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iTWire's comparison finds SAP's and Oracle's own announcements echo Workday's autopilot pitch. Buyers can separate the three only by testing which decisions each product hands to a person and what that person can change.
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Workday's Ben Pierce says customers run thousands of scenarios in Decision Intelligence, now open to HCM and Financial Management users. The iTWire interview text available does not say how Flex Credits price that modelling.
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Workday told Rising 2026 attendees its new AI agents are autopilots that work on their own, iTWire reported. Executives also insisted humans stay "in the loop", so the open question for a buyer is what that oversight covers task by task.
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Workday President and Chief Commercial Officer Rob Enslin said C1's real rival is SailPoint, ITWire reported from an APJ roundtable. Customers everywhere ask how to stop experimenting with AI, Enslin said, and his own answer starts with agents that already ship.
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Workday's Joel Hellermark says its agents pair reasoning models with deterministic guardrails, itwire reported. Sana, bought for US$1.1 billion, now orchestrates every Workday agent, so the model-driven half of that split runs in one acquired product.
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Workday has put Recruiting, HiredScore, Paradox, messaging and candidate engagement under one general manager, Adam Godson. He says recruiters must now "really recruit", yet the results he cited measure scheduling and speed.
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Intuit switched on Intuit Intelligence in Australia on 14 October, in beta for QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Advanced customers. iTWire reports that Xero and MYOB have spent the past year wiring AI agents into their own ledgers.
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Home batteries now make up two-thirds of Australian smart home revenue in a market that reached A$7.7 billion in 2025, Telsyte reports. It credits the federal rebate and a cost-of-living squeeze, and expects the battery share to peak this year and ease to just over half by 2029.
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