Illuminate harnesses the power of the world’s largest HR and finance dataset to drive business transformation with AI

Experience the future of work at Workday Rising 2024

LAS VEGAS, September 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leading provider of solutions to help organizations people And moneytoday announced Illuminate, the next generation of Workday AI. Built on the world’s largest and cleanest HR and finance dataset, Illuminate accelerates manual tasks, empowers every employee, and ultimately transforms entire business processes.

AI that leverages the combined power of HR and financial data and context
Illuminate’s models are powered by the more than 800 billion business transactions processed annually by the Workday platform. But data alone doesn’t tell the whole story. Illuminate understands not just the data, but also the context—the “why” or “how” behind every HR and finance process, including how processes connect, the people and roles involved, and the current task at hand, along with past conversational AI interactions. With this powerful combination of data and context, Illuminate enables accurate decision-making, anticipates employee needs, and delivers personalized experiences like never before.

“The business world is in the midst of a tectonic shift, excited about the immense potential of AI but also struggling to implement it in a way that delivers meaningful results,” he said Carl EschenbachCEO, Workday. “By prioritizing tangible business value, responsible innovation, and user-centric design, Workday Illuminate enables companies to harness the full potential of AI to drive unprecedented productivity and move forward forever.”

Enlighten: Transforming the way people work
Illuminate runs on the Workday platform, delivering powerful insights for accurate decision-making and streamlined actions. Illuminate helps organizations realize exponential productivity gains and significant cost savings by:

• Accelerate common tasks with generative AI. Illuminate uses generative AI to accelerate content creation and summaries for things like job descriptions, talent highlights, posts, knowledge articles, contracts, and more. It also provides insights and automation tools including anomaly detection, autofill, prompting, and document scanning to further streamline tasks.

• Provide real-time AI support in the workflow. Illuminate reduces friction and helps employees prioritize critical work. The new Workday Assistant provides seamless, intuitive support for routine HR and finance tasks and provides real-time guidance through complex processes, freeing employees to focus on more strategic work.

• Transform entire business processes with AI orchestration: Illuminate anticipates and streamlines common business processes to transform the way work gets done. It will provide each user with a “team” of business process experts, or agentsthat can work with and on behalf of the user. Illuminate will also perform end-to-end business process orchestration, coordinate multiple agents, and manage complex cross-platform processes.

The story continues

Illuminate elevates people by empowering them to focus on the work that matters and do the things that are uniquely human—from spending more time with customers, constituents, or patients to pursuing more creative and meaningful work to building critical relationships with colleagues, teams, and stakeholders.

Workday Ecosystem Extends the Power of Illuminate
Illuminate also enables customers to leverage AI innovations from Workday partners or developed by AI Gateway Workdayand orchestrates processes across all of these processes on the same platform. This allows customers to leverage their existing AI investments and extend the power of Illuminate, delivering even more value and innovation to their organizations.

“The rapid adoption of AI within enterprises has created a complex web of models, data pipelines and infrastructure,” said Bob Evans from Cloud Wars. “For companies looking to effectively manage, scale, and govern their AI initiatives—to ensure they’re delivering real value while mitigating risk—getting all of those AI components to work together to perform more complex cross-functional tasks is absolutely critical. Workday Illuminate delivers that cross-platform AI orchestration that companies need to thrive in this era of AI.”

Availability
Workday Illuminate is now available to customers and will continue to evolve as part of Workday’s robust three-year AI roadmap.

For more information

About Workday
Working day is a leading enterprise platform that helps organizations manage their most important asset: their people And money. The Workday platform is built with AI at its core to help customers elevate people, make work better, and advance their business forever. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations worldwide and across industries – from mid-market companies to more than 60% of the Fortune 500. To learn more about Workday, visit workday.com.

© 2024 Workday, Inc. All rights reserved. Workday and the Workday logo are registered trademarks of Workday, Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Forward-looking statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding Workday’s plans, beliefs, and expectations. These forward-looking statements are based only on currently available information and our current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. If the risks materialize, assumptions prove incorrect, or we experience unexpected changes in circumstances, actual results could differ materially from those implied by these forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not rely on forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including our most recent report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K and other reports we have filed and will file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation, and does not currently intend, to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this press release, except as required by law.

Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website, or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday’s sole discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday services should base their purchase decisions upon services, features, and functions that are currently available.

View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/announcing-workday-illuminate-the-next-generation-of-workday-ai-302249986.html

SOURCE Workday Inc.