Interview Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach insists more than 90 percent of the SaaS HR and finance application vendor's rollouts are a success, putting as

Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes

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2025-01-03 01:30:04

Interview Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach insists more than 90 percent of the SaaS HR and finance application vendor's rollouts are a success, putting aside the company's high profile difficulties in Maine and Iowa state-level projects.

Speaking to The Register during the vendor's Workday Rising EMEA conference in Amsterdam in December, Eschenbach dismissed challenges implementing HR and finance systems in the two state governments.

Last year, Iowa decided to end its contract with Workday to provide finance software, but continues to use the vendor's HR system. It delayed introducing the Workday finance system after finding "implementation issues" that could impact a number of business processes. Instead the state opted to extend its existing contract with CGI to upgrade its legacy system, an official statement said.

The state government had awarded a $17 million contract to Workday to provide finance and HR software in a procurement process criticized for lack of competition.