The Workday Partner ecosystem is a complex hive of businesses and software, connected together in a community of partnerships, integrations, and collaborations. But with so many businesses buzzing around, finding the top Partners for your needs can be tough.
If you’re looking for a Workday Partner you can trust, here’s our pick of the top 10 best Workday Partners - and why they’re a cut above the rest.
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- Quick intro to Workday Partners
- 10 Best Workday Partners
- Best Workday Services Partner: KPMG
- Best Workday Implementation Partner: Deloitte
- Best Workday Software Partner: Kainos
- Best Workday Learning Partner: eduMe
- Best Workday Innovation Partner: DailyPay
- Best Workday Emerging Partner: ShiftWizard by HealthStream
- Best Workday Sales Partner: Accenture
- Best Workday Payroll Partner: Safeguard Global Pay
- Best Workday Advisory Partner: Slalom
- Best Workday Staffing Partner: GQR
- How we chose the Best Workday Partners
Quick intro to Workday Partners
In case you missed it, we’re diving into the world of Workday Partners and what makes them special (check out our ultimate guide to Workday Partners here).
Workday Partners range from technical integrations to extend and enhance Workday’s core capabilities to advisory partners assisting in implementation and deployment. In fact, the Workday Partner ecosystem includes software, applications, advisors, consultants, and much more, all offering Workday-related products and services.
Our services and software partners play a pivotal role in extending the Workday mission and ensuring our customers can thrive despite uncertainty… We are beyond grateful for their continued innovation and the high-quality solutions they provide to help our joint customers succeed.
- Webb Armentrout, Group Vice President, Global Partners, Workday
For Workday customers, the Workday Partner program brings wide range of benefits, including:
- Creating an integrated, seamless user experience
- Providing niche services and expertise
- Enhancing the features of Workday’s core products
- Driving innovation and advancement
- Helping customers achieve their business goals
As Workday looks to leverage their partners to offer a broader and deeper range of services to their customers, the Workday Partner program is rapidly expanding. That means a wider selection of partners.
But with more choice comes more challenges.
We’re transitioning Workday from a provider of core applications to a platform provider… And in order to do that, it requires us to build a really robust, scalable, global set of channel partners – a variety of types.
- Matthew Brandt, Senior Vice President, Global Partners, Workday
To help you cut through the noise and find the right Partners for your business, here’s our pick of the 10 best Workday Partners in 2025. Plus honorable mentions for you to check out too.
10 Best Workday Partners
1. Best Workday Services Partner: KPMG
Partnership Highlight: KPMG has been a Workday Platinum Partner for more than 5 years - this is the highest Partner tier and is a mark of their long collaboration.
A top provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financial Management (FM) services, KPMG’s partnership with Workday is seemingly endless. Of the many companies who choose Workday for their enterprise HR and Finance applications, a large number partner with KPMG to assist with their digital transformation thanks to their extensive and in-depth expertise on all things Workday.
As a Workday Services Partner and Advisory Partner, KPMG covers a massive range of service areas, including:
- Enterprise Finance
- Enterprise HR
- Enterprise Procurement
- Enterprise Supply Chain
- Custom applications with Workday Extend
- Integrated ESG solutions
Customers usually take advantage of 80% of the prebuilt processes from KPMG Powered Enterprise - but they also offer tailored processes for individual organizations’ needs.
For example, when working with leading science and technology company Dow, KPMG and Workday partnered up to conduct 4 weeks of experience-design workshops with Dow’s employees to create a tailor-made solution that prioritized employee experience.
KPMG quick stats:
- 200+ Workday clients around the world
- 16+ years Workday experience
- 13+ years ERP market
- 52+ HCM implementations worldwide
- 38+ financials implementations worldwide
- 12+ platform implementations worldwide
- 72+ optimizations engagements globally
[KPMG Powered Enterprise] accelerated the Workday deployment, reduced risk, and delivered certainty of outcomes for faster ROI.
- Workday
Example: Why KPMG are a top Workday Partner
KPMG was awarded the Workday Partner Innovation Award for Cross Industry in 2024 for their collaboration with Fifth Third Bank to design and roll-out a scalable framework for deep reporting within Workday Financial Management and the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
By combining Workday’s financial data with Snowflake’s near-unlimited scalable data storage, KPMG and Fifth Third Bank created a seamless, integrated data reporting system, including schedule and event-based feeds, high-volume subledger data, and complex average balance calculations.
2. Best Workday Implementation Partner: Deloitte
Partnership Highlight: Deloitte was named Winner of the 2024 Workday Partner Innovation Awards across three main categories - Financial Services and Insurance, Retail, and Technology and Media.
