The software provides benefits, talent management, payroll, time tracking, and compensation, workforce planning and recruiting. View mike duffield s profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. View dave duffields professional profile on relationship science, the database of decision makers. Nevada is something we want to help lead, duffield said. How david duffield took 20 years and four startups to develop. Workday goes after higher education, public sector markets. Aug 29, 2005 the company has already linked its existing site at duffield s eponymous to. Dave duffield is the software industrys eternal teenager. Peoplesoft grew to be the worlds secondlargest application software company before being acquired by oracle in january 2005. Dave duffield is workday s cofounder and chairman of the board. It was founded by david duffield, founder and former ceo of erp company peoplesoft, and former peoplesoft chief strategist aneel bhusri following oracles hostile takeover of peoplesoft in 2005. Their workday financial management software debuted in 2007 followed by workday 10 talent management and hcm solution in 2010. Snubbed by oracle, workdays duffield and bhusri hit.
Jun 17, 2007 photo by michael maloney san francisco chronicle photo taken on 6807 in walnut creek, ca ran on. Workday is the leader in enterpriseclass, softwareasaservice saas solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business. Linking technology design and user experience zdnet. Scout is a workday software partner and a workday ventures portfolio company. The coceos and founders, aneel bhusri and peoplesoft founderbillionaire dave duffield, are earnest in their vision to bring positive changes to the world of enterprise software. David duffield is an american businessman in the software industry. How david duffield took 20 years and four startups to. Browse workday content selected by the human resources today community. Started by dave duffield and aneel bhusri, who led peoplesoft prior to the. This is not for the changeaverse or faint of heart. Workday cofounder duffield talks about the lessons from his first real job and. Softwareasaservicebased erp vendor workday announced tuesday that its moving into the highereducation market with a wave of new functionality and a focused, industryspecific business. Bush, ceo at great place to work, has the numbers to prove it.
Jul 12, 2011 software asaservicebased erp vendor workday announced tuesday that its moving into the highereducation market with a wave of new functionality and a focused, industryspecific business unit. Check out this highlights video of his presentation at workday rising, which includes a panel discussion on culture with leaders from carmax, quicken loans, and workday. How dave duffield and aneel bhusri got back at oracle. Workday cofounders bhusri and david duffield once had a human resources software company, peoplesoft, that was taken over by oracle corp.
The home of billionaire philanthropist and businessman david duffield is for sale in alamo, calif. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover mikes. Now, over a decade later, we still deliver on that idea every day. Duffields daughter, amy zeifang, also works part time for workday. Cl a including key executives, insider trading, ownership, revenue and average growth rates. Feb 15, 2017 the home of billionaire philanthropist and businessman david duffield is for sale in alamo, calif. The computer software company makes cloudbased enterprise applications to manage financial and human capital resources as well as planning and analytics tools. It was founded by david duffield, founder and former ceo of erp company peoplesoft, and former. Swasey and former sales executive mike king say that peoplesoft. To develop the corporate culture behind his enterprise software empire. Duffield is also on the board of workday foundation. The company has already linked its existing site at duffields eponymous to. Workday is the leader in enterpriseclass, software asaservice saas solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business.
With decades of experience in business software, higher education technology, team building, and leadership, our founders know what it takes to cultivate a fun, valuesbased, peoplecentric company. As ceo, mike oversees company strategy, sales, marketing, and alliances. The company delivers financial management, human capital management and analytics applications. Dave is an accomplished executive and visionary in the business management, public sector and higher education software industries. Enterprise saas at scale, with aneel bhusri, ceo, workday. Cofounded in 2005 by highered veteran dave duffield, workday has heretofore sought customers for its hr, benefits and payrollcentric saas app. David arthur duffield born 1941 is an american businessman in the software industry. Ive gotten to know the folks at workday, and theyre all very smart, nice, committed and hardworking people. Workday provides saasbased enterprise solutions for a companys human resources and financial management activities. Photo by michael maloney san francisco chronicle photo taken on 6807 in walnut creek, ca ran on. It was founded by david duffield, founder and former ceo of erp. Today it would be amazon, microsoft, apple and of course workday. In his past career he held the position of executive council member at longworth management co. Dave duffield, workday cochief executive officer, is pitting his business software company headtohead with oracle.
