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Co-founder of Workday, the cloud software company for HR and finance, and its chief executive; he has long shaped the company's product and AI strategy.
iTWire's comparison finds SAP's and Oracle's own announcements echo Workday's autopilot pitch. Buyers can separate the three only by testing which decisions each product hands to a person and what that person can change.
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Workday told Rising 2026 attendees its new AI agents are autopilots that work on their own, iTWire reported. Executives also insisted humans stay "in the loop", so the open question for a buyer is what that oversight covers task by task.
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Workday made Sana Home the starting point for work and put Agent Harness into general availability, with both priced on Flex Credits. Agents built on it run in isolated environments over finance and HR data, Constellation Research reported.
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Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri said the company is "still learning" how to price AI agents. On liability for agent errors, his reported answer opens with a human-in-the-loop principle. That is what buyers have to go on this quarter.
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Workday's Joel Hellermark says its agents pair reasoning models with deterministic guardrails, itwire reported. Sana, bought for US$1.1 billion, now orchestrates every Workday agent, so the model-driven half of that split runs in one acquired product.
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Workday made its Sana agent interface the default home screen for all users at its Rising event in Las Vegas. For HR and finance teams the day now starts at a prompt. Who reviews what the agents do is still unsettled.
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Workday has signed a deal to buy C1.ai, an identity governance firm that decides what people and AI agents can touch. Bhusri says Workday's agents run on one security model, so folding C1.ai into it is the first test.
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Daniel Dines has been back at UiPath for 27 months and its ARR growth has halved since he returned, Aneel Bhusri owns an 11% guide at Workday, and the cleanest rebuild of the three sold at nine times recurring revenue.
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AI accounted for more than a quarter of new annual contract value, according to Workday's CEO, but it arrived as attribution on top of per-seat subscriptions rather than a line on the invoice, and margins widened anyway.
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Earnings came in ahead of consensus and the full-year range moved up, but the only figure growing at double digits was the $9.03 billion backlog due inside a year, and that is the number being read.
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