Workday
A cloud-based software vendor that specializes in human capital management and financial management applications.
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How Workday compares
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Salesforce
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cloud sales and marketing platform
Both are core enterprise tools people aren't ripping out. Seema says Workday, like Salesforce, makes it hard to fully access your own data via its API.
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Both are core enterprise tools people aren't ripping out. Seema says Workday, like Salesforce, makes it hard to fully access your own data via its API.
"Build on top of NetSuite, make it much better, and integrate that NetSuite with your Salesforce, with your SAP, with your Concur, Expensify, Gong — every other piece of software, Workday."
Listed alongside NetSuite, SAP, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Gong as part of enterprise software stack
"Workday has had APIs that you could work with. But can you really actually extract all of the data out of Workday in a clean way and just operate without using Workday? No. Workday makes it extremely difficult to actually get access to t..."
Compared to Salesforce as another example of an incumbent that doesn't fully expose its APIs
"Perhaps it's the next iteration of Salesforce, next iteration of SAP, or the next iteration of Workday that is going to help me do that."
Mentioned alongside Salesforce and SAP as existing enterprise SaaS platforms
"We're not seeing people rip out Salesforce or workday or like really fundamental system of record type SaaS tools"
Listed alongside Salesforce as fundamental enterprise infrastructure
What creators say
"Silver Lake potentially buying Workday, for example, just doing more provocative things in private equity land when you have the capabilities to potentially infuse and bring them into the future."
More from a16z →+2 more mentions from a16z
"I have a great idea. I'm going to do background checks for new employees as part of onboarding and I'm going to integrate with Workday — Workday be..."
"it's been a long-standing tension point with the likes of Workday and SAP and stuff like how much API access to have"
"Workday stands because paying people is a regulated industry. You need to pay it right, they're taking on that risk — that's valuable."
More from Amol Jain →"Silverlake may be buying Workday. Workday is up 17%. And if this is true, I think this is a significant moment for the stock market. Software has been in a death spiral."
More from Gavin Baker →"You will spend some time implementing Salesforce and Workday, etc., but you're going to spend a lot of time implementing agents for the workflows of the company."
More from Aaron Levie →"Build on top of NetSuite, make it much better, and integrate that NetSuite with your Salesforce, with your SAP, with your Concur, Expensify, Gong — every other piece of software, Workday."
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"There's a trillion dollars of licensing revenue — this is what you would pay Workday or ServiceNow or Jira or Linear or GitHub. And then $4 trillion of maintenance, migration, and services. Once you implement Workday, you typically bring in a suit..."
More from Chamath Palihapitiya →"Perhaps it's the next iteration of Salesforce, next iteration of SAP, or the next iteration of Workday that is going to help me do that."
More from Nikesh Arora →"Just a few months in, these companies passed Workday, a pretty incredible HR company."
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"Wasn't Workday founded by a senior citizen? I believe the founder was 60some when he founded that company."
More from TBPN →"We're not seeing people rip out Salesforce or workday or like really fundamental system of record type SaaS tools"
More from Amjad Masad →"Workday has like 98 or 99% gross dollar retention. It grows like 10 15% a year. It's like 10 billion of revenue."
More from Mitchell Green →"I personally believe all of the challenges with software companies at scale and what's happening in the stock market are completely overblown. Incumbency is incredibly powerful in the enterprise. Incumbency is even more powerful when a company lik..."
More from Carl Eschenbach →"Now it's in Workday but now you have to have a CISO to make sure that your Workday doesn't get hacked"
More from Alex Rampell →
"Salesforce, Workday, Service. Now, those are like a couple hundred billion of market cap, right?"
More from 20VC with Harry Stebbings →+1 more mention from 20VC
"it is interesting that Aneel had to go back in like eight months to run Workday. It's a pretty fast boomerang."
"Workday has had APIs that you could work with. But can you really actually extract all of the data out of Workday in a clean way and just operate without using Workday? No. Workday makes it extremely difficult to actually get access to the documen..."
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