Dave drives the companys strong commitment to its core values, which include employees, customer service, innovation, integrity, and. Workday is the leader in saasbased enterprise solutions for 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. Workday has also provided a living for two of duffield s 11 children. The shares were converted from class b shares and sold through a. Check out this highlights video of his presentation at.
Snubbed by oracle, workdays duffield and bhusri hit jackpot. The coceos and founders, aneel bhusri and peoplesoft. I met the founder of workday, dave duffield, through a mutual friend, and. Dave drives the companys strong commitment to its core values, which include employees, customer service, innovation, integrity, and fun. A matter of trust in an usual twist on downtime stories, saas vendor workday actually increased customer loyalty after a 15hour outage. David duffield is the chairman and chief executive officer of workday, a financial management and human capital management software vendor. Company culture is critical to an organizations financial success, and michael c. David duffield, chairman of enterprise tech giant workday, is the 14thrichest man in u.
Nov 09, 2006 former peoplesoft cofounder and ceo dave duffield this week opened workday, a company offering webbased enterprise resource planning erp software for midsized companies. The software, which features a browserbased interface and a web servicesbased approach to interoperability, is intended to mirror actual workflows and help users cut. Dave duffield and aneel bhusri lost their old company in an oracle takeover. May 04, 2009 bhusri and duffield also play a major role in who comes to workday, a company that creates software as a service that provides businesses with the tools to manage human resources and accounting.
Named general manager of workday public sector, michael duffield said in an interview that current and future highered and governmentoriented functionality will be built into the same multitenant application used by mainstream commercial workday customers, thereby keeping costs low and minimizing upgrade and customization woes. Duffield also offered words of wisdom for budding engineers. Jan 07, 2020 workday was founded in 2005 by dave duffield and aneel bhusri both formerly peoplesoft leaders with the idea of selling a cloudbased software for hr and finance. Workday was cofounded by david duffield, who founded hr software maker peoplesoft. Bhusri and duffield also play a major role in who comes to workday, a company that creates software as a service that provides businesses with the tools to manage human resources and.
The applications include workday student, workday hcm or human capital. Aneel bhusri, workdays ceo, shares his views on what business leaders should understand about machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and data in the enterprise. Dave duffield is workdays cofounder and chairman of the board. Former peoplesoft cofounder and ceo dave duffield this week opened workday, a company offering webbased enterprise resource planning. View mike duffields profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. David arthur duffield born 1941 is an american billionaire businessman in the software industry. The workday foundation was established with a workday stock grant in 20 to make a difference in our communities and support workday employees in their charitable investments of time and money. Workday hcm is a cloudbased human resource management software system that unifies a wide range of hr functionality into a single system. Aneel bhusri is ceo of business software firm workday, which he cofounded with dave duffield, the founder of peoplesoft. A winning team is major attraction at workday san francisco. He is the cofounder and former chairman of peoplesoft, the cofounder and chairman at workday, inc. Sep 16, 20 dave duffield and aneel bhusri lost their old company in an oracle takeover.
Renobased entrepreneur bill wilsons software solutions company is. Duffield receives engineerings highest alumni honor. Oracle acquired peoplesoft in a hostile takeover in 2004. Dave is an accomplished executive and visionary in the business management, public sector and higher education software. Peoplesoft grew to be the worlds secondlargest erp application software company before being acquired in 2005. Feb 28, 2019 workday cofounders bhusri and david duffield once had a human resources software company, peoplesoft, that was taken over by oracle corp. He is the cofounder and former chairman of peoplesoft, the cofounder and coceo at workday, inc. Their new software company, workday, is fueling the fastest wealth increase in the entire forbes 400. Workday has also provided a living for two of duffields 11 children. Workday s products are designed to replace onsite legacy systems with a more collaborative, mobile, and intuitive interface and a frequently updated product that includes regulatory. The cofounder of peoplesoft and workday, with his wife, cheryl, spent seven. Workday was founded in 2005 by dave duffield and aneel bhusri both formerly peoplesoft leaders with the idea of selling a cloudbased software for hr and finance. Workday is the leader in saasbased enterprise solutions for human resources. Workday is among the most highprofile examples of a new breed of enterprise software, based completely in the cloud.