[5] San Francisco Business Times ranked Workday at number two on their Best Places to Work in the Bay in the largest companies category.

[11] In May 2008, Workday signed a large contract with Flextronics to provide human capital management software services.

Investors in the latest round included T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Janus, and Bezos Expeditions.

[21] In October 2012, Workday launched its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange with ticker symbol WDAY.

Its shares were priced at $28 and ended trading Friday, October 12, at $48.69, which "propelled the start-up to a market capitalization of nearly $9.5 billion including unexercised stock options."

[23] In November 2021, Workday announced its acquisition of VNDLY, a startup that helps companies manage external workforce personnel, for $510 million.

Adaptive Planning was an early user of the software as a service (SaaS) model for business intelligence and corporate performance management.

[28] Adaptive Insights partners with associates in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Japan, New Zealand, the UK and the United States.

[36][37] Key features include: In February 2014, Workday acquired the startup Identified and its artificial intelligence Syman to create its Insight Apps line of products.

In July 2017, Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri announced that the company had decided to open up its platform to developers, partners and third-party software.

[41] In January 2018, Workday announced that it acquired SkipFlag,[42] makers of an AI knowledge base that builds itself from a company's internal communications.

[citation needed] Workday operates data centers located in Ashburn, Virginia; Lithia Springs, Georgia; Portland, Oregon; Dublin, Ireland; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and also uses Amazon Web Services for its primary computing infrastructure platforms in order to accelerate its worldwide expansion.

It is a part of the broader Workday suite of enterprise applications, which includes solutions for human resources, finance, sales, operations, and HR in their planning processes.

Retrieved June 3, 2024. It automates consolidations and integration of data from other systems and enables collaboration and real-time updates via its on-demand SaaS-based model.

In May 2021, Workday signed a sponsorship deal with Formula One as the regional finance & human resource enterprise partner across the UK and Germany.