Workday said it will acquire Pipedream, an integration platform for AI agents that features more than 3,000 pre-built connectors. The acquisition complements the purchases of Sana and Flowise as Workday builds out its AI agent infrastructure.

The purchase, outlined at Workday Rising EMEA, lands along with a set of Workday announcements. For instance, Workday launched Workday GO, which provides a HR, payroll and financials suite for midsized businesses.

Workday's purchase of Pipedream is part of the company's plan to build an AI agent ecosystem and become a platform that can orchestrate and manage its own AI agents as well as third party agents.

Pipedream has more than 3,000 pre-built connectors to enterprise apps such as Asana, HubSpot and Atlassian applications. Pipedream has more than 5,000 customers. Workday's plan is to combine Pipedream, Sana and Flowise to create an end-to-end AI agent platform. "To deliver on the vision of creating the future of work front end built on Sana, Workday needs connectors and more agents. That is what Pipedream delivers, and it is good to see Workday working on making its radically different vision than traditional HCM a little more tangible," said Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller. 

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

At Workday Rising EMEA, the company also announced the following:

  • Workday GO, an offering designed to target midsized enterprises. Workday GO aims to simplify and combine HR and financial applications in one unified package. Workday also rolled out Workday GO Global Payroll, a partner network and a deployment AI assistant to go along with the launch.
  • Workday launched a sovereign cloud for EU that designed to keep the company's HR and finance applications in country along with customer data.
  • A partnership with Google Cloud BigQuery to provide zero-copy access into Workday Data Cloud.

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Data to Decisions, Future of Work

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Chief Information Officer

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workday, HCM