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Company overview

Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, have selected Workday.

For more about the Workday story and key milestones, please visit Our Story.

Corporate Headquarters
Headquarters in Pleasanton, California, with offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. All Workday office locations can be found here.

Founding Date
March 2005

IPO Date
October 2012

Global Employee Head Count
Approximately 9,100

Core Values

  • Employees
  • Customer Service
  • Innovation
  • Integrity
  • Fun
  • Profitability

For more about core values at Workday, please visit workday.com or read this blog from Workday Co-Founder and Chairman Dave Duffield.

Products

Workday Financial Management is our flagship application suite for finance. Associated products include Workday Expenses, Workday Financial Performance Management (FPM), Workday Grants Management, Workday Procurement, Workday Planning (Financial Planning), and Workday Projects.

Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) is our flagship application suite for HR. Associated products include Workday Learning, Workday Payroll, Workday Planning (Workforce Planning), Workday Recruiting, and Workday Time Tracking.

Workday analytics and technology products include Workday Prism Analytics, Workday Data-as-a-Service, and the Workday Cloud Platform.

Workday products can be configured for specific industries including Education, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Nonprofit, Professional Services, Retail and Hospitality, and Technology, among others. Workday also offers Workday Inventory (for Healthcare), Workday Professional Services Automation (for Professional Services Organizations), and Workday Student (for Higher Education).

Customer Facts

  • Workday has more than 2,300 customers, with more than 70 percent live.
  • Workday aims to maintain a customer satisfaction rating over 95 percent, and achieved a 98 percent customer satisfaction rating this year.
  • The Workday customer community represents more than 31 million workers.

Sample of Workday Customers:
Workday Financial Management customers include
21st Century Fox, Airbnb, Aon, Brown & Brown, Caliber Holdings, Care.com, City and County of Denver, Conde Nast, Continental Casualty, Cushman & Wakefield, Denny’s, First Financial Bank, Giant Tiger, J.B. Hunt, Life Time Fitness, Louisiana State University, Netflix, New York Public Library, The Ohio State University, Panera Bread, Sacramento Kings, Salmat, Sanford Health, Sky Betting & Gaming, TripAdvisor, Unum, WeWork, Yale

Workday Human Capital Management customers include
Amazon, Airbus, Bank of America, BP, Centrica, Citigroup, Dell, Deutsche Bank, Fast Retailing, Hitachi,Home Depot, HP Inc.and HP Enterprise, Humana, IBM, Kohl’s, Lloyd’s Bank, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, MGM Resorts, Morgan Stanley, Nissan, Pfizer, PNC Bank, Primark, Rolls-Royce, Qantas Airlines, Sanofi, Shell, Siemens, Target, Unilever

Learn more about these and other Workday customers.

Industries Served:
Education, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Nonprofit, Professional Services, Retail and Hospitality, and Technology, among others.

Financials

Workday worldwide revenue growth since Fiscal Year 2013 is summarized below. For additional financial resources, please visit Workday Investor Relations.

Fiscal Year Date Ending Total Revenue Growth Subscription Revenue
FY 18 January 31, 2018 $2.1B 36% $1.8B
FY 17 January 31, 2017 $1.57B 35% $1.29B
FY 16 January 31, 2016 $1.16B 48% $929.2M
FY 15 January 31, 2015 $787.9M 68% $613.3M
FY 14 January 31, 2014 $354.2M 86% $354.2M
FY 13 January 31, 2013 $274M 104% $190M

Highlights of Recent Awards and Rankings

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Leadership

Leadership Team
Read the complete bio of each member.

Aneel Bhusri Co-Founder and CEO
Dave Duffield Co-Founder and Chairman
Robynne Sisco
 Co-President and Chief Financial Officer
Chano Fernandez
 Co-President
Tom Bogan
 CEO, Adaptive Insights, a Workday Company
Jim Bozzini
 Chief Operating Officer
Christine Cefalo
 Chief Marketing Officer
Petros Dermetzis
 Chief Products Officer
Ashley Goldsmith
 Chief People Officer
David Clarke Chief Technology Officer
Diana McKenzie
 Chief Information Officer
Jim Shaughnessy
 Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

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Board of Directors
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Dave Duffield Co-Founder and Chairman
Aneel Bhusri Director and CEO
George Still Jr. Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director
Mike Stankey Vice Chairman
A. George “Skip” Battle Independent Director
Christa Davies Independent Director
Carl M. Eschenbach Independent Director
Mike McNamara Independent Director
Lee J. Styslinger III Independent Director
Jerry Yang Independent Director