Name: It’s a new work day: Workday releases 2026R1 for IT professionals.
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Transcript for "It’s a new work day: Workday releases 2026R1 for IT professionals.": Hello, everybody. Thank you for joining. My name is John Parkhalver, and I'm a product marketer at Workday. In today's webinar, we're gonna cover how the new capabilities in the Workday '20 six r one release are gonna help you better support the business. Joining me today are three esteemed colleagues from Workday Product Marketing with expertise across different aspects of Workday's offerings, including Cathy Tan, who's focused on Asana and Workday UX, Scott Erickson, who has expertise in Sonna agents and agent management, and Dara Patel, who's focused on platform and developer tools. A few housekeeping items worth bringing up. First, some web browsers, including Chrome and Safari, might intermittently mute Goldcast. If that happens in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge secondary, click your browser tab and select unmute site. If this happens in Safari, click the Window menu and select unmute this tab. Second, there are gonna be some in session polls during the webinar. Any perspectives that you share in these polls are gonna be really appreciated by us. And last but not least, we'll be sending you a post webinar survey. Your feedback helps us determine where to focus more and less in future webinars. Now before we hop into release announcements, please note that there may be some forward looking statements. These are subject to change and should not be utilized in any purchase decisions. And with that, let's hop into our agenda. Cathy's gonna kick things off for you and share how Workday's user experience is more AI friendly and user friendly than ever before. Then Scott's gonna share how AI readiness with the new AI agents, we've released in twenty six r one and how they're transforming the way that work gets done. You'll hear about how we're helping improve the insights that you deliver to the business on a more open platform. Dara is gonna share all of the ways that we're helping developers supercharge productivity and build more powerful apps and integrations. We'll see how you can drive even better outcomes with your investments with the Workday success plans. And we'll wrap things up with where you can learn more about all the good stuff shared in this presentation. So to set the stage, I wanna highlight a real challenge facing companies today. For all the excitement around AI, you can't really use AI in the enterprise unless you're confident that it's going to get things right every time. In HR, finance, and IT, almost right just doesn't cut it. This is one of the reasons why you're not seeing advanced AI systems bolted on to handle sensitive consequential enterprise work. After all, AI is probabilistic. It's a guessing machine. It's fantastic at pattern matching and reasoning. AI's predictive power is what makes it so incredible, but that power has limits when it comes to critical people and money decisions because a prediction isn't the same as precision. And as as I said earlier, in finance, HR, and IT, getting something almost right is wrong. For AI to help with mission critical work that requires security, accuracy, and trust, it needs more than a great model. Just like your employees, AI needs a deep understanding of how work actually happens inside of the organization. Who's doing it? Who has the power to make decisions and how processes are connected across functions? AI also needs to adhere to trusted, consistent business processes that act as guardrails to ensure the work is done the right way every time. AI can't guess wrong. And finally, AI has to operate with the right permissions, controls, and audit trails to ensure compliance across every action. It needs to know what it can do and can't do and work within those fences. These guardrails, the context of the business, are at the heart of what makes Workday special. By design, Workday is deterministic. That's what enables us to drive critical business processes like payroll and financial close with absolute precision and certainty. These business processes have a start and a finish. They have to be executed exactly the same way every time. Now to share how employees are going to experience this, I'd like to introduce Cathy Tan who will share how we're redefining user experience in the age of AI. Cathy, Awesome. Thanks, John. Now that you've heard a little bit about how Workday delivers deterministic, trusted processes, let's talk about. how that comes to life with our recent releases. Alright. We're super excited about the r one release because it's where we see superintelligence in action. We're moving from a place where you simply record and find information to a place that actually helps you perform work. This isn't, just a glorified chatbot or another LLM wrapper. These are context aware agents that understand your business, your people, and your money. They act as true collaborative partners that safely operate with true autonomy. So what does that look like? You've likely heard the news that Asana from Workday, our new unified AI interface, is now available to all Workday customers. And you can think of Asana in two ways. First, as a platform. One place to build, orchestrate, and govern the agents in your organization, whether that's prebuilt by Workday, custom built by your team, or brought in from a third party. Second, as a single AI experience for every employee. So instead of figuring out which tool to use, they can just ask Sana. And behind the scenes, Sana routes to the right agent with the right context and permissions. Now because Sana lives inside Workday, every agent inherits your roles, your approvals, and policies from day one. So there's no massive integration