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WALNUT CREEK, CA--(Marketwire - October 8, 2008) - More than 30 customers are now live on
Workday's on-demand Human
Capital Management and Financial
Management solutions. Workday customers are typically live in a matter
of weeks or months, far faster than traditional, on-premise systems.
Companies ranging from mid-sized business to the Fortune 500 continue to
select Workday's on-demand services for dramatically lower total cost of
ownership compared to on-premise systems. In addition, Workday offers new
levels of agility, usability and integration capabilities -- all without
expensive upgrades and maintenance.
What's New
-- More than 60 companies
have selected Workday as their core human resources and/or financial
system of record.
-- All companies that are live on Workday are using the most current
version -- update 5.
-- Workday's on-demand approach means that we can deliver updates to our
solutions each quarter, enabling us to add functionality much more quickly
than on-premise software.
-- Workday handles customer upgrades, ensuring that all customers are
always running the latest version of our solutions. Customers get a new
test environment, review new enhancements during the upgrade period, and
then Workday transitions them to the latest update literally overnight.
-- Workday customers including Inverness Medical Innovations, H. B. Fuller,
Salesforce.com
and others will join us at the HR Technology
Conference, taking place October 15-17 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Visit booth #1005 to hear about their successes with Workday solutions.
Customers that have recently deployed Workday are included below, with more
detailed information available online.
-- Collaborative Solutions, LLC
(www.workday.com/customers/services/collaborative_solutions.php), a leading
provider of management and IT consulting services, recently went live on
Workday Financial Management to manage accounts payable, accounts
receivable and financial accounting and reporting. The company also went
live on Workday HCM to manage organizations, assignments and expense
reports and is in the process of rolling out Performance Management.
-- Leading specialty chemical manufacturer, H.B. Fuller Companies
(www.workday.com/customers/manufacturing/hB_fuller.php) (NYSE : FUL ),
recently turned on Workday HCM to 1,200 employees in North America and is
on track to unite all of its 3,200 employees across 32 countries in a
single HR system. The new Workday service provides Employee and Manager
Self Service with French support for employees in Canada.
-- Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc.
(www.workday.com/customers/healthcare_related/inverness.php) (AMEX : IMA ) is
a major global developer, manufacturer, and marketer of advanced consumer
and professional medical diagnostic products. After acquiring Workday
customer Biosite, Inverness adopted Workday HCM to bring more than 70
individual companies and more than 10,000 employees together within a
single HR system. Inverness is now live on Workday HCM and Benefits Network
across 13 companies and 2,400 employees across the U.S., with additional
deployment ongoing.
-- Jeitosa Group International
(www.workday.com/customers/services/jeitosa_group.php), a strategic
business consulting and management advisory practice, is now using Workday
HCM with self-service for their global workforce -- including salaried
employees and contingent workers -- across 20 countries. The firm recently
went live on Workday Financial Management with multi-country,
multi-currency processing.
-- Southwestern Energy Company
(www.workday.com/customers/energy/southwestern_energy.php) is focused on
the exploration and production of natural gas. Southwestern Energy is now
live on Workday HCM and Workday Benefits Network, providing its 1,400+
employees with employee self-service, and its global management team with
access to real-time HR data and valuable management reports.
-- Thornburg Investment Management, Inc. (www.thornburginvestments.com/)
and Thornburg Mortgage, Inc.
(www.thornburgmortgage.com/mortgage/loans/index.jsp) (NYSE : TMA ), two Santa
Fe, New Mexico-based financial companies, are now live on their first HCM
systems: Workday HCM and Workday Benefits Network. The system replaces
manual, paper-based HR processes and provides the firm with sophisticated,
automated reporting and pre-built integrations to benefits providers.
Comments on the News
"We replaced a traditional enterprise HR system that was hard to use and
expensive to maintain, with Workday," said Steven John, CIO, H.B. Fuller.
"We have only recently gone live on Workday and already it has empowered
our Human Resources department to be proactive, forward-looking business
partners. The flexible SaaS model allows HR to focus on its core
competencies and operate at a more strategic level that brings greater
value to the entire company." -- Steven John, chief information officer, H.B. Fuller
"Inverness is growing fast and with our acquisition strategy we're bringing
on new employees and new businesses all the time. We needed a single HCM
system to bring together more than 70 separate organizations and their
respective HR processes under a common corporate umbrella," said Kristin
Ferrara, senior HRMS analyst, Inverness Medical Innovations. "Workday gives
us a flexible platform to manage our unique corporate structure, along with
the ability to rapidly bring on new people and new companies as we continue
to expand." -- Kristin Ferrara, senior HRMS analyst,
Inverness Medical Innovations
"We are thrilled to announce that 30 companies are now running their
businesses on Workday," said Dave Duffield, Workday CEO and chief customer
advocate. "Our customers are technology leaders and innovators in their
industries -- many having replaced traditional on-premise solutions with
Workday. We look forward to celebrating the ongoing success of our
customers as they continue to experience and validate the business and cost
benefits of Workday's innovative architecture and on-demand model." --
Dave Duffield, Workday CEO and chief customer advocate
About Workday
Workday is the leader in on-demand enterprise solutions for human resources
and business management, with more than 60 customers spanning from
mid-sized to Fortune 500 businesses. Built on a completely new model,
Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Business Management use the
most modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level
of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability, offering customers
significantly lower total cost of ownership than on-premise solutions. For
more information about Workday, please visit www.workday.com.
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