Sana founder and CEO Joel Hellermark said, “Our focus has always been on creating intuitive AI tools that improve how people learn and work. I’m excited to bring these tools to 75 million Workday users and partner with Workday’s iconic team to launch a new era of superintelligence for work.”
By bringing together technology from both companies, Workday users will be able to find answers information and files by searching data sources including Workday, Google Drive, SharePoint and Office365, and access agents that can summarize information, assist with projects, create documents and dashboards based on company knowledge, and automate repetitive tasks, the company said.
Competing ecosystems
Everest’s Hota said the acquisition is about “planting a flag in the AI assistant market before Microsoft, ServiceNow, or Salesforce become the default entry point.” Oracle, SAP, and ServiceNow are all embedding copilots and workflow AI across their HR applications, he said, “But the bigger competitive dynamic is with the horizontal platforms. Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce want to sit above HR and finance systems as the first place employees go with a question. That’s exactly the surface Workday is trying to defend.”