project that's required. But it also reaches outside of Workday. That means it connects to many third party apps, meaning a single workflow that can span your entire stack. Think of Asana as as both one front door for your employees and also one govern orchestrator underneath. Now a lot of companies are drowning in that AI sprawl. They're using different tools for search, for chat, and automation, and each of these has its own blind spots. Sana solves that by consolidating everything into a single experience where you can find information, you can act on it, build new outputs, and automate entire workflows in one place. And as you can see from all the different logos at the bottom of the slide, Asana isn't just another silo. It connects to the tools that you already live in, like Salesforce and Slack, to orchestrate your entire day through one interface. What's also great about this recent release is we've introduced the sauna self-service agent. This transforms how employees interact with HR and finance. The self-service agent provides instant answers and enables effortless task completion directly within the chat interface. It can handle common requests, things like updating your address or submitting an expense report. And it can also clarify company policy questions by retrieving specific information from different and relevant data sources, such as your knowledge base articles. So by automating these interactions, we reduce the volume of cases hitting your HR and finance service teams, which then frees up their time for higher value strategic work. And we've also integrated the self-service agent into both Microsoft Teams and Slack. This expands our capabilities and really sets us up to bring more agents into these collaborative spaces. And a quick plug here, if you're looking to learn more about Sana and see examples of how you can use Sana in workday based scenarios or cross cross system workflows, we have a webinar happening next week on April 21 at 9AM Pacific time. You can register for this using the QR code on the screen, or we'll also share the direct link to the registration and the resources. Alright. So while sauna changes how we interact with information, we're also fundamentally evolving the environment where work happens. We know that expectations for workplace technology have changed. We all want our enterprise systems to feel as effortless as the apps on our phones. Well, the new Workday user experience is an AI ready experience that blends Sonos fluid modern design system with Workday's enterprise grade power to elevate and modernize Workday's user experience. So what's changed with the new UX? Well, first, you'll see this modern home page design. It's designed around the way people actually work. It's built to get employees and managers to everyday tasks faster. And you'll also notice a prominent and visually enriched search bar that sits right at the top. It's AI ready. It lets your people start with what they want to achieve rather than trying to remember which menu to open to get to where they need to go. And once you search and land on that results page, you can see that we've also modernized the styling of this page as well. The core search functionality remains the same, but this page just looks and feels much cleaner. And specifically for those who are in the early adopter program, you'll also see an extended AR overview within the search results page. We've also made sure that Workday feels like your company's home and not just a generic tool. So with the enhanced tenant branding, admins can configure and flow your brand colors and identity through the entire new Workday experience, which includes both the navigation bar and search. Now speaking of navigation, let's talk about that global navigation sidebar. This was opt in for the last release but is now visible by default. This makes it easy to see where you are, pin your favorite items, and categorize external links to cut down on those clicks. But we also know that change management can sometimes take a bit of time. So for this release, there is a tenant level opt out if you need it. Once that's enabled, users can also toggle it themselves and their settings. We've also added, categorized external links so that admins can mix and match internal and external links in one cohesive menu across both your desktop and mobile. And one more piece for navigation. In the last release, we introduced the save icon for tasks. So in this release, we're taking that a bit further, and now users can save reports, dashboards, and connected flows and bookmark them in the moment and find them later under that save section in your sidebar. Along with this release, we've also delivered configurable cards for hubs. We know that cards are the heart of the hub experience, and this release will allow admins to surface all the essential information that your users need. You'll be able to build cards with either text, images, or data visualizations and also add footer links to those tasks or external links. And this is all about tailoring the insights that your users get to see. Alright. And finally, we have a major milestone for HR. Our communications tools are now fully available in HR core. This is a fundamental shift. You can stop exporting sensitive employee data to external email tools. Instead, you can use your live, secure Workday data to build audiences and automate messages natively. It's a perfect pairing for your ad hoc messages. You'll get everything you send is based on a single source of truth, and this puts the entire life cycle from data to delivery right in your hands. Alright. And that wraps up our user experience updates. Now I'll pass it along to Scott to dive a little deeper into the new AI agents transform my work. Thanks, Cathy. Cathy, that was a great review of the new user experience through