Workday, Inc., which provides cloud-based human capital and financial management platforms to the private sector – and increasingly to government customers – has added the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to its Federal government customer rolls.
That news came courtesy of Patrick Blair, the company’s president of global sales, who talked about the continued push into the government market at the Workday Federal Forum event in Washington today.
“I’m very happy to announce that we now from a customer standpoint have the Department of Energy,” said Blair, who explained that DoE is the company’s first “cabinet-level” Federal customer.
He also previewed a Workday announcement set for May 23 that the company has signed on DIA to its customer rolls.
During a separate panel discussion, Christina Dance, senior program manager for Human Resource Modernization at DIA, offered some hints about how Workday will be helping the agency.
She said that DIA has “thousands of examples every day about how we do not have data in a system of record that is easily at our fingertips to be able to make decisions and to answer questions, so Workday is going to be bringing that to us.”
The new Federal customers are joining Workday’s roster of more than 10,000 customers around the world, Blair said, which include 65 million users of the company’s products who generate more than 600 billion transactions per year.
“We’re trying to invest more, we’re trying to understand the Federal business as well as we can [and] as complex as it is, and we’re starting to bring in a lot of great partners to help us with that,” Blair said.
He also pointed to the company’s appointment earlier this month of Lynn Martin as Workday’s group vice president for U.S. Federal. She comes to the company from Google Public Sector where she was vice president of go-to-market.
“We will continue to invest in this market to help you on the missions that you’re all on,” Blair pledged. “It’s been about three years now since we got our FedRAMP Moderate certification,” he said, adding that since then “we’ve really been able to go deep with a lot of you, and thank you all for helping us learn and helping us understand.”
