Workday Reaches 10th Customer Milestone.Early Customers Exemplify Strong Support for On-Demand Solutions Among High-Growth and Enterprise Businesses WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif. -- Workday[TM], Inc., the first in a new generation of on-demand ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. solutions, today announced that it has added eight new customers since the company's launch on November 6, 2006, bringing the total number of customers to 10. New customers include Covad Communications (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :DVW DVW Deutscher Verein für Vermessungswesen eV (German Surveying Association) DVW Dynamic Virtual Worlds ), Data Domain, Dudum Sports and Entertainment, McKee Foods, MiPro Consulting, PolyServe, RightNow Technologies RightNow Technologies NASDAQ: RNOW is a U.S. software company that develops customer relationship management (CRM) software for small and mid-market businesses. It is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. (Nasdaq:RNOW) and Salesforce.com (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ). "This new group of customers is right in our current sweet spot," said Dave Duffield, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder, Workday. "They are high-growth and established companies with a commitment to innovation, and they support the on-demand model. We are pleased to say that, less than three months after our launch, our sales are ahead of target and implementations are going quickly and smoothly." Workday's newest customers represent a range of industries, sizes and requirements, from smaller companies like Data Domain, which is implementing Workday to replace a paper-based, manual system supporting its approximately 220 employees, to larger corporations such as Covad Communications, which is implementing Workday as part of a larger series of organizational transformation initiatives for its 1,000-employee organization. "We are very excited to be at the forefront of this next generation of enterprise ERP," said Deborah M. Perry, Senior Vice President, Organizational Transformation, Covad Communications. "As part of a corporate effort to streamline our HR processes and provide more visibility for our business people, we wanted a partner that we could trust, learn from and grow with. From a solutions perspective, we chose Workday for its intuitiveness, workflow functionality and reporting capabilities, but the real difference was that Workday really understands and aligns with our culture, strategy and values." The addition of McKee Foods, a nearly 7,000-employee food manufacturing company best known for its line of Little Debbie([R]) snack cakes, provides additional validation that the on-demand model is a viable business strategy for larger sized enterprises. "As a company with a commitment to continued innovation, we have been looking closely at our HCM HCM hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. strategy for some time now," said Eva Lynne Disbro, Vice President, Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. of McKee Foods. "Specifically, we were interested in ways to improve our practices and technology to maintain our leadership position within the food industry. We chose Workday because we are impressed with their solution and feel that their management, product vision and business philosophy align well with ours." Customer Profiles Following are brief profiles of Workday's newest customers. [TABLE OMITTED] [c] 2007. Workday, Inc Workday, Inc is an on-demand financial management and human capital management solutions vendor. It is founded by David Duffield. External link
About Workday Founded in March 2005 by Dave Duffield, Aneel Bhusri and a recognized team of enterprise software veterans, Workday is building the next generation of on-demand, ERP solutions to meet the needs of today's dynamic and global businesses. Workday's Enterprise Business Services were built using the most modern, standards-based technologies, providing an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capabilities. The company recently delivered its first suite of services, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), and is building additional suites including Workday Financial Management, Resource Management and Revenue Management. For more information about Workday, please visit www.workday.com. |
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