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Chiquita Brands International Is Live on Workday
More Than 80 Customers Have Selected Workday; 40 Customers in Production
| Source: Workday, Inc.
PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2009) - Workday, Inc., the leader in
enterprise-class SaaS-based Human Resources (HR) and Financial solutions,
today announced that
Chiquita Brands International is
live on Workday HR. More than 80 mid-sized and Fortune 500 businesses have
selected Workday's global system of record for Human
Capital Management. More than 40 of those companies are currently
live.
What's New
-- A case study covering Chiquita's Workday deployment is now
available.
-- Workday has 80 customers, more than 40 of which are in production. New
customer profiles and case studies are now available online.
-- Enterprises continue to replace on-premise solutions with Workday
on-demand solutions to achieve lower total cost of ownership and faster
time to value.
Comments on the News
"With Workday, we've already eliminated paper-based processes, alleviated
the IT team of maintaining multiple systems and created a more strategic HR
team. When we are in full production, we will have consolidated three
legacy HR systems into a single, global system of record," said Manjit Singh, chief information officer,
Chiquita Brands International. "Perhaps best of all, Workday's experienced
services team handles the implementation, the upgrades and most of the
integrations, allowing us to realize the fastest possible time to value."
"Workday is pleased to congratulate Chiquita Brands on completion of the
first phase of their project, and to thank the entire Chiquita team for
being a fantastic partner," said
Dave Duffield, Workday CEO and chief customer advocate. "It is my
privilege once again to welcome a great group of new customers and to
recognize Workday employees for delivering continued innovation and superb
customer service resulting in another year of rapid growth. With our SaaS
approach, Workday is in a terrific position to offer companies an
opportunity to save money in 2009 by replacing their expensive ERP and
maintenance contracts with a modern, subscription-based system of record."
About Workday
Workday is the leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for human
resources and financial management, providing new levels of business
agility for a fraction of the cost of buying, deploying and maintaining
legacy on-premise systems. Workday now has more than 80 customers
spanning mid-sized organizations to global Fortune 500 businesses. Workday
Human Capital Management and Workday Financial Management use the most
modern, standards-based technologies to provide an unparalleled level of
agility, ease-of-use, and integration capability. For more information
about Workday, please visit www.workday.com.
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