Workday, Inc. · NASDAQ:WDAY

Workday — Investor Day (October 2026)

84 slides from Workday's investor day presentation, Oct 13, 2026

  1. Slide 1: Welcome to Financial Analyst Day

    WELCOME TO Financial Analyst Day f™N workday

  2. Slide 2: Vice President, Investor Relations

    Vice President, Investor Relations

  3. Slide 3: Agenda

    Agenda Re-founding Financial Innovating Moment Framework to Win Aneel Bhusri Zane Rowe Gerrit Kazmaier Reimagining Accelerating Capturing the Work the Platform AI Opportunity Joel Hellermark Gabe Monroy Rob Enslin Charlotte McLachlan

  4. Slide 4: Forward-looking statements

    This presentation may contain forward-looking statements for which there are risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Forward-looking statements may include any statements regarding our strategies or plans for future operations; growth and opportunities; new features, enhancements, or upgrades to our

  5. Slide 5: Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder, CEO and Chair

    Aneel Bhusr Co-Founder, CEO and Chair

  6. Slide 6: Our Re-founding

    Our Rke-founding

  7. Slide 7: Our Re-founding

    Our Re-founding One Data Model. One Security Model. One Version. 20 ~1.4T 80M + 1 2 Years of trust Transactions Users under contract More than a decade of AI investment 1. Reflects transaction volume on the Workday Platform for FY26. 2. As of 7.31.26.

  8. Slide 8: Deterministic rails AI needs in the enterprise

    Our Re-founding We provide the deterministic rails AI needs in the enterprise

  9. Slide 9: Operating with a Startup Mindset

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  10. Slide 10: How We're Operating Differently

    (Z yy How Were Operating Differently

  11. Slide 11: How We're Operating Differently

    How We’re Operating We’re Doubling Down On What Matters Most Differently

  12. Slide 12: How We're Operating Differently

    How We’re Operating We’re Doubling Down On What Matters Most Differently We’re Moving Much Faster

  13. Slide 13: How We're Operating Differently

    How We’re Operating We’re Doubling Down On What Matters Most Differently We’re Moving Much Faster We’re Making Ownership Much Clearer

  14. Slide 14: Five Ways We're Monetizing with Workday

    gq Five Ways we Were Monetizing with Workday

  15. Slide 15: Five Ways We're Monetizing with Workday

    Five Ways We’re Monetizing with Workday Agents APIs Workday Workday Core Data Cloud Extend AI Applications

  16. Slide 16: Five Ways We're Monetizing with Workday

    Five Ways We’re Monetizing with Workday Agents APIs Workday Workday Core Data Cloud Extend AI Applications

  17. Slide 17: Zane Rowe, Chief Financial Officer

    Zane Rowe Chief Financial Officer

  18. Slide 18: AI and Platform Accelerate TAM Expansion

    AI and Platform Accelerate TAM Expansion HCM and FINS core TAM expansion driven by innovation and ongoing market growth $100B Sana, Workday Data Cloud, and agent- $176B AI and Platform ready tools contribute to accelerating AI and platform TAM growth HCM and FINS TAM Emerging products drive new mark

  19. Slide 19: AI Momentum over the Last Year

    AI Momentum over the Last Year Agentic AI1 ARR $ $750M ~$600M ARR from Agentic AI, representing more than 3x increase from last year $100M+ $375M ARR contribution from each of Extend AI, HiredScore, and Paradox ~300 Customers have signed our Flex $0 Credit agreement Q2’26 Q2’27 1. Agentic AI include

  20. Slide 20: AI is Driving Growth in Our Customer Base

    AI is Driving Growth in Our Customer Base Incremental Customer Base ARR $ $750M ~60% Mix of TTM subscription revenue growth from customer base1 ~70% Core Expected AI contribution to $375M AI incremental customer base ARR in FY282 ~12% Average ARR uplift from AI sold $0 to existing customers3 FY’26 F

  21. Slide 21: Durable New Customer Opportunity

    Durable New Customer Opportunity Incremental New Customer ARR $ $500M ~40% Mix of TTM subscription revenue growth from new customers1 US LE >75% $250M Expected contribution to incremental new customer ARR US ME + Int’l from US ME and Int’l in FY282 >50% New customer deals that include AI3 $0 FY’26 F

  22. Slide 22: Investing in Growth While Driving Margin Expansion

    Investing in Growth While Sustaining focused investments across our AI Driving Margin agents and platform development, go-to-market and customer adoption journey Expansion Driving growth while maintaining relatively flat aggregate headcount levels in FY27 Planning to deliver operating margin expansi

