Workday Announces Built on Workday to Help Partners Build, Manage, and Distribute Finance and HCM Apps to Workday Customers

Workday, Inc. has announced “Built on Workday,” a new program designed to enable partners to build, manage, and market apps for the Workday platform. Unveiled at the Workday DevCon 2024, this initiative allows partners to create tailored solutions for various industries, helping customers maximize their Workday investments. The program aims to accelerate partner revenue and provide innovative, purpose-built apps for finance, HR, payroll, and more, enhancing customer value through the Workday Marketplace.

New Program Empowers Workday Partners to Scale Innovation and Help Customers Realize Greater Value from the Workday Platform

LAS VEGAS, June 5, 2024  Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leading provider of solutions to help organizations manage their people and money, today announced Built on Workday, a new program that will enable partners to easily build, centrally manage, and market trusted finance and HCM apps that extend the power of the Workday platform. With a “build once, distribute to many” approach, Built on Workday will enable partners to accelerate their revenue without scaling cost, while empowering customers to discover an entirely new range of solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Announced at Workday DevCon 2024, the company’s annual developer conference, Built on Workday will empower partners to create purpose-built apps that address customers’ business and industry challenges, and monetize them via Workday Marketplace. With solutions for finance, people processes, planning, payroll, skills transformation, workforce management, spend management, as well as industry solutions for financial services, healthcare, higher education, public sector, retail, and more, Built on Workday will enable customers to get even more value from their Workday investments.

“Today’s rapidly evolving business climate requires us to remain a step ahead of our customers. That takes more than just innovating at Workday – it takes enabling innovation for our partners as well,” said Matthew Brandt, senior vice president, global partners, Workday. “Built on Workday is the latest example of our efforts to extend the power of the Workday platform by working with our partners to continue meeting the evolving needs of our customers.”

“Our collaboration with Workday is a testament to our shared commitment to innovation and customer value,” said Claudio Valera, Workday alliance leader, PwC U.S. “Tools like Built on Workday, combined with our deep industry expertise, will help us create tailored solutions to meet our clients’ unique needs and help them realize their potential.”

Availability

Built on Workday will be available to select early adopter partners this month, with more partners joining in the second half of 2024.

For more information on Built on Workday, Workday partners can visit here or reach out to their partner manager at Workday.

About Workday

Workday is a leading enterprise platform that helps organizations manage their most important assets – their people and money. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.

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