Name: Workday 2025R2: IT and AI Innovations You Can’t Miss
Uploaded: 2025-10-09T18:30:48.307Z
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Description: Workday 2025R2: IT and AI Innovations You Can’t Miss

Transcript for "Workday 2025R2: IT and AI Innovations You Can’t Miss": Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining today's webinar. This event is a part of our Looking Forward with Workday webinar series, which was designed to give you insight into how our organization can do more with the Workday platform. My name's John Parr-Culver. I'm gonna I'm on the Workday office of the CIO product marketing team, and I'll be your host for today's session. Before we start, a few housekeeping items. Everybody's gonna receive an email within twenty four hours with a link to the webinar replay. Please ask your questions in the q and a section of the console, and we're gonna answer these questions via text. Otherwise, we'll reach out directly with our responses after the event for any questions we can't get to during this event. The docs section contains a collection of valuable resources that you might find helpful. And last but not least, we hope that each of you can spend just a couple minutes completing our brief four question survey at the end of today's webinar. Joining us today are three Workday product marketing managers who will walk us through different aspects of the twenty twenty five r two release. Scott Erickson from Workday Illuminate, Dhara Patel from Workday Build and Extend, and Kathy Tan from the experience team. During this session, we might share a few forward looking statements that are subject to change. Please note that these are covered under our product statement agreement. Now let's talk about our fall twenty twenty five release, where Workday continues to uphold its commitment to address the top challenges felt by the office of the CIO. Based on hundreds of conversations with folks in IT and supplementary research, these are the top pain points that we're focused on. The fact that siloed systems hold back to business. The fact that ungoverned AI undermines time to value. That off platform apps and custom code limit agility, and disjointed experiences reduce productivity. At Workday, we address these pain points by continuously delivering new capabilities on our single, open enterprise platform. These include purpose built AI agents that work alongside employees, an extensive developer toolset to build an agile enterprise, all service through a unified experience with AI at the core. In this webinar, you're gonna hear about how we're taking things a step further. And with that, let's look at the agenda. Now Scott, Kathy, and Dhara, and I are gonna break out what's new in a few different categories. We'll start with how we're delivering AI for the future of work. Then we'll share how Workday is delivering seamless, engaging experiences to your user communities. We'll go over how we're continuing to open up the platform to allow IT to tailor Workday for the enterprise, followed by how we're simplifying deployments. And we'll wrap things up by touching on some announcements from Verizon and a quick summary. And as a reminder, please share your questions in the q and a. With that, I'm gonna hand things over to Scott, who's gonna talk about the new ways we're bringing AI to Workday. Scott, take it away. Thanks, John. Hi, everyone. I'm Scott, product marketing for Illuminate. Today, I will walk through some new functionality in Workday Illuminate. Our goal at Workday Illuminate is to transform the future of work with AI. And today, we're gonna cover some examples in how AI continues to accelerate human performance by removing mundane tasks, support faster decision making, and drive more efficient business operations overall. Workday deploys AI that changes the workforce. Workday extends beyond employees and contract workers to create digital workers with AI agents. This will make work day the only system of record for people, money and agents. Our 2025 road map clearly shows this dedication and strategy, ensuring Workday Illuminate transforms with you. We're continually expanding our embedded AI features that accelerate daily task and assist every employee, delivering transformative value in the flow of work with agents in the agent system of record. So let's dive into a sample of features and agents in early access that continue the trend of work. They fundamentally changing the way work that gets done. The intelligent job architecture hub is a centralized platform that brings together skills, insights, and data inconsistencies to help create a more enriched job catalog. Within the hub, the find similar jobs and market skills helps customers get ahead of market trends, skills demands, and job profile inconsistencies. The hub increases efficiency by providing a single location for managing job architecture. This helps overcome the limitations of job catalog reporting capabilities and gives better productive predictive insights. This also supports proactive management so customers can get ahead of market trends and skills demands and address job profile inconsistencies more effectively. GenAI powered interview feedback gives GenAI to uses GenAI to summarize rich interview feedback data. It will be available in the manager insights hub, helping hiring managers and recruiters to make informed decisions faster. It reduces the time needed to review interview feedback, thereby dramatically lowering the time to evaluate candidates. It contributes to faster candidate evaluation cycles and reduces the overall time to fill a