Microsoft, Workday Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Planning for Today’s World

Workday Adaptive Planning to Run on Microsoft Azure Cloud
Workday on Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure Active Directory to Create Greater Integrated Customer Experience

REDMOND, Wash. and PLEASANTON, Calif., May 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 Next
As 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 Communities
Today’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.