Asana. Now, let's look at a major milestone for our r one release. Five of our powerful AI agents have officially found a new home in Asana. These agents, self-service, payroll, BP optimize, planning, and deployment are designed to completely transform your day to day operations. First, we have the payroll agent, which leverages a complete understanding of payroll data to proactively resolve issues, supports compliance, and surfaces insights. It eliminates the hours teams waste chasing missing data, giving you answers to complex payroll questions quickly, and ensuring stronger compliance automatically. For your finance teams, the planning agent combines combines data exploration and variance analysis with contextual help to provide a force multiplier to to your analysts. It takes you from hours of manual data preparation to instant planning insights, cutting down administrative tasks by an estimated 20% and saving analysts up to 30% of their time on data exploration every single month. And for your Workday admins and implementers, the deployment agent quickly and reliably answers any questions your deployment team has about anything Workday related, including your specific tenant. This is a huge time saver, cutting out manual search across multiple knowledge systems and bringing accurate answers directly into your deployment team's workflow. Finally, our BP optimize agent, here to streamline and accelerate your Workday processes in minutes by instantly identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies. We'll take a deeper look into this agent in the upcoming slides. The bpOptimize agent takes in historical and real time business process events to analyze for bottlenecks or inefficiencies. The agent will give instant insights into any process with simple natural language interactions and it can provide detailed step by step step by step recommendations to guide the administrator on how to improve processes or detail how the profit process compares to industry peers. The agent can both analyze processes on demand or in the background as new events are processed by end users, allowing it to generate recommendations based on historical data as well as monitor the efficiency in real time, flagging issues that come up as business needs change over time. This ensures small problems don't have the time to grow into critical failures. As changes are recommended and applied, the agent will measure the impact to remove the uncertainty uncertainty inherent in changing complex process flows. As we look forward into future updates, the agent will be able to learn from user behavior, define exactly what changes need to be made, and clearly lay out complex changes for the administrator, only requiring approval for suggested changes to be put into effect. I wanna walk for walk through the four key ways the agent provides value to the organization. We call these optimization journeys. Number one, reactive optimization. This is used when you know there is an issue in a business process, but the complexity makes it hard to know exactly what needs changed. The agent will quickly analyze the process and outline the issues and steps for resolution. The next one is proactive optimization. As the agent runs in the background watching each event in real time, it can surface when a process is starting to cause issues. Is the process suddenly failing to complete at a higher rate? Is it taking much longer to complete? These are issues that are difficult to service if you rely on end users raising the alarm before you're aware of issues because that typically only happens after a process is fully broken. Passive optimization is when you ask the agent to take what appears to be a functional process with normal completion rate, no other clear signs of problems, and get feedback on how it can be improved. It will look at the process, compare it to industry peers, and offer advice on changes you can make. The final journey is strategic or optimization. You can set longer term organizational goals to create improvements across the whole deployment and leverage the BP optimized agent to get insights into the best path forward to create a more holistic efficiency improvements. As the inner as the agent interacts with sensitive data embedded in the flows of the business process, there is a need for strong data protection. The data is processed locally, fully anonymized before being used for benchmarking, and sensitive data is never shared across customers. Before jumping into the bp optimized agent headfirst, it's important to understand some key aspects of a of the agent configuration. While the agent can be leveraged in production sandbox without incurring flex credits for natural language interactions, the agent must first be enabled in production. In order to enable the agent in production, the admin needs to define the scope of historical BP events for the agent to ingest for analysis. This is done with the look back and product line settings. Look back will define the define the number of months in the past for BP events to ingest to limit the scope. Look back will define the number of months in the past for BP events to ingest in the agent for analysis. The product line setting will limit the type of BP events that are included. It is suggested that when exploring the agent in the beginning, the admin should limit the scope of both look back and product line, focusing on three to six months and a product line with a BP process that has a known issue. This will minimize the activation cost for the agent while you gain confidence in how the agent works and what value it can provide. This is even more important in develop in deployments that have tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of events, allowing you to see the value the agent can provide before committing more flex credits. For more