Workdays quiet leadership
In 2009, I wrote a blog about Parker Harris, the co-founder of Salesforce.com titled The Loneliness of a Pioneer. I wrote “..in some ways he wishes the larger vendors would be there today. There are common engineering and plumbing challenges every competitor hits which are useful to share experiences around. It would be good for the […]
Collapsing enterprise software time to market
We are still a long ways from where the Apple CEO shows off a new product and the supply chain and partners have long been working on it and several million units and related apps are delivered to customers within weeks. In enterprise world we still have way too much “vaporware” – product announcements followed […]
No more (CIO) excuses
The Workday Predict and Prepare videocast that Bill Kutik, Naomi Bloom, Brian Sommer and I recorded a couple of weeks ago is now available for on-demand viewing here (registration required) The video lasts an hour but, if I may say so, flows very well. I saw it for the first time today and Bill, moderating […]
The life and times of HR application software (2012 in review)
Major Themes 2012 was an interesting one for Human Resources software. From Talent Management, Payroll, Analytics, HRMS and other niche HR solutions, there were a number of cool innovations, emerging trends and a lot of M&A with a side order of an IPO. Let’s review the big themes: You couldn’t swing a dead cat at […]
Does your event inspire Jukebox Heroes?
The Foreigner hit tells the story of a fan who could not get into a show, but even standing outside in the rain, was so inspired by the music that he bought a used guitar the next morning and went on to become a rock star. Does your event aspire to create similar Jukebox heroes? […]
Interrogatory Configuration And Workday’s Tech Summit 2012
You may have thought that everything that could be said about Workday’s Tech Summit 2012 had already been posted, but you were wrong. There was another announcement made there quietly, as befits the first steps on what is going to be a multi-release, probably multi-year product journey, that has not yet been covered.
ERP’s Franken-soft and how Workday avoids it
The genesis of many application software products is a great idea. Someone conceives a better, newer way to achieve a business outcome, complete a process, etc. That idea gets codified and becomes an application. In some cases, it bec…
The existential threat to on-premise models
4 years ago when I interviewed Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho for The New Polymath, the prime driver in the marketplace for SaaS adoption was better economics compared to on-premise. But Sridhar also spoke about agility in SaaS delivery Feature parity to Microsoft Office (and other software) will come sooner than you may think. We […]
The end of vaporware
It was a striking sight. It was end of day in last week’s Technology Summit after Workday had showed us countless demos of new functionality, when under non-disclosure they announced plans to develop a Recruiting module. It would be next-gen, not just applicant tracking, but would allow for candidate identification through traditional and social channels, […]
Workday: time for a fork?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on April 17, 2015
Workday has a ritual it plays out twice a year. It does an hour long webinar to summarize features in its latest release. Stan Swete used to MC the session three times a year. Now, Leighanne Levensaler does it twice a year, as she did yesterday introducing Workday 24. I am a big fan of […]
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