensely proud of our team
and our customers for these significant milestones in our effort to build
the world's next great software company."
About Workday
Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human
resources and financial management, providing new levels of business
agility for a fraction of the cost of buying, deploying and maintaining
legacy on-premise systems. More than 100 customers, spanning mid-sized
organizations to global Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday.
Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management use
modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of
agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability. For more information
about Workday, please visit www.workday.com.
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