SYDNEY, Australia – May 26, 2026 – Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, today announced the expansion of Workday GO to Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Specifically designed for midsize organisations, Workday GO provides a simplified way to manage HR and finance operations—combining Workday’s industry-leading solutions with fast deployment, ease of use, and built-in scalability.
As organisations across ANZ look to modernise operations and lay the right data and technology foundations for AI, many midsize organisations are outgrowing the systems that once supported them. This creates fragmentation, limits visibility, and makes it harder to scale. Too often, 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.
With the mid-market segment accounting for more than 97% of all businesses in ANZ, Workday GO is designed to close this gap for a critical part of the economy. By offering the Workday platform in a more accessible, right-sized format, it integrates core HR, finance, and payroll into a single system, delivering efficiency, predictability, and scale at a competitive price point.
With a prescriptive, preconfigured design, Workday GO also allows organisations to be up and running with Workday quickly, with deployments completed in weeks, not months. This implementation approach accelerates time to value, while providing up front clarity on scope, cost, and business outcomes. Once deployed, ongoing operations are simplified and the burden of managing multiple systems is removed, freeing-up lean teams to focus on scaling the business.
Embedded AI capabilities empower customers with employee self-service, workflow optimisation, and automated financial insights and anomaly detection. By bringing together unified data, context, and built-in security guardrails, organisations can improve their operating efficiency, optimise investments, and make more informed decisions as they grow and scale.
"Mid-market businesses across ANZ are under increasing pressure to grow, compete and adapt, without the same luxury of resources as larger enterprises," said Matt Lovell, Senior Regional Director, Workday Australia. "We are seeing a noticeable shift towards companies wanting more scalable, AI-infused, enterprise-level platforms earlier on in the business lifecycle, that can be implemented quickly and deliver value from day one. Workday GO does exactly that.”
Lovell continued, “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."
In ANZ, Workday GO is supported by a local Workday GO Partner Network, made up of deployment and services partners, including Datacom, Echo, Intecrowd, Kainos, Kliqtek, Mivada and Synergy Group. These organisations will work closely with customers to get Workday up and running quickly while ensuring local expertise and support is provided.
Daniel Zrno, National Sales Director, Workday Solutions at Mivada commented, “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.”
Will Aubrey-Jones, VP APAC at Kainos added, “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% 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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About Workday
Workday operates at the heart of the enterprise – HR, finance, and IT – where the margin for error is effectively zero. By tightly coupling AI with the context, guardrails, and trusted processes that run the business, Workday goes beyond AI that assists with work to agents that are capable of driving measurable outcomes. More than 11,500 organizations worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, trust Workday to deliver. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.