On the Record · Workday
Workday competitors, on the record
The companies Workday names as competitors in its annual reports, 2024 to 2026, and the companies that name Workday, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Workday names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| ADP | 2026 |
| Anaplan, Inc. | 2026 |
| Coupa Software Inc. | 2026 |
| Dayforce, Inc. | 2026 |
| Microsoft | 2026 |
| Oracle Corporation | 2026 |
| SAP SE | 2026 |
| ServiceNow, Inc. | 2026 |
| UKG Inc. | 2026 |
In its own words
ADP, Anaplan, Inc., Coupa Software Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Microsoft, ServiceNow, Inc., UKG Inc.
Word for word“These vendors include, without limitation: Anaplan, Inc., ADP, Coupa Software Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Microsoft, ServiceNow, Inc., and UKG Inc.” 10-K for 2026
Oracle Corporation, SAP SE
Word for word“We currently compete with large, well-established, enterprise software vendors, such as Oracle Corporation (“ Oracle ”) and SAP SE (“SAP”).” 10-K for 2026
Who names Workday
Companies whose own annual reports name Workday as a competitor.
Word for word“Our enterprise cloud, software and hardware offerings compete directly with certain offerings from some of the largest and most competitive companies in the world, including Adobe Systems Incorporated, Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Salesforce, Inc. and SAP SE, as well as other companies like Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Workday, Inc.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“We also encounter functionally specific competitors like Workday, who have built native cloud HCM and Financials solutions.” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“Dynamics competes with cloud-based and on-premises business solution providers such as Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, Service Now, UI Path, and WorkDay.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“We compete with companies such as Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Dayforce, Inc., Intuit, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Paychex, Inc., Paylocity Holding Corporation, SAP SE, ServiceNow, Inc., Ultimate Kronos Group, Workday, Inc., and other international, national, regional, and local providers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We also compete with national firms, some of which have greater financial and technical resources than we do, including Oracle Corporation, Infor, SAP AG, Workday, Inc., CentralSquare Technologies, Thomson Reuters Corporation, Motorola Solutions, Inc., Axon Enterprise, Inc., and Constellation Software, Inc.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Ultimate's competitors in our enterprise market include (i) large service bureaus, primarily Automatic Data Processing Inc. (“ADP”) and, to a lesser extent, Ceridian; and (ii) companies, such as Oracle, Lawson, and Workday that offer human resource management and payroll software products for use on mainframes, client/server environments and/or in the cloud.” 10-K for 2018
Read from Workday’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-06. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.