Workday’s new dev tools help enterprises connect with external agents

Workday has presented new developer tools to help enterprises connect its HR and finance software with external agents.

The tools are an extension of the company’s Illuminate agentic AI platform, and include the Agent Gateway, AI Widgets, and expanded AI Gateway APIs.

Illuminate, rolled out in September 2024, is intended to accelerate common tasks such as writing knowledge-based text, job descriptions, or contracts, providing real-time AI assistance within workflows, and making a “team” of AI experts available to users. The models behind it are powered by the 800 billion business, HR, and financial transactions made by Workday customers annually.