Comments on: Workday begins its work day

By: Perry Mizota

Perry Mizota — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:52:39 +0000

I also agree with you, Jeff. In addition to the other things already mentioned, I can’t believe they aren’t offering free trials, which is pretty much standard fare these days. Apparently, it is in the works but they aren’t taking full advantage of all of the exposure they are receiving via their launch.

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Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:09:46 +0000

[...] Workday’s missed opportunity — Dave Duffield, the founder of PeopleSoft may be back with new start-up Workday, but critique Jeff Nolan says it missed the opportunity to say something new. In other words, it got great media coverage because of Duffield, but it was ho-hum in the details. [...]

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:02:08 +0000

Accenture? They’re web 0.6 (alpha release) aren’t they?

By: Jason Wood

Jason Wood — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:39:40 +0000

Jeff,

Couldn’t agree more. I had big hopes for today’s “launch” and while I have no doubt Workday will be a player in the coming evolution of SaaS apps, today definitely had an air of missed opportunity. It was very much “been there, done that” and far too much obsession with today’s buzzwords.

But the real disappointment was the demo which focused around the responsibilities of a reorg by the COO, which is great an all but it was really no different than what a COO would be tasked with in conventional ERP modalities. I would’ve much rather seen examples in the demo of how Joe Employee could use the service to change their workday; which was how the marketing rhetoric painted the product (i.e., they said it wasn’t just for HR employees).

Hopefully they will take today’s vanilla launch and start really pressing the flesh, and perhaps now Mark Nittler will allow the Irregulars to do a proper briefing.