Workday Rising - identifying a governance growth opportunity for the world of agentic work. Why Workday is buying C1.ai
Workday is to acquire C1.ai, an agentic identity platform for humans and agents to ensure each has the right level of access at the right time to disparate systems across the enterprise, ranging from CRM, to Finance, to HCM and beyond.
While Workday’s Agent System of Record already provides a single point for organizations to see and manage their agents, the addition of the new tech will, according to the firm, make work easier, safer, and more compliant. Rather than, for example, a new employee spending a lot of time filing manual service tickets for approval to get access to the likes of Slack or financial dashboards, the C1 tech will manage this process.
In the word of Alex Bovee, C1 CEO in the official announcement:
Workday is the operational heart of the enterprise, and by brining C1.ai’s identity governance directly into that core, we’ll be able to manage access...
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