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Enterprises Across EMEA Continue to Choose Workday to Transform Their Businesses

New Large and Medium Enterprise Customers Join Growing Workday Community

PLEASANTON, Calif., and VIENNA, Austria, Nov. 13, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WORKDAY RISING EUROPEWorkday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced continued momentum across EMEA with large and medium enterprises from a variety of industries joining the Workday customer community. With Workday’s suite of applications – including Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) – these enterprises will be able to simplify their operations in the cloud and uncover real-time financial and workforce insights to continue successfully growing their businesses.  

The organisations that have recently selected Workday include:

Additionally, with Workday these organisations will be able to:

Comments on the News
“Market-leading enterprises across Europe are choosing Workday to help them transform and simplify their operations, laying the foundations of businesses focused on the future,” said Gonzalo Benedit, president, EMEA and APJ, Workday. “We are helping customers remove complexity, so they can make faster, more informed decisions that help them keep pace with rapid business change.”

“As a consumer goods business with access to more than 50 markets, it’s crucial that Cloetta’s systems and processes reflect the global nature of our organisation, and empower our employees and managers with one, standardised way of working,” said Regina Ekström, senior vice president, Cloetta. “We’re confident that, with Workday, we have a partner that will help us improve the efficiency of our HR operations today and meet our needs as we continue to grow.”

“Workday will help us to make more-informed, data-driven decisions when it comes to our people,” said Mary Parker, senior vice president, global human resources systems and shared services, RELX Group. “With greater visibility of our global workforce, we will be able to make better choices about the future of our business, while also automating and digitising a lot of internal processes. It gives us a platform to make people management smarter and easier.”   

“Workday provides a platform for Tacton’s continued rapid international growth,” said Fredrik Cronqvist, chief financial officer, Tacton Systems AB. “With Workday, we will automate and digitise business processes within the company and become more data-driven in all aspects of our operations.”

“In a highly competitive market where talent is the key to success, we decided to strengthen our HR policy to recruit and retain employees who can make a difference,” said Eve Royer, human resources director, Umanis. “We chose Workday, a future-proof system, to offer all our employees efficient, innovative, and accessible HR services, wherever they are. By making them more autonomous, we will make them owners of their own HR processes, which fits perfectly with our values ​​of empowerment for everyone.”

About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organisations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.

© 2018. Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the expected performance and benefits of Workday’s offerings. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “plan,” “expect,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the risks materialise or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2018 and our future reports that we may file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website, or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday’s discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday, Inc. services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features, and functions that are currently available.

© 2018. Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc.

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Workday
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