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Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by mk89 »

geoffbp wrote: post #12
pbw wrote: post #3

Workday is a disaster, at least the version we have.

It is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it

For me it's just incomplete. We used to have Successfactors and although the UI was less fancy, I have the feeling it was more complete and thorough.

After so many years with Workday I still cannot sync my calendar to outlook365, so I need to manually put the entries. A problem solved a million years ago in successfactors.

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by bri3d »

haolez wrote: post #15

My company uses Workday. It is integrated with our EntraID SSO. If you leave a tab open for a few minutes, it will close your session automatically, which means logging you out of Microsoft 365 altogether. Simply bizarre. Maybe more AI will help them.

One of the hardest problems with making a configurable Enterprise Software thing with a strong brand is figuring out how not to make every misconfiguration a reflection on the brand; there’s no Workday specific reason your configuration had to federate logout in this way.

In the same vein, I always thought it was a mistake that Workday branded the recruiting portal so strongly; everyone is furious that they can’t share an account across applications but it really makes sense. They’re supplying the Workday customer with their recruiting data / PII using Workday, not furnishing that data to Workday directly, so sharing across customers would require a whole legal and data tenancy refactoring.

(disclosure: I worked at Workday for a long time ages ago and people were certainly not living with their heads in the sand. I don’t think I particularly agree with the direction the company is going but it is always interesting to reflect on some of these threads and the challenges with running that kind of business)

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by johnfn »

gomoboo wrote: post #9
afavour wrote: post #2

> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents Pipedream indeed! It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. W…

That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.

"managing people, money and agents" yes, that makes total sense, agents are managed exactly the same ways that you manage people or money, I don't see anyth- WHAT AM I READING?!??

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by airstrike »

Esophagus4 wrote: post #19
afavour wrote: post #2

> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents Pipedream indeed! It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. W…

I was gonna try to contradict you by looking up Workday’s multiple and showing that it is valued like an HR company, but holy smokes… Their multiple is 105 lol

their forward multiple is the only one that matters

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by darth_avocado »

gomoboo wrote: post #9
afavour wrote: post #2

> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents Pipedream indeed! It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. W…

That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.

Ironically Workday is the worst product to use as a job seeker to upload your resume.

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by ghm2199 »

My head explodes when I read aabout the scamsters that are equifax and their so called "strategic partnership" with workday on payroll data.

We all should be aware that equifax — via their "strategic partner" with workday — has your ENTIRE work history with *each and every* payroll check AMOUNT ever sent to you by any W2 employer, the employer info, your address etc. It sells this info to god knows who. Its a shocking amount of info. Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

I recall a year or so ago, I had frozen this info from being dissemenated to employers or sold to companies from https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/ link but it seems to ask me to re-register again with your SSN and DOB. WTF. That registration would still not stop them from collecting this info.

There is no way I can even partially delete any part of this data, like I dunno the dates on which I recieved each of my paychecks. Why the fuck is that in the report?

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Post by flexagoon »

afavour wrote: post #2

> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents Pipedream indeed! It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. W…

As someone with no experience with either of those two services, I read that description and had no idea what Workday does. So I thought, maybe their homepage will explain it better.

> Manage HR, finance, and all your AI agents. All in one place.

> Elevate the potential of your people and boost productivity across your organization with human-AI collaboration.

> Turn AI into ROI faster and deliver transformational outcomes driven by trust, agility, and data readiness you can rely on.

> 11,000+ organizations worldwide trust Workday.

Huh?

Sure, whatever, I'm not even surprised about them trying to cram AI buzzwords into every sentence, I'm used to that by now. But what's the deal with enterprise products having marketing which only makes sense to people who already use the product? Not a single sentence on their homepage explains what their product does.

Ok, let's assume I've heard about Workday and know it's a tool for HR. I want to evaluate it, so, naturally, I click the "HR solutions" link on their homepage, and get to yet another page full of buzzwords that does nothing to help me understand the service they offer.

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