WORKDAY PICKS UP WHERE PEOPLESOFT LEFT OFF $WDAY $ORCL $SAP $CRM
Workday (WDAY) is a provider of software as a service for human capital management, financial management and big data analytics. It was founded by Aneel Bhursi and Dave Duffield. Bhursi was the chief strategist at PeopleSoft and Duffield was the founder and CEO of PeopleSoft.
Founded in 1987, PeopleSoft initially focused on human resource management and then grew into supply chain management and finance. PeopleSoft grew rapidly to challenge Oracle (ORCL) enterprise resource planning business. It was a classic battle of David vs. Goliath and David was winning.
In 2003, PeopleSoft merged with a smaller rival but a major player in the ERP business, JD Edwards.… Please click here or the title below to read more.