information on the different agents that are available or soon to be released, including access to EA programs, use the QR code shown or just search Workday AI agents on community. The link is also posted in the Goldcast document link library. Next, we're gonna look at agent system of record. This is available with core HCM and FIN subscription given the UMSA has been signed. It doesn't carry a SKU, so there's no charge for using ASOR itself. The goal of it is to secure agents through universal identity, manage agents through inherited permissions, and measure agents through unified visibility. Of course, managing agents is a fairly loaded statement. In this context, it is agents that are interacting with Workday data regardless of where that agent actually lives. You are able to define security groups, you are able to turn on or off agent skills, and you're able to see what the agents are doing across the Workday ecosystem on behalf of users. Maintaining the visibility of not just the agent, but the user who is invoking the agent as well. This is all secured through the standard Workday security model. This means that it's easy to leverage your existing security groups and apply them to agents out of the gate without re redefining who has access to what. For example, if you have a payroll team, the team already has their access to Workday data defined, and the payroll agent will inherit the security structure as the users interact with the agent. You start with discovery. You can use the you can see the agents that are available directly in the tenant for any Workday delivered agent. You will also have a robust agent marketplace where partners are building agents for different use cases, both inside the Workday ecosystem and across the boundaries of Workday data to external data and tools. From there, you can register the agents. This brings the this brings the agent into the tenant where you can start to configure the different aspects of the agent from settings to security policies, what skills different users, user groups are able to interact with then to activate, turning the agent on and making it accessible to the end users in their flow of work. Why is this important? It's the power of the platform. It's about building agentic capabilities into the Workday platform in a way that allows the existing security of Workday to be fully realized across the agentic ecosystem. Customers are leveraging their existing security groups that already exist across Workday deployments and putting them onto agents. This allows agents to access data across the platform without expanding risks as customers expand agents as they are often acting on behalf of a user. So the agent will only be able to access data that the user themselves is able to access. This enables agents to come into the workforce quickly and seamlessly. First, we talked about how to bring agents into the enterprise, then how to secure them. But once they are active, you can't just ignore them. Attention is needed in case it becomes clear that an agent isn't what you expected or maybe eventually it loses its value because businesses change, organizations change. So we wanna look at how to think about agents as they are being used by end users. As agents are deployed across the enterprise, it can be difficult to maintain a full understanding of where they are operating, who is using them, what they're and what they're accomplishing. With ASOR, you are able to see if the agents are getting deployed or even being used, who is using them, and how often they are providing valuable insights or support. You are able to see exactly what they are doing with Workday data and who is invoking the agents down to the skill level of execution. And you're able to generate detailed reports for the input and output of the agents. This allows you to maintain an ecosystem of agents that are actually providing value. For a more in-depth view, you can download the agent system of record functional white paper or technical white paper on community or directly from the link center here in Goldcast. To sum up, Workday's end to end agent stack for people and money provides the right context, tools, infrastructure to build and monitor agents at enterprise scale, drive adoption, and deliver measurable outcomes. With that, I'm gonna pass things over to John. Who's gonna dive into analytics and data cloud. Thank you, Scott. What you shared about Sonic agents and ASOR was just incredible. Now in this next section, we're gonna cover the new ways Workday is improving the insights that you deliver to the business along with a sneak peek into how we're further opening up the Workday platform. Let's start with two exciting products whose early adopter programs you'll be able to look into during the twenty six r one release cycle, Report Agent and Workday Data Cloud. Scott just shared with you all of the agents that became generally available in twenty six r one. In addition to those, I'm excited to share that Report Agent will enter early adopter later in the twenty six r one release time frame. Report agent is going to redefine the way that reports are built and consumed. Substantially reduce the time spent building and reviewing complex reports and dashboards, and at the same time, give your end users intuitive conversational insights that use everyday language. Report agent remembers conversational context and understands follow-up questions, meaning it's more than just a one shot report creator. This is gonna generate measurable business impact like agility, cost savings, and lower IT overhead. It'll substantially reduce time from question to insight. And because these insights stay inside of the Workday ecosystem, Report Agent delivers reports that are governed, curated, and backed by trusted data. If you're interested in joining the, the Report Agent Early