Post Author: Bob Maller
November 3, 2009
After spending 4 days at Workday Rising, tongue still a bit red from the vast amounts of Kool-Aid being digested, it’s time to report what we heard, saw, and felt at Workday’s 3rd annual user conference.
First, some quick facts about Workday, reported by CEO and Chief Customer Advocate, Dave Duffield:
• Current Number of Customers (coming into the conference): 104
• Workday Rising 2009 Attendees: 161 people from 65 customers; 75 from partners; 140 from prospects, deftly named “future customers”; 130 Workday employees
• Current Workday employee count: 390
• Dave’s goal: “have the happiest customers on the planet”
• Dave’s conference objectives. Attendees should leave feeling:
o “My company made a fabulous choice”
o “Workday is delivering exceptional service and trying to improve”
o “Workday listens to our feedback”
o “I can be part of a revolution!”
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Post Author: Rob Young
October 27, 2009
During his keynote to the Workday Rising conference last week (www.workdayrising.com), the partner for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group, R “Ray” Wang (www.twitter.com/rwang0), picked up on part of Collaborative Solutions’ implementation philosophy. Our approach to minimize time to value and fully utilize consumer-oriented web native software supports more rapid implementation timelines with less up-front and maintenance costs. Ray’s comments led me to reflect on the changes in technology and work environments.
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Post Author: Carroll Ross
January 27, 2009
As businesses continue to look for was to cut costs and squeeze every ounce of value out of their IT dollars, the interest and attention around SaaS solutions continues to grow. As both a partner and a customer with Workday, Salesforce and Taleo, we also continue to see the value this model provides. The following article is more proof positive on the topic.
Software as a Service Market Will Expand Rather than Contract Despite the Economic Crisis, IDC Finds
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Recent IDC surveys and customer interviews support the finding that the harsh economic climate will actually accelerate the growth prospects for the software as a service (SaaS) model as vendors position offerings as right-sized, zero-CAPEX alternatives to on-premise applications. Buyers will opt for easy-to-use subscription services which meter current use, not future capacity, and vendors and partners will look for new products and recurring revenue streams. As such, IDC has increased its SaaS growth projection for 2009 from 36% growth to 42% growth over 2008.
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