Comments on: Dave Duffield and the Latest Happenings at Workday http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629 A blog by Jason Corsello about HR technology, services and outsourcing trends Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:49:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: CloudAve http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629#comment-1605 CloudAve Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:39:06 +0000 http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629#comment-1605 <strong>Software Icon Dave Duffield Responds to Harry Debes</strong> Software Icon Dave Duffield Responds to Harry Debes

]]> By: Techsphinx http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629#comment-1607 Techsphinx Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:51:47 +0000 http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629#comment-1607 Dave Duffield seems like a very nice guy, and there is no denying his past success, but I must say I simply wasn't that impressed with him on Kutik's show. I thought his answers were very superficial. His focus on "On-demand multi-tenant SaaS" did not tell listeners what they real want to know in my opinion. The single most burning "on-demand" question for Workday is, how are organisations going to react to being updated in lock-step? If you take what Duffield says literally, it seems that there will be little flexibility in Workday's model. Either, there is a lot more to this (my guess), or perhaps Workday is a lot more transactional, and therefore less strategic, as it relates to HCM. Maybe both? Dave Duffield seems like a very nice guy, and there is no denying his past success, but I must say I simply wasn’t that impressed with him on Kutik’s show. I thought his answers were very superficial.

His focus on “On-demand multi-tenant SaaS” did not tell listeners what they real want to know in my opinion. The single most burning “on-demand” question for Workday is, how are organisations going to react to being updated in lock-step? If you take what Duffield says literally, it seems that there will be little flexibility in Workday’s model.

Either, there is a lot more to this (my guess), or perhaps Workday is a lot more transactional, and therefore less strategic, as it relates to HCM. Maybe both?

]]> By: greggd http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629#comment-1629 greggd Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:33:20 +0000 http://humancapitalist.com/?p=629#comment-1629 Techsphinx is right. Mr. Duffield adroitly dodged the post-honeymoon aspects of SAAS. Mr. Duffield also misleads by presenting SAAS as something new. He's quite a salesman though, that's for sure. Techsphinx is right. Mr. Duffield adroitly dodged the post-honeymoon aspects of SAAS. Mr. Duffield also misleads by presenting SAAS as something new. He’s quite a salesman though, that’s for sure.

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