Companies develop new generative AI
capabilities, simplify custom application development, and
accelerate joint go-to-market collaboration
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced an expanded partnership with
Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leading provider of solutions to
help organizations manage their people and money. Together, AWS and
Workday will build generative artificial intelligence (AI)
capabilities, jointly innovate new customer experiences, and invest
in joint go-to-market initiatives to accelerate customer cloud
transformation, helping customers 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 ML at Workday. “With Workday AI,
we’re focused on delivering value for our customers through the use
of enterprise data in their Workday applications. By leveraging
AWS, we can focus more directly on that goal, while using the tools
and services they provide for a range of model management and
operations.”
Developing generative AI tools
With AI embedded at the core of its platform, Workday leverages
AWS technologies such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker
JumpStart to develop generative AI capabilities that help customers
manage their workforce and financial assets. For example, Workday
is using AWS generative AI capabilities to help customers create
job descriptions in minutes versus hours, analyze and correct
contracts for more accurate revenue reporting, and create
personalized employee talent highlights.
Workday is also teaming up with the AWS Generative AI Innovation
Center to experiment with new applications of generative AI
capabilities and to identify new use cases. As a result, Workday is
deepening its use of Amazon SageMaker to enhance the performance of
large language models (LLMs) by implementing model guardrails and
responsible AI policies and evaluating generative AI use cases for
production.
Increasing native integrations for developers to build custom
applications
Workday is also expanding its native integrations with AWS to
enable Workday developers and customers to apply AWS technologies
to build custom applications. Customers can now use their Workday
data along with AWS technologies, including AWS Lambda, Amazon
EventBridge, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon S3, Amazon Textract, and
Amazon Translate, in Workday Extend to build customized apps for
finance and HR processes more securely and at scale. This deeper
integration is designed to help customers improve the developer
experience, build customized apps that can reduce operational
costs, and respond to unplanned spikes in demand and resource
disruptions.
Expanding joint go-to-market collaboration
As part of the expanded partnership, Workday and AWS will invest
in joint sales and go-to-market initiatives. These initiatives will
help accelerate new Workday customer acquisition and raise
awareness around the availability of Workday on the AWS
Marketplace, in addition to helping Workday customers that run on
AWS launch preconfigured Workday solutions. Running Workday on AWS
will give Workday customers near-zero downtime maintenance windows
and help them comply with regional data residency laws 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.”
About Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually
expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it
now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage,
databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security,
hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic
regions, with announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and
seven more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European
Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the
fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to
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