Workday has been recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. This is the 10th consecutive year we've been recognized as a Leader in this report, and we believe it’s a reflection of our commitment to constantly transform and meet the needs of our customers.
Workday has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises for the 10th consecutive year, and we couldn’t be more elated!
We believe this continued placement demonstrates our endless pursuit of innovation for our customers, our commitment to evolve to meet their needs, and our ability to solve the most difficult challenges across HR. We are laser-focused on delivering solutions that use AI to push organizations forward amidst rapid transformation.
The HR function is at a pivotal moment. Business models are evolving in real time, workforce expectations have changed, budgets are tight, and AI is at the center of all of these changes. HR has a dual mandate: Lead teams through change while architecting an entirely new workplace that includes AI.
We’re designing new talent models and organizational structures, upskilling, and defining guardrails that make AI work for people and for the business.
The way we navigate this transition will have lasting effects on the way we work for decades. How organizations approach their AI strategy and connect their investments to workforce benefits and bottom line results determines AI’s impact on organizational success—and reinforces HR’s position as strategic business partners.
As Workday develops the tools for HR and the broader business ecosystem, we enable our customers to create a resilient, adaptable, and high-performing workforce.
With the largest and cleanest HR and financials dataset, Workday insights aren’t just informed—they’re intelligent. Over 70% of Workday customers have already adopted Illuminate capabilities, allowing for human-AI collaboration that’s context-built based on our customers’ real experiences at work.
Our AI functionality and responsible AI framework is embedded into the core of our platform, effortlessly enhancing the value of AI to our customers, while limiting risk exposure.
With the largest and cleanest HR and financials dataset, Workday insights aren’t just informed—they’re intelligent.
This helps organizations in four critical areas:
Boosting productivity: Organizations can leapfrog entire processes by automating repetitive tasks that slow people down, freeing them up to focus on high-value projects.
Improving strategic decision-making: Through actionable insights, managers and employees gain personalized recommendations that include surfacing promising candidates, optimizing worker schedules, and increasing career mobility—all to help accelerate and improve business outcomes.
Mitigating risk: Responsible AI is embedded at every step, every interaction, and every decision point, ensuring ethical and legal compliance. The more you mitigate risk, the less you’ll face exposure to compliance fines or headaches.
Enhancing talent potential: The combination of AI and Workday Skills Cloud gives employees valuable, personalized recommendations for learning, gigs, projects, internal mobility, skills development, and mentorship.
When it comes to mission-critical roles in industries such as healthcare, providing elevated insights doesn’t only free up time and boost productivity—it also helps retain top talent, which in turn, ensures high-quality patient care. Kyle Arnold, chief HR services officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health, shares his organization’s experience as a Workday customer:
“Our managers engage with employees to address their concerns in real time instead of after they’ve resigned. We made it easier for managers to do their job and focus on patient care.”
With Workday’s clean, contextual, and compliance-friendly AI and automation, you can reach new frontiers of performance.
With shifting, dynamic business-critical requirements, our customers need a flexible solution that makes it easy to build on the underlying Workday platform. With Workday Extend, customers can quickly create apps that augment their Workday environment to meet their broader business needs. As we heard from the CIO and associate provost of Wellesley College,
“Workday Extend is a game changer for extending Workday functionality. It is a low-code and versatile solution to build apps that use Workday’s own UI, data, and security that helps to increase user adoption.”
These tailored applications not only help lower the cost of ownership, but also give our customers the power to configure solutions that meet specific needs to support processes such as custom payroll processing, internal job moves, or shift bidding.
These tailored applications not only help lower the cost of ownership, but also give our customers the power to configure a solution that meets specific needs.
Beyond Workday Extend, we collaborate with hundreds of partners across our ecosystem to help our customers accelerate innovation, deploy new capabilities, and harness the power of Workday. The benefits are clear when we look more closely at our payroll partnerships.
With Workday Global Payroll Connect, our customers benefit from an end-to-end global payroll experience that gives them complete visibility across all their payrolls.
Our payroll solution provides reduced cycle times, improved accuracy, and greater flexibility through real-time, bi-directional integrations with our rich global payroll partner network. Here’s what one customer—and HR digital innovation director at Prysmian Group—shared about their experience leveraging the partner network:
“Together, with Workday and Strada, we now have a connected and unified experience for HR and payroll globally and have improved efficiency and productivity by embedding automation and standardization."
With Workday Global Payroll Connect, our customers benefit from an end-to-end global payroll experience that gives them complete visibility across all their payrolls.
We’re thrilled to see the power of our global partner network come to life to create tangible productivity gains and positive experiences for our customers.
With a strong focus on innovation, our platform will always evolve to be as dynamic as the needs of our customers. Their success is our success, and that’s what drives us.
By enhancing the value of every Workday platform interaction with AI, leveraging data as a differentiator, and empowering customers to configure an environment that meets the needs of their ever-shifting businesses, we’re creating an AI-powered, human-centric, and future-ready workplace.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises, By Josie Xing, Ranadip Chandra, Sam Grinter, Ron Hanscome, Chris Pang, Harsh Kundulli, David Bobo, Laura Gardiner, Michelle Shapiro, Anand Chouksey, Jackie Watrous, Stephanie Clement, Jeff Freyermuth, Chris Hester, 8 September 2025.
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