Workday tackles enterprise AI agent adoption with permission-based governance platform

Summary

Enterprise AI agents are failing to scale not due to model performance limitations, but because of permissioning and governance challenges. Workday is addressing this by integrating agent governance directly into its system of record through its Sana platform. The core issue is that every agentic workflow needs clear rules about what data the agent can access, on whose behalf, and how the system enforces those boundaries. Workday's approach makes its existing system of record the governance layer, ensuring approval integrity and security model adherence without requiring customers to cobble together separate solutions.