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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 July 2018, Alight acquired Compass Professional Health Services, a healthcare technology company based in Dallas, Texas. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In February 2019, India's third largest software services exporter Wipro sold their Workday and Cornerstone OnDemand business to Alight Solutions for $110 million. [ 11 ]
The company doesn't break out revenue by customer type. Workday's stock is up 14% in the past year. The company didn't respond to a request for comment sent outside business hours.
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.
Workday points to the company’s growth as evidence the co-CEO mentorship works, noting that over the past 14 months the company surpassed 65 million users under contract and hired a new CFO, CMO ...
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 ...
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.
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