Adopter program, we have a page on Workday community where you can learn more. Just scan this QR code and sign in with your Workday community credentials. We're also going to be sharing a link to this page in the leaf behind post webinar. Now we know the reports and agents are only as effective as the data they use. For a while now, we've been laying the groundwork for creating the architecture that connects Workday to your modern data environments. What you're looking at here is how we move from concepts to mechanics, how trusted Workday data actually becomes accessible for analytics, AI, and applications across the enterprise. Now an early adopter, Workday Data Cloud was built so IT teams can work with Workday and our data partner platforms, including Databricks, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and Snowflake to move data in and out of Workday securely in minutes instead of months. Instead of using cumbersome ETL processes, we're using standards like JDBC and Apache Iceberg. As a result of this, that data is zero copy, meaning that stale data duplicates aren't being created inside of Workday or in your external data lake or data warehouse. The EA will begin to include more capabilities over time. Currently, we're covering data inflows with LiveDataQuery and Apache Iceberg. And starting next month, we're gonna be adding data outflows. We're looking forward and we're looking to twenty six r two for general availability. Now with that, general availability target later this year, we're gonna be really excited to hear about how you're using this to, to bring new insights and AI capabilities in the organization. But in the meantime, we're also bringing additional cohorts into our early adopter program. A few notes on prerequisites. Right now, we're working with customers who are using Workday HCM and talent management, but that's gonna expand to financials later in our early adopter process. We encourage people who have financials use cases to sign up, and we can reach out when that phase begins. There's also a public cloud hosting requirement. We're currently working with customers who are hosted in Amazon Web Services, and that's going to expand to GCP soon. And last but not least, make sure that if you sign up, you're already using one of our data platform partner solutions, which includes Databricks, Google BigQuery or Big Lake, Salesforce Data three sixty, or Snowflake. This is an exciting way to get an early look into how Data Cloud can help your organization scan this QR code to learn more in Workday Community. Alright. Now onto what's generally available available in twenty six r one starting with Prism Analytics. Here's how we're improving the way that you blend, transform, and utilize enterprise data inside of Workday. The first Prism enhancement I'd like to share is visual edit transformation pages. At Workday, we want it to be as intuitive as possible for you to configure your data transformation flows. And we want to ensure that you're not spending more time than is necessary managing stages and pipelines. With this new experience, manage this all in a simplified view of data pipelines and transformation stages right on the edit transformation page. Next, Prism components in Orchestrate. We understand that there are gonna be circumstances where it's valuable to use Prism analytics processes as steps in workflow orchestrations. That's why we brought Prism components into Workday Orchestrate. Now Workday Orchestrate can make calls to Prism and wait for Prism calls jobs to be completed before moving to next steps in their orchestration processes. Those are the Prism enhancements for '26 r one. Next, core reporting. A strong foundation that provides real time embedded secure reporting that can expose you can expose to your user community across Workday experiences. Now as we look to the future, Workday continues to build on top of this foundation. The focus is simple, make reporting experiences even better with more intuitive experiences, with richer visual options, and with powerful AI enabled features like what you saw with Report Agent. With these new capabilities, you'll unlock even greater efficiency and deeper analyses across the platform. These enhancements to core reporting in '26 R1 fall under two major categories, updates that streamline the authoring and admin experience and capabilities that amplify the efficacy of insights and visualizations. Let's start with the authoring and admin experience. In '26 r one, we've expanded our tier one language support. At Workday, we understand the importance of covering more languages within discovery boards. And previously, discovery boards boards were available in English, French, Korean, and Japanese. Now in twenty six r one, that's expanded to include German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese. We're also delivering a brand new dashboard to report admins, the Workday Report Adoption Metrics dashboard. This contains 25 configurable reports that provide insights into report and dashboard usage by dimensions like organization, level, and user. Compare performance, and monitor the activity and health of your reporting assets. In addition to these capabilities, we focused on several additional authoring and admin experiences, including reducing the time that you spend managing how customer reports are shared with mass share and unshare of customer reports. We're helping you reduce the manual work required to use static values in expression builder for composite reports. We've added report builder and consumer toggles to enable data labels for charts for more clarity for those user communities. We've added additional analytics and reporting hub improvements. Those are the authoring and admin enhancements that we've made for Workday core reporting. Next, let's finish up by seeing how