Acquisition will Strengthen Workday's Platform by