Core Insights - Workday announced a new unified AI developer toolset at Workday DevCon 2025, aimed at enhancing productivity and enabling developers to customize AI applications on the Workday platform [1][2] - The new toolset addresses the challenges developers face in delivering sophisticated AI applications amidst a fragmented AI landscape, allowing for seamless integration of AI capabilities [2] - Workday's Developer Copilot, a conversational AI tool, has been shown to increase developer productivity by over 50% and will now include new features to further assist developers [3] Developer Tools and Features - The new AI developer toolset includes capabilities such as AI Widgets, which allow developers to add AI-powered features to applications, enhancing user experience in HR and finance [4] - Developers can connect third-party agents to the Workday Agent System of Record (ASOR) for improved agent collaboration and management [4] - A new command-line interface (CLI) tool, Workday Developer CLI, will help automate development tasks and integrate Workday into DevOps workflows [3] Data and Integration - Workday Illuminate, built on a dataset of over 1 trillion transactions annually, provides deep contextual understanding to transform business operations [4][6] - Expanded AI Gateway APIs will enable developers to integrate new Workday AI services into applications, allowing for natural language queries and document intelligence [4] Availability and Adoption - The Agent Gateway will be available to early adopter customers by the end of 2025, with other new features and services also set to launch by the same timeframe [7] - Workday serves over 11,000 organizations globally, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500, indicating a strong market presence and potential for widespread adoption of the new tools [8]
Workday Unveils AI Developer Toolset, Empowering Developers to Customize and Connect AI Apps and Agents on the Workday Platform