There is something very reassuring when Stan Swete, CTO of Workday signs off a presentation (as he did today) on the latest release of his product with "we look forward to doing this again in 4 months"
Now in 19th iteration, the 3 releases a year tend to be manageable chunks of new functionality and technology that don't overwhelm its customers and which are conveniently delivered in background. This, while allowing customers to personalize by applying custom fields to Workday objects, creating validations associated with custom fields, and apply their own labels to fields.
The regular upgrades also allow Workday to unabashedly present in detail on new features like 170 new ones in 19 such as improved amortization useful for digital asset accounting or to drill into demos like new features like time card entry on the iOS version in shot below.(BTW, 19 also intoduces Android apps in the Google Play store. Previous versions supported iOS and HTML5)
This is so different from the high pitched, high level hype I see from so many other vendors or in reverse, death by bullets - new features listed in a press release or a static PPT presentations.
In the spirt of Workday "re-imagining the traditional approach to software customization", I think Vivaldi should customize his concertos down from 4 to 3 - to reflect Workday's 3 seasons a year.