position. It allows hiring managers to quickly and easily understand the candidate's interview performance so they can make informed decisions faster. Talent highlights uses GenAI to summarize an employee's tenanted talent data and summarize and create a summary of the strengths and growth opportunities. This is done to give time back to busy managers and help them have more productive conversations with their team. Data sources for this feature include performance reviews, feedback, goals, development items, current job profiles, job interests, and skills from the last twelve months. Managers can spend less time summarizing data and writing notes and more time having meaningful conversations with their team. This is useful for managers with large teams or those who have inherited a new team. It helps managers and employees have constructive conversations about career opportunities and growth, which can lead to increased employee engagement. And the content it generates is tailored to specific focus areas. The new AI suggested translations for journeys allows you to easily and automatically translate your journeys for your global and multilingual workforce. It no longer takes days to translate journeys. Now you can translate your journeys in a in all Workday supported languages and track each journey builder translation in one single space. Although the journeys are automatically translated, we're still keeping a human in the loop. This means you can select reviewers and approvers for the suggested translations, confirming that the translations are still conveying the messages you want. You are able to preview your translations in the journey preview editor, meaning you no longer need to distribute your journeys to a user with a different language preference to see what the translated journeys look like. Anomaly detection in journals uses GenAI to identify discrepancy in journal lines. It flags journal lines that lack requirement tags, contain incorrect or unexpected work tags, or deviate from expected patterns. It also recommends amendments such as the correct amounts or appropriate work tags. This feature reduces the time and effort that the accounting department spends on manually identifying and fixing journal discrepancies. By automatically flagging abnormal debits or credits based on historical patterns, it helps users make more informed decisions to correct, confirm, or dismiss anomalies, reducing the downstream effects of manual mistakes. And anomaly detection minimizes the time customers spend on reviewing, journal troubleshooting, and resolution. Next, we'll shift to AgenTek AI by taking a look at few a few of the current and future agents Workday is bringing to you. Looking at all the agents Workday has released or announced, you can see the acceleration happening. The next wave of Illuminate agents announced for EA from performance reviews to planning will greatly support people in their role, with even more agents coming in 2026. You can see Workday is dedicated to helping our customers get the most out of their agentic investments. Now let's get into a sampling of upcoming agents. Self-service agent provides intuitive context aware conversations using natural language and supports multi turn interactions. The agent unifies unstructured policies, handbooks, and knowledge from various sources into a single resource. It allows employees to securely and quickly access personalized information and empowers them to manage their personal details, time off, and pay. The self-service agent boosts employee productivity by providing faster answers and improving task completion. On average, 20% of their time is just looking for information. It helps lower support costs, reduce HR case volume, freeing up resources for strategic initiatives. And it provides personalized guidance, pre fills forms, and offers walkthroughs based on employees' role with Workday context and company information, plus minimizes risks by ensuring consistent policy application across all regions and systems. The agent will be available on desktop, mobile, Slack, and Teams, and has future plans to integrate with Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce, Agent Force, and Google Agent Space. Payroll Agent is designed to evaluate the payroll experience by helping teams with manual processes, data inaccuracies, and complex inquiries. It can proactively detect issues and reduce support tickets with a simple conversational experience for payroll inputs, and it can proactively mitigate compliance risks by alerting teams of minimum wage increases, modeling the financial impacts, and initiating corrective actions. This will empower users to focus on high value strategic work by reducing time spent on manual payroll tasks. It helps teams effortlessly maintain compliance and adapt to change, keeping payroll compliant with less manual work. Payroll agent helps reduce payroll errors and adjustments, thereby improving the case deflection rate and the number of payroll tasks completed. Frontline agent automates tasks and streamlines workflows for frontline workers and managers. The agent facilitates two way communication via SMS between Workday, frontline workers, and frontline managers. For example, a frontline worker can report an absence by sending a text message, and the agent will automatically file the absence. It also provides intelligent shift coverage by notifying managers of uncovered shift, suggesting optimal worker replacements, and confirming the new assignment. This reduces the amount of time and overhead required to find, decline, or accept replacement workers. It