Workday gets more customers

Medical Colleges, City Year, Madison College, Seton Hill University, and Syracuse University have selected its unified administrative solution for education and government, Melodika reports.

The company also unveiled its Grants Management product as well as released new functionality that will be delivered this year to all public sector customers, as part of their regular Workday subscription.

Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday has made a point of going after education and government, markets that PeopleSoft pioneered and continues to lead in market share nearly eight years after the company's purchase by Oracle, according to Information Week.

Workday developed education- and government-specific functionality with the aid of customers Brown University, Georgetown University, New York Public Library, and the State of Nebraska, all of which had an active hand in guiding the feature wish list as strategic design partners.

Brown University helped define human resources and payroll functionality to accommodate faculty, staff, and student employees serving in multiple roles paid for by separate departments and sources of revenue.