Type public company Website www.workiva.com CEO Matthew Rizai Founded 2008 | Traded as NYSE: WK CFO Stuart Miller | |
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Key people Matthew Rizai, CEO; Marty Vanderploeg, COO; Jeff Trom, CTO Stock price WK (NYSE) US$ 15.65 -0.10 (-0.63%)5 Apr, 4:02 PM GMT-4 - Disclaimer Profiles | ||
Workiva is an enterprise software company based in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 2008 as Webfilings, its main product is Wdesk, a cloud-based enterprise management and auditing software-as-a-service platform that enables companies to create and file financial and compliance reports and documents to the SEC and other federal and state regulatory agencies. The Wdesk platform integrates information from disparate content formats, including spreadsheets, presentation documents, emails and other unstructured data, into a single cloud-based report. The company employs approximately 1,200 people with offices in 16 cities in the United States, Canada and Europe.
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History
Workiva was founded as Webfilings in 2008 by three technology entrepreneurs who'd created and run Engineering Animation Inc. (EAI), a 3D computer animation company, also based in Ames—Workiva COO, Martin Vanderploeg, a former engineering professor at Iowa State University (ISU); Jeff Trom, COO; and Matthew M. Rizai, CEO. They sold EAI to EDS/UGS PLM, and it is now a division of Siemens, the German technology multinational.
WebFilings changed its name to Workiva in June 2014 and went public in December 2014 (NYSE: WK).
Its customers include Amgen, Colgate Palmolive, Chevron and Google. The company has been recognized as an innovator in its field. A May 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant analysis of the ten leading financial corporate performance management software firms, ranked Workiva in the “Leader” quadrant along with three others -- SAP, Oracle and BlackLine. In Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500 survey of fastest growing technology companies in America, Workiva ranked fiftieth among all software companies. In February 2017, it won the Business Intelligence Group's BIG Innovation Award.
Applications
Workiva first SaaS product was SEC reporting software designed to enable corporations to automate their SEC filings by using a proprietary system of document tags and linking. The platform also enabled companies to file electronically directly with the SEC, using the business mark-up language XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language), required by the SEC. A Workiva customer was the first company to file Inline XBRL with the SEC.
The company has since expanded to include other corporate financial and compliance reporting functions, including:
Operations
The company is headquartered in Ames, Iowa and has domestic offices in Denver and Boulder, CO; Missoula and Bozeman, MT; Chicago, IL; Columbus, GA; Dallas, TX; Miami, FL; New York, NY; Scottsdale, AZ; Seattle, WA; and international offices in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, London, U.K., and Amsterdam, NL.
Related Information
In 2016, Forbes magazine recognized Workiva as one of the 25 Highest-Rated Public Cloud Computing Companies To Work For. An employee survey conducted by Great Place to Work and Fortune in 2016, Workiva received a 97 percent overall approval rating, and 96 percent ranked the company a “great” place to work. Workiva ranked #4 on Fortune magazine’s 2016 Top 10 Best Large Workplaces in Technology and ranked #6 on Fortune magazine’s Top 50 Best Large Workplaces. Other industry recognition includes:
Notable Events
Governance
Executive management team: