Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11
Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago Databases18 Oct 2024 | 23
Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK 'Matrix' ERP deal The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up Databases08 Oct 2024 | 8
EMEA enterprise folks scrutinize deals more closely – and it's hurting Workday Pesky 'macro' stuff forces SaaS biz to yank revenue forecast, share price plunges double digits SaaS24 May 2024 | 3
Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS27 Apr 2024 | 12
US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month Software16 Apr 2024 | 4
University of Washington's Workday woes leave research grants in limbo $340M finance upgrade still working out the kinks Databases28 Mar 2024 | 21
Law designed to stop AI bias in hiring decisions is so ineffective it's slowing similar initiatives New York’s LL144 rated too broad, but researchers hope others can learn from that mistake AI + ML23 Jan 2024 | 5
Workday wants racially biased recruitment algorithm claims thrown out Case is without merit, finance and HR SaaS vendor insists AI + ML21 Jul 2023 | 5
Workday sued over its AI job screening tool, candidate claims discrimination Software alleged to reject applicants based on 'race, age, and/or disability' AI + ML23 Feb 2023 | 54
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad Blast 'corporate' types who are much more square than $5.14 billion HR corp SaaS10 Feb 2023 | 40
Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing SaaS provider Workday also among those laying off employees Off-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 39
Workday appoints VMware veteran as co-CEO It doesn't work for SAP and Salesforce but does work for Workday. For now PaaS + IaaS21 Dec 2022 | 2
As recession looms, Workday warns that legacy HR systems need updating Company hopes future will be 'nearly impossible to navigate' without its wares SaaS30 Nov 2022 | 15
Enterprise software deals slower to close as macroeconomics hit IT departments Picture of longer sales cycles, more deliberation, enterprise upgrade challenges emerging across industry SaaS09 Sep 2022 |
Workday nearly doubles losses as waves of deals pushed back Figures disappoint analysts as SaaSy HR and finance application vendor navigates economic uncertainty SaaS27 May 2022 | 17
Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project Oracle replacement project continues as SLC opts for SaaS model Databases31 Jan 2022 | 15
Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies SaaS03 Dec 2021 | 11
Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition SaaS19 Nov 2021 | 8
You can quote us on that: Workday scoops up job pricing specialist Zimit in focus on services Ideally, will speed up biz's answer to the question: How much should we charge for that? Applications09 Sep 2021 | 4
Workday makes Google preferred partner for public cloud weeks after demise of Amazon project revealed Updated SaaSy HR firm gets around a bit PaaS + IaaS12 Aug 2021 | 3
Workday shares slide following claims Amazon ditched company-wide HR system Updated Some customers have a 'unique set of needs' SaaSy vendor says SaaS28 Jul 2021 | 29
Financial Ombudsman Service to ditch tech heads as it open arms to Workday and outside service provider Not just the legacy HR and finance systems being booted SaaS22 Jul 2021 | 10
Back to the office: Workday hiring 20% more Workdayers in anticipation of postponed projects opening up The desk and chain awaits those extra 2,500 people... the lucky blighters SaaS27 May 2021 | 2
State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project SaaS27 Apr 2021 | 27
State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor SaaS14 Apr 2021 | 22
State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system SaaS09 Apr 2021 | 5
State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement' SaaS31 Mar 2021 | 40
Workday bets big on staff coming back to the office by splurging $172.5m on HQ and five more Bay Area buildings This from the CEO who says 'five days is too much family time' SaaS24 Mar 2021 | 18
State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns Also: SaaS provider completes acquisition of employee feedback platform Peakon SaaS09 Mar 2021 | 14
Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better SaaS26 Feb 2021 | 7
After first trying to use federal COVID-19 relief aid, State of Iowa comes up with funds to pay for Workday project And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade SaaS10 Feb 2021 | 8
Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO Zoom is great for status update meetings, says big cheese, but as for inspiring a workforce... Legal18 Jan 2021 | 158
Canadian uni blamed users after Workday HR switch, but some teaching assistants say they're still waiting to be paid Updated 'No concrete solutions' as of mid-December Software04 Jan 2021 | 16
Workday beat expectations in Q3, remains loss-making COVID-19 could slow customer wins, warns analyst SaaS20 Nov 2020 |
Canadian uni blames users, 'isolated technical problems' as new Workday system fails to pay 700 temps on time Don't suppose that factored into the '10 Reasons to be Excited About Workday at McGill!' SaaS29 Oct 2020 | 6
State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out ...even if your 18-year-old mainframe keeps getting flooded and falling over SaaS21 Oct 2020 | 25
Workday targets 'procurement software' market after bumper Q2, but boss man is big on ambition, thin on detail Customers clearly looking to simplify buying into supply chains – but the market is tougher than it looks SaaS16 Sep 2020 |
What does Workday think gives it the edge in COVID crisis? 'We're not an ERP vendor,' says CEO Bhusri Firm not the only SaaS-y outfit to enjoy bumper results during pandemic SaaS28 Aug 2020 |
UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table Can't go worse than that time it bought 2.3 million Oracle licences. Right? On-Prem16 Jul 2020 | 3
Workday chops up to $85m off subscription forecast for fiscal 2021 in response to pandemic Thows arms around Salesforce and Microsoft in cloudy cuddle SaaS28 May 2020 |
Workday will PaaS up the opportunity to open its platform to third parties HR and finance cloud vendor focuses on its own apps SaaS23 Mar 2020 | 3
Workday says it's got a PaaS in its pocket and is ready to party Matches Salesforce and pals with API-fest and promise of apps built on SaaS SaaS12 Oct 2017 | 1
Fiscal '17 was a record year for us, says Workday CEO Big wins push sales to record high as expenses push losses to... record high SaaS28 Feb 2017 | 3
UK nuke warhead builders shift IT gear into public cloud End well: Will it, dear readers? Channel01 Sep 2016 | 41
Exec walks the dog, swaps Google work day for Workday work day Pete Lorant, EMEA director calls it a day at the chocolate factory Channel14 Jan 2016 |