The elastic Workday

We have long written about the elasticity of the cloud computing business model. Salespeople in the field have just as long used FUD about the supposed rigidity of its applicability. It only works for small and mid-size businesses. It only works well in the service sector.

Really?

I was pleased to see Workday share names of some of its recent customers. In parenthesis are the industry sector and workforce size.  

• Essilor of America, Inc. (healthcare/manufacturing, 9,000)
• Exelis Inc. (aerospace and defense, 20,000)
• GameStop Corp. (retail, 40,000)
• Medtronic Inc. (medical technology, 45,000)
• The Standard (financial services, 3,100)
• Toyota Financial Services (financial services, 3,300)
• Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (automotive retail, 6,100)

The main pattern here is Workday, since its inception not just recently, has shown it can work in a wide range of enterprise sizes, industries and countries.