Workday is amplifying insights gained through the visualizations that you deliver to your internal customers, starting with prompt controls. With large datasets and expansive filter criteria choices, it's important to get your users to the insights that they want quickly. That's why Workday is giving report administrators the ability to limit available field options to a curated relevant subset. We think that this is going to reduce end user confusion and the likelihood of errors. Ensure higher data integrity with unprecedented control without requiring changes to core report logic. We're also introducing additional chart types in Report Writer for matrix and training reports. When your consumers wanna understand correlations between data points, like how different parameters have commonalities with retention trends, The new scatterplot chart will help them draw these kinds of relationships. And for improved understanding of the performance of linear processes, like for example recruiting or onboarding flows, the funnel chart is gonna help them quickly understand where there might be drop offs or anomalies. In addition to these improvements to the ways your internal customers consume insights and visualizations, we've also introduced dynamic row and column grouping to matrix reports to help you get these reports out of the door more quickly and efficiently with fewer variations. We've added location hierarchies to improve the ways the business gleans insights across geographical tiers. And we've added percentile and median support for reports that use Prism data sources to match those that use non Prism data sources, improving consistency with reports that enable those means of summarization. Across Data Cloud, Report Agent, Prism, and Core Reporting enhancements, you just saw how we're continuously working to transform the way you deliver insights to the business on a more open platform. Now I'd like to pass things over to Dara Patel, who's gonna walk us through all of the incredible ways that Workday Build is accelerating the way that IT and developer teams build custom apps and integrations to meet the unique needs of their organizations. Dara, take it away. Thanks so much, John. I love hearing all the ways we're making it even easier for our customers to do more with their data. And hello, everyone. I'm Dara on the Workday build team, and I'm here to tell you about our newest developer tools. Now for anyone that may be a little earlier on on their builder journey here at Workday, I'll start with a quick overview. Workday build is our AI developer platform for people, money, and agents. You can think of build as everything you need to develop custom innovations natively on Workday's platform. It's made up of three key pillars. First is a best in class suite of developer tools in a unified developer experience that streamlines how you build apps, integrations, agents, and connect data. Second is our robust partner ecosystem where you can leverage the trusted expertise of over 500 partners and a marketplace of hundreds of vetted solutions. And third is a thriving community with extensive resources and programs that help developers upskill, earn credentials, and connect with peers. With 26 r one and beyond, we're investing heavily in each of these pillars. So I'll start first with Workday Extend. Again, for anyone that needs a quick refresher, Extend is a powerful tool you can use to build custom apps that run natively on Workday. Today, our customers have put into production over 3,000 extend apps to modernize experiences, consolidate systems, and support their business's unique needs. With this release, we're continuing to make it easier than ever to build and drive true impact. One of the ways we're doing this is by empowering developers to build with AI. So let's start with the review of Workday Developer Copilot, our most advanced AI powered developer assistant that's available to extend professional customers. Prior to this release, developer Copilot could help you create app pages, code snippets, and even context aware validation scripts for extend apps all from natural language chat. In January, we released new API functionality that allows you to search, compare, and get recommendations on the best API to use based on what you're building. With this release, we've added even more functionality. Developer Copilot can now generate business objects, attachment objects, and security domains using natural language. The generated business objects include field definitions and contextual relationships, saving your devs from having to build each of these steps manually. Coming later this summer at DevCon in June, developer Copilot will be able to generate entire orchestrations based on prompts and uploaded files and schemas. It'll also be able to generate context aware documentation. All in all, our AI powered Dev Co pilot can boost productivity by over 50%. So your devs are spending less time on manual line by line coding. Instead, they're scaling up, building faster, and generating more value. But AI doesn't just transform how developers build. It can boost product user productivity too. With AI widgets, extend professional customers can now add custom AI prompts directly into their extend apps via rich text widgets from a few simple lines of code. This allows your end users to generate or refine text with AI based on existing Workday data on the page without ever leaving their workflow. So for an example, imagine creating an employee recognition app where the AI widget automatically generates a heartfelt message based on a simple prompt and employee's name. This reduces the cognitive load for managers and improves productivity since they're not jumping between several tools just to complete this one task. I'm excited to share that AI widgets is officially GA for extend professional