Workday Unveils AI Developer Toolset, Empowering Developers to Customize and Connect AI Apps and Agents on the Workday Platform
- Developer Copilot has demonstrated over 50% increase in developer productivity
- Platform is built on a massive dataset of over 1 trillion annual transactions
- New Agent Gateway enables seamless integration with third-party AI agents
- Introduction of AI Widgets and expanded AI Gateway APIs enhances platform capabilities
- New features won't be generally available until the end of 2025
- Agent Gateway will be limited to early adopter customers initially
Insights
Workday's new AI developer toolset enables integration of AI into business applications, strengthening its enterprise platform strategy against competitors.
Workday's announcement of a unified AI developer toolset represents a significant enhancement to its platform strategy. The new suite includes Agent Gateway, AI Widgets, and expanded AI Gateway APIs – all designed to help developers integrate AI capabilities into business applications.
The Agent Gateway is particularly notable as it allows third-party AI agents to connect to Workday's Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating an ecosystem approach for managing both human and digital workforces. This positions Workday as a central hub for enterprise AI agent management, a potentially valuable differentiation as organizations struggle with proliferating AI tools.
The Developer Copilot expansion claims to increase productivity by over 50% through code generation, API recommendations, and orchestration documentation capabilities. These productivity enhancements address the critical challenge of developer efficiency in enterprise environments.
Workday's approach leverages its data advantage – "over 1 trillion transactions a year" – to provide contextually aware AI that understands organizational structures, skills, performance metrics, and financial data. This contextual intelligence is difficult for competitors to replicate without similar data scale.
The staggered rollout timing (availability by end of 2025) suggests these technologies are still maturing. This timeframe allows Workday to refine capabilities but also gives competitors time to develop similar offerings. The announcement strategically positions Workday in the enterprise AI platform space, complementing its core HCM and financial management strengths with developer-focused tools that extend platform utility.
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Announced at Workday DevCon 2025, the company's annual developer conference, the toolset includes:
- Agent Gateway. Developers will be able to connect third-party agents to the Workday Agent System of Record (ASOR) to enable seamless agent registration and agent-to-agent collaboration. Partners will also be able to enroll in Workday's new Agent Partner Network and list their agents on the Workday Marketplace. This will enable customers to select and use the right agents for their specific needs while having a unified, trusted way to manage their human and digital workforce.
- AI Widgets. Developers will be able to add AI-powered widgets into apps and define custom prompts, providing users with personalized AI assistance to create and refine content quickly across HR and finance use cases. For example, AI widgets can help with customer support, automate answers to common questions, or guide users through tasks.
- Expanded AI Gateway APIs. Developers will be able to integrate new Workday AI services natively into apps, enabling users to ask questions about reports and understand documents using natural language. For example, a developer could leverage document intelligence to automatically classify documents and extract key information.
"Today, developers are under immense pressure to rapidly deliver sophisticated AI apps while navigating a complex and fragmented AI landscape. They're piecing together disparate tools and services, hindering their ability to innovate," said Matthew Grippo, senior vice president, core software, Workday. "Workday's new AI developer toolset removes these barriers by empowering developers to seamlessly integrate powerful AI capabilities into the apps and agents that will define the future of work."
Turbocharging Productivity with AI Developer Copilot
Workday is also expanding Developer Copilot, the conversational AI companion that helps developers code faster, across Workday Extend. Developer Copilot has been shown to increase developer productivity by more than
- Generate App Code Snippets and Data Queries. Chat with Developer Copilot to generate code or data queries, then easily embed these suggestions into apps.
- Find the Right APIs. Prompt to receive high-context recommendations on the best API for a particular use case, along with examples to get started quickly.
- Generate and Document Orchestrations. Quickly generate functional orchestrations, then prompt to summarize the orchestration behavior to produce always-up-to-date documentation.
Workday is also introducing a new command-line interface (CLI) tool called Workday Developer CLI. This will help developers automate development tasks, collaborate more effectively, and integrate Workday into their DevOps workflows.
Workday Illuminate: AI to Power the Future of Work
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.
Availability
Agent Gateway will be available to early adopter customers by the end of 2025. New Workday AI Services, AI Widgets, new Developer Copilot capabilities (available with Workday Extend Professional), and Workday Developer CLI will be generally available by the end of 2025.
For More Information
- Read about the new Workday Agent Partner Network.
- Explore new agents from Workday and partners available today on Workday Marketplace.
About Workday
Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than
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