Partnership between Google and Workday

Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Cloud and Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, have announced a strategic partnership that will enable many companies around the world to continue their digital transformation, PRNewswire reports.

Workday customers will now be able to run their finance, HR and scheduling applications on the Google Cloud platform as Workday will become Google's preferred partner for cloud services in industries such as healthcare, finance and retail. Workday has more than 50 million users and serves more than 8,000 customers worldwide, in addition to supporting financial and human resources operations for some of the world's largest organisations, many of which have high demands on their data storage, access and management.

Such partnerships are an urgent need against the backdrop of a fundamental transformation since the pandemic, where the traditional working model has shifted to a hybrid and remote one, and companies have had to adopt new digital strategies that help improve employee productivity and operational resilience. Cloud services, which provide companies' employees with secure access to applications and databases, can best meet this challenge.

Customers will now be able to use Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Adaptive Planning apps in the secure Google Cloud infrastructure.

According to Chano Fernandez, co-CEO of Workday, the partnership with Google Cloud will give customers an exceptional public cloud experience with the benefits of both companies' leading innovative services.

And Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud services, assures enterprise customers that "running Workday on the Google Cloud will help them meet their commercial data requirements while maintaining the enterprise-level security, scale and performance they expect from a cloud leader such as Google."

The multi-year nature of the partnership suggests that Google Cloud and Workday will work together to develop marketing strategies, exploring joint innovation across industries such as retail, healthcare and financial services.