Mumbai: Workday and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic partnership to bring AI-powered HR and finance agents directly into employees’ daily workflows, enabling organisations to access enterprise services through familiar workplace applications.
The collaboration combines Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and AI agent roadmap with Google Cloud’s enterprise AI platform and Gemini models to create a unified environment where AI agents from Workday, Google Cloud and third-party providers can work together on HR and finance tasks with built-in governance and security controls.
As part of the partnership, Workday’s Sana Self-Service Agent is now available within Gemini Enterprise, allowing employees to access Workday information and services through conversational AI while maintaining existing permissions, policies and approval workflows. Gemini has also become the default AI model powering Sana for Workday.
According to the companies, the integration will enable employees to perform routine tasks such as checking leave balances, accessing payslips, updating personal information and requesting time off through a single conversational interface. Managers will be able to review team goals, initiate performance reviews and approve timesheets without leaving the AI environment. Finance teams can also receive guidance on expense policies, travel rules and corporate card eligibility.
Gerrit Kazmaier, President, Product and Technology at Workday, said organisations increasingly want HR and finance services embedded within the tools employees already use.
“Our customers want HR and finance at their fingertips, not scattered across a dozen applications. Together with Google Cloud, we’re putting the answers and actions people need where they already work, backed by the security, rules and approvals inherent to Workday,” he said.
Karthik Narain, Chief Product and Business Officer at Google Cloud, said the partnership significantly expands integration between the two companies and makes enterprise AI agents more useful and accessible across organisations.
The partnership supports emerging AI interoperability standards, including Agent-to-Agent (A2A), Agent-to-UI (A2UI) and Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling AI agents to exchange information and hand off tasks autonomously within a single workflow. Alphabet is also expected to leverage the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to build a custom Workday agent for automating administrative workflows.
Workday and Google Cloud are also strengthening data integration through a zero-copy architecture connecting Workday Data Cloud and Google Cloud Lakehouse. The approach allows organisations to analyse data across systems without moving or duplicating information, helping maintain security controls and governance policies while supporting AI-driven insights and automation.
To accelerate enterprise adoption, the companies are collaborating with global system integrators including Accenture, Deloitte and KPMG, which will support customers in identifying and deploying high-impact AI use cases across HR and finance functions.
The Sana Self-Service Agent within Gemini Enterprise is currently available in early access for eligible Workday customers, while Workday Data Cloud is being rolled out to early adopters ahead of broader availability later this year.