customers now. Next is an update for all Workday integration and extend customers. Our Workday developer CLI is officially live. This tool provides a unified command line interface to build, test, and deploy your Workday integrations and extend apps faster. It allows your developers to integrate Workday seamlessly into your existing DevOps processes. Instead of jumping between inter different interfaces, developers can use familiar tools like Git to manage version control, automate builds, and run tests. By meeting developers where they're already working, we're significantly streamlining the end to end life cycle management of your custom apps. You can download the Workday developer CLI and access our documentation today via our dev site. And to complement Workday developer CLI, we're also introducing local dis sync. This feature allows developers to open locally stored apps directly within our app builder and orchestration builder. Any changes you make are automatically synced between our visual builders and your local file system. This removes the friction of manual downloads and uploads, ensuring your version control stays up to date while also simplifying your overall DevOps workflows. Local disk is now available for all extend customers. While this covers our biggest updates for extend in twenty six r one, there are a handful of additional enhancements you can find on community. And overall, if you're interested in learning more about building AI apps and agents with extend professional, check out our recent webinar dedicated to that topic also linked within the doc section. Next, I wanna share the new functionality that we brought to Workday Orchestrate. And again, as a refresher for any newer customers we have in this this audience, Orchestrate is our modern low code tool for building and automating end to end data and business processes across your entire tech landscape. It's basically the new default tool for building workflows and integrations in Workday. Since Orchestrate became available to Workday Financials, HCM, and student customers at Rising last year, we've been quickly innovating to bring you new functionality. So the following are a few of our top enhancements with this release. First up is debugging and orchestrate, a feature that gives developers a much clearer view into how their integrations are working. It essentially takes a lot of the guesswork out of troubleshooting because your devs can now step through their integration logic one piece at a time to verify that everything is correct before it goes live. They can inspect variable values at any point or even use mock values to test edge cases without impacting production data. This is a huge win for development speed, testing, and long term maintenance. Next with orchestrate summary report, you can see deep diagnostics and timing details for every step of an orchestration. Your developers can now download these performance summaries to see exactly where processes might be slowing down. It brings together error diagnostics, step by step execution details, and performance stats all in one view. By giving your devs access to these runtime insights directly within the builder, we're simplifying how your teams track success and manage the long term health of your integrations. And lastly, we're also excited to introduce the trigger integration component. This feature allows orchestrations to directly trigger other integrations to pass parameters and documents to them. They can then pause execution while the child integrations run and automatically resume with access to those child integrations results, status, and generated documents. This provides seamless coordination between orchestrations and the broader Workday integration ecosystem. To support these more complex multi step processes, we've also extended the run time support to forty eight hours. This means your team can now build larger end to end automations that handle larger datasets or long running business processes. You can find more details on these enhancements and more on our community site, and we'll be sharing a lot more at DevCon. Now, next, let's move on to the second pillar build. We know that building a custom solution from scratch isn't always the right answer, and you need the flexibility to build and buy. And that's where our partner ecosystem comes in. The marketplace is where you can tap in to the unique expertise and innovative thinking of hundreds of our trusted partners from across the globe. You can think of our marketplace as a digital hub. It's a single place where you can explore vetted solutions from across our entire ecosystem. This includes apps, agents, templates, integrations, and services. It's designed for you to easily find solutions to common industry and business challenges. And we wanna make it as easy as possible for you to find the app that best fits your needs. So we recently launched interactive demos on marketplace. When you see that interactive demo tab on a listing, you can jump in and click through the experience yourself just like the GIF is showing here. This removes the guesswork and gives you a firsthand look at the solution helping you quickly determine if it could be the right fit for your organization. It's a great way to streamline your search before scheduling a live demo with a partner to get more deeper details on the app you wanna purchase. And that brings us to the last pillar of Workday Build, the community. We are committing we are committed to investing in our developer community, and you'll continue to see a lot of growth in our programs and events. And we're constantly creating more ways to fuel networking and learning. And our biggest developer event is actually right around the corner in less than two months. And that's DevCon. If you're interested in building custom apps, integrations, and