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PLEASANTON, CALIF. – April 14, 2010 – Enterprises including Arrow Electronics, The Sun Products Corporation and Trimble selected Workday as their global Human Resources system of record.  With more than 130 customers, Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, SaaS-based Human Resources (HR), Financial and Payroll solutions.

What′s New

• Ranked 151 on the Fortune 500, Arrow Electronics is a global provider of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions.  Having outgrown its current legacy, on-premise solution in North America, the company selected Workday for a global system of record that could manage its 11,300 employees in 51 countries and territories.
• The Sun Products Corporation is a leading North American provider of laundry detergent, fabric softeners and other household products including all®, Snuggle®, Sun®, Wisk®, Surf® and Sunlight®.  Sun Products is using Workday to help manage and automate workforce-related functions and processes.  A fast growing company with annual net sales of more than $2 billion, Sun Products Corporation currently employs 3,500 full-time employees.
• Trimble is a leading provider of advanced positioning solutions that improve productivity and transform work processes. Trimble integrates a wide range of positioning technologies including GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies with application software, wireless communications, and services to provide complete solutions for surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, utilities, public safety, and mapping. Trimble selected Workday to provide a single, global Human Resources Management system for more than 3,700 employees across 20 countries.

Comments on the News
“Enterprises are selecting Workday for human resources, financial management and payroll solutions,” said Dave Duffield, Workday co-CEO and chief customer advocate.  “Workday′s modern approach to business applications combined with an intuitive user experience delivers both the cost savings CIOs need to drive efficiency and the innovation business leaders want to make their businesses operate better.  Working with these great companies is a privilege, and I look forward to seeing this new group of customers become extremely successful with Workday SaaS solutions.”

“The numbers really speak for themselves: enterprises in more than 60 countries are running Workday today, and that number is growing constantly as our customers continue to achieve a record pace for global deployments.  Just as remarkable, more than one-third of our new customers are choosing Workday′s SaaS solutions to replace their existing, on-premise systems,” said Aneel Bhusri, Workday co-CEO.  “I′m thrilled to welcome this group of companies—each of them leaders in their respective industries—as Workday customers.”

About Workday
Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources, payroll and financial management, providing new levels of business agility for a fraction of the cost of buying, deploying and maintaining legacy on-premise systems. More than 130 customers, spanning mid-sized organizations to global Fortune 500 businesses, have selected Workday. Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management use modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability. For more information about Workday, please visit www.workday.com.

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