Dave Duffield and the Latest Happenings at Workday
We have the great pleasure of hosting an interview with Dave Duffield, CEO of Workday (and of course Peoplesoft fame) on the Bill Kutik Radio Show in our Center of Excellence. The interview is available now. Of the topics Dave discusses…
- Addressing Harry Debes recent comments on the impending death of SaaS
- The history of enterprise technology and applications (from a guy whom has build 5 software companies during different technology cycles)
- Workday’s vision, culture, traction, and success
- Comparing the progress of Workday versus PeopleSoft (which is worth hearing!)
Feel free to share your comments and thoughts to Dave’s interview in our discussion forum.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. CloudAve&hellip | September 17th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Software Icon Dave Duffield Responds to Harry Debes
2. Techsphinx | September 19th, 2008 at 5:51 am
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?
3. greggd | September 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
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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