IBM Recruits Workday With Cloud Partnership

by , August 15, 2016

IBM Recruits Workday With Cloud Partnership

Workday and IBM have agreed to a multi-year strategic partnership to collaborate on cloud testing and development, IBM announced on Monday. 

Workday will host its application testing and development on IBM’s SoftLayer cloud-computing service, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Workday previously used a mixture of in-house solutions and AWS cloud infrastructure, and will continue to use Amazon to a small extent, but IBM will now serve as Workday’s primary cloud provider.

This is a big win for IBM, and not just because Workday chose to stay clear of IBM’s cloud competitors Google, Microsoft and Amazon. 

Workday has a well-known cloud pedigree as a provider of SaaS solutions for the human resources industry, counting more than 130 customers on its roster including Hewlett-Packard, Netflix, Symantec and MGM Resorts International. Although the exact terms of the business deal were undisclosed, the partnership agreement lasts for seven years — a lifetime in the technology industry.

Although total IBM revenue declined in the second quarter, according to the company’s most recent fiscal disclosure, IBM’s cloud revenue jumped 30%.

Workday will now use IBM Cloud for testing and developing products and services for future expansion. IBM manages more than 50 data centers in 17 countries across six continents, and offers a variety of enterprise cloud services. 

Workday and IBM have worked together in some capacity for several years now. IBM acquired Meteorix, a Workday services partner, in 2015. IBM is also a Workday customer, using Workday’s Human Capital Management software for its internal business.

 

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