While Workday's Implementation Partners are technically Services Partners, we've added a separate category to highlight Workday's top implementation specialists. To find out more about the many types of Workday Partners, take a look at this blog.
One of Workday’s longest running partnerships, Deloitte’s collaboration with Workday goes back to the earliest years of the Workday Partner Program. Deloitte offers comprehensive end-to-end Workday HCM and financial solutions, as well as industry-specific tools and accelerators.
In terms of their deployment and implementation services, Deloitte has developed a unique operating model that’s designed to maximize ROI and innovation for companies using Workday.
The relationship with Deloitte actually goes back almost 30 years… We became accustomed to the relationship being very transparent and, most importantly, we were accustomed to the cultural fit between the two companies.
- John Malikowski, Global Workday Leader, Deloitte
At the heart of the Workday Deloitte partnership is a long-running commitment to mutual support and growth. Both organizations have worked together to provide best-in-class solutions to their joint customers and continue to innovate together on Workday-powered projects, like Workday Accelerators.
- 2,715 Certified Workday Practitioners
- 1,800+ Workday Projects
- 600+ Clients
- 160+ Countries
The partners have grown up with everybody supporting each other and that’s created a really special feeling around Workday.
- John Malikowski, Global Workday Leader, Deloitte
Example: Why Deloitte are a top Workday Partner
As part of their ongoing partnership with Workday, Deloitte has launched 5 industry-specific Workday Accelerators, designed to make Workday implementations more efficient and streamline business processes.
Industry Accelerators combine the power and capabilities of the Workday platform with Deloitte’s industry knowledge and solutions. The result is streamlined systems, process transformation, and data-driven analytics for stronger business performance.
- Sophie Sharp, Senior Vice President, Global Industries and Value Management, Workday
Deloitte’s Industry-Accelerators are pre-configured solutions developed to help customers transform their financial and HR operations, including AI-enabled tools. For example, the Technology and Media Accelerator is a customizable solution to help businesses adopt new consumption and usage-based revenue monetization models.
Because we recognize that the needs of a banking institution vary greatly from a health insurance company, a university or a media company, we have collaborated with Workday to bring the experience and insights we’ve gained from decades of industry experience to create advantage for our clients.
- Michael Stephan, Principal, U.S. Clients and Industries leader, Deloitte
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3. Best Workday Software Partner: Kainos
Partnership Highlight: Kainos is the only three-time Workday Partner in the Workday ecosystem as a Workday Software Partner, Workday Service Partner, and Workday Extend partner.
Global Digital Technology provider Kainos is unique within the world of Workday Partners. Kainos is the only Workday Strategic Sourcing Partner, and it’s both a services and a product partner, as well as being a Workday customer.
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Kainos specializes in helping businesses to transform and adapt the Workday platform to their specific needs. For Kainos, this means both strategy-driven deployments and custom Workday software and applications that allow customers to implement and operate Workday products in the way that works for them.
And more recently, as a new Workday Extend Partner, Kainos is now accelerating and scaling their app development to offer more custom, industry-specific products alongside Workday.
- 10+ years as a Workday Partner
- 1,000+ Workday experts
- 23+ countries
We’re a team of over 1,000 Workday experts with broad capabilities across all functional areas of the platform and innovation is in our DNA… Kainos has leaned into our engineering capabilities to develop a suite of award-winning solutions built exclusively for Workday.
- Padraig Callaghan, Executive Vice President, Americas, Kainos
Example: Why Kainos are a top Workday Partner
Kainos has developed a range of complimentary Workday products that help extend the functionality of Workday’s core platform to allow businesses to work easier and smarter. Thanks to their strategic partnership with Workday, customers have direct access to Kainos’ software products via the Workday Marketplace, including:
- Kainos Smart Test
- Kainos Smart Audit
- Kainos Employee Document Management
- Kainos Contract Extension
Our latest initiatives with Workday, delivering Workday-approved packaged solutions, is a strategic pillar for Kainos… Workday Extend offers the ultimate vehicle for innovation, and Kainos is proud to have developed the first Workday-approved applications, along with dozens of bespoke applications to meet specific customers’ unique business needs.
- Padraig Callaghan, Executive Vice President, Americas, Kainos
More top Partners in this category
- Handshake: Career Social Network
- Rooster: Interview Scheduling Tool
- Avalara: Automated Tax Compliance Platform
4. Best Workday Training Partner: eduMe
Partnership Highlight: Both a Certified Integration and Workday Ventures Partner, eduMe is the only training integration in the Workday ecosystem built for companies with frontline (or ‘deskless’) workers, as opposed to corporate employees. Plus, it’s multi-integrated – users of both Workday Learning and Workday Recruiting are able to embed training on eduMe into their workflows.