agents on the Workday platform, DevCon is the place to be. It's our annual developer event in Vegas this June that's all about hands on and experiential learning. We have a ton of new innovation in the works already for Accent and Orchestrate that you'll get the inside scoop on first. You'll also hear how others are developing with our build tools during theater sessions and very live demos. Beyond our existing tools, you'll also learn much more about data cloud that John spoke about earlier and the upcoming custom agent building capabilities we're bringing to extend professional in r two. You can even try building your first agent at our express labs or during the twenty four hour hackathon. And if you have any devs on your team that are just starting out with extend and our our other build tools, we've even added a new beginners track to hackathon this year. It's truly the perfect opportunity to really dive in and learn alongside peers and experts in the community. You can call me a little biased, but DevCon is truly my favorite workday event of the year. So I really hope to see some of you there. With that, I'll hand it back to John to wrap up. Thank you, Dara. And can't agree more. DevCon is such an exciting and engaging event to go to. Alright, everybody. With all the goodness that we shared today, Workday cares about your success, and that's why we continue to invest in Workday success plans or WSP. Now many of you are already familiar with WSP, but for those of you who might not be, WSP is a sub a set of subscription based plans that provide expertise, support, and education to help you maximize the impact of your Workday investment. Whether you're deploying a new Workday product or adopting new features or deploying agents, WSP can help you do things like assess readiness, discover which capabilities best address your objectives, and make a plan to prepare for a successful go live. It helps expand your team's skills to feel confident in managing Workday. And in twenty six r one, we're broadening learning availability to include instructor led training in addition to self led training that was already available. And finally, it helps you stay up to date with new capabilities that drive the most impact in your organization. WSP is also doubling down on helping you unlock the potential of Asana from Workday, including AI features, Asana agents, and more. WSP helps you accomplish this in three ways. First, it helps you identify the Asana agents and AI capabilities that will be the most impactful in helping you achieve your goals. This happens through engagements like feature adoption assessments and workshops. The second way it does this is helps improve AI adoption with direct access to Workday experts in on demand learning. And the third way we're approaching this is by exploring best practices with you around change management, risk reduction, and growth planning on a continuous basis. WSP helps here with optimization packages and collaboration crews. One final thing to mention for WSP Accelerate Plus customers, Workday is focused on helping you build what's next with Workday build and all of its new capabilities that Dara shared earlier. This plan provides expertise, support, and education tailored specifically to helping your developer and integration teams get the most out of Workday Build. With direct access to Workday experts and self guided learning, WSP is helping customers through the process of creating custom apps with Workday Extend, orchestrations using Workday Orchestrate, and more. WSP is here to support your teams throughout every step of their Workday journey, from discovery and planning through to design, build, activation, and optimization. If you wanna find out more, reach out to your Workday account team. Alright. We've covered quite a bit of stuff in the last hour or so. Let's do a quick summary and go over where you can learn more. Cathy, earlier on, kicked things off and shared how Workday is redefining the way your users experience applications and how this allows them to collaborate with Sonnet agents right in the context of work. Scott took you on a tour of the Sonnet agents that are now generally available and how they're designed to drive outcomes. In addition, he shared how they're governed, secured, and monitored right in the agent system of record. You saw how we're delivering richer insights on a more open platform across core reporting, Prism, and in the future with Workday Data Cloud. Dara unpacked how Workday Build is accelerating app and workflow development across extend, orchestrate, and Workday Developer Copilot. You saw how Workday Success Plans continues to offer new ways to help you get the most out of your Workday investments. Now, if you'd like to learn more, I encourage you to check out the Workday release readiness page for release notes, guidebooks, and more. Dara shared, DevCon earlier. Register for sessions with Workday build product leaders, get an early hands on look at Sonnet Agent Builder, and build exciting new capabilities in a twenty four hour hackathon. We shared some early adopter programs with you as well. If they're relevant to you, sign up and get an early look at these exciting new capabilities. We try to answer all the questions that were asked during this session. If there are any that we weren't able to get to, we will follow-up afterwards. And, of course, we, welcome you to reach out to your Workday account team. They care about your success, and they're happy to help. With the links that are embedded here, we're gonna be sharing a PDF of these slides afterwards, and you'll be able to follow these links. With that, we appreciate you all joining us today. We're looking forward to hearing from you about all of the ways you use these new capabilities to drive success across your organizations. Thank you.