Workday launches Workday GO in Australia, NZ

Enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, Workday has expanded its Workday GO offering to Australia and New Zealand to help mid-sized businesses scale with simplicity.

Workday GO, which provides a simplified way to manage HR and finance operations for mid-sized businesses, is now in Australia and New Zealand, where the mid-market segment accounts for more than 97 per cent of all businesses.

As organisations across ANZ look to modernise operations and lay the right data and technology foundations for AI, Workday outlined in a statement, many mid-sized organisations are outgrowing the systems that once supported them. This creates fragmentation, limits visibility, and makes it harder to scale.

Too often, the provider continued, organisations are forced to choose between systems that are simple and cost-effective but deliver limited capability, or more advanced solutions that provide greater functionality but are costly, complex, and difficult to deploy.

“This leaves businesses diverting the few IT resources they have to managing multiple systems across people, payroll, and finance, impacting efficiency, agility, and their ability to grow,” it said.

By offering the Workday platform in a more accessible, right-sized format, the provider said, Workday GO integrates core HR, finance, and payroll into a single system, delivering efficiency, predictability, and scale at a competitive price point.

According to Workday Australia senior regional director Matt Lovell, mid-market businesses across ANZ are under increasing pressure to grow, compete, and adapt, without the same luxury of resources as larger enterprises.

“We are seeing a noticeable shift towards companies wanting more scalable, AI-infused, enterprise-level platforms earlier on in the business life cycle, that can be implemented quickly and deliver value from day one. Workday GO does exactly that,” he said.

“Workday GO is perfectly matched for the ANZ landscape and its abundance of midsize businesses. It allows organisations to get started with Workday quickly, providing a robust foundation for long-term modernisation.”

Workday GO is supported by a local Workday GO Partner Network in ANZ, comprising deployment and services partners, including Datacom, Echo, Intecrowd, Kainos, Kliqtek, Mivada, and Synergy Group.

Mivada’s national sales director for Workday Solutions, Daniel Zrno, said: “Workday GO opens up a whole segment of the ANZ business community that has been crying out for enterprise-level capability, at an affordable price point.

“We believe so much in Workday’s opportunity here that we recently became a Workday GO customer ourselves, and we are building out our deployment practice to support the demand for Workday we are seeing in-region.”

Kainos Asia-Pacific vice president Will Aubrey-Jones said: “Mid-market organisations across ANZ have spent too long choosing between systems that are simple but limiting, or powerful but out of reach. Workday GO closes that gap, and Kainos is proud to be part of the local partner network bringing it to the ANZ region.

“With our Workday delivery expertise, we’ll help ANZ organisations get up and running in weeks, not months, on a preconfigured platform that scales with them. For the 97 per cent of businesses that make up the mid-market, this is a genuine path to enterprise-grade HR, finance and payroll, at the right price point and pace to grow.”

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Jerome Doraisamy

Jerome Doraisamy is the managing editor of Momentum Media’s professional services suite, encompassing Lawyers Weekly, HR Leader, Accountants Daily, and Accounting Times. He has worked as a journalist and podcast host at Momentum Media since February 2018. Jerome is also the author of The Wellness Doctrines book series, an admitted solicitor in NSW, and a board director of the Minds Count Foundation.