reduces the cost associated with finding the shipped replacement and decreases subscription cost by eliminating the need for third party systems. By automating these tasks, the agent helps free up managers from low value work so they can spend more time on the floor. As customers deploy these agents, the Workday agent system of record solves the challenges of managing these agents. Whether they're Workday agents, partner or extend agents, or other third party agents built outside the Workday platform, Agent system of record mirrors the employee life cycle for agents, allowing you to manage them with the same confidence and control you have with your human workers. This is all about efficiency. It's about making smarter decisions and simplifying your AI investments for maximum impact. The agent system of record gives you governance, observability, and interoperability for your GenTech investments. Our enterprise grade security and responsible AI framework give you the power to set precise permissions so you can always know what your agents are doing and why. Our rich analytics provide real time view of agent performance and activity so you can measure ROI and optimize your digital workforce to drive real business outcomes. You can manage your entire agent ecosystem from a single unified platform, enabling seamless interoperability between agents and allowing agents to meet your workers where they work. The agent system of record is set to release in February 2026 and is currently in EA as of twenty twenty twenty five twenty r two. It isn't a new SKU. If you have agents, you get the agent system of record. And that wraps up Illuminate and AI agents. Thank you, and I will now hand it over to Kathy to discuss user experience. Awesome. Thanks, Scott. Super exciting to hear about the new ways we're bringing AI and agents to Workday. With that, I'm Kathy, and I'm on the user experience product marketing team. Today, I'll be sharing our latest updates about delivering Workday's seamless and engaging experiences. Before we get started on updates, I wanted to quickly walk you through our experience strategy, which is aimed at making work feel effortless. Using Workday should be intuitive. It should anticipate users' needs, help them find what they need quickly, and automate their workflows so people can take action. To make this happen, we've built our experience strategy on three core pillars. First, an AI powered user experience that makes Workday feel more helpful, proactive, and efficient. Second, meeting people in the flow of work by embedding Workday into the tools and devices they already use every day. And third, we're empowering administrators because they are the ones who truly deliver that last mile of user experience to employees. Now let's dive into the latest updates starting with the candidate experience. We're starting with how we meet future employees in their flow of work. We're expanding SMS reach for Workday messaging, which now includes Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. This direct immediate communication leads to quicker feedback and a faster, more efficient onboarding process so you can connect with candidates where they are and accelerate your hiring. After we connect with candidates, the next crucial step is making their first experience seamless. So let's turn it over to onboarding. We've identified a significant pain point. Mobile onboarding can be a confusing and frustrating experience for users. So to address this, we're developing an improved end to end onboarding experience specifically tailored to the mobile dependent user delivered natively within the Workday app. This will empower new hires to get up and running quickly and efficiently efficiently regardless of their device preferences or availability. Getting new hires started quickly is essential, and so is helping all employees manage their daily work. To that end, we're consolidating the places where employees need to take action into a single location called MyTasks. We're starting by bringing pecan surveys into MyTasks, simplifying access to these important feedback requests. And this move towards task consolidation will significantly improve user experience by eliminating application and context switching. And speaking of pecan, we recognize that gathering feedback from your frontline workforce is crucial for a positive and productive work environment. That's why we're also bringing pecan surveys to my task on the Workday mobile app so that deskless workers can seamlessly provide anonymous feedback. Consolidation is the key, and we're continuing our focus on streamlining that daily life of our mobile and frontline workers. We're making that frontline worker experience more seamless starting with time management. Capturing accurate work time is crucial for both the employees and businesses. Currently, frontline workers who need to adjust their check-in or checkout times have to rely on their manager or timekeeper, creating extra steps and potential delays. With the new flexible check-in checkout feature, this allows employees to modify the dates and or time of their check-in or checkout events directly within the Workday mobile app. This empowers employees to accurately track their work hours while also helping companies avoid potential wage and hour compliance issues. And we're further simplifying that frontline work experience by improving organization with the new mobile hubs starting with the time management hub. So by consolidating absence, schedule, and time worklets into a single hub, the time management hub will simplify the management