At Workday Rising 2011, premier People Cloud provider Saba (News - Alert) announced that it has entered a partnership agreement with Workday, a leader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human capital, payroll and financial management, to provide enterprise-class learning and human capital management (HCM) solutions to joint customers in the cloud.

According to the terms of the agreement, Saba will integrate its learning management solutions with Workday HCM. With the combined solution, customers will be able to access a board range of human capital management and enterprise learning solutions to drive business impact.

"Our customers look for strong integration with best-in-class cloud business applications that deliver greater productivity for their people," said Jeff Carr, president, global field operations, in a press release. "We're very excited about this partnership with Workday, as it will allow Saba and Workday to provide significant value to our joint customers around the globe by delivering an integrated and unique customer experience."

Also, Saba will also use Workday Studio, a powerful development tool that builds sophisticated and highly customizable integrations to and from Workday, to enable customers to reduce cost of integration and speed time to deployments.

"We are pleased to have Saba join the Workday ecosystem and leverage the Workday Integration Cloud," said Jeff Pulver (News - Alert), Workday's vice president, business development. "Many of Workday's customers are looking for an integrated HCM and learning solution and Saba has a great track record of success."

Meanwhile, Wipro Technologies (News - Alert), the global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, announced that it has entered into an alliance with Workday. At Workday Rising 2011, Wipro provided Consulting and IT Services to clients deploying Workday solutions. Wipro showcased its unique HCM offerings that help customers accelerate business value with Workday, including Wipro's Cloud & Beyond for HRO.

Rahul Arora is a TMCnet contributor. He has worked as an editor and freelance writer for several reputed organizations in India. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves