Workday Rising - the hot topics of enterprise AI come to a head: it's about pricing, context, and (giving up) UX control

No sign of the SaaSpocalypse here. Workday entered the first full day of Workday Rising 2026 in uber-confident mode, talking up the re-invention of work and "The new Workday."

What gives Workday that swagger? I believe underneath is a growing confidence that a multi-SaaS application and data footprint turns out to be an asset, not an impediment, to the "lawful" agents enterprises need.

Workday has also learned their own agentic lessons, "culling" the overall number of agents into a different strategy. (Check our recent diginomica podcast, Workday's Gerrit Kazmaier on facing down the SaaSpocalypse, and why Workday had to change before agentic AI took hold).

But there is more: Workday has a strong list of customer resultsfrom agentic AI in production (6,000 Workday customers are now running agents live). Add the backdrop of the Workday Data Cloud and the Agentic System of Record, and we are ready for...

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