Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Workday Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) today
announced a strategic partnership prioritizing enterprise planning
in the cloud and expanding the business solutions customers can use
to better optimize their everyday work. Through this partnership,
Workday customers will also be able to run Workday Adaptive
Planning on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Further, Microsoft will
adopt Workday Adaptive Planning for its global finance teams for
planning, budgeting, and forecasting to help accelerate decision
making.
The companies also unveiled new integrations between Workday’s
suite of applications and Microsoft Teams and Azure Active
Directory that will enable customers to simplify day-to-day tasks,
foster collaboration, increase productivity, and enhance
security.
Planning for What’s NextAs businesses adjust
and adapt to changing business environments, the need for real-time
planning capabilities is accelerating. Making faster, informed
decisions across all areas of the business requires a continuous
planning process. Workday Adaptive Planning offers customers a
modern platform that ties data, people, and plans together in one
version of truth, accessible in the cloud to finance, HR, sales,
functional business leaders, and more. Adding Workday Adaptive
Planning to Azure offers increased flexibility as customer demand
for cloud-based planning grows.
The addition of Workday Adaptive Planning brings a leading
modern planning, analytics, and reporting solution at scale to the
Azure community. Power users can trust the enterprise security and
global availability of Azure to handle robust models, multiple
instances, and nearly unlimited dimensionality for “slicing and
dicing” data in Workday.
Further Connecting the Microsoft, Workday
CommunitiesToday’s announcement also includes additional
integrations and support, focusing on easier access, collaboration,
and security between Microsoft and Workday applications. Workers
are often toggling between applications, and new integrations being
announced today deliver a more connected, intuitive workspace and
frictionless access for enterprise customers.
- Microsoft Teams integration with Workday Financial Management
and Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) makes it easier for
users to access Workday to simplify day-to-day tasks such as
submitting expenses, providing anytime feedback, looking up
employees, or requesting time off, all without having to leave
Teams. Employees and managers can ask Workday Assistant—a chatbot
that uses natural language processing—various questions to help
initiate task steps and business processes, enabling them to get
daily activities done faster and more efficiently through a
seamless, more connected experience. Read more here.
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory integrations with Workday
applications enable customers to access enterprise data and
applications easily and securely through single sign-on. With
expanded integrations, joint customers that use Microsoft and
Workday applications can confidently secure end-to-end identity
lifecycle and entitlement settings for greater privacy and security
management. The expanded integrations will streamline HR and IT
processes and support new scenarios such as real-time
deprovisioning, worker conversion, and international assignment
changes.
Comments on the News“Now, more than ever,
planning takes center stage as companies return to the workplace,
rebuild supply chains, and in some cases reimagine their businesses
in our rapidly changing world,” said Tom Bogan, vice chairman of
Workday. “With cloud planning at scale and even tighter integration
to help customers collaborate, this partnership underscores what
Workday was built for—to help customers unlock potential in their
people and the business even in the most dynamic environments.”
“At Microsoft, we’re hyper-focused on continually innovating new
ways to empower every person and organization around the world with
the tools and insights they need to securely drive productivity and
business performance,” said Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice
president of One Commercial Partner, Microsoft. “In partnership
with Workday, we’ll deliver new solutions that connect the people
and financial insights of Workday to the cloud productivity of
Microsoft Teams and cloud platform of Azure, so our joint customers
can do more.”
Availability Workday for Microsoft Teams is
available to all customers on Workday HCM and Workday Financial
Management today. Microsoft Azure Active Directory capabilities and
Workday Adaptive Planning on Azure will be available next year.
About WorkdayWorkday is a leading provider of
enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources.
Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human
capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed
for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and
government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized
businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday.
About MicrosoftMicrosoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”
@microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an
intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to
empower every person and every organization on the planet to
achieve more.
Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release
contains forward-looking statements including, among other things,
statements regarding the expected performance and benefits of
Workday’s offerings. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,”
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in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
including our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2020
and our future reports that we may file with the SEC from time to
time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations.
Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to,
update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this
release.
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statements that are not currently available are subject to change
at Workday's discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at
all. Customers who purchase Workday, Inc. services should make
their purchase decisions based upon services, features, and
functions that are currently available.
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