  23. Slide 23: Target Financial Framework

    Target Financial Framework FY’26 FY’27E FY’28E Subscription Revenue $8.8B ~$9.9B1 ~$11.0B YoY Growth 14% 13% ~11% Non-GAAP Operating Margin 30% 31% 33%+ SBC % Revenue 17% 16% ~15% Non-GAAP Operating Margin Including SBC2 12% 14% 17%+ Share Repurchases $5B+ $4B3 through FY27 authorized FCF/Share ~$13

  24. Slide 24: President, Product and Technology

    President, Product and Technology

  25. Slide 25: AI as an Engine for Growth

    AI as an Engine for Growth Business Growth Human Progress

  26. Slide 26: AI is Reshaping Jobs

    AI is Reshaping Jobs More job postings for forward deployed engineers in just one year

  27. Slide 27: A Year of AI Progress

    A Year of AI Progress Completely reinvent the core work experience

  28. Slide 28: A Year of AI Progress

    A Year of AI Progress Completely reinvent the core work experience Open the Platform

  29. Slide 29: A Year of AI Progress

    A Year of AI Progress Completely reinvent the core work experience Open the Platform Agentic AI and Finance

  30. Slide 30: Our Guiding Principles for AI

    Our Guiding Principles for AI AI must be AI must redesign AI must be a trusted work, not just growth driver that assist it puts talent and human capability at the center

  31. Slide 31: Our Guiding Principles for AI

    Our Guiding Principles for AI Work AI Trusted Agent Intelligence Autopilots Platform

  32. Slide 32: Our Guiding Principles for AI

    Our Guiding Principles for AI

  33. Slide 33: World Model of Work

    Higher Deterministic accuracy execution Context advantage Write path advantage World Model of Work Real-time flow of work Business process advantage

  34. Slide 34: AI and Platform Accelerate TAM Expansion

    AI and Platform Accelerate TAM Expansion… $276B $176B $100B HCM and FINS TAM AI and Platform TAM estimate based on Workday and third-party data as of 10.13.26. Compares to prior TAM estimate of $188B as of 9.16.25.

  35. Slide 35: Agentic AI Unlocks New Work

    Agentic AI Unlocks New Work Agentic Opportunity $276B

  36. Slide 36: AI Unlocks Strategic Work and Enterprise Value

    AI Unlocks Strategic Work and Enterprise Value Employee Strategic Talent Financial Service Work Acquisition Controls

  37. Slide 37: Three Paths to Access Workday AI

    Three Paths Path 1 to Access Use the full, native Sana Workspace with Workday AI a rich interface (the platform supports this) Path 2 Run agents within Workday – your agents and our agents – in the AI experience of your choice Path 3 Build your own agents connected to Workday, with our agent-ready t

  38. Slide 38: Chief AI Officer, Principal Product Marketing

    Chief AI Officer Principal, Product Marketing

  39. Slide 39: Sana Works Around the Clock

    Sana Works Around the Clock Orchestrating systems, agents, and apps to get the job done Anticipate Advise Act

  40. Slide 40: Millions of Opportunities for Transformation

    Millions of Opportunities for Transformation Recruiting Learning Payroll Talent Optimization 5,600+ Customers 4,000+ Customers 4,600+ Customers 4,800+ Customers Planning Procurement Core Finance Expenses 7,000+ 2,100+ 2,700+ 2,800+ Customers Customers Customers Customers Customer and User Counts are

  41. Slide 41: Sana Concierge

    O Ko om: sana Concierge

  42. Slide 42: We Build Where Workday Has the Strongest Right to Win

    We Build Differentiated Context Where Workday Workday understands the people, money Has the Strongest and processes behind the work. Right to Win Workforce and financial decision High-value Work at Scale The workflow contains significant analysis, Talent acquisition coordination or exception managem

  43. Slide 43: Gabe Monroy, Chief Technology Officer

    Gabe Monroy Chief Technology Officer

  44. Slide 44: From a System You Log Into

    cm From a system You Log Into

  45. Slide 45: From a System You Log Into to a Platform You Build On

    From a System You Log Into ToaPlatform You Build On

  46. Slide 46: Workday's Trusted Agent Platform

    Workday’s Trusted Agent Platform Backed by Builders Ecosystem Open by Design Developer Platform • Marketplace Lawful by Default Extend AI Agent Governance Developer Agent Security • Lifecycle Agent-Ready Tools Passport • Analytics Custom Agents Data Cloud Agent Harness Agent-Ready Tools for Context

  47. Slide 47: Workday's Trusted Agent Platform

    Workday’s Trusted Agent Platform Backed by Builders Open by Design Ecosystem Developer Platform • Marketplace Lawful by Default Extend AI Agent Governance Developer Agent Security • Lifecycle Agent-Ready Tools Passport • Analytics Custom Agents Data Cloud Agent Harness Agent-Ready Tools for Context

