Workday offers sneak peak at new blockchain credential platform

Workday recently gave its partners a pre-launch peek at their latest platform focused on blockchain-secured credentialing, which has begun its alpha testing phase.

In a blog post, Senior Vice President Jon Ruggiero said the effort, which he didn’t name, has been driven by three factors: the evolving workforce, growing privacy expectations and the maturing of technologies like blockchain.

Although he provided few details, Ruggiero said the company has combined blockchain with privacy protections to provide users with more control over their data and employers with greater confidence in their authenticity.  Workday’s new approach is “a natural progression because of our system architecture and massive data set, he wrote.” The company’s database of some 40 million workers includes over 100 million credentials and 70 million job applications, as well as employment records, salary history, certifications, training records, skills and licenses. Existing machine learning capabilities allow Workday to identify and classify skills, and could be used to verify them.

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