Workday Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises for Tenth Consecutive Year
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Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) has achieved a significant milestone by being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for the tenth consecutive year, positioning highest for Ability to Execute. The company serves over 6,200 HR customers globally with its AI-powered platform for managing people, money, and agents.
Workday's comprehensive suite includes solutions for managing total workforce, AI-driven operations through Illuminate, and an expanding partner ecosystem. The platform unifies data from Workday HCM and VNDLY, offering a complete workforce view. Notable enhancements include the addition of Paradox for AI-powered talent acquisition and agentic AI solutions for recruiting, payroll, and contingent sourcing. The company's partner ecosystem extends its capabilities to global payroll in over 180 countries.
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- Achieved Leader position in Gartner Magic Quadrant for tenth consecutive year
- Positioned highest for Ability to Execute in the Gartner evaluation
- Serves over 6,200 HR customers globally
- Extensive global reach with payroll capabilities in 180+ countries through partner network
- Strategic expansion of AI capabilities with Paradox acquisition and Illuminate platform
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News Market Reaction
On the day this news was published, WDAY gained 0.08%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction.
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Workday is driving business and HR transformation for leading organizations, helping them unlock the power of their people by combining human talent with the transformative power of AI. With solutions powered by a unified data core and Workday Illuminate, the company is empowering more than 6,200 HR customers from around the world, including Bon Secours Mercy Health, CarMax, Dow, La-Z-Boy Incorporated, and Patagonia to elevate their people and drive growth.
"Organizations are under immense pressure to do more with less while navigating a fundamental shift toward AI, requiring them to completely rethink how work gets done," said Aashna Kircher, group general manager for the office of the CHRO, Workday. "Workday is uniquely positioned to lead our customers through this change by providing a trusted foundation that unlocks the full potential of human and AI collaboration."
With the Workday suite of HR solutions, organizations can:
- Manage Their Total Workforce. Workday unifies full-time, part-time, contingent, and frontline worker data from Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workday VNDLY into a single view, giving organizations a complete understanding of their entire workforce for better planning and decision-making. The addition of Paradox, a candidate experience agent that uses conversational AI to simplify every step of the job application journey, will further expand Workday's AI-powered talent acquisition suite, enabling customers to quickly find, hire, and onboard every type of worker, giving leaders the insight to match talent to business needs and maximize investments.
- Lead the Future of Work with AI. Fueled by the industry's largest and cleanest HR and finance dataset and 20 years of context on how work gets done, Illuminate makes work faster and smarter by simplifying complex data, automating processes, and improving decision-making. Workday's growing portfolio of agentic AI solutions – including Recruiting Agent, Payroll Agent, and Contingent Sourcing Agent – help organizations hire faster, mitigate payroll risk, and gain a clearer picture of their total workforce.
- Support Growth with an Expanding Partner Ecosystem. Workday's expansive partner ecosystem delivers increased value to customers. Through the Workday Global Payroll Network and Global Payroll Connect, customers can seamlessly unify their pay data with third-party providers in over 180 countries. In a similar way, a growing list of Workday Wellness partners leverage a real-time data exchange, allowing organizations to gain critical insights on benefits usage and sentiment to make data-driven decisions about their wellness programs. Built on Workday and Workday Extend help organizations achieve the flexibility and adaptability they need to drive growth and navigate change.
For More Information
- Read a complimentary copy of the Gartner report on the Workday website.
- Read the blog, "Workday Recognized as a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises."
- Learn how Workday is expanding its offerings for specific market segments with Workday GO for small and midsize businesses and Workday Government for the
U.S. Government.
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About Workday
Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than
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