The co-CEO model might be out at fellow cloud powerhouses, but Workday just revived the unconventional management structure.
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In announcing Q2 growth and earnings last week, Workday execs did not specifically mention Oracle and SAP, but the subtext was clear.
Ashley Goldsmith is leading efforts at Workday to ensure employee safety and happiness during and after COVID-19, while strategizing a return to work.
Through Workday Launch, it expects to shorten go-live time for HCM apps to 6 months or less and reduce expenses by up to 35%. Your move, Oracle.
Which HCM vendor—Workday or Oracle—gets top billing from industry analysts? Insights from Forrester tell a complex story about the showdown and Fusion HCM.
One of the customer wins that Larry Ellison mentioned on the Oracle Q4 earnings call was Goldman Sachs, which he says had a failed Workday implementation.
Read what Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri had to say to investors about how the limitations of on-premises systems are hampering companies’ recovery efforts.
From the Workday fiscal 2021 Q1 earnings call, a collection of key comments from CEO Aneel Bhusri and his executive team on customers, competition & more.
On the Workday fiscal Q1 earnings call later today (May 27), I expect CEO Aneel Bhusri to make some pointed comments about the competitive landscape.
The first in a series exploring the coronavirus response from major tech vendors: how Salesforce, ServiceNow & Workday are supporting their communities.
In the wake of Oracle’s better-than-expected Q3 results, it can be illuminating to see the world—at least temporarily—through the eyes of Larry Ellison.
Its fast-growing Financials biz and enhanced product lineup have made Workday a very serious competitor vs. traditional heavyweights Oracle and SAP.
During the recent Workday Q4 earnings call, while citing his company’s excellent results, CEO Aneel Bhusri called out both SAP and Oracle failures.
As Workday prepares to release quarterly and 12-month financial results later today, let’s consider its tagline: “Built for the Future.”
Workday has set itself apart from primary rivals SAP and Oracle. But the challenge for Workday in 2020 will be this: can it hold or even extend that lead?
On a fiscal Q2 earnings call last week, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison seemed to be trashing competitors to mask Oracle’s low-growth transition to the cloud.
Workday says its Financials biz will become its biggest revenue driver, underscoring the vendor’s ability to be a broad-based supplier of enterprise apps.
“We’ve always talked about predictive analytics, but they’re now a reality,” said Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said in a recent exclusive Cloud Wars interview.
At Workday Rising, CEO and longtime cloud evangelist Aneel Bhusri said machine learning will become even more disruptive than cloud computing.
There’s no love lost between Oracle and Workday. But both Larry Ellison and Aneel Bhusri are talking a lot about large orgs’ growing appetite for SaaS apps.



















