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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I take a look at the strategic partnership between Salesforce and Workday.
Highlights
00:26 — The original step in the Salesforce-Workday partnership was the creation of this AI employee service agent. But, more broadly, what they’re trying to do is come together to be able to compete more effectively against SAP and Oracle.
01:11 — This is where the real gist of the partnership between Workday and Salesforce lies. The bigger part stems from what Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach said. “We are integrating our platforms, our data sets, and our powerful AI capabilities to be able to do new things.” It’s not just to be able to offer this employee service agent.
02:18 — Now, in this era of the AI revolution, data is going to be more important than ever. So while Workday and Salesforce are extremely successful in the parts of the enterprise they work in, I think they realize they need to go broader to be able to do this.
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03:06 — Customers are going to be the big winners here, because now customers working with Salesforce and Workday will have the opportunity, ultimately, if my theory plays out, to get more insights, data, perspectives, and opportunities.
04:09 — We’ll keep tabs on this and see if we can figure out a little bit more down the road what the final fruits and full capabilities are of this partnership between Salesforce and Workday.
