AUCKLAND, New Zealand - 19 August, 2026 - Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, today announced that the New Zealand Government Digital Delivery Agency (GDDA) has awarded Workday a listing on its Marketplace, the pre-approved procurement platform designed to centralise and accelerate digital transformation across government. The listing supports GDDA's vision to treat digital resources as a national asset and move government agencies towards a more centralised, customer-oriented operating model.
This milestone comes after Workday's platform was tested against the country's most rigorous benchmarks for security, commercial integrity, and operational assurance. Achieving GDDA listing status provides formal, thorough validation that Workday meets the standard of trust required to support some of New Zealand's most critical public institutions.
Workday's inclusion on the Marketplace means eligible New Zealand government agencies can now view, evaluate, and procure Workday's suite of applications — including Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Workday Financial Management, and Workday Adaptive Planning — through a single, pre-vetted route, rather than navigating the complex procurement cycles that have traditionally slowed public sector technology adoption.
For public sector organisations, this offers an opportunity to move beyond fragmented, agency-by-agency systems toward a more consistent operating model for HR, finance, and IT; reducing the duplication and cost of running disparate legacy platforms, strengthening data foundations, and preparing agencies to adopt AI capabilities, including agentic AI, responsibly over time, while retaining ownership of their own data and services.
“Listing on the GDDA Marketplace gives New Zealand public sector agencies a simpler path to modernising how they manage people, money, and IT,” said Jonathan Brabant, Regional Sales Director at Workday New Zealand. “This milestone streamlines core processes while laying the foundation for responsible, AI-driven service transformation.”
"This is a signal of what's possible for New Zealand's public sector as a whole," continued Brabant. "The GDDA was built to give agencies confidence that the technology they choose has already been held to the highest standard of scrutiny. Being part of the marketplace means we can stand alongside the government as a trusted partner in building a more modern, resilient, future-ready public service, not just for the agencies we work with today, but for the wider digital ambitions New Zealand has set for itself. Trust between government and technology providers isn't built overnight, and it isn't given lightly. This listing represents an aligned commitment, between Workday and the New Zealand government, to raising the bar for what secure, accountable digital infrastructure looks like in the public sector."
Workday already supports more than 12 public sector entities in New Zealand, including core public service agencies, local government bodies, and universities, in selecting Workday to help manage their people, finance and IT.
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