The partnership brings together Kainos’ deep expertise in Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Financial Management and Professional Services Automation (PSA) with the Retain AI‑powered resource orchestration capabilities. Together, Kainos and Retain will help organisations move beyond traditional, binary staffing models by enabling more intelligent, data‑driven decisions about how skills and capacity are deployed across projects and teams.
By integrating Retain with Workday, customers gain a unified operating foundation that combines Workday’s strength in people‑centric back‑office operations with Retain’s industry‑leading approach to resource allocation and skills visibility. This enables organisations to respond more effectively to changing business demand, improve utilisation, and ensure the right people are assigned to the right work at the right time.
Retain fills a critical gap for organisations looking to advance staffing and resource management within a Workday‑centric architecture. While Workday provides a robust system of record for people, projects and financials, Retain enhances this foundation with AI‑rich capabilities that bring greater clarity, automation and insight to workforce planning and delivery execution. Through intelligent recommendations, skills‑first matching and real‑time visibility across demand and capacity, Retain helps organisations unlock the full value of their talent while maintaining governance and control.
Commenting on the partnership, Rainer Maier, Executive Vice President, EMEA at Kainos, said: “With this partnership, we’re bringing together the best of Workday and Retain to complete the picture for services‑led organisations. Our customers rely on Workday as the backbone of their people and financial operations, but they also need dynamic ways to plan and deploy talent. By combining our Workday expertise with Retain’s AI‑powered resource orchestration, we’re helping organisations find the right people at the right time to meet changing business demands, while improving delivery performance and utilisation.”
Mike Sander, Chief Operating Officer at Retain, added, “Our partnership with Kainos represents a powerful alignment of vision and capability. By selecting Kainos to implement Workday across our own back office, we’re investing in a modern operational backbone that supports our next phase of growth. Equally, Kainos’s adoption of Retain for resource and skills management demonstrates the strength and maturity of our platform in powering efficient, data‑driven delivery operations. Together, we’re creating a deeply integrated ecosystem that will bring significant value to customers who rely on both Workday and Retain to run their organisations.”
By uniting Workday’s people‑centric platform with AI‑powered resource orchestration from Retain, Kainos is helping services organisations transform how they plan, deploy and optimise talent – turning workforce data into confident, actionable decisions.
