Workday Brings Sana AI Agents to Claude, Teams, and Copilot With New C1.ai Acquisition
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Workday makes Sana its new home for AI-driven HR and finance
Enterprise management software company Workday Inc. today announced that it wants to turn its existing knowledge of people, money and business rules into an operational foundation for agentic artificial intelligence tools. At Workday Rising, the company's annual global conference, the company said
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Workday Bets on Claude, C1.ai to Expand Enterprise AI - Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY)
Workday Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY), an enterprise software provider, is widening its AI ambitions with a new Anthropic partnership and an agreement to acquire C1.ai. The moves come as part of a broader rollout of AI tools across human resources, finance and IT, giving Workday a larger role in how
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Workday's Trusted Agent Platform Now Delivers Headless Access to HR and Finance, Letting Customers Build and Run Lawful AI Agents
New Agent Harness Runs Every Agent with Built-in Context, Memory, and Guardrails, So Every Decision Can Be Proven Workday, Inc. today announced its Trusted Agent Platform is now headless, enabling customers to build, run, and govern lawful AI agents across HR and finance with the development tools
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Workday to Bring Sana Everywhere Employees Work, Including Claude, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Slack, and Teams
One Connection Carries Each Company's Permissions, Policies, and Approvals, So Workday's HR and Finance Agents Can Get the Work Done Wherever Work Happens Workday, Inc. today announced that Sana, Workday's agentic experience and orchestration engine, will work inside the AI tools and platforms
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Workday launches tool to analyze AI impact on workplace tasks By Investing.com
LAS VEGAS - Workday Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) introduced Work Intelligence today, a product designed to help companies identify how artificial intelligence affects individual tasks within jobs and determine required skills for employees. The tool breaks down jobs into component tasks, links those tasks
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Workday Launches Autopilot Agents That Get Real Work Done Across HR, Finance, and IT
New Agents Continuously Handle Routine HR, Finance, and IT Processes in the Background, Allowing Employees to Offload Repetitive Workflows While Remaining Firmly in Control Workday, Inc. today announced new AI agents that work as autopilots across hiring, payroll, accounting, and compliance. For
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Workday launches AI assistant Sana as new employee interface By Investing.com
LAS VEGAS - Workday Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) announced today that Sana will become the new Workday Home, an AI-powered interface that allows employees to complete tasks using natural language prompts, according to a press release statement. The software company introduced Sana as a replacement for its
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Workday, Inc. Launches New Ai Agents That Work as Autopilots Across Hiring, Payroll, Accounting, and Compliance
Workday, Inc. announced new AI agents that work as autopilots across hiring, payroll, accounting, and compliance. For HR, finance, and IT teams, this means less time chasing work and more time on the decisions only people can make. Workday's Talent Acquisition Agent is always checking the queue,
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Workday integrates Sana AI across multiple platforms By Investing.com
LAS VEGAS - Workday Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) announced today that its AI engine Sana will operate within third-party platforms including Claude, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot and Teams, and Slack, according to a press release statement. The integration allows employees to request
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Workday Brings Decision Intelligence to HR and Finance, Helping Teams Weigh Workforce and Financial Decisions Together
Workday Decision Intelligence Replaces Spreadsheets and Guesswork with a Single, Governed AI Experience for HR and Finance Workday, Inc. today announced Workday Decision Intelligence is now available across its portfolio, giving HR and finance teams a single, governed AI experience that works the
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Workday, Inc. Announces Workday Decision Intelligence Across Its Portfolio
Workday, Inc. announced Workday Decision Intelligence is now available across its portfolio, giving HR and finance teams a single, governed AI experience that works the way an in-house analyst would: with seamless, secure access to the people, financial, and planning data already governed in
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Workday to acquire identity platform C1.ai By Investing.com
LAS VEGAS - Workday Inc. (NASDAQ:WDAY) announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai, an identity platform that manages access controls for employees and AI agents across enterprise systems. C1.ai connects to business systems including email, CRM, code repositories, finance
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Workday and Anthropic Announce New Partnership to Connect Reasoning to the Rules That Run the Business, Wherever People Choose to Work
People Can Find Workday Information, Take Action, and Approve Work Through Sana Agents in Claude - Workday's Permissions and Business Rules Apply to Every Request, and the User Confirms Every Change Workday, Inc.and Anthropic today announced a new partnership that connects their platforms and
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Workday, Inc. Announces Trusted Agent Platform Delivers Headless Access to HR and Finance
Workday, Inc. announced its Trusted Agent Platform is now headless, enabling customers to build, run, and govern lawful AI agents across HR and finance with the development tools and models they choose. Every agent, whether it's built by Workday, a customer, or partner, works under the same Workday
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Sana Is the New Workday Home: A Dynamic Agentic Experience Built to Finish the Work, Not Just Answer Questions
From Everyday Requests to Complex, Multi-Step Work Across HR, Finance, and IT, Employees Can Prompt Sana in Natural Language and Workday's Lawful Agents Do the Rest Sana Concierge Resolves Employee HR and IT Requests Before They Become Tickets Workday, Inc. today announced that Sana is the new
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Workday, Inc. Introduces Sana As The New Workday Home And Sana Concierge
Workday, Inc. announced that Sana is the new Workday Home, an agentic experience that brings tasks, decisions, meetings, and agent activity into one place, helping employees move directly from what needs attention to getting it done. Employees simply ask for what they need in natural language, and
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Workday opens its platform to AI agents: Autopilot Agents and Headless Access explained
If you ask any person who has used payroll software on an enterprise level, what he or she does throughout the day, the answer will probably be the same. They click. Open a screen, check a field, approve a request, repeat. Workday Rising witnessed two more launches that promised to make the
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Workday unveiled major enterprise AI expansions at Workday Rising, integrating its Sana agentic experience into Claude, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Slack, and Teams. The company also agreed to acquire C1.ai to strengthen AI agent governance and launched Work Intelligence to help organizations track how AI transforms workplace tasks and skills.
