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Workday Illuminate™ Expands with New AI Agents for HR, Finance, and Industry
Purpose-Built Agents Transform Core Business Functions – From Performance Reviews to Financial Close – Delivering Faster, Measurable Value From AI New Workday
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[{"type":"text","content":"Purpose-Built Agents Transform Core Business Functions – From Performance Reviews to Financial Close – Delivering Faster, Measurable Value From AI\nNew Workday Flex Credits Give Customers Instant Access to AI and Platform Innovation and the Flexibility to Scale AI at Their Own Pace\nSAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday Rising 2025 – Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced new Workday Illuminate™ agents for HR, Finance, and Industry. Illuminate agents are purpose-built for work – embedded in HR and Finance, powered by Workday's unmatched data and context, and designed to deliver measurable outcomes. The new agents take on some of the most complex processes – like performance reviews, workforce planning, and financial close – helping organizations work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nAI spending has skyrocketed, but most companies aren't seeing real value. Deployments are too often piecemeal, siloed, and disconnected from the way work actually gets done. In fact, an MIT study found that despite billions spent on AI last year, only 5% of organizations saw a return.\nWorkday's new Illuminate agents change that – embedding AI directly into workflows and transforming processes to deliver real business results.\n\"Too many AI efforts amount to random acts of automation that never scale or deliver real value. The barrier of self-building AI on legacy systems and closed platforms is simply too high,\" said Gerrit Kazmaier, president, product and technology, Workday. \"Workday Illuminate is different. With purpose-built AI agents and a single, open enterprise platform, we're redefining ERP for the AI era – transforming it from a passive system of record into a system of action that drives real outcomes.\"\nAI Agents That Deliver Real Business Value\n Workday powers more than a trillion transactions each year across millions of workers and tens of thousands of roles – giving it unmatched insight into how people and money move through organizations.\nWith this depth of context in HR and Finance, Workday can pinpoint the moments that matter most and apply AI where it delivers the greatest impact. Illuminate agents transform processes like hiring, performance, planning, and financial close into more efficient, stra...