Workday发布公告“澄清亚马逊Workday部署” 停止的问题近日Workday在官网发布了这篇澄清,应该是市场有一些反馈,需要做一个正面的回应。也发给大家看看如何回复类似的标准文案!更多精彩随时关注我们:HR科技云图
前言:
在Workday,我们非常专注于满足我们客户群体的需求,并通过创新来支持他们的劳动力需求。然而,有时,客户有一套独特的需求,与我们为广大客户群所提供的不同。这就是为什么一年半前,Workday和亚马逊双方都同意停止亚马逊的Workday人力资本管理部署,并有可能在未来重新考虑它。
正文:
Workday成立于15年前,拥有一套包括客户服务和创新在内的核心价值观。作为其中的一部分,我们高度关注满足我们的客户群体的需求--包括8000多个客户和5000万用户--并进行创新以支持他们的工作团队的需求。然而,有时,客户有一套独特的需求,与我们为更广泛的客户群提供的需求不同,就像亚马逊--世界上最独特和最有活力的公司之一的情况。
一年半多以前,Workday和亚马逊都同意停止亚马逊的Workday人力资本管理部署,并有可能在未来重新讨论。这与Workday系统的可扩展性无关,因为我们目前支持一些世界上最大的组织,包括超过45%的财富500强和超过70%的财富500强公司。此外,我们70%以上的客户是活的,包括我们最大的客户之一--一家零售商--在其超过150万的全球员工中。
我们与亚马逊的关系仍然很牢固,亚马逊网络服务合作关系完好无损,其他亚马逊子公司--如Audible、Twitch和Whole Foods--成功使用我们的系统。
18个多月前停止部署的决定,对我们之前在2021年5月26日提供的财务指导没有影响。
来自Workday官网
英文原文如下:
Clarifying Amazon’s Workday Deployment
At Workday, we’re hyper-focused on meeting the needs of our customer community and innovating to support the needs of their workforces. At times, however, customers have a unique set of needs that are different from what we’re delivering for our broader customer base. That's why more than a year and a half ago, both Workday and Amazon mutually agreed to discontinue Amazon’s Workday Human Capital Management deployment, with the potential to revisit it in the future.
Workday was founded more than 15 years ago with a set of core values including customer service and innovation. As part of that, we’re hyper-focused on meeting the needs of our customer community — which includes more than 8,000 customers and 50 million users — and innovating to support the needs of their workforces. At times, however, customers have a unique set of needs that are different from what we’re delivering for our broader customer base, as was the case with Amazon — one of the most unique and dynamic companies in the world.
More than a year and a half ago, both Workday and Amazon mutually agreed to discontinue Amazon’s Workday Human Capital Management deployment, with the potential to revisit it in the future. This was not related to the scalability of the Workday system, as we currently support some of the world’s largest organizations, including more than 45% of the Fortune 500 and more than 70% of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies. In addition, more than 70% of our customers are live, including one of our largest customers — a retailer — across its more than 1.5 million global workers.
Our relationship with Amazon remains strong with the Amazon Web Services partnership intact and other Amazon subsidiaries — such as Audible, Twitch, and Whole Foods — successfully using our system.
The decision to discontinue the deployment more than 18 months ago has no impact on our previously communicated financial guidance provided on May 26, 2021.
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微软与 YC 合作,向创业者提供免费 Azure 服务
Y Combinator 和微软在本周 公布 了一项合作计划,微软将会为参加 Y Combinator 本期孵化项目的创业公司免费提供 Azure 云端计算平台服务。
根据这份合作协议,微软会为这些创业公司提供价值 50 万美元的 Azure 云端服务和 Office 365 生产力套装的 3 年免费使用权限。50 万美元的 Azure 使用权对微软来说只是九牛一毛,但是对于参加 Y Combinator 的新生公司来说,这已经很大的一笔资金,而且能够帮助它们在孵化项目中更好地成长。所以这是一项意义重大的援助。
微软也有通过自己的 Microsoft Ventures 团队在世界各地开展 多个创业孵化项目 ,例如以色列。这个团队是在以前的 Bing Fund 整合了微软的创业孵化项目之后成立的。而 Bing Fund 现在的项目现在已经逐渐关闭了。Microsoft Ventures 的 前任 导师拉胡尔·苏德(Rahul Sood)在 Twitter 上向我表示,微软实际上已经“ 停止了这个基金的运作 ”。我向微软打过多次电话,请求对方就 Microsoft Ventures 目前的创业投资情况作出官方的说明。
(更新:在与微软的发言人交流过之后,了解到自从 Bing Fund 被归入 Microsoft Ventures 之后,它只进行过为数不多的种子投资。这家公司目前没有直接向创业公司进行现金投资。)
Y Combinator 向本期的创业公司发送了一条备忘录,其中对 Azure 进行了如下的描述:
Azure让每家创业公司都可以为自己的业务使用正确的技术——包括 Linux 和 OSS 、Node.js、PHP、Python、.NET等。此外,Azure 还拥有强大的平台即服务(PaaS)功能,例如机器学习和流分析等。
在 Y Combinator 获得的所有云端服务商赞助当中,微软是最为慷慨的一家:亚马逊提供了价值 10 万美元的 AWS 服务(亚马逊在一封邮件中告诉 TechCrunch 这些赞助会向“合资格的孵化器”提供);Digital Ocean 提供了 10 万美元;Heroku 提供了 5 万美元。微软所提供的服务价值实际上是其他服务商捐赠总价值的两倍。
作为合作协议的一部分,微软还为参加 Y Combinator 的创业者主办了一场为期一天的研讨会,其中包括由两位高管斯蒂夫·古根海默(Steve Guggenheimer)和斯科特·格思里(Scott Guthrie)主持的演示。古根海默在微软内部被称为“Guggs”,他是微软的首席传教士。格思里是 Azure 业务的负责人。
在这项合作公布之初,我跟一位参加本期 Y Combinator 孵化项目的创业者进行了交流。这位创业者对这项援助的评价是“难以置信的慷慨”,他提到他们团队在知道这项合作之前“没有考虑过使用 Azure”,不过在合作细则公布之后,他们就“开始尝试使用它,也许会把它作为唯一的服务。”这位创业者继续表示这项合作协议让他们感到“(微软)非常渴望,也非常努力地为创业公司提供帮助,希望提升自己在创业社区当中的地位。”
这位创业者还开玩笑说他们希望亚马逊也应该加大对创业公司的投入,提供同等水平的免费服务。