Workday Transforms Sana Into Universal AI Agent Hub
Workday announced at Workday Rising that Sana, its agentic AI experience, will now function across multiple platforms including Claude, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Teams, and Slack
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. Employees can initiate Workday tasks from these platforms without switching systems, while Sana maintains company permissions, policies, and approvals throughout the process. The company also made Sana the new Workday Home, replacing the previous interface with an agentic experience that consolidates tasks, decisions, meetings, and agent activity in one location1
.This shift marks Workday's move from copilot to autopilot functionality in AI-driven HR and finance operations. Chief AI Officer Joel Hellermark stated, "AI is the new UI. Users shouldn't have to decide which agent to use, just as they shouldn't have to click between dozens of different systems"
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. The integration uses a single connection that brings lawful AI agents into the tools employees already use, eliminating the need to connect every tool to every agent individually4
.Enterprise AI Gets Headless Access With Trusted Agent Platform
Workday's Trusted Agent Platform now delivers headless access to HR and finance systems, enabling customers to build, run, and govern lawful AI agents with their preferred development tools and models
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. The platform includes Workday Data Cloud, Agent-Ready Tools, Developer Agent, Custom Agents, and Agent Harness, all generally available. Chief Technology Officer Gabe Monroy emphasized, "Headless can't mean lawless. The rules for HR and finance already live in Workday, so customers don't have to rebuild them for every agent they create"3
.Agent-Ready Tools function as Workday's Model Context Protocol tools, giving any MCP-supporting agent an approved way to read Workday data and take action while preserving permissions and approvals
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. Live Data Query allows teams and agents to query live Workday data in SQL through Workday Data Cloud, with no custom reports or stale data copies. Every agent deployed on Workday runs on Agent Harness, which provides context including user roles, reporting lines, permissions, and applicable policies from the system that runs HR and finance operations3
.Workday Partners With Anthropic and Acquires C1.ai
Workday formed a partnership with Anthropic to connect Claude's reasoning capabilities with Workday's Sana AI agents and HR and finance data
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. The integration uses the Model Context Protocol while retaining Workday permissions and controls. Claude users can tap Sana agents for tasks such as reviewing headcount, planning internal hiring moves, and handling invoice exceptions. Workday made Sana in Claude available to early-access customers and plans a broader launch in late 20262
.The company also signed a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai, an agentic identity platform that governs people and agents to ensure appropriate access at the right time
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. C1.ai connects with enterprise applications including email, CRM, code repositories, finance software, and cloud infrastructure, granting or removing access based on user or agent needs2
. Workday plans to integrate C1.ai with its Agent System of Record, giving customers greater control over which systems and data AI agents can access. The C1.ai acquisition is expected to close in Workday's fiscal fourth quarter ending January 31, 20272
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Work Intelligence Tracks AI Impact on Workplace Tasks
Workday introduced Work Intelligence, a product designed to help companies identify how AI affects individual tasks within jobs and determine required skills for employees
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. The tool breaks down jobs into component tasks, links those tasks to necessary skills, and provides data for workforce planning as work evolves. Work Intelligence operates within Workday's existing platform and draws on Workday Skills Cloud, which serves more than 3,450 customers and contains over 75,000 canonical skills1
.Vice President of Talent Management and Insights Nikki Helmer explained, "The basic building block of work is shifting from the job to the task, and without that view, most companies are left guessing whether to hire, build skills, automate, or redesign roles"
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. The product tracks how employee time allocation changes as AI tools are adopted, which skills are being developed, and whether workers are transitioning to new roles. The 2026 Workday Global Workforce Report found that 76% of heavy AI users expect the technology to create new career opportunities5
.Decision Intelligence Unifies HR and Finance Operations
Workday launched Decision Intelligence to let HR and finance teams operate in the same space without trading information across clunky communication channels that rely on periodic reports
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. The platform performs analysis for both departments, allowing them to make decisions and compare using actionable, real-time data based on business needs. When HR wants to hire 50 people, Decision Intelligence can assess whether the business still needs that headcount based on current workforce makeup, examining composition, existing skills, roles that can be filled, and how the hiring plan affects costs1
.Workday also introduced Sana Concierge, a service agent for human resources and information technology teams that can resolve employee requests including onboarding, leave, and password requests without passing these automated tasks to people
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. The company demonstrated Autopilot Agents for hiring, payroll, accounting, and deployment workflows. For example, a recruiter autopilot agent prepares for a user's day by checking open requisitions without waiting for the recruiter to log in, prepares outreach, and surfaces candidates. Interview scheduling then runs autonomously, and the agent joins interviews to listen, prepare notes, and use recruiter feedback to influence future recommendations1
. Workday reported serving more than 11,500 organizations worldwide, including over 65% of the Fortune 5005
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