This week, Workday hosted their annual user conference, Workday Rising 2025, taking the opportunity to announce a number of new releases and updates. In other news, CrowdStrike and Salesforce announced a new strategic partnership to enhance the security of AI agents and applications built on Agentforce and the Salesforce platform. To round out the week, Qlik announced the general availability of Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed Apache Iceberg service in Qlik Talent Cloud.
This week, Workday hosted their annual user conference, Workday Rising 2025, taking the opportunity to announce a number of new releases and updates. In other news, CrowdStrike and Salesforce announced a new strategic partnership to enhance the security of AI agents and applications built on Agentforce and the Salesforce platform. To round out the week, Qlik announced the general availability of Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed Apache Iceberg service in Qlik Talent Cloud.
Hi and welcome to episode 205 of The ERP Minute. I’m your host, Rebekah McCabe.
This week, Workday hosted their annual user conference, Workday Rising 2025, taking the opportunity to announce a number of new releases and updates.
First, Workday and Microsoft announced a new collaboration to help organizations securely manage their people and AI Agents across their platforms. Customers that build AI agents using Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio will be able to easily register and manage them within the Workday Agent System of Record (ASOR).
Then, Workday announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sana, a leading AI company building the next generation of enterprise knowledge tools. Sana will power a new Workday experience—where knowledge, data, action, and learning come together as one and create the new front door for work.
Next, Workday announced new Workday Illuminate agents for HR, Finance, and Industry. Illuminate agents are purpose-built for work – embedded in HR and Finance, powered by Workday’s data and context, and designed to deliver measurable outcomes.
Finally, Workday introduced Workday Data Cloud, a new data layer that will help organizations unlock the strategic value of their HR and finance data by connecting it to their existing analytics platforms and operational systems.
These announcements from Workday further demonstrate the immense investment Workday is pouring into their product. For a deeper review of these announcements and more, be on the look our review of Workday Rising 2025.
In other news, CrowdStrike and Salesforce announced a new strategic partnership to enhance the security of AI agents and applications built on Agentforce and the Salesforce platform. Through integrations between CrowdStrike Falcon Shield and Salesforce Security Center, Salesforce admins and security professionals will gain enhanced visibility, compliance support, and protection for mission-critical workflows—simplifying operations and uniting business and security teams on a shared foundation of trust in the agentic era. This will further elevate Salesforce customers to feel secure in their usage of AI agents and encourage greater adoption.
To round out the week, Qlik announced the general availability of Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed Apache Iceberg service in Qlik Talend Cloud that delivers real-time pipelines, automated Iceberg optimization, and true multi-engine access without lock-in. The result is an AI ready data foundation that cuts time and cost between data and action. Qlik is laying the foundation for greater utilization of AI with this release and will empower customers to streamline AI adoption.
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