  48. Slide 48: Workday is Now Fully Headless

    Workday is Now Fully Headless via the Trusted Agent Platform

  49. Slide 49: Maya, Engineering Director, HR IT team

    Engineering Director, HR IT team Maya

  50. Slide 50: Lawless / Lawful

    Lawless Lawful

  51. Slide 51: Data Lakes: Great for... Not Great for...

    DATA LAKES Great for… Not Great for… Joining enterprise data Agents that act on behalf of people Your data made it into the lake. Analytics at scale Your rules didn’t. Retiring RaaS reports

  52. Slide 52: Lawless / Lawful

    Lawless Lawful

  53. Slide 53: Workday Headless: The Enterprise Advantage

    WORKDAY HEADLESS – THE ENTERPRISE ADVANTAGE Starting today, any agent you build gets Skills & Performance Real Labor Zero Data Certifications History Costs Leakage

  54. Slide 54: Workday's Headless Momentum

    Workday’s Headless Momentum ~500 Agent Ready tools live | 130+ shipping per month Workday Business Objects | Native Data MCP access

  55. Slide 55: Workday's Trusted Agent Platform

    Workday’s Trusted Agent Platform Backed by Builders Ecosystem Open by Design Developer Platform • Marketplace Lawful by Default Extend AI Agent Governance Developer Agent Security • Lifecycle Agent-Ready Tools Passport • Analytics Custom Agents Data Cloud Agent Harness Agent-Ready Tools for Context

  56. Slide 56: Developer Platform Now Open

    Now Open Developer Platform Generally Available

  57. Slide 57: Turning Builders into Growth

    Turning Builders into Growth Scale the Expand the Drive Long-Term Ecosystem Marketplace Growth Grow toward 100,000 More monetizable apps Turn developer adoption builders and talent to simplify into a product-led implementation growth engine

  58. Slide 58: Workday's Trusted Agent Platform

    Workday’s Trusted Agent Platform Backed by Builders Open by Design Ecosystem Developer Platform • Marketplace Lawful by Default Extend AI Agent Governance Developer Agent Security • Lifecycle Agent-Ready Tools Passport • Analytics Custom Agents Data Cloud Agent Harness Agent-Ready Tools for Context

  59. Slide 59: Workday Agent Harness Generally Available

    SB Workday Agent Harness

  60. Slide 60: New Features in Early Access

    New Features in Early Access at Rising EARLY ACCESS Memory Guardrails Sovereign Model Choice Context Picks up right Protected from Routing Google, Anthropic, Agent Context where it left off attacks and the Data stays in OpenAI, and Service wrong tone permitted regions open models from Grounded NVIDI

  61. Slide 61: Strengthening Our Enterprise Moat

    Strengthening Our Enterprise Moat Defensive Platform Enterprise Architecture Stickiness Risk Mitigation Agents execute within Protect core HR and Built-in protection Workday’s business logic Finance while expanding against prompt and permissions trusted AI adoption injections, data leaks, and compli

  62. Slide 62: Workday's Trusted Agent Platform

    Workday’s Trusted Agent Platform Backed by Builders Ecosystem Open by Design Developer Platform • Marketplace Lawful by Default GA Extend AI Agent Governance Developer Agent Security • Lifecycle Agent-Ready Tools DEC Passport • Analytics Custom Agents Third-Party Frameworks EA GA GA Data Cloud Agent

  63. Slide 63: Customers prefer HR and Identity Governance as one system

    of Workday customers prefer HR and Identity Governance Access to be one embedded system Workday IGA Concept Survey, n=10 Medium Enterprise, n=11 Large Enterprise+

  64. Slide 64: Workday + ACL.ai

    workddy + ACL.ai

  65. Slide 65: President, Chief Commercial Officer

    President, Chief Commercial Officer

  66. Slide 66: Building the G2M Machine of the Future

    Building the G2M Machine of the Future Customer AI Medium Global Base CoE Enterprise Growth

  67. Slide 67: Accelerating Customer Expansion

    Accelerating Customer Expansion Customer AI Centers Customer expansion is our largest, Base of Excellence fastest route to revenue AI is on track to represent >50% of incremental customer base ARR this year1 Medium Global Enterprise Growth Significant investment in North America LE coverage model 1.

