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Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) is a pioneering provider of enterprise cloud applications specializing in financial management, human capital management (HCM), and analytics solutions. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday serves over 10,500 organizations globally, ranging from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500.
Core Offerings:
- Financial Management: Robust solutions for financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics.
- Human Capital Management: Comprehensive tools for managing the entire employee lifecycle, including recruitment, talent management, and payroll.
- Business Planning: Adaptive planning tools that enable organizations to streamline processes and improve business outcomes.
Workday sets itself apart as a cloud-only software provider, embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into its applications. This innovation helps customers adapt to the rapidly changing business landscape by optimizing their human resources and financial operations.
Recent achievements include the announcement of new AI innovations at Workday DevCon 2024, such as the Workday AI Gateway and AI Marketplace, which are designed to make it easier for developers and partners to build intelligent solutions on the Workday platform. Additionally, Workday's partnership with Google Cloud aims to integrate generative AI capabilities to enhance app development and business insights.
Financially, Workday continues to show strong performance. For fiscal year 2024, the company reported solid revenue growth and an increase in non-GAAP operating margins. CEO Carl Eschenbach highlighted the company's value proposition, growth of its partner ecosystem, and the strength of its international performance as key factors driving success.
With more than 18,000 employees, Workday is committed to continuous innovation and providing exceptional service to its clients. The company is also focused on strategic partnerships and acquisitions to drive future growth and enhance its product offerings.
Recent News Highlights:
- February 8, 2024: Workday announced its fiscal 2024 fourth quarter and full-year financial results, showcasing continued momentum and positive financial outlook.
- March 19, 2024: Launch of Workday Adaptive Planning and Consolidation to streamline data management and enhance financial reporting capabilities.
- May 23, 2024: Fiscal 2025 first quarter results indicated solid revenue growth and margin expansion, emphasizing the impact of generative AI and key growth initiatives.
- June 3, 2024: Announcement of new AI innovations and expanded Google Cloud partnership, enhancing the capabilities of Workday Extend and providing advanced AI tools for developers.
- June 5, 2024: Introduction of the Built on Workday program, enabling partners to create and monetize tailored finance and HCM apps.
One Model, a People Analytics leader, has been named a Workday Innovation Partner. This partnership enhances organizations' ability to leverage HR data ecosystems by combining Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workday Adaptive Planning with One Model's expertise in data orchestration, analytics, and AI. The collaboration aims to help customers extract more value from their data and improve people-related decision-making processes. The partnership builds on One Model's decade-long experience supporting Workday customers in people analytics.
Syssero has been named a Workday Services Partner, strengthening its ability to provide customized services and support for Workday solutions. The partnership grants Syssero access to advanced resources and tools to enhance their service offerings, which include Launch Implementation Assistance, Application Managed Services, Project-Based Work, and Permanent Placement Services. As an employee-owned company with a team of former Workday end-users, Syssero specializes in supporting organizations using Workday's Human Capital Management and Financial Management solutions.
Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises for the third consecutive year. The company serves over 10,500 customers globally across healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications sectors, helping organizations manage their people and finances effectively.
With its AI-powered solution Workday Illuminate™, the company enables customers to accelerate common tasks and transform finance processes. Workday combines HR, finance, and operational data in a single system, providing organizations with real-time insights for business scaling and transformation. The platform offers streamlined core processes, seamless system integration, and predictive financial outcomes capabilities.
Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) and Compa announced a partnership to integrate real-time compensation market data directly into the Workday platform. This integration aims to replace traditional yearly compensation surveys with up-to-date market intelligence, enabling companies to make more competitive hiring decisions. The partnership will help organizations create talent-winning job offers, improve internal mobility strategies, and promote pay equity. The integration will be available to Workday HCM customers in 2025 at no additional cost.
Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) has scheduled the announcement of its fiscal 2025 third quarter financial results for Tuesday, November 26, 2024, after market close. The company will host a conference call at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time / 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss financial results and business outlook. A live webcast will be accessible on the Workday Investor Relations site, with the replay available for at least 90 days following the call.
Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) announces significant expansion in the U.S. public sector market with multiple new city and county government customers. The company's AI-powered platform is being adopted by local governments including Cleveland, Galveston, Missoula, Milwaukee, and North Las Vegas to modernize their workforce management and financial operations. Existing customers like Arlington, Baltimore, and Salt Lake City have expanded their Workday solutions.
The platform addresses critical challenges in public sector administration, including workforce recruitment (with 81% of state and local governments actively hiring), retirement management, and data-driven financial decision-making. Through solutions like Workday Human Capital Management, Peakon Employee Voice, and VIBE™, customers can streamline hiring processes and strengthen employee retention.
Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for the ninth consecutive year, positioning highest for Ability to Execute. The company's HCM solution, currently used by over 5,525 organizations, is powered by Workday Illuminate™, their next-generation AI technology built on the world's largest HR and finance dataset. The platform enables organizations to transform work processes with AI, adopt comprehensive workforce strategies, and scale innovation through partnerships. Key features include AI-powered task acceleration, total workforce management integration through Workday VNDLY, and platform extensibility through partnerships with companies like Equifax, Kainos, and Salesforce.
Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) announced that 28 higher education institutions have implemented Workday Student in 2024, including Iowa State University and Wake Forest University. The platform has managed over 3 million student records, 1.5 million ISIRs, and 3.5 million admissions applications since 2018.
The system integrates with Workday's Financial Management, HCM, Adaptive Planning, and Grants Management solutions, providing real-time insights into academic and administrative operations. Enhanced by Workday Illuminate™, the platform's AI capabilities help streamline administrative tasks and support student success through mobile self-service tools for course registration, financial aid management, and academic tracking.
Grant Thornton, a leading provider of audit, assurance, tax, and advisory services, has appointed Greg Davis to lead its Workday practice. The firm has also added Andrew (Drew) Houts to enhance its Workday leadership team. Grant Thornton became a Workday Services Partner in 2023, building on its success in deploying the Workday platform for clients since 2019.
Davis, with over 27 years of consulting experience, will ensure Grant Thornton delivers services to help clients successfully adopt Workday solutions. Houts, a managing director in the Technology Modernization practice, brings nearly a decade of Workday ecosystem leadership experience to help grow the practice.
This expansion of the Workday practice leadership team aims to strengthen Grant Thornton's ability to help clients scale, increase profits, and navigate changing business landscapes using Workday's cloud platform for finance and human resources.
Evisort, a Workday company specializing in AI for contract lifecycle management (CLM), has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Contract Life Cycle Management for the third consecutive year. The company recently became the first CLM provider to receive ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI development and use. Evisort has introduced key innovations in the past 12 months, including a dedicated large language model (LLM) and an advanced AI orchestration layer. They also launched Document X-Ray™ and Ask AI, features designed to provide actionable insights from contracts and related documents. The company's recent acquisition by Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) is expected to enhance its ability to help customers leverage critical business data more effectively within a single system of truth.
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