Workday’s LMS, Workday Learning, is a comprehensive platform for employee training within Workday. But Workday Learning lacks a targeted solution for frontline employees – a shortfall Workday themselves identified – and that’s where eduMe comes in.
As a Workday-backed employee training solution and a Workday Certified Integration Partner, eduMe enables Workday Learning customers to deliver immersive, interactive microlearning experiences to their frontline teams, allowing companies to onboard, train, and retain their workers with ease.
- 95% training completion rate after integrating eduMe into Workday
- 15% lower employee turnover
- 98% workforce satisfaction
- 2x Workday Integrations across Workday Learning and Recruiting
eduMe is a perfect fit to power unique frontline worker learning experiences, that complement the long form learning that Workday manages.
- Sonny Yuen, Senior Director Product Strategy, Workday
Related: 4 Best LMS Integrations with Workday
Example: Why eduMe are a top Workday Partner
The Workday eduMe partnership enables businesses to effortlessly integrate eduMe’s AI-driven microlearning content into Workday, offering automated two-way data-syncing and personalized learning pathways.
With eduMe, teams can design tappable social-media style video content that’s designed to catch and keep frontline workers’ attention - and share training across multiple touchpoints in the Workday app to maximize engagement. Plus leverage user attributes like role and location to automatically assign training and eliminate manual processes.
That’s how leading retail chain Pet Supermarket were able to achieve:
- 79% average training completion rate
- 2 minute average lesson completion time
- 98% workforce satisfaction score
- 15% reduction in employee turnover
With Workday, we are making training easily accessible by presenting personalized training content within the user’s workflow to help deliver more engaging experiences suited to frontline workers’ busy working days, ultimately empowering the frontline to be successful at work.
- Jacob Waern, Founder and CEO, eduMe
More top Partners in this category
- Docebo: Employee Learning Platform for Information workers
- OpenSesame: Online Learning Marketplace
- Tovuti: Social Learning Platform for Hybrid training
Best Workday Innovation Partner: DailyPay
Partnership Highlight: DailyPay is Workday’s first certified earned wage access provider, integrating with both Workday HCM and Workday Payroll.
With a mission to build a new financial system for workers, DailyPay is a top Innovation Partner and a Workday Certified Integration Partner that plugs directly into Workday HCM and Workday Payroll products.
The DailyPay Workday HCM integration allows customers to flexibly manage their payroll processes and generate off-cycle and on-demand payments without adding to the workload of payroll teams. DailyPay empowers employees to access their income as they earn it, at the tap of a button, enabling employees to pay their bills, save, and spend their income according to their needs, rather than being at the mercy of a fixed payday.
- 2024 Workday Innovation Partner Award Winner
- 2x Workday Integrations
- 55% of DailyPay users say they pick up at least one extra shift per month
Our partnership with Workday plays a critical role in our mission to change pay for good, and help millions of working Americans take control of their finances… The partnership also demonstrates our mutual commitment to helping America's leading employers tackle the challenges of recruitment and tenure in a tight job market.
- Kevin Coop, CEO, DailyPay
Example: Why DailyPay are a top Workday Partner
The DailyPay Workday integration simplifies user creation and sign up for clients looking to implement earned wage access for their employee base and is available via mobile or the Workday web app. This integration supports automated payments and processes shift data in real-time to generate earnings for earned waged benefits.
Employees who leverage DailyPay are better positioned to pay bills on time, avoid late fees, and avoid credit card debt - data shows 69% of DailyPay users who previously paid late fees do so less often or stopped completely since they started using DailyPay. Plus 62% of users who had incurred credit card interest charges report fewer or zero charges since they started using DailyPay.
More top Partners in this category
- One Model: HR Analytics Software
- Zuora: Subscription and Monetization Platform
- GoodTime: Interview Scheduling Software
6. Best Workday Emerging Partner: ShiftWizard
Partnership Highlight: ShiftWizard is the only certified healthcare workforce scheduling partner for Workday - and a 2023 Partner Innovation Awards Winner.
ShiftWizard by HealthStream is Workday’s Partner for Healthcare workforce management, providing a streamlined approach to employee scheduling with real-time bi-directional data flow between both platforms, so your employee data is always up-to-date and accurate. Plus rules-based messaging features allow you to automate messaging with staff, simplifying and elevating communication.
We had a really good collaboration between the Workday team and the ShiftWizard team. We are seeing that our turnover rates are going down and the amount of agency staff is coming down.
- Chris Paravate, Chief Information Officer, Northeast Georgia Health System
More top Partners in this category
- BIPO: HR Software and Payroll Outsourcing
- Xref: Referencing Checking Software
- Equifax: Employment and Income Verification Integration
7. Best Workday Sales Partner: Accenture
Partnership Highlight: Accenture was the winner of Workday's 2024 Partner Sales Excellence Award, marking their exceptional sales achievements as Workday’s top-performing Sales partner.