  68. Slide 68: Scaling AI Expertise

    Scaling AI Expertise Customer AI Centers Specialized CoEs scale growth across Base of Excellence Sana, Talent, Platform, and Spend End-to-end GTM expertise and hands-on pilots accelerate AI adoption Medium Global Enterprise Growth Empowering partners to build differentiated AI offerings on Workday

  69. Slide 69: Winning in Medium Enterprise

    Winning in Medium Enterprise Customer AI Centers Targeting the 500–3,500 employee Base of Excellence sweet spot: net new deal sizes up ~20% YoY1 WorkdayGO in 24+ markets: Q2 volume grew >5x over Q12 Medium Global Enterprise Growth ME expansion rates consistent with LE 1. Represents the increase in a

  70. Slide 70: Expanding Global Reach

    Expanding Global Reach Customer AI Centers Adding capacity in top-performing Base of Excellence global markets Entering targeted new markets Medium Global Enterprise Growth Scaling VAR reach: 20 partners across 14 countries

  71. Slide 71: Growing Customer Adoption Across Our AI Portfolio

    Growing Customer Adoption Across Our AI Portfolio Sana Enterprise1 Sana Learn2 Paradox ~50 Customers 250+ Customers 300+ Customers Evisort HiredScore Extend AI 450+ Customers 550+ Customers 650+ Customers Customer counts are as of 7.31.26. 1. Includes Sana Lighthouse Customers. 2. Includes Sana Lear

  72. Slide 72: Driving Rapid AI Customer Adoption

    Driving Rapid AI Customer Adoption Workday Data Cloud early customer wins 15+ 18 Strategic customers co-innovating through Sana Enterprise Lighthouse Early access MCP program customers 125+ As of 10.13.26.

  73. Slide 73: Flex Credits Momentum is Building

    Flex Credits Momentum is Building Flex Credit Customer Count 300 ~300 Customers have signed our Flex Credit Agreement 225 ~200 150 Customers signed Flex Credits in Q2 alone 75 1 to 3 Year Commitments tied to measurable 0 outcomes Q4’26 Q1’27 Q2’27

  74. Slide 74: Customer Adoption Journey: Healthcare

    Customer Adoption Journey: Healthcare Customer ARR $10.2M $7.3M $6.6M $2.8M FY19 FY24 FY25 FY27 Landed Core HR, Added Financials, Added HiredScore Added Flex Credits, etc. Payroll, Recruiting, Procurement, Accounting and Journeys, etc. Learning, etc. Center, Extend AI, etc. Represents a real-life Wo

  75. Slide 75: Customer Adoption Journey: Manufacturing

    Customer Adoption Journey: Manufacturing Customer ARR $4.2M $3.8M $3.0M $0.1M FY19 FY24 FY26 FY27 Landed Added Core HR, Talent, Added HiredScore Added Paradox Financial Planning Recruiting, Learning, Extend AI, etc. Represents a real-life Workday customer in the manufacturing industry and their ARR

  76. Slide 76: The Emerging Opportunity with the CIO

    The Emerging Opportunity with the CIO Workday Extend MCP / Sana Data Cloud AI Headless Enterprise

  77. Slide 77: Q&A

    Q&A

  78. Slide 78: We Want Your Feedback

    Scan me! We Want Your Feedback Your feedback is important to us. Please complete your session survey via the QR code.

  79. Slide 79: Appendix

    Appendix

  80. Slide 80: Updated Product Attach Rates

    Updated Product Attach Rates Each Has <5% <10% 27% 30% 24% 25% 26% 18% 18% Wellness VNDLY Accoun ting Glo bal Pa yroll Extend Peakon Agen tic AI 1 He lp Projects Procurement Ce nte r Co nnect (excl. Exte ndPro) 78% 72% 64% 67% 56% 46% 37% 40% 34% Prism Analytics Co re Fin ancials Expenses Planning L

  81. Slide 81: About Non-GAAP Financial Measures

    About Non-GAAP Financial Measures To provide investors and others with additional information regarding Workday’s results, the following non-GAAP financial measures are disclosed: non-GAAP operating margin, and non-GAAP operating margin including share-based compensation. Workday has provided a reco

  82. Slide 82: About Non-GAAP Financial Measures (cont'd)

    About Non-GAAP Financial Measures (cont’d) • Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets. For business combinations, we generally allocate a portion of the purchase price to intangible assets. The amount of the allocation is based on estimates and assumptions made by management and is subj

  83. Slide 83: Reconciliations of GAAP to Non-GAAP Data

    Reconciliations of GAAP to Non-GAAP Data Year Ended January 31, 2026 Non-GAAP operating margin1 Operating margin 7.5 % Share-based compensation expense2 16.4 % Employer payroll tax-related items on employee stock transactions 0.7 % Amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets 1.1 % Acquisit

  84. Slide 84: Other Business Metrics

    Other Business Metrics Annual Recurring Revenue Annual recurring revenue (“ARR”) represents the annualized value of active subscription contracts as of the end of each period. Each subscription contract is annualized by dividing the total contract value by the number of days in the contract term and

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