I like to catalog complex innovation and write about Polymath organizations who can blend infotech, biotech, cleantech and a variety of STEM skills to come up with new solutions.
But there are times when a clean, crisp, simple product or messaging is such a joy to behold. Last week I wrote It’s all about the Enterprise Apps, Baby – the messaging from the NetSuite event compared to the complex transactions versus analytics, private versus public cloud messages coming out the same time from SAP’s event.
This week, Dennis Howlett reports on Workday’s impressive Q1. Workday has an even cleaner message than NetSuite’s – horizontal finance and HR apps hosted, supported and updated 3 times a year in its public cloud all for a set price per user. Someday Workday will have deep vertical apps. It may at some offer a Platform as a service. It likely will never offer Infrastructure as a service.
Wall Street already values NetSuite and Workday at over $ 17 billion in market cap. It obviously believes there is a nice customer demand for crisp and clean in a world of more complex flavors.
