AWS and Workday Expand Partnership to Help Organizations Drive Productivity, Improve Decision Making, and Develop Generative AI Solutions
Companies develop new generative AI capabilities, simplify custom application development, and accelerate joint go-to-market collaboration
SEATTLE — (Business wire ) Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced an expanded relationship with Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leading provider of solutions to assist enterprises in managing their people and finances.
AWS and Workday will collaborate to develop generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, create new customer experiences, and invest in joint go-to-market initiatives to accelerate customer cloud transformation, allowing customers to increase productivity, grow and retain talent, and streamline business processes.
“This expanded partnership combines the power of Workday AI and AWS to deliver AI features to our customers faster and more efficiently,” said Shane Luke, vice president of Product and Engineering and head of AI and Machine Learning at Workday.
“With Workday AI, we’re focusing on delivering value to our customers by incorporating enterprise data into their Workday applications. By adopting AWS, we can concentrate more directly on that aim while utilizing the tools and services they offer for model maintenance and operations.”
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Developing generative AI tools
With AI at the heart of its platform, Workday uses AWS technologies like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to provide generative AI capabilities that assist customers in managing their workforce and financial assets. For example Workday is utilizing AWS generative AI capabilities to assist clients in creating job descriptions in minutes rather than hours analyzing and correcting contracts for more accurate revenue reporting, and creating personalized employee talent highlights.
Workday is also collaborating with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to test out novel uses of generative AI capabilities and uncover new use cases. As a result Workday is increasing its use of Amazon SageMaker to improve the performance of large language models (LLMs) by incorporating model guardrails and responsible AI regulations. and evaluating generative AI use cases for production.
Increasing native integrations for developers to build custom applications
Workday is also increasing its native integrations with AWS, allowing Workday developers and customers to use AWS technologies to create unique applications. Customers may now leverage Workday data in combination with AWS services like as AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon S3, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Translate in Workday Extend to create bespoke solutions for financial and HR operations that are more secure and scalable.
This greater integration is intended to assist clients in improving the developer experience creating bespoke apps that can decrease operating costs, and responding to unexpected demand spikes and resource outages.
Expanding joint go-to-market collaboration
As part of their expanded cooperation, Workday and AWS will invest in combined sales and go-to-market initiatives. These initiatives will serve to expedite new Workday customer acquisition and improve awareness of Workday’s availability on the AWS Marketplace, as well as assist Workday customers running on AWS in launching preconfigured Workday solutions.
Running Workday on AWS provides Workday customers with near-zero downtime maintenance windows while also assisting them in complying with regional data residency rules and regulatory requirements.
“Since 2008, AWS and Workday have worked together to help thousands of customers across every industry accelerate cloud migrations and drive faster, more intelligent financial and workforce decisions,” said Kathrin Renz vice president of AWS Industries.
“With AWS as a preferred cloud services provider, Workday can quickly develop new ways to help organizations around the globe become more responsive and data-focused. We look forward to deepening our partnership across joint customer workstreams and new innovations and developing generative AI capabilities to help companies around the world move faster and with greater certainty.”
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