
The Power of One
I have heard Dave Duffield of Workday say in all the companies he has started he has never felt as much customer unanimity than at Workday since all of them are all on the same release and have plenty to talk about at customer events. On-premise software in his past companies and those of many […]

Workday Rising Comfort Food in a Complex World
The keynote this morning by co CEOs Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri was a study in contrasts. There were plenty of reminders of the complex world we live in. Mike McNamara, CEO of Flextronics, talked about his 30 country, $20+ global operation. George Tenet, former CIA director, now a Workday customer discussed the geopolitics of […]

Carnac The Magnificent: Unseen Answers To 2011′s Unknown Questions
Carnac the Magnificent When we lost Johnny Carson, we lost a great entertainer. For thirty years, 1962 to 1992, he dominated late night television, and he did that without insulting our intelligence or our sensibilities. My beloved grandmother, Bubbi Bloom, with whom I lived through much of high school, would get ready for Johnny’s Tonight […]

What an exhilarating Workday!
We run into each other at various industry conferences – a group of industry analysts, consultants and bloggers focused on enterprise software. Rarely though 20 of us are we in a room for a whole day – many of us have competitive business models, others honestly cannot stand each other. So, it is even more […]