Workday

Workday provides enterprise software for managing people, finances, and IT, with products spanning human capital management, payroll, financial planning, spend management, and contracts. Workday GO combines HR, finance, and payroll for midsize businesses. Its AI tools support concrete business tasks: Adaptive Decision Intelligence lets finance and operations teams ask questions and model scenarios in natural language, while Workday Learning, powered by Sana, combines people and skills data with AI tutoring and course creation.

Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield founded Workday in 2005; Bhusri is its current CEO and chair. Workday places an object model at the core of its application architecture. Its developer tools extend the platform to AI applications: Developer Agent supports building apps and agents through natural language, while Agent Passport tests Workday and third-party agents before production and continuously monitors them afterward.

Workday expanded its product family through completed acquisitions of Sana’s enterprise knowledge technology and Paradox’s conversational recruiting technology in 2025. Purchase consideration was approximately $1.1 billion each, including previously held equity interests. In August 2026, the company reported serving more than 11,500 organizations, including over 65% of the Fortune 500, with more than 5,500 customers using at least one of its organically developed AI agents.