Workday’s partners play a critical role in delivering the tools and expertise customers need to not only adapt, but thrive in the future of work. At Workday Rising, we shared how we’re innovating with our partners to do just that.
This week at Workday Rising, the strength of our community is front and center. Together, we’ve been celebrating our customers—how they’re innovating, and their leadership within their respective industries.
At the same time, we should celebrate another key pillar of our community: our partners. Both Workday and our customers rely on them for our shared success. We collaborate with hundreds of partners across our ecosystem to help our customers accelerate innovation, deploy new capabilities, and harness the power of Workday. Partners are a critical component of our strategy and a cornerstone of our community.
They share our dedication to helping customers embrace the future of work, a dedication fueled by our growing partner ecosystem. Built on Workday's cloud-native platform with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) at the core, our ecosystem brings together some of the world's leading experts to support our customers' evolving needs.
To lead the journey into the future of work, we all need a trusted partner. That’s why we continue to drive deeper relationships across the entire spectrum of our partner ecosystem—to unlock new opportunities to drive growth and support customers on their transformation journeys.
So, as we gather to share ideas on how the future works, I’m excited to share a number of ways in which Workday is collaborating and co-innovating across our partner ecosystem in service of our customers:
Let’s dive in a bit deeper on this momentum.
The new Workday AI Marketplace aims to help Workday customers harness the power of generative AI and other cutting edge technologies to the fullest extent by bringing the best of Workday AI and solutions from third-party partners together in one place. Already in beta mode with 15 early adopter partners, it will feature AI and ML partner solutions that integrate with Workday data via APIs, as well as apps built through Workday Extend using Workday-trained large language models.
Enabled by our partner ecosystem that is designed to optimize co-innovation, Workday AI Marketplace will empower our customers to harness the incredible amount of AI innovation happening today, while at the same time give them the peace of mind in knowing that each solution is proven, trusted, and meets Workday's stringent standards for responsible AI. It also creates opportunities for our partners to reach a broad customer base looking to deploy industry-leading AI and ML solutions that help accelerate their transformation. Combining the power of the Workday platform with our expansive partner ecosystem and some of the world's most innovative AI native companies, will give our customers a running start in the future of work.
In addition to Workday AI Marketplace, our new Workday Solutions Marketplace allows our more than 10,000 customers to find solutions built on Workday’s platform that meet their specific needs—many of which are built by our partners.
Through our new Workday Solutions Marketplace, customers can more easily discover, learn, and evaluate trusted solutions from Workday certified partners. The Workday Solutions Marketplace also empowers our partners to display their deep industry and domain expertise.
Built on Workday's cloud-native platform with AI and ML at the core, our ecosystem brings together some of the world's leading experts to support our customers' evolving needs.
Ultimately, this new marketplace makes it easier for customers to connect with partners and find solutions and capabilities on Workday’s cloud-native platform that help accelerate their transformation.
In addition to these two new exciting marketplaces showcasing our partners and partner co-innovation, we’re also highly focused on growing and deepening existing relationships that will help unlock new opportunities to support customers. This includes:
Expansion of ADP partnership: The extended partnership builds on a decade-long relationship between Workday and ADP and aims to address HR and payroll complexities to enable a more streamlined experience for payroll administrators and joint customers.
Deeper public cloud partnerships: Deeper partnerships with innovative public clouds such as AWS and Google Cloud to accelerate innovation and time to value for our customers. Additionally, integrations between AWS and Workday Extend provide customers and their developers with native and seamless access to AWS services from Workday Extend.
Watch this segment from our Workday Rising Broadcast on our partner ecosystem to learn more:
The development of our new marketplaces and our deeper partnerships are a testament to the scale and pace of co-innovation our ecosystem drives. With our partners, we are continuously launching new technologies to meet our customers’ needs, be it a skills accelerator to help organizations adopt a skills-based talent strategy, a bank margin planning solution to help banks and credit unions increase productivity and transparency, or a carbon ledger reporting solution to give companies a holistic view of its greenhouse emissions data.
Regardless of the need, our partner ecosystem is meeting the moment—and our customers agree:
“At Bon Secours Mercy Health we have greatly benefited from the co-innovation, collaboration, and industry expertise that Workday’s partner ecosystem provides,” says Joe Gage, chief human resources officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health. “With a vast network of experts paired with a modern, scalable platform, we continue to collaborate with partners to accelerate our transformation journey, navigate complexities, and prepare for a rapidly changing future of work.”
At Workday Rising last year, we launched Industry Accelerators to help businesses within specific industries accelerate their cloud transformation efforts. Our partners play a central role in the development of these accelerators, greatly contributing to the program’s growth and industry expansion, which now includes banking, insurance, healthcare, professional services, technology, and more.
Our new Workday Solutions allows our more than 10,000 customers to find solutions built on Workday’s platform.
I’d like to share some comments from my colleague and Industry Accelerator program sponsor Sophie Sharp, senior vice president of global industries and value management:
“Since last year, our partners have delivered over 100 industry innovations as part of the Industry Accelerator program, and there are many more in development. These innovations solve critical, industry-specific challenges for finance professionals, such as supporting risk and control frameworks, meeting regulatory requirements, and measuring and modeling profitability. Additionally, through collaborations with industry-leading software partners, the Industry Accelerator model streamlines operational data, while simplifying and reducing implementation time. In the coming months, I look forward to seeing additional waves of industry-focused partner innovation that will further deepen and broaden our reach into new industries, geographies, and market segments.”
In his Innovation Keynote at Workday Rising, Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, co-CEO, and chair at Workday, talked about how we believe the innovation happening today is changing the world of work for the better by making it smarter, faster, and more personal than ever before.
To lead this journey into the future of work, we all need a trusted partner. That’s why we continue to drive deeper relationships across the entire spectrum of our partner ecosystem—to unlock new opportunities to drive growth and support customers on their transformation journeys.
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