Workday Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises for Eleventh Consecutive Year
Workday, Inc., the enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT, has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises for the eleventh consecutive year. A complimentary copy of the report is available here.
Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) brings HR data, business processes, and AI agents together on a single platform, giving organizations greater visibility into their workforce, reducing manual work, and enabling faster, more informed decisions. Workday is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world, including CCC Intelligence Solutions, Concentrix, OneDigital, Prudential plc, Radisson Hotel Group, and The University of Melbourne.
“Agentic HR is changing what organizations should expect from their HCM systems,” said David Wachtel, general manager, core HR products, Workday. “With Workday, HR teams can move beyond managing transactions to orchestrating work, talent, and experiences with greater speed and confidence.”
Workday brings AI into the flow of HR work in a way that is trusted, practical, and built for how organizations already operate:
AI agents where HR work happens. Workday agents are purpose-built for the roles and workflows HR teams rely on every day, from the Talent Acquisition Agent for recruiters and hiring managers to the Payroll Agent for payroll teams. Built on Workday’s deterministic foundation of people data, business processes, permissions, and controls, they help teams move faster while maintaining accuracy and accountability.
A simpler, more personal experience with Sana. Sana gives employees and managers a conversational way to ask questions, find information, complete tasks, and navigate important moments at work, while creating personalized workflows across Workday and the tools they use every day. It helps reduce friction across common HR interactions, including benefits, time off, payroll, onboarding, and career growth.
More time for strategic HR. Workday AI agents help automate repetitive work, identify issues earlier, surface insights, and recommend next-best actions, giving HR teams more time to focus on human-centered work such as defining workforce strategy, hiring, and developing talent.
Tools to build and govern agents. With Developer Agent and Workday’s Agent System of Record, organizations can build, deploy, manage, and govern AI agents across the enterprise while maintaining the trust, security, and control required for HR.
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