Today we're formally launching the Workday Integration Cloud Platform, marking an important day for Workday, our customers, and our partners. Everyone in the Workday ecosystem can now use a proven set of tools we've developed to build integrations that connect Workday with other business systems and applications.

1. Welcome to the Workday Integration Cloud
March 28, 2011 by Aneel Bhusri
Today we're formally launching the Workday Integration
Cloud Platform, marking an important day for Workday,
our customers, and our partners. Everyone in the
Workday ecosystem can now use a proven set of tools
we've developed to build integrations that connect
Workday with other business systems and applications.
The Workday Integration Cloud Platform delivers
significant business value to our customers and
partners in three key areas, affectionately referred to as
the 3 C's:
 Cost. Using Workday Studio and the Enterprise Interface Builder, customers and partners can
dramatically reduce the time and expense of building and maintaining integrations. Specifically,
they can now take advantage of easy-to-use, open, Web services-based integration tools while
leveraging the economies of scale offered by the Workday Integration Cloud.
 Choice. Opening up our integration platform also increases choice for our customers by
making it easy for a multitude of application software vendors and system integrators to build
applications and quickly integrate them to Workday applications. Ultimately, we expect the
number of partners using our integration platform will grow exponentially, much like we have
seen the explosion of partners around the Salesforce.com ecosystem.
 Community. The power of community enjoyed by Workday customers and partners—made
possible by the ability to share and collaborate around single versions of multi-tenant SaaS
applications—naturally extends to our integration platform. It's far easier to re-use and share
integrations built for a single software version with other organizations compared with the on-
premise software world, where integrations vary widely due to the multitude of software
versions and the complexity of customizations. Over time, we expect high levels of
collaboration and sharing within the community around our integration technology.
From Cape Clear to iPaaS
From a technology perspective, the Workday Integration Cloud Platform marks our initial foray into
the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) marketplace. At this time, we are only offering the integration piece
of PaaS and are specifically not launching an application software development platform. Gartner and
others recognize our offering as an integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS), focused on providing
the building blocks for easier integrations. We are proud to be the first enterprise-class SaaS provider

2. to offer these capabilities for the Human Capital Management (HR, Talent, and Payroll) and
Financials markets.
Taking a walk down memory lane, the Workday Integration Cloud was made possible by the
acquisition of Cape Clear, an early and well-regarded provider of Web-services-based middleware
integration technology based in Dublin, Ireland. The company was led by Annrai O'Toole and David
Clarke, two well-respected pioneers in the world of integration, middleware, and Web services (and
three years later, both are in senior leadership roles at Workday). With the merger, Workday has
been able to realize the vision of delivering market-leading SaaS applications with a best-of-breed
integration platform, something the legacy vendors never delivered. And never will.
We are confident that the Workday Integration Cloud ecosystem will become more valuable to our
customers and partners over time, which is why we'll continue to invest in and expand that ecosystem
in the coming months and years. Expect to hear more from Derek Butts, our newly appointed GM of
the Workday Integration Cloud (and one of our rising stars), as we announce new programs for
current and future partners.
Welcome, customers and partners, to the Workday Integration Cloud.
- Aneel
p.s. Expect a blog from our CTO Stan Swete that will go into more detail about the individual
components of the Workday Integration Cloud. Very cool stuff.