for dustless workers and likely reduce user confusion. The Manager Insights Hub, which all which launched on mobile in r one, also received enhancements on r two. So some of the things that are coming include that the time and scheduling hub content will be moving over to Manager Insights Hub. You'll also get calibration data and matrix org reports. Now beyond the mobile, let's look at how we're enhancing the core tools you use to engage and message all of your employees. For engagement builder, we're introducing a time zone specific delivery. This boosts relevance by ensuring messages arrive at appropriate local times. Reminders are also enhanced for better scale and usability, allowing for a total of six reminders per item, making automated follow ups more personalized and reliable for critical tasks. We're also adding security categories that allow you to segment and control access to specific engagements, ensuring better security and compliance. And we're actively collaborating with our app teams across Workday to simplify how you engage with users across Workday, so stay tuned for more future updates. Now that we've talked a bit about seamless experiences we've delivered for the employee, let's look at the essential tools that allow you to configure, manage, and deliver that great experience. Starting with quick actions. With the new quick actions experience on home, you can configure the items laid out at the top of Workday to ensure that users see the most important actions as soon as they log in to the experience. Workday will provide a default set of tasks to support that initial configuration, and then you can configure up to 25 tasks and users will see the top 10 from the list that they have security to access. One thing to note about this, this will replace the old quick task experience that was machine learning based and restricted by an ISA on home because the new experience is more configurable and more prominent on the home page. Now in a similar vein, quick actions and hubs give administrators greater ability to customize the hub overview, allowing admins to add, arrange, rename, and set condition rules that control the display of quick links to tasks, reports, display of quick links to task, reports, and external sites. This enables users to launch key actions instantly directly from the hub. Beyond the home page, we've also made big investments in fundamental navigation to save time on every task. With the persistent global navigation, this will make the Workday navigation a lot smoother and faster. It allows for quick scanning of and one click navigation to pages in Workday or even third party apps. So you can now pin up to four of your most used menu items right at the top, so they're always just one click away. You can also create custom categories to organize your navigation exactly how you need it. The main benefit is simple. It's a more intuitive and personalized menu that reduces the time it takes to complete any task, allowing you to move seamlessly across Workday. Continuing on with navigation, with mobile menu unification, we bring the mobile menu experience to parity with desktop for a consistent interaction with Workday regardless of how you access it. So in addition to updating the UI to match the desktop experience, we will also implement logic to make sure that not to make sure only the mobile appropriate tasks show up in the mobile menu experience. So in other words, Workday will automatically filter out tasks that are not compatible today. This will give employees a consistent and reliable navigation experience regardless of if they are on desktop or mobile. There will also be a unified admin and user configuration experience across both platforms where we also added more opportunities to streamline navigation. For example, by adding you to any extend app into a category of your choice. Alright. In 25 r one, we introduced a new view global navigation menu task in the system admin hub to display menu items under each category. So in 25 r two, we're further improving that global navigation panel or GNP configuration experience for admins. So instead of one task to configure global navigation menu, you'll find separate configure tasks for each GNP category. This provides a more direct and efficient way to view and manage the menu items in your navigation. Plus, you'll gain a clear visibility into which menu items work on both web and mobile, ensuring a consistent user experience. Alright. Moving on to extend. Over the next several releases, Workday aims to enable more ways for customers to easily use default content and configure custom content to show up on home to tailor that experience and meet your organization's unique needs. With this release, extend customers can leverage cards to bring relevant tasks and information from extend apps onto home for a more integrated and configurable experience. Extend cards are also available on hubs, search, and journeys in and you can easily tailor these cards for different groups, such as your managers or your frontline employees. This helps to streamline workflows and really improve that user experience because your users can easily find the relevant tasks and information from apps in their natural flow of work. Alright. So adding Flowise ups into Workday profiles is another way we're making it even easier for users to find their apps across their Workday user experience. With over 30 Workday profiles to choose from, you can set up your app once with simple configuration and make it a highly visible part of the places your people use every day. And this feature will be