Workday Illuminate
AI that lights the path forward.
In a world that’s moving at the speed of light, you can’t afford to be left in the dark. Enter Workday Illuminate™—the next generation of our AI that’s purpose-built to move finance and HR forever forward.
What You Can Do
Next-gen AI. Next-level transformation.
Illuminate is not only fueled by more than 800 billion transactions a year—it also understands the context behind each process. It’s this powerful combination that delivers measurable value and fundamentally transforms the enterprise.
Deliver value now.
Realize exponential productivity gains and cost savings by using automation and Gen AI to accelerate common tasks.
Elevate your people.
Reduce distractions to free up more focus time for critical work with context-aware, natural-language assistance—right in the flow of work.
Transform entire processes.
Anticipate and streamline common business workflows to drive productivity and free people up to do more strategic, meaningful work.
Our AI in Action
The future of work is less drudge work.
At Workday, our vision is to use AI to elevate human capabilities and improve the way we work everywhere by making finance and HR more intelligent.
Maximize your people’s potential.
Only Workday has AI built in at the core, so you can leverage it right where you’re working. From identifying learning and growth opportunities for your employees to recruiting top talent faster—and everything in between.
Faster finance. Fewer errors.
To modernize finance, teams need to eliminate manual, repetitive tasks to free up time for strategic work. Only Workday embeds AI into our applications to provide intelligent automation and AI-assisted recommendations.
AI-led tech. Ethics-led design.
For AI technologies to be trustworthy, trust must be built into them. Workday is transparent about how our models are designed, and how our customers’ data is used to train them.
Watch Video Series
How AI is accelerating what you do.
Have questions about how AI will impact your role? Workday Co-President Sayan Chakraborty has answers—watch the Q&AI video series to learn how AI is changing what you do and how you do it.
Office of the CFO.
See how AI is eliminating repetitive tasks to free up time and how it helps teams meet evolving industry regulations.
Office of the CHRO.
Find out how AI consumes vast amounts of skills data to help HR teams staff, attract, and retain talent at scale.
Office of the CIO.
What’s next for AI? Discover how AI can drive more automation, proactively address questions, troubleshoot, and more.
Office of the CXO.
See why leaders should be learning more about AI to stay competitive and how it’s shaping roles across organizations.
Regulating AI.
Learn about the importance of regulating AI and how partnership is the key to a safe and secure future.
See What's Possible
AI built in. To go all out.
From empowering decision-makers with better insights and predictions to driving automation across finance and HR, AI is powering your business in more ways than one.
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Skills ontology
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Skills suggestions
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Skills matching
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Skills reporting
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Intelligent process automation
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Anomaly detection
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AI-assisted recommendations
Research
Embracing the future of work.
We surveyed finance, IT, and HR leaders around the world about the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning in business. Read the reports to see their thoughts on key trends and themes surrounding AI.
AI IQ: Insights on Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise
C-Suite Global AI Indicator Report: AI Is the Ultimate Level-Up
“Workday is a pioneer in the implementation of AI. AI and machine learning are being embedded as part of the actual business processes, the workflow, the configuration, and the outcomes that are going to be enabled and generated by Workday at scale.”
—Nitin Mittal, Global AI Strategy Leader, Deloitte
Why Our AI Wins
Increase productivity. Reduce risk.
Embedded AI.
Our AI is at the very core of our platform so teams can use it as part of their natural workflow.
Thoughtful approach.
We apply Gen AI where it’s best suited to provide the most value.
Leading skills foundation.
Only Workday empowers organizations to take a skills-based approach at every step of the talent lifecycle.
Rich, high-quality data.
With 65M+ users on our platform, our AI models are learning from the largest set of quality financial and HR data, period.
Hybrid large language models (LLMs).
We blend our LLMs and data with trusted third-party LLMs to create robust, dependable solutions.
Responsible AI.
Ethics, customer trust, and emerging global regulation drive everything we do with AI.
Explainable AI.
We’re transparent about our AI design, and customers always control whether their data is used to train our models.
Human-centric approach.
Our AI helps teams be more productive while keeping them in control of all decisions.
Our approach to trust.