SystemsHead-to-head

Certinia vs Workday

Both state a fit for companies in a similar size range and sit in comparable cost bands, which is why they turn up on the same shortlist. Everything below is drawn from the two vendor records, each of which cites its sources. Any other pairing can be built in the comparison tool, including ones we do not generate a page for.

6 sources cited7 modules in commonReviewed September 2026

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01Fact sheet

CriterionCertiniaWorkday
Company size fit50–5,000 employees500–100,000 employees
Cost bandUpper mid-marketEnterprise
DeploymentCloudCloud
Regions servedAPAC, EMEA, North AmericaAPAC, EMEA, North America
CategoriesAR & collections, Accounting, ERPAccounting, ERP, FP&A, Financial close, Payroll
Industries namedProfessional services, SoftwareEducation, Financial services, Healthcare, Professional services
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United StatesPleasanton, California, United States

Rows in ink differ between the systems; rows in grey are shared.

02Positioning

How Stackmark characterises each system, in its own words, from the sourced record.

Certinia

Services-centric ERP and professional-services automation built natively on Salesforce, so the customer record and the project ledger share one platform. Formerly FinancialForce.

Workday

A people-first enterprise suite whose financials sit alongside its much larger HCM footprint. Usually chosen by service organisations where headcount, not inventory, is the business.

03Module coverage

Every module either system documents, side by side. A module both list is a shared claim, not a statement that the two implementations are equivalent.

ModuleCertiniaWorkday
Asset managementNot checkedModerate
Business intelligenceModerateCore
CRMVia partnerNot offered
EcommerceNot checkedNot offered
Field serviceModerateNot checked
Financial managementCoreCore
HR and payrollModerateCore
Inventory managementModerateModerate
Manufacturing managementNot offeredNot offered
ProcurementModerateCore
Project managementCoreCore
Supply chain managementModerateModerate
Warehouse managementNot offeredNot offered

Core Moderate Via partner Not offered Not checked

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04Sources

Certinia3

  1. [1]Certinia (FinancialForce): Pricing & Fit | ERP Researchhttps://www.erpresearch.com/en-us/financialforce · retrieved 2026-09-07
  2. [2]Certinia | Cloud PSA & Financial Management Software Built on Salesforcehttps://certinia.com/ · retrieved 2026-09-07
  3. [3]About Certinia | Certiniahttps://certinia.com/about/ · retrieved 2026-09-07

Workday3

  1. [1]Workday ERP Review 2026: Pricing & Modules | ERP Researchhttps://www.erpresearch.com/en-us/workday-erp-overview · retrieved 2026-09-07
  2. [2]Financial Management Software: Workday Finance | Workday UShttps://www.workday.com/en-us/products/financial-management/overview.html · retrieved 2026-09-07
  3. [3]Our Core Values | Workday UShttps://www.workday.com/en-us/company/about-workday.html · retrieved 2026-09-07