available to all Flowise customers before the end of this year. Alright. Now we're shifting over to search. The employee experience we know, we talked about at Flowise. It's made up of many different systems and vendors. So with so many systems and content spread across them all, it's no wonder that employees and managers struggle to find what they're looking for. Custom search topics are designed to meet that need by allowing administrators to expand the search experience by creating custom search topics using terms that are most relevant to their organization. This allows you to link these topics to targeted results, which can be inside of Workday or from external external vendors via Flowise apps or Flowise cards that pull in that data, unifying and centralizing that employee experience all within Workday. And in twenty five r two, we're adding enhancements to the system admin hub based on customer feedback, which includes adding additional tasks to the hub. And for our early adopters, we're introducing experience insights for admins to understand how employees are navigating Workday to inform your configuration decisions. Initially, we'll support global navigation panel usage metrics so that you can understand how to help decrease the number of items and duplicates within the global navigation menu for our users. And finally, with primary button branding, we're introducing a feature that gives you direct control over the primary button colors within Workday. This allows you to align Workday with your company's brand guidelines, creating a more cohesive and unified user experience. By customizing these colors, Workday feels like a seamless part of your overall technology ecosystem, reinforcing your brand identity at every interaction. We're also removing the blue button opt out to have an accessible by default experience all across Workday. Now we're super excited about the steps we've taken to make work feel effortless for everyone. With that, I'll pass this over to Dhara to talk about building on the Workday platform. Thanks, Kathy. And hi, everyone. I'm Dhara on the Workday build team. As leaders in IT, we know you're tackling some of the most complex enterprise challenges. And while off the shelf solutions can get you most of the way there, no single product can solve every requirement you have for every single use case. Sometimes you need to build the custom solution specifically tailored to your unique needs. That's why today, we're not just introducing new features. We're showing you how Workday is giving you the modern tools and open platform to build the custom solutions you need so you can unlock new value and drive true agility for your organization. So let's start with one of our biggest announcements from Rising. At Rising, we announced Workday Build, our new developer platform for people, money, and agents. It provides a comprehensive connected ecosystem to innovate on Workday's core applications, data, and technology so you can build the future of work on the trusted and secure foundation of the Workday platform. Build is made up of three key pillars. First is a best in class suite of developer tools in a unified developer experience that rapidly, rapidly transforms how you build apps, integrations, agents, and connect to data. Second is a robust partner ecosystem that accelerates your time to value with the marketplace of hundreds of vetted solutions, so you don't have to build everything from scratch. And third is a thriving community that provides a global network and extensive resources to foster highly skilled dev teams that can grow and thrive. With 25 r two and beyond, we're investing heavily in each of these pillars. So let's start by diving into the tools we've updated for r two. First, double clicking into the latest and greatest with integrations. So I'm really excited to share that with twenty five r two, Workday Orchestrate is now generally available. For anyone that needs the refresher, Orchestrate is a modern low code tool for building and automating end to end data and business processes across your entire tech landscape. Its intuitive drag and drop interface reduces the need for complex coding. This boosts efficiency and expands the ability to design and manage integrations to beyond just traditional developers. And please note that with Orchestrate, you also gain access to our developer site, which includes lots of great tutorials and tools to help you get started. So let's talk through a simple example. Imagine automating a new hire process. Orchestrate can be configured to auto trigger a predefined sequence of actions in other systems from business processes, like provisioning an account in active directory upon hire on Workday. There's tons of use cases to explore, and we're confident Orchestrate will become your new default tool for building workflows and integrations in Workday. I highly encourage you to check it out today, but that's not all. Even though Orchestrate is now officially GA, we're still adding more and more functionality to make it even better. Like, enhancement features that accelerate development. Here are three I wanna quickly highlight for you. First is Orchestrate debug, which we released earlier this month, and you can think of it as your real time testing lab. Debug lets you step through your code and instantly view outputs for API calls and data transformations. You can use values from previous runs or mock values to test components quickly. This helps you build and troubleshoot faster. Second is trigger integrate, a feature that will be available by October that helps you make your