Workiva

About Workiva

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Workiva

All products by Workiva reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

WorkivaAI Productivity

AI-powered platform for financial, sustainability, and GRC reporting

Free7.5/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Workiva

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Workiva's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 3.8 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Workiva competes with, and how they differ.

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Diligent Corporation8.0/10

Diligent competes hardest in governance/board reporting and GRC, with a board-management product Workiva does not have, while Workiva's core strength is XBRL/SEC financial-reporting and connected ESG data across teams.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

ServiceNow8.1/10

ServiceNow's GRC module is one piece of a much broader IT/enterprise workflow platform sold top-down through the CIO, whereas Workiva is a purpose-built reporting platform sold primarily through the office of the CFO/controller.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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BlackLine7.7/10

BlackLine focuses narrowly on financial-close and account-reconciliation automation, an adjacent but narrower slice of the "office of the CFO" than Workiva's broader SEC/ESG/GRC reporting platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Alteryx6.7/10

Alteryx is a data-analytics/prep platform used upstream of reporting, competing with Workiva mainly where both vendors push into automated data-to-report workflows rather than on core SEC filing or ESG disclosure.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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insightsoftware (CCH Tagdata/Certent)

insightsoftware's Certent disclosure-management product is a lower-cost, ERP-embedded alternative for SEC/XBRL filing, versus Workiva's standalone cloud platform with broader GRC and ESG modules.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Workiva's history, with sources.

1. Jun 17, 2024Acquisition

   Acquired Sustain.Life for ~$100M

   Workiva acquired carbon-accounting software startup Sustain.Life for approximately $100M ($98.3M net of cash acquired per SEC filing), launching "Workiva Carbon."

   siliconrepublic.com
2. Apr 1, 2022Acquisition

   Acquired ParsePort for $100M

   Workiva acquired Denmark-based ParsePort, an XBRL/Inline XBRL conversion provider used by 800+ European organizations for ESEF financial disclosure, for $100M in cash.

   sec.gov
3. Dec 14, 2021Acquisition

   Acquired AuditNet

   Workiva acquired AuditNet, the global online portal and content community for 160,000+ internal-audit practitioners, to strengthen its GRC/internal-audit offering.

   businesswire.com
4. Aug 2, 2021Acquisition

   Acquired OneCloud — first acquisition

   Workiva acquired iPaaS technology provider OneCloud, its first-ever acquisition, after a two-year OEM/investment partnership begun in 2019.

   businesswire.com
5. Dec 11, 2014Milestone

   IPO on the NYSE under ticker WK

   Workiva (then WebFilings) completed its IPO, selling 7.2M shares of Class A common stock at $14.00, for net proceeds of $90.4M.

   sec.gov
6. August 2008Founded

   Founded as WebFilings in Ames, Iowa

   Workiva was founded as WebFilings by Matthew Rizai, Jerome Behar, Martin Vanderploeg, Joseph Howell, Jeffrey Trom and Daniel Murray.

   en.wikipedia.org