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For a slightly tongue-in-cheek reenactment of this momentous meeting, see this video.
From these principles, Workday was founded in 2005. Now, we have a community of 2,100-plus customers representing 30 million workers. Workday aims to maintain a customer satisfaction rating of over 95 percent, and achieved 98 percent in our latest customer satisfaction survey.
The words enterprise software don't need to be considered bad words. When Workday started, most people thought that "over budget" and "buggy" were just “the way things are.” Our founders didn’t want to build a company that was only successful economically; they wanted to build a company that people liked, and even more importantly, trusted.
Mobile access must be delivered as a native part of the user experience, not as an add-on platform or module or as multiple standalone applications.
Business needs change quickly and companies deserve a solution that can change with them.
The tools we use at work should be as intuitive and enjoyable as the tools
we use in our personal lives.
Completely cloud native: Software as a service was clearly a big part of the future. They knew that borrowing the ideas and architecture of on-premise software would keep them from taking full advantage of the cloud. They wanted to completely reimagine how software should be built and used.
The benefits of our cloud-native architecture are many, as we’ll later explore.
So, with a blank sheet of paper, the two start sketching out what a truly useful, intuitive, and future-facing tool would look like:
Imagine this: It’s the mid-2000s and two old friends are having breakfast in a retro diner near the Nevada-California border. The company that one of them, Dave Duffield, had founded, and the other, Aneel Bhusri, had helped lead, had recently been acquired by a competitor.
With the clatter of plates and snippets of conversation their ambient background noise, the men talked about what might have been with their old company, and bemoaned the fact that dissatisfaction with enterprise software is the norm, not the exception.
So, with a blank sheet of paper, the two start sketching out what a truly useful, intuitive, and future-facing tool would look like:
Brief History of Workday and Our Mission
Workday History