Salesforce.com, Workday to unite their clouds
Salesforce.com and Workday have announced plans to integrate the entire Salesforce and Workday product lines. Salesforce.com intends to standardize on Workday’s applications, and Workday plans to standardize on Salesforce.com’s applications and platform. Workday will integrate Salesforce with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Workday Financial Management and Workday Big Data Analytics. Salesforce.com plans to integrate Workday into its applications and platform, including Salesforce Chatter for collaboration throughout the enterprise.
The two companies will build new integrations between the Salesforce and Workday applications. Workday will build new Salesforce connectors for Workday Financial Management and Workday Big Data Analytics.
Major technical capabilities of the partnership are expected to include:
- Force.com users will be able to build applications using data directly from Workday's applications.
- Chatter users will receive updates directly from Workday, allowing customers to securely act upon, collaborate around and share workforce data in real time.
- Workday HCM users will be able to use data from Salesforce to fuel greater workforce productivity and engagement.
- Workday Financial Management users will be able to use data from Salesforce to achieve greater visibility into their financial and operational performance for improved decision making.