Workiva is on a mission to power transparent reporting for a better world. We believe that consumers, employees, shareholders, and other stakeholders today expect more from business – more action, transparency, and disclosure of financial and non-financial information. We build solutions to meet that demand, streamline processes, connect data and teams, and ensure consistency – all within a controlled, secure, audit-ready cloud platform.
Workiva delivers the world’s leading cloud platform for regulatory, financial and environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) reporting. Workiva provides more than 6,000 organizations with software-as-a-service solutions to help solve some of the most complex reporting and disclosure challenges. People all over the world use our connected, cloud platform to seamlessly enable collaboration and deep integration into existing work streams to simplify their most complex reporting challenges.
While our customers use our platform for more than 100 different use cases, we organize our sales and marketing resources into four solution groups focusing primarily on the office of the Chief Financial Officer: regulatory reporting, non-regulatory reporting, financial services, and integrated risk. Our platform empowers our customers by connecting and transforming data from enterprise resource planning (“ERP”), governance risk and compliance, human capital management, and customer relationship management systems, as well as other third-party cloud and on-premise applications. Customers use our platform to create, review and publish data-linked documents and reports with greater control, consistency, accuracy, and productivity. Our platform is flexible and scalable, so customers can easily adapt it to define, automate, and change their business processes in real-time.
We are focusing investment on five major growth opportunities: ESG, European Single Electronic Format (“ESEF”), capital markets, our partner ecosystem, and global expansion. We believe growth outside of North America presents an attractive opportunity because the factors that drive demand for our solutions in North America are similar to those in other developed countries, including the need to manage complex datasets, reduce errors and risk, improve efficiency, and respond to regulatory requirements.
BY THE NUMBERS
- Founded: 2008
- IPO: 2014 (NYSE: WK)
- 2023 Revenue: $630M (17% increase over 2022)
- Number of Employees Worldwide: 2,500 across 13 countries
- EMEA Employees: 445 employees with offices in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Frankfurt
- Customers: 6,000 worldwide
- TAM: $25 billion with the entry into new markets and geographies and with an expanded solution portfolio
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STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE
The Workiva platform is a single instance, multi-tenant software deployed in the cloud. Our platform, built on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, comprises proprietary and open-source technologies. Customers can access Workiva solutions with any standard web browser. We believe the following characteristics highlight our platform’s key competitive advantages:
Features and Functionality. Our platform allows customers to connect data from ERP, GRC, HCM, and CRM systems, as well as other third-party cloud and on-premise applications, with complete control, context, and clarity. Workiva’s drag-and-drop data transformation and preparation capabilities deliver previews and provide insights on the fly. Once the data is connected in the Workiva platform, users can automate data and workflow updates, track every change and seamlessly collaborate with colleagues to create trusted reports and regulatory filings.
Easy to Deploy and Configure. The Workiva platform can be deployed within days or weeks for new customers and can be easily configured by the customer for individual employees or entire teams. Because our solutions are browser-based, customers avoid costly, time-intensive deployments typically associated with on-premise enterprise software.
High Performance. The architecture, design, deployment and management of our solutions provide enterprise-grade scalability, availability and security. The performance of the Workiva platform has been tested and proven by some of the largest, most demanding enterprises in the world.
Continuous Improvement. Frequent collaboration with customers and development iteration allow us to make continuous improvements by releasing a new version of our platform several times each week.
Scales Rapidly. The Workiva platform is designed to support millions of end users as a result of its scalability and our relationship with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. A number of our customers have reported millions of links to single sources of data, among multiple documents, spreadsheets and presentations, without any discernible negative effects on performance.
Secure. Many of the largest enterprises in the world trust us with their most sensitive data. We employ stringent data security, reliability, integrity and privacy practices. In addition to our regular customer security assessments, we engage in continuous and ongoing penetration and vulnerability testing (manual and automatic, internal and third-party) and adhere to standards established by third parties such as FedRAMP and ISO 27001. We also engage third-party auditors to evaluate our controls against the service organization controls (“SOC”) compliance frameworks.
Marketplace. The Workiva Marketplace enables organizations to streamline existing processes and solve new business problems by activating more than 140 ready-made templates, 70+ no-code data connectors, and services from industry experts and trusted partners — all within the Workiva platform’s connected and secure ecosystem.
