"Peter Bailis, the new CTO of Workday, discusses the company's ambitious AI agent strategy and recent major acquisitions including Sana, Paradox, and Flowise. He explains Workday's vision to become the "agent system of record" - extending their people and money management platform to govern AI agents across enterprises. Bailis reveals how Workday plans to compete with tech giants like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP by leveraging their unique position as the system of record for 75 million users."
"Workday introduces "agent system of record" concept for AI governance Three major acquisitions: Sana ($1B), Paradox, and Flowise explained Strategy to compete with Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP in AI platform space Open data lake with zero-copy architecture and Apache Iceberg format Vision for enterprise search as the future front door for knowledge workers Discussion of agent protocols (MCP, A2A, OAuth) and delegation permissions"
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Workday plans to become the enterprise agent system of record to govern AI agents across people and money management functions. The company completed major acquisitions including Sana, Paradox, and Flowise to accelerate AI agent, HR, and workflow capabilities. An open data lake with zero-copy architecture and Apache Iceberg format will centralize data access while preserving governance. Enterprise search is positioned as the primary front door for knowledge workers to surface organizational knowledge. Agent protocols and delegation permissions (MCP, A2A, OAuth) will enable secure agent interactions and customer-built AI applications on the platform.
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