workflows more modular. It allows you to trigger other external integration systems directly from Orchestrate. If you need a specialized function that Orchestrate doesn't support yet, you can hand off just that one task. This expands your use cases and all can also improve processing control. Last is orchestrate orchestration import, a feature that allows you to reuse subprocesses by importing entire orchestrations or suborchestrations that you previously already built and tested. It helps you maintain consistency and save time from repetitive work. All in all, these features are designed to make building, testing, and managing workflows quicker and more efficient. With r two, we're also making it even easier to manage and keep track of the health and performance of your automations. Features like dashboard summary reports and log viewer give you real time visibility to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues. Imagine if a user's higher higher event fails to sync with an external system. You can drill down into the specific orchestration run and see the error in the Log Viewer, pinpointing the issue immediately to fix. Overall, all these updates help you keep your automations resilient and leave more time for optimization. Next, let's move on to Workday Extend, the powerful tool you can use to build custom apps that run natively on Workday. By building directly from Workday platform components, you ensure seamless data flow and process consistency. Trust, security, and interoperability are also baked in, so you can build with confidence. Today, we have over 1,300 customers building with Extent, and they put into production over 3,000 apps to modernize experiences, consolidate systems, and support their business's unique needs. With r two, we're continuing to make it easier than ever to build and drive impact. So let's start with a review of Workday developer Copilot, our most advanced GenAI developer assistant that's currently available to extend professional customers. Prior to r two, developer Copilot could create pages within extend apps and generate summarized responses from natural language chat prompts. Now we're expanding its capabilities across the entire developer experience and developer landscape. For extend, that means developer Copilot can now generate WQL statements and code snippets. It can also provide context aware validation scripting and create more complex scripting functions with logic explaining comments. Again, all of this through simple prompts. Imagine the time your devs would save by simply asking for the WQL statement to retrieve specific data rather than manually writing out that code. Or imagine asking for a validation script, like make sure the end date is not before the start date and start date is within seven days of hire, and getting that context aware code and guidance on where to add it. By end of year, developer Copilot will also include new API functionality that allows you to search, compare, and get recommendations on the best API based on what you're building. But that's not all. Next year, Developer Copilot will also be able to generate entire orchestrations based on prompts and uploaded files and schemas. It'll also be able to generate context aware documentation. To recap, Workday Developer Copilot provides intelligent assistance that simplifies complex tasks, upskills your developers, and helps them spend less time on tedious coding and more time on focused solutioning. It not only improves developer productivity by over 50%, but it also accelerates your time to realizing value. Next, with AI widgets, extend professional customers can also embed custom AI prompts into their apps via rich text widgets from a few simple lines of code. This allows your end users to generate or refine text based on existing Workday data directly within that. Imagine creating an employee recognition app where the AI would automatically generates a heartfelt message based on a simple prompt and the employee's name. This reduces the cognitive load for managers and improves productivity since they're not jumping between several tools just to complete this one task. We know a lot of people are excited about AI widgets, and we expect it to be GA for pro extend professional customers in the first half of next year. And next are two updates for all extend customers. First is that we're enhancing our app builder by end of year, so it will include inline context aware autocomplete and the ability to quickly identify and find syntax errors. As your developer writes code, App Builder will instantly flag syntax errors and suggest corrections, ensuring the app works as intended before it's even deployed. This will help your developers write cleaner code and troubleshoot faster to deliver faster. And then second is a new lifestyle man life cycle management feature. With app retirement, you can remove access to unused or retired apps at any promotion level, including apps in production. This helps you maintain a clean and efficient Workday environment by giving you a better understanding of which apps are live, and it'll it allows you to free up app entitlements for building new apps. I'm happy to share that this feature went live with r two. And then next, let's move on to the second pillar of build, our partner ecosystem, which includes the Workday marketplace and several partner programs. We know that building a custom solution from scratch isn't always the right answer, and you need the flexibility to build or buy. And that's where a partner ecosystem comes in. With the marketplace, you can tap into the unique expertise