Index › Products › Workday · October 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Workday

8Judge labels

0First choices

6Negative labels

7 / 14Models named it

3Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Workday was named 3 times in DEX and 2 other categories, where ControlUp led with 13%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market178 of 219

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In dex · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Workday for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Digital employee experience	IT operations and endpoint	0%	178 of 219	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by ControlUp at 13%
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	156 of 159	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%
Security awareness training	Security operations	0%	64 of 64	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by KnowBe4 at 45%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Workday across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid platforms that don’t align with your workflows (e.g., Workday for ITFM, Oracle/SAP for non-enterprise use).” Mistral Small · IT financial mgmt · negative prompt · hard negative

“without the high cost or rigidity of enterprise solutions like Workday or ServiceNow” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DEX · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Why to be cautious: These platforms are built for *compliance*, not *security*.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Awareness training · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

MagicOrange2 of 81Not among the top eight

Nicus ITFM Platform2 of 81Not among the top eight

Oracle NetSuite2 of 81Not among the top eight

IBM Apptio Cloudability2 of 80Not among the top eight

NetSuite2 of 80Not among the top eight

SAP2 of 80Not among the top eight

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth2 of 80Not among the top eight

EmployeeHub1 of 81Not among the top eight

Microsoft Dynamics 3651 of 81Not among the top eight

Proven Optics1 of 81Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Workday. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 8 answers that named Workday and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worldmetrics.org4

bigtime.net3

gartner.com3

devopsschool.com2

fuelfinance.me2

g2.com2

qobra.co2

ramp.com2

serviceware-se.com2

alphabold.com1

No domain is on file for Workday, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

bigtime.net/blogs/financial-management-software3

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-it-financial-management-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison2

fuelfinance.me/blog/financial-management-systems2

g2.com/categories/it-financial-management-itfm2

gartner.com/reviews/market/it-financial-management-tools2

qobra.co/blog/best-financial-management-software2

ramp.com/blog/best-accounting-software-for-enterprises2

serviceware-se.com/en/blog/it-financial-management/it-financial-management-tools-buyers-gu2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Workday stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 1,220,000 a month (“workday”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 23,848 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 178 of 219 in DEX

Segment leader

13%

ControlUp

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 8 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Workday by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Workday is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Workday, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.