- Glean and Workday are partnering to deliver connected AI agents that streamline HR and finance workflows by enabling employees to complete tasks — such as approvals, time off requests, and feedback — directly within the applications they already use, reducing friction and manual steps.
- The integration leverages enterprise-wide context and interoperability between Glean and Workday agents, allowing for smarter, more contextual agent interactions that draw on data from both Workday’s HR/finance systems and other widely used enterprise SaaS tools.
- All agent interactions are designed with enterprise-grade security and governance in mind, ensuring that identity, permissions, and compliance frameworks are strictly maintained as agentic workflows scale across organizations.
Workday Rising is almost here, and we’re excited for the Workday team — and to see our shared vision come to life at the conference. HR and finance leaders are ready to see practical AI in action. That’s exactly what Glean and Workday are bringing to Workday Rising. From approvals and time off to performance cycles and workforce planning, the path from question to outcome gets shorter when agents work together across enterprise systems.
AI that works for HR and finance teams
The most impactful AI for HR and finance does three things well: it understands context across systems, it performs tasks where people already work, and it respects enterprise controls. That’s the goal of connected AI agents from Glean and Workday.
By centralizing Glean’s enterprise-wide understanding of work in the Workday Agent System of Record, employees will be able to complete everyday actions with more context and fewer steps. For example, when a manager needs to reassign work for someone on unexpected leave, they can ask the Glean agent inside Workday Assistant for that person’s active projects and dependencies — no switching tools, no outdated docs.
AI’s impact grows when the technology connects across your stack. The Workday Agent System of Record and Glean’s agents are built to interoperate so information flows and tasks complete without friction, while honoring identity, permissions, and policy. The result: fewer back-and-forth approvals, requests, and reviews and more time for the strategic work you are measured on.
See Glean in action at Workday Rising
Glean’s partnership with Workday will be on display at Workday Rising this year, showcasing how connected AI delivers real value in HR and finance workflows.
Session: Transforming HR from reactive to proactive with agentic AI
- Featuring Glean’s VP of People Alla Mezhvinsky
- Date/time: Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 4:30 – 4:50 PM PST
Agent demo: Our partnership will be highlighted in the Workday Experience PSV. See a Glean agent surface an employee’s project details from within Workday, so a manager can take action instantly with current context from the broader work graph.
Glean table: Visit us in the Ventures Zone to see our agent workflows in action and hear how customers are planning to deploy agent workflows across HR and finance — securely and at scale.
What Glean and Workday make possible
Faster, frictionless HR and Finance workflows
Glean and Workday will enable agents that act across systems, giving employees the ability to complete tasks like approving expenses, requesting time off, or leaving feedback for team members, directly in the application where work gets done.
Smarter agent interactions powered by enterprise-wide context
Workday Illuminate Agents work hand in hand with Glean agents, which connect to the most widely used enterprise SaaS applications — communication, productivity, project management, and CRM tools. At the same time, Glean agents draw directly from Workday HR and finance data. Together, they deliver more complete and contextual responses by grounding agentic workflows in enterprise knowledge.
Enterprise-grade security and governance
All Glean and Workday Illuminate Agent interactions will be designed to respect existing identity systems, data permissions, and compliance frameworks. Whether it’s sensitive payroll data or company-wide policy, strict guardrails protect integrity and access.
These aren’t hypotheticals — they reflect what customers are asking for: interoperable agent experiences that deliver in the flow of work. Glean and Workday are aligning on that future so you can move from reactive to proactive operations with technology that respects how your teams already work.
The road ahead for HR and finance AI
This is only the beginning. The next wave of enterprise AI is agentic, connected, and governed. It’s less about chat and more about completing work — securely, with context, and inside the tools your teams rely on every day.
This year’s Workday Rising is a milestone, not the finish line. Expect deeper interoperability between Workday and Glean, richer context in HR and Finance tasks, and expanded controls that keep security and governance front and center as agentic workflows scale.
We’re energized by what’s possible — and by what customers are already asking for. We look forward to sharing more at Workday Rising and beyond.