微软这样做是想在创业公司当中树立口碑,为它们未来的业务提供帮助。为创业团队提供价值 50 万美元的云端计算服务,这就相当于可以让小型企业可以在短期内减少融资 50 万美元。这样创业公司就可以更有效地使用手上的资金,同时可以延后它们进行估值的时间,从而提升它们得到更高估值的可能性。
在我了解过的硅谷创业公司当中,亚马逊的 AWS 云端平台仍然是他们的首选。这项 Azure 合作协议也许可以稍微提升它在本期 Y Combinator 创业公司中的份额,而且也会影响到以后参加的公司,因为这个项目会持续进行。不知道在本期 Y Combinator 的孵化公司中有多少会选择 Azure 而不是 AWS,又有多少会将这个选择一直保留到孵化完成之后。
Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley
Y Combinator and Microsoft announced a program this week that will pour free access to the Azure cloud computing platform onto the incubator’s current class of startups.
The deal includes $500,000 in credits to Microsoft’s cloud computing service Azure, and three years of access to its Office 365 suite of productivity tools. Half a million worth of Azure usage is nothing to Microsoft, but for young companies that are part of Y Combinator, the sum is a multiple of the cash that they receive to help build their firms as part of the program. That makes it a materially interesting offer.
Microsoft also runs a number of accelerators of its own around the world in places like Israel under its Microsoft Ventures team. That group was formed when disparate accelerator work was unified with what was formerly the Bing Fund. The latter effort appears to be either on the wane, or over. Former Microsoft Ventures don Rahul Sood told me on Twitter that Microsoft had indeed “stopped the fund.” I have a few calls into Microsoft requesting a formal explanation how, if at all, Microsoft Ventures is currently involved in actively investing cash into startups.
(Update: Chatted about this with a spokesperson, and after the Bing Fund was subsumed into Microsoft Ventures, a few more seed investments were made, but not many. The company is not currently making direct cash investments into startups.)
Here’s how Y Combinator described Azure in a memo sent out to companies in the current class:
Azure enables each startup to use the right technologies for their business – including Linux & OSS, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, etc. In addition, Azure provides powerful PaaS capabilities, like machine learning, stream analytics and more.
The Azure deal stands apart from the other offers that Y Combinator companies receive from different cloud providers: $100,000 in AWS credits from Amazon (Amazon told TechCrunch in an email that that offer is open to “qualified accelerators”), $10,000 from Digital Ocean, and $50,000 from Heroku. Microsoft is essentially offering double what those providers offer in aggregate.
As part of the deal, Microsoft hosted a day-long session for Y Combinator founders that included presentations from two of its executives: Steve Guggenheimer and Scott Guthrie. Guggenheimer, known as Guggs at Microsoft, is the company’s chief evangelist. Guthrie runs Azure.
I spoke to a current Y Combinator founder about the deal in the wake of its release. The founder called the offer “shockingly good,” noting that before the deal was announced, their team “wasn’t considering using Azure,” but following the terms’ release, are “exploring using it, possibly exclusively.” The founder continued, noting that the agreement gives them the “that [Microsoft] is hungry and that they are trying hard to be relevant and helpful to the startup community.”
The same founder went on to muse that they hope that Amazon ups its own commitment to startups by providing similar quantities free service.
Microsoft is making a play for the hearts, minds, and future business of startups. Give a team half a million in cloud computing, and that is a half million that the smaller company doesn’t have to raise in the near-term. That allows companies to spend more efficiently, and delay pricing their firms, likely allowing for a higher valuation mark to be set.
Amazon’s AWS cloud platform remains the de facto choice among startup founders that I speak to here in the Valley. The Azure deal may tip the scales slightly among the current Y Combinator class, and those that follow, as the program will recur. It will be interesting to see what percentage of the current Y Combinator class chooses Azure over AWS, and keeps that choice through the end of the period and into their life as a launched company.
来源: techcrunch.cn