Workday: The Next Software Power?

August 19, 2008 from BusinessWeek – “Ever since veteran software entrepreneur Dave Duffield launched his new startup, Workday, a year and a half ago, people have wondered if it could become the next Salesforce.com (CRM). Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's chief executive, had shaken up the customer-relationship management software world and created a company with a market cap of $8 billion with an online service that replaces expensive and complex traditional software packages. Could Duffield and Workday do the same? Just now, there's growing evidence they can...”

180 View – We think that it’s early days for Workday that will eventually challenge other products more than Salesforce including NetSuite and SAP Business ByDesign. Salesforce is primarily CRM and WorkDay includes accounting and HR. What’s interesting is that there is a lot of investment in the next generation of ERP, CRM, HR… systems using SaaS (Software as a Service).