Introducing Workday GO: Designed for the Bold, Ready to Scale
The AI platform for HR and finance simplifies operations today—so you can go big tomorrow.
As a leader of a small or midsize organization, you’ve got a lot on your mind: How can we position ourselves to succeed in uncertain economic times? How do we scale for growth? Cut the fat, automate manual tasks, and work smarter and more efficiently? And importantly: Can a business of our size afford the tech that will help us address and solve these issues?
And then there’s AI. It’s moving at warp speed, and you're figuring out how to manage not only your regular workforce, but now a digital one as well. It's a lot to manage.
But here’s the good news: Workday gets it. We understand the challenges you're facing as a leader in a growing organization. As Workday’s Chief Revenue Officer, I partner with businesses like yours every day, and I know how complex it is to balance growth with efficiency, especially with limited resources.
Workday: Your AI Platform for Growth
With visibility into your people and money, and built-in AI to launch and manage agents, Workday is the unified HR and finance system that securely manages every aspect of your back office. With packages designed to fit your business and budget for both human capital management (HCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP)—and the ability to easily add additional capabilities—it’s the last platform you’ll ever need.
You can streamline operations, deliver real-time business insights, and cut out the complexity, freeing up your team to focus on what really matters: what’s next for your business.
The Workday GO Advantage
That’s where Workday GO comes in. It’s designed for today’s small and midsize organizations, to help simplify and streamline HR and finance operations to get real-time insights and operate more efficiently as you grow. It’s a scalable solution that powers your HR and finance, setting you up for long-term success.
As we heard from Perpetual Motion, “As you're growing and you're accelerating, it's important to understand the key platforms that you really cannot turn over and change when you're accelerating. You can't change those out, and it's important to look at Workday as a platform that has both tactical operational value as well as growth into the future.”
Workday GO provides all the features and capabilities of Workday in a package and at a price designed for small and midsize organizations. It brings together Workday’s industry-leading HR and finance solutions, transparent pricing that fits your budget, and fast activation to get you up and running in as little as 30 to 60 days.
“It's important to look at Workday as a platform that has both tactical operational value as well as growth into the future.”
No matter how you plan to grow—new products, new markets, new employees —Workday GO is ready when you are.
Simplify HR and Finance Today
Workday GO streamlines every stage of the employee journey, helping HR teams work smarter and make a bigger impact:
- Tools to manage the whole employee lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding to performance, development, and pay.
- Powerful solutions for talent management, workforce planning, payroll, and benefits administration
- A better employee experience that boosts engagement, retention, and productivity across your company.
Workday GO also transforms your financial management. It's one unified platform that gives you automation, visibility, and control:
- Automate core financial processes like accounting, planning, and spend management.
- Get real-time insights into financial and operational data for faster, smarter decisions.
- Use features like general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, and comprehensive financial reporting.
As our customer at Moveworks explained, “We chose Workday to give us the right foundation for growth. It cost about the same as our five previous systems, but now we have a single source of truth. That’s critical for our people leader—and ultimately, Workday saved us money.”
Why Unified AI Matters
Unified AI starts with unified data. No more silos, no more guesswork, just one clear view across HR and finance. This empowers your decision-makers to move fast, stay agile, and react in real-time. Built-in automation simplifies workflows, increases visibility, and boosts productivity across your entire organization.
“We chose Workday to give us the right foundation for growth. It cost about the same as our five previous systems, but now we have a single source of truth—and ultimately, Workday saved us money.”
Designed for Your Ambitions
Workday GO offers scalable solution packages with transparent pricing. This means you get top-rated capabilities without the complexity or huge costs. We focus on what matters most: human capital management, finance, and spend management. Workday GO delivers continuous value as your business evolves.
Workday GO has packages for HR and finance that deliver Workday's best-in-class platform:
- For HR, that includes HCM, benefits, payroll, talent, and more.
- For finance, that includes general ledger, expenses, close and consolidation, financial reporting, and more.
And, thanks to its unified and flexible architecture, you can easily add additional capabilities as your needs evolve. Whether you’re optimizing processes, empowering teams, or enabling data-driven decision-making, Workday grows with you.
Get Up and Running Fast—and Stay Ready for What’s Next
Workday GO is designed for growing organizations. We get you up and running quickly with preconfigured solutions and a streamlined activation process. You get built-in AI from day one. This gives you smart automation and actionable insights right away, so your teams can move faster and make better decisions.
Workday Go is powered by best practices, bringing SMBs the most effective ways to achieve success from our experience helping thousands of successful organizations. We use a proven, low-risk model that gets you to value faster, with less complexity. In fact, with Workday GO’s ready-to-use platform, you can go-live in as little as 30 to 60 days, with confidence that you're supported by a platform built for your future.
Over 75% of Workday customers have fewer than 3,500 employees. This means Workday is a trusted, industry-leading solution that cuts through complexity, so you can focus on what really matters: growth.
Learn more about Workday GO and Workday’s solutions, packages and activation options for small and midsize organizations, visit workday.com/go.
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