With more than 16 years of joint cooperation under their belts, Workday and Accenture have a long-term partnership that has allowed them to serve their mutual customers worldwide with both companies prioritizing innovation and interoperability. Combining Workday’s technology platform with Accenture’s industry knowledge, this partnership helps world-leading businesses, governments, and organizatons optimize their operations and accelerate growth.
Workday and Accenture’s partnership includes co-developing a suite of data-led finance solutions that integrate with Workday’s Financial Management product to enhance the optimization of any company’s core financial operations across a wide range of industries. Accenture is also a key Sales Partner, extending Workday’s reach across a wide range of markets and industries.
Accenture is [Workday’s] number one partner, depending on which metrics you use… it’s a very close partnership built on co-innovation and shared principles.
- Gloria Samuels, Senior Managing Director, Accenture
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8. Best Workday Payroll Partner: Safeguard Global Pay
Partnership Highlight: Safeguard Global Pay was one of Workday’s first payroll partners and their partnership has lasted over 10 years.
With the proud title of Workday’s oldest Global Payroll Partners, Safeguard Global Pay helps businesses optimize the full value of the Workday HCM through data, insights, and pre-built integrations designed to unify the global payroll and Workday experience.
Safeguard Global Pay is dedicated to increasing user adoption while reducing administrative workloads, providing businesses with streamlined global payroll data and advanced automations to make it easier to manage big teams across the world.
- 10+ years Workday Partnership
- 150+ joint clients
- 1000+ payrolls processed
- 117K payslips produced per month
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9. Best Workday Advisory Partner: Slalom
Partnership Highlight: Slalom has delivered over 125+ Workday products and has over 150+ Workday consultants on their team.
Global consulting firm Slalom is a longtime Workday Advisory Partner working in 43 markets around the world. As a trusted Workday advisor, Slalom is dedicated to helping customers strategize, implement, and optimize Workday’s products, including Workday Finance, HCM, Payroll, and Adaptive Planning, helping to drive adoption and employee engagement.
At Slalom, we listen to our customers and provide guidance based on what’s right for them – we don’t bring a one-size-fits-all approach… The expansion of our relationship with Workday means we can further accelerate truly customized transformations which drive impactful outcomes.
- Erin Larson, Workday Practice Leader, Slalom
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10. Best Workday Staffing Partner: GQR
As a Workday Certified staffing, advisory, and referral Partner, GQR is a top choice for staffing and hiring support ranging from urgent on-the-spot talent for one-off projects to long-term strategic hires. Serving North America, Europe, and APAC regions, GQR provides access to Workday-led training courses across all Workday’s core products, ensuring that all GQR professionals have in-depth, specialized expertise and are Workday certified, so you can be sure you’re getting the best talent for your needs.
- 400+ customers
- 150+ projects supported
- Less than 24 hours average time to deliver staffing profiles
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How we chose the Best Workday Partners
To help us select the best Workday Partners for this list, we did a deep-dive into the Workday Partner ecosystem. We evaluated the Workday Partners based on key criteria to narrow down the list to the top 10 - plus honorable mentions for each category.
Our selection criteria included:
- Innovation and creativity: We analyzed Workday Partners on the strength of their integrations or services, choosing Partners who demonstrated their innovativeness and stood out for their unique and creative solutions to Workday customers’ needs.
- Workday-approved: Many of the top Workday Partners in our selection have been highlighted by Workday themselves as a stand-out partner, providing exceptional service or solutions, for example several Partners in this list are Workday Partner Innovation Award Winners or are financially backed by Workday.
- Partnership strength: The best Workday Partners were also selected according to the strength and depth of their Partnership with Workday, especially companies with multiple integrations, certifications, or Workday co-developed products.
Of course, our list isn’t exhaustive and there are many more worthy winners for the title of 10 best Workday Partners. To see more of our top picks for Workday integrations, take a look at our roundups here:
- 5 Best Workday Integrations for Organizations in 2024
- The Best Workday ATS Integrations in 2024
- 4 Best LMS Integrations with Workday
Leading Workday Partners in 2025
The Workday Partner ecosystem is rich and diverse, ranging from leading global services partners to innovative, young startups providing new and unique solutions to Workday’s needs.
As more companies work closely with Workday and seek out custom solutions to meet their requirements, Workday Partners are becoming more and more essential. If you’re not already leveraging Workday Partners to extend and enhance your Workday platform - and help you achieve your business goals - consider this your sign to get started today.
To find out more about the Workday eduMe Certified Integration, check out a quick video demo. Or learn more about how to train your frontline workers with Workday here.
