Workday, Inc. has announced a new wave of Illuminate Agents designed to accelerate hiring processes, enhance frontline worker experiences, streamline complex financial processes, and empower employees to find information quickly and easily.
“The key to unlocking real business value with AI is to actively reshape the very core of how businesses operate,” said Gerrit Kazmaier, president, product and technology, Workday. “Workday is helping our 11,000+ customers in that transformation by leveraging our deep HR and finance expertise to deliver agents that provide measurable business value and empower them to thrive in the future of work.”
New Illuminate Agents
Shane Luke, vice president, Workday Illuminate, said: “Our agents leverage the world's most powerful HR and finance dataset to turn insights into impact – boosting productivity, enhancing compliance, and accelerating decision-making at every level.”
New Illuminate agents include the following:
- Contingent Sourcing Agent: Accelerates temporary hiring
- Contract Intelligence Agent: Enhances legal and business decision-making
- Contract Negotiation Agent: Drafts applicable contract language, detects risks, and recommends revisions.
- Document Driven Accounting Agent: Extracts data from documents to automate billing, invoicing, and accounting entries.
- Frontline Agent: Enables text-based absence reporting, quickly identifies qualified replacements, and helps to ensure compliance and accurate shift pay.
- Self-Service Agent: Provides instant answers to inquiries, assists with complex tasks, and executes everyday actions on employees’ behalf.
- Supplier Contracts Agent: Identifies obligations and opportunities, aligns procurement processes in supplier contracts
