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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.
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.
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.
The $72 billion company has been building up its government customer base, from Oklahoma's Tulsa County to the US Department of Energy. In 2022, Workday was approved to work with the federal ...
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Workday, Inc.,a leader in enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance, opened for trading today on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker ...
The Fortune 500 list for 2024 has arrived, and along with mainstay companies like Walmart and Apple, there are a few fresh faces.Among the newcomers is Workday, a finance and HR software company ...
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 ]
A 2022 press release spelled out that Eschenbach would take over in early 2024 and Bhusri would move into his new board role. ... Workday points to the company’s growth as evidence the co-CEO ...