Workday Announces New AI Agent Partner Network and Agent Gateway to Power the Next Generation of Human and Digital Workforces
Accenture, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, PwC, and Others Will Connect their AI Agents to
Customers Can Now Find and Deploy Powerful AI Agents from
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
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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,
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.
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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
Starting today, agents from Workday and its Agent Partner Network are now available on
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
"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
"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
"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
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- Learn how Workday is putting the power of Illuminate into the hands of developers with the new AI developer toolset.
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