Workday (WDAY) stock & equity tools

Workday, Inc., is an American on‑demand (cloud-based) financial management, human capital management, and student information system software vendor. Workday was founded by David Duffield, founder and former CEO of ERP company PeopleSoft, along with former PeopleSoft chief strategist Aneel Bhusri, following Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005.

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When Oracle completed its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft in January 2005, PeopleSoft's founder Dave Duffield and chief strategist Aneel Bhusri co-founded Workday two months later in Pleasanton, California. Workday rebuilt enterprise HR and financial management software as a native multi-tenant cloud application rather than porting on-premise architectures, betting on browser delivery when enterprise software was still largely installed on servers. The company IPO'd on Nasdaq as WDAY in October 2012 at an $8.5 billion market cap and reported $8.45 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2025, up 16% year-over-year, serving over 10,000 enterprise customers.

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