and innovative thinking of hundreds of our trusted partners from across the globe. You can think of our marketplace as the digital hub. It's a single place where you can explore trusted solutions from our entire ecosystem, and this includes apps, templates, integrations, services, and AI agents. It's designed for you to easily find solutions to common industry and business challenges. And I'm excited to share that Workday Marketplace is growing fast with a 91% year over year growth in apps available for purchase. And along with the variety of solutions you can purchase, we're also committed to making it as easy as possible for you to get those solutions that you need. Around this r two release, we launched a new pilot program that allows customers to purchase select select apps directly through our marketplace with a single click. This new feature drastically streamlines the transaction flow from search to one click purchase that then kicks off installation and the setup process. This simplified one click transaction flow is currently live with 13 apps from 10 of our partners with dozens more on the way soon. And then now that brings us to our last pillar of Workday Build, the community. We are committed to investing in our developer community, and you'll continue to see growth in our developer programs, certifications, and events. We're constantly creating more ways to fuel networking and learning. And there's several ways you can start engaging today. I highly incur I highly encourage joining our developer product update calls where our incredible developer relations teams and product leaders take the stage to share the latest updates with demos and best practice tips. The next one is actually next Tuesday, and you can sign up via the link one of my friends dropped into the chat. I also strongly encourage you to check out our dev forum where peers actively share learnings, discuss ideas, and even help each other troubleshoot. Also, don't forget to sign up and join the Workday developer page on LinkedIn to stay in the know about our developer program and announcements. And lastly, I can't end this section without a quick shout out to DevCon. If you're interested in building on our platform and learning about all the ways we're continuing to invest heavily in Workday build, Please join us at DevCon, our annual developer event, next June in Vegas. DevCon is all about hands on and experiential learning. You'll get the inside scoop on the latest innovations and be able to connect live with peers in our community. It's one of my favorite events, so I really hope to see you there. With that, I'll hand it back to you, John, to talk about the latest and greatest with deployments. Thank you, Dhara. That was awesome. I remember how impactful the first Workday developer Copilot announcements were at DevCon, and it's amazing to see that we're already expanding on those capabilities. Now in addition to developer experience, Workday's always looking for new ways to improve the admin experience and to drive adoption. The first way we're doing that is with enhancements to Workday Prism Analytics and direct inbound connectors. Previously, you could bring external data into Prism with flat files and API calls. But what if you could easily bring data into Prism directly from source systems without having to write custom scripts or data integration. Direct inbound connectors help you do that. These connectors make it easy for data analysts to bring data directly into Prism. They also accelerate your Prism integration flows by connecting directly to source data instead of relying on intermediate SFTP locations. In twenty four r two, we launched the Salesforce Inbound Connector. In twenty five r two, we're expanding that to provide direct connectivity to leading cloud data warehouse vendors in the market, including Snowflake, Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, and Azure Synapse. These connectors support both a SQL query mode and an object explorer mode to provide you with flexibility on how you want to interact with the data, along with setup filters to bring in only the data that you need. Now, we wanna make sure that our customers are making the most of each feature release, and that's why we built Adoption Planning Hub. Adoption Planning Hub simplifies and streamlines adoption reporting with an out of the box in tenant experience that allows you to discover, evaluate, plan, and roll out the most relevant Workday features for your business. This capability means, makes it easier to identify new and retiring features in each Workday release. From there, you'll be able to create a backlog and a roadmap for prioritization. Items within this backlog and roadmap can be assigned to individual team members, and all progress can be tracked with out of the box and custom reports. One thing to note, adoption planning is more than just a telemetry and planning tool. It also provides adoption recommendations, improving your approach to discover, evaluate, and plan for some of Workday's latest innovations. Coming in 2026, adoption recommendations will be tailored to your unique business goals to empower you to identify the most relevant features for your business. Adoption Planning Hub is now generally available in all customer preview tenants with an opt in for production tenants. Now, let's move from prioritization to execution. With Workday Deployment Assistant, administrators and implementers are going to have access to an AI powered capability that's integrated into Ask Workday and designed to assist with Workday configurations. Deployment Assistant is trained on expert deployment knowledge to provide instant contextual guidance to help answer configuration questions, set up or troubleshoot configurations, and provide a better understanding of Workday features. This expert knowledge references community forums, implementer focused documentation, and other curated sources. It's designed to handle even the most complex configuration questions, saving valuable time and empowering administrators. In twenty five r two, Deployment Assistant is generally available for Workday implementers and is an early adopter for Workday administrators. Now for our final section, I'd like to share a few items we announced at prizing, including Flowise Agent Builder, Agent Gateway, and Workday Data Cloud. Now in August, Workday made a key investment by acquiring Flowise, bringing in an innovative and proven low code visual building platform for creating custom AI agents. Flowise's capabilities span from creating a simple agent to complex multi agent orchestrations. For context, Flowise is an innovative open source platform built with responsible AI in mind. It's been used to build over a million agents to date, and it has over 43,000 GitHub stars. Flowise helps users connect to diverse data sources and extend functionality by offering modular building blocks for creating agentic flows and offering integrations with hundreds of tools, including various language models, embeddings, vector databases, and external services. There are a wide range of developer tools like APIs, SDKs, including TypeScript and Python, and embedded chat widgets allow developers to seamlessly extend and integrate their custom built AI capabilities into existing systems. Their deployments range from self hosting to enterprise grade. Over the next year, you'll see us bring Flowise into the Workday platform, adding the ability to build agents directly into the core of Workday build, which Dar discussed earlier, within the developer site, so you can build and maintain custom agents alongside your extend apps and orchestrations. And we're calling it Workday FlowWise Agent Builder. Our customers and partners are gonna be able to utilize enterprise grade tooling that utilizes the rich context, data, and governance of the Workday platform. Customers are gonna be able to build enterprise class agents that interact with the Workday platform via trusted API endpoints secured through agent gateway. More on that one in a moment. And IT leaders will have full governance, monitoring, and analytics for these agents in agent system of record. We'll be making for Workday Flowise agent builder available to extend professional customers in the first half of next year, so stay tuned for more information. But until then, I encourage you to start exploring agent building today in Flowise's open source offering. Now it's important to contextualize that Flowise Agent Builder and, more broadly, Workday Illuminate, our scope of AI capabilities won't operate in a silo. Building agents helps unleash AI innovation, and much of the power of Workday comes from how seamlessly it connects to the rest of the digital ecosystem. For agents, Workday is making agentic interoperability secure and powerful. This is accomplished with Agent Gateway embedded into agent system of record. Agent Gateway facilitates agent interactions and extends Workday's trusted security model across your agentic ecosystem. Through Agent Gateway, agent developers will be able to connect agents using Google's agent to agent, or A2A standard, deploy tools using model context protocol, or MCP, and connect to over 3,500 Workday REST and SOAP APIs. This will allow for new and unique agentic use cases to be delivered amidst an ever changing landscape of agentic capabilities, both inside and outside of the Workday platform. Now, when it comes to the openness of the Workday platform, Agent Gateway is only a part of the picture. At Rising, we also announced Workday Data Cloud, a suite of capabilities that provides new ways for Workday's customers to manage their Workday data and interoperate with other data platforms without sacrificing data integrity, security, or governance. These include Workday DataLink, a curated catalog of Workday's business objects, Workday Data Connect, which provides zero copy access to Workday data among partner systems like Snowflake, Databricks, and Salesforce, Workday Live DataQuery, which offers zero copy, nearly real time SQL access to Workday business objects via JDBC or Java database connectivity, and a unified data catalog, a way to access key Workday data objects via queryable tables, which will grow over time. All of this will use the integration toolset of Prism Data Management with enhanced capabilities to perform zero copy data queries from external platforms. We're excited to share more about these rising announcements in the coming months. All right. We've covered a lot of great stuff in the last hour. Newly released AI capabilities with Workday Illuminate, including agents that are now an early adopter, seamless engaging experiences, including conversational experiences with Ask Workday, best in class AI developer products and tools enriched by the Workday partner ecosystem and supported by the Workday developer community, simplified deployment and adoption tools, and a preview into how Workday is going to become an even more open AI platform for managing your people, your money, and your agents. Thank you all for joining us at this looking forward with Workday webinar. Please take a moment to complete the survey. We would love to hear your feedback. And thank you again.