Accenture, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, PwC,
and Others Will Connect their AI Agents to Workday's Agent System
of Record, Enabling Seamless Agent Collaboration and New Levels of
Productivity
New Agent Gateway Will Enable Partners to
Seamlessly Connect and Integrate Agents with Workday to Streamline
Workflows Across Leading Platforms
Customers Can Now Find and Deploy Powerful AI
Agents from Workday and Partners on Workday Marketplace
LAS
VEGAS, June 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday
DevCon 2025 -- Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the AI
platform that manages people, money, and agents, today announced
the Workday Agent Partner Network, a global ecosystem of partners
building AI agents that will connect with the Workday Agent System
of Record (ASOR). Industry leaders including Accenture, Adobe,
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Auditoria.AI, Compa, Deloitte, Glean,
Google Cloud, IBM, Kainos, KPMG, Microsoft, Paradox, PwC, and
WorkBoardAI are among the first to partner with Workday to help
joint customers thrive in a future where AI agents are a central
part of how work gets done.
Workday also announced Agent Gateway, which will enable
customers to seamlessly connect and manage AI agents from Workday
and its Agent Partner Network within the Workday Agent System of
Record.
"For nearly two decades, Workday has helped organizations manage
their people and their money on a unified, secure platform," said
Matthew Brandt, senior vice
president, global partners, Workday. "Now, as AI agents
increasingly collaborate with human workforces, customers are
looking to Workday to manage everything – people, money, and agents
– together on one platform they can trust. That's why we're
partnering with leading technology organizations to ensure they can
do so seamlessly while maintaining enterprise control."
The Next Generation of Workforce Management
The workforce is undergoing a fundamental shift. It's no longer
made up of people alone, but a mix of humans and AI agents working
together across every function. These AI agents – tasked with
everything from streamlining operations to enabling entirely new
ways of working and supporting decision-making – are quickly
becoming an essential part of how work gets done. This new reality
is reshaping roles, workflows, and the very definition of a team.
As digital workers increasingly support workforces, organizations
must rethink how they hire, manage, ensure compliance, and measure
their impact, just as they would for human employees.
Unlocking the Full Potential of AI Agents in the
Enterprise
As AI agents become a core part of the workforce, the Workday
ASOR will provide the tools to hire, onboard, assign
responsibility, and manage agent outcomes the same way businesses
manage people. It will help businesses set clear roles for agents,
define what data they can access, control what actions they take,
and track their performance – so every human and agent contributor
are aligned to business goals. Whether an agent is built by
Workday, a partner, or a customer, the Workday ASOR will help
ensure it operates securely, efficiently, and with
accountability.
By connecting their AI agents to the Workday Agent System of
Record, partners including Accenture, Adobe, Amazon Web Services
(AWS), Auditoria.AI, Compa, Deloitte, Glean, Google Cloud, IBM,
Kainos, KPMG, Microsoft, Paradox, PwC, and WorkBoardAI will help
create a more seamless, intelligent, and collaborative experience
across systems. This will drive greater efficiency, agility, and
impact on how work gets done. It's a critical step toward managing
the workforce of the future – one that includes both humans and AI
agents.
For example, when a recruiter or hiring manager needs to quickly
schedule an interview, they can use the Paradox Interview
Scheduling agent within the Workday ASOR. Because Paradox
integrates directly to Workday Recruiting, users have access to the
Scheduling agent that helps them across the entire interview
process, from coordinating scheduling, sending reminders, answering
candidate questions, and more.
Agent Gateway: Bringing AI Agents Together Across Systems and
Partners
Workday's new Agent Gateway will make it easy for Workday
partners to connect their AI agents with Workday's ASOR. Using
shared protocols, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and
Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A), these agents can collaborate and
exchange information seamlessly – whether they're built by Workday
or Workday partners. This means Workday Illuminate agents can
operate wherever people are working, across systems, to deliver
real-time support and automation that saves time and reduces
friction.
Introducing AI Agents on Workday Marketplace
Starting today, agents from Workday and its Agent Partner
Network are now available on Workday Marketplace. Workday
Marketplace makes it easy for customers to discover, procure, and
deploy a wide range of apps and agent solutions that solve their
business needs. Illuminate agents available today on Workday
Marketplace include Business Process Optimize Agent, Financial
Audit Agent, Payroll Agent, Recruiting Agent, and Talent Mobility
Agent. Customers will be able to easily deploy and manage these
agents through the Workday ASOR.
Workday Illuminate: AI to Power the Future of Work
Illuminate is the next generation of Workday AI. Built on the
largest and cleanest HR and financial dataset – fueled by more than
1 trillion transactions a year – Illuminate understands the
business context around the data to transform business operations
by elevating humans, accelerating finance, and managing an
organization's entire fleet of AI agents. From skills to
performance, goals, cost and ROI metrics, organizational models,
and individual identities, Illuminate has deep contextual
understanding of how work gets done. This leads to measurable
business impact, such as faster decision-making, better workforce
planning, and improved productivity.
Support from the Workday Agent Partner Network
"AWS is powering the future of AI agent development through
Amazon Bedrock's comprehensive foundation model ecosystem and
enterprise-grade development framework," said Swami
Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Agentic AI, AWS. "With
Workday's Agent System of Record, organizations will be much better
positioned to ethically manage all these agents. We're excited to
collaborate with Workday to reshape the future of work through
agentic AI. Together, we'll empower organizations to unlock
exponential value while maintaining our shared commitment to
security and responsible AI."
"Through Deloitte's strategic alliance with Workday, our AI
agents will enable organizations to address their specific needs
and industry processes to drive efficiency while maintaining
quality," said Abdi Goodarzi,
U.S. Chief Commercial Officer for Zora AI, Deloitte. "These
agents have the ability to perceive, reason, and act and are
transforming enterprises by orchestrating workflows and enabling
human workforces to make better informed decisions across functions
like finance, HR, tax, and more."
"Digital colleagues, or AI agents, will become an increasingly
common addition to the workforce, and Workday's Agent System of
Record is well positioned to help organizations meet the moment of
monumental change," said Steve
Chase, Vice Chair of AI and Digital Innovation, KPMG
LLP. "We're thrilled to collaborate with Workday to help our
shared clients manage the new digital workforce with confidence
just as they do full-time employees and contractors."
"The Workday Agent System of Record marks a meaningful step
toward making AI not just available, but truly usable –
transparent, trusted, and tightly integrated into business
workflows," said Matt Wood, U.S.
and Global Commercial Technology and Innovation Officer, PwC.
"Our collaboration with Workday helps clients embed AI agents where
they can drive measurable impact, from compliance to cost
optimization. By focusing on real outcomes over hype, we're helping
clients turn AI from an experiment into a durable advantage."
Agent Gateway will be available to early adopter customers by
the end of 2025.
For More Information
- Learn how Workday is putting the power of Illuminate into the
hands of developers with the new AI developer toolset.
- Explore new agents from Workday and partners available today on
Workday Marketplace.
About Workday
Workday is the AI platform for
managing people, money, and agents. The Workday platform is built
with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge
work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by
more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across
industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the
Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit
workday.com.
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