Coming out of stealth mode
Built from the spin-out prior to the Oracle acquisition, Workday's officially came out of the closet. Dave Duffield, Aneel Bhsuri, and Stan Swete lead 65 employees from their Walnut Creek, CA base. Many of the key employees are former PeopleSoft alumns.
Workday's products take advantage of Rich Internet Application architecture and show some great capabilities of Web 2.0 meets Enterprise 2.0. Initially just HCM, other applications will be on the way. Dave's reputation and the SaaS option continue to draw the most buzz as the Workday booth brought the biggest crowds at this year's HR conference in Chicago, IL.
Products currently target the mid to upper mid-size company. I'd expect launch customers to double in the next few months as the organization begins the ramp up process.
(The personal contents in this blog do not reflect the opinions, ideas, thoughts, points of view, and any other potential attribution of my current, past, or future employers.)
Copyrighted 2006 by R Wang. All rights reserved
Monday, November 6, 2006
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Project Based Solutions: Transition from manufacturing to service economy requires the right software
Project professionals remain challenged with business solutions that force fit production and manufacturing applications to meet the needs of knowledge based, information workers. Though today’s work often focuses around projects, most enterprise applications remain designed for a functional world leaving professionals in public sector, legal, accounting, IT consulting, business consulting, market research, advertising, architecture, engineering, and construction to custom build solutions or heavily modify packaged applications to support end-to-end project based processes.
As enterprises make the shift to a service based and project based world, project based solutions are the only applications category that enterprises can rely on to deliver on process automation, process improvement, and innovation for this new world of work. Expect more in this category and more from vendors such as: Agresso, Augeo, BST Global, CMiC, Deltek, Epicor, Lawson, Maconomy, Meridian
(The personal contents in this blog do not reflect the opinions, ideas, thoughts, points of view, and any other potential attribution of my current, past, or future employers.)
Copyrighted 2006 by R Wang. All rights reserved
As enterprises make the shift to a service based and project based world, project based solutions are the only applications category that enterprises can rely on to deliver on process automation, process improvement, and innovation for this new world of work. Expect more in this category and more from vendors such as: Agresso, Augeo, BST Global, CMiC, Deltek, Epicor, Lawson, Maconomy
(The personal contents in this blog do not reflect the opinions, ideas, thoughts, points of view, and any other potential attribution of my current, past, or future employers.)
Copyrighted 2006 by R Wang. All rights reserved
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Analyst 101: One year later
What a year! What a ride. This job has been good. I've been insulated from all the politics which has really been a luxury. Being out West, you can really focus on the vendors and learn what's going on. Meanwhile, we've got great clients and some great projects ahead of us. Anyways, 16 docs, good inquiries, good consulting.
More importantly, many thanks to everyone who has helped. I'm glad I've got some really good mentors out there. John Ragsdale, Paul Hamerman, and Merv Adrian have been great in bouncing ideas and themes. I did miss the chance to learn from Erin Kinkin who's probably still the sharpest CRM analyst out there, but I get the feeling more people may leave as they find what the right balance of work/life is for them.
In the meantime, I've got a really big public sector vendor selection project ahead of me and some more ideas to put on paper. There's some concern I'll burn out, but I think it's hard to when you are having fun. Like any job, if they add some BS politics, then it'd be bad and bog you down from being productive. So far, none of that out west and on our teams. It's a god send compared to what my friends at other firms have been experiencing, but I suspect it's b/c my managers hide that from us.
Either way, this has been an awesome job. Next stop, building some more new and cool coverage areas.
(The personal contents in this blog do not reflect the opinions, ideas, thoughts, points of view, and any other potential attribution of my current, past, or future employers.)
Copyrighted 2006 by R Wang. All rights reserved
More importantly, many thanks to everyone who has helped. I'm glad I've got some really good mentors out there. John Ragsdale, Paul Hamerman, and Merv Adrian have been great in bouncing ideas and themes. I did miss the chance to learn from Erin Kinkin who's probably still the sharpest CRM analyst out there, but I get the feeling more people may leave as they find what the right balance of work/life is for them.
In the meantime, I've got a really big public sector vendor selection project ahead of me and some more ideas to put on paper. There's some concern I'll burn out, but I think it's hard to when you are having fun. Like any job, if they add some BS politics, then it'd be bad and bog you down from being productive. So far, none of that out west and on our teams. It's a god send compared to what my friends at other firms have been experiencing, but I suspect it's b/c my managers hide that from us.
Either way, this has been an awesome job. Next stop, building some more new and cool coverage areas.
(The personal contents in this blog do not reflect the opinions, ideas, thoughts, points of view, and any other potential attribution of my current, past, or future employers.)
Copyrighted 2006 by R Wang. All rights reserved
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