Kainos announces partnership with Retain to deliver AI powered resource orchestration for Workday customers
London, UK, March 3, 2026 – Kainos, a global digital technology provider and award-winning Workday partner, proudly announces a strategic partnership with Retain, the best-in-class resource and skills management platform.
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.
About Kainos
At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier. We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow. Across three divisions, Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products, we work globally with clients to make the world a little bit better, day by day. Our people are central to our success. We employ more than 2,900 people in 23 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We are listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: KNOS) and you can discover more about us at: www.kainos.com.
About Retain
Established in 1992, Retain is a leading provider of resource management software built for professional services and complex, multi-entity organisations. Retain Cloud unifies talent capacity, skills intelligence, resource allocation and financial forecasting within a single, technology-agnostic platform. At its core is a skills-first architecture and AI-enabled resource matching, giving organisations a structured, standardised view of capability across departments and regions. By replacing fragmented planning tools with a secure, enterprise-grade system, Retain enables firms to improve utilisation, strengthen governance, surface hidden skills, and make faster, evidence-based resourcing decisions. Intelligent recommendations support planners with transparent reasoning and audit trails, ensuring control remains with the business. Retain supports multi-country enterprises operating in regulated and security-conscious environments. Learn more at: www.retaininternational.com