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Workday, Inc. is an on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management and human capital management software vendor. It was founded by David Duffield, the founder and former CEO of the ERP giant PeopleSoft, and former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri following Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft in 2005. It targets the customers of rivals Oracle or SAP. In October 2012, it launched a successful initial public offering that valued the company at $9.5 billion. ==Early history== Workday was founded in March 2005 and launched in November 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Businessweek - Business News, Stock market & Financial Advice )〕 Initially, it was funded by Duffield and venture capital firm Greylock Partners. In December 2008, Workday moved its headquarters from Walnut Creek to Pleasanton, where PeopleSoft, founder Duffield's prior company, was located. Workday sells software and services using the SaaS model. On February 6, 2008, Workday announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to purchase SaaS Benefits. In May 2008, Workday signed a large contract with Flextronics to provide human capital management software services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal )〕 Other large, multinational companies that have publicly disclosed contracts or deployments of Workday include Aviva,〔() 〕 Chiquita Brands,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal )〕 CAE Inc., Fairchild Semiconductor, Rentokil Initial,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HR Magazine - Rentokil Initial implements cloud technology to manage data of 66,000 staff worldwide )〕 Thomson Reuters, and Time Warner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Time Warner Deploys Workday HR and Payroll Solution )〕 On April 29, 2009, Workday announced that it secured $75 million in Series E funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Existing investors Greylock Partners and Workday CEO and co‑founder Dave Duffield also participated in the round. On October 24, 2011, Workday announced $85 million in new funding, bringing total capital raised to $250 million. Investors in the latest round included T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus, and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment entity of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. The current CEO and Chairman of Workday is Aneel Bhusri. Mr Bhusri is a partner with Greylock Partners and has handled senior leadership positions earlier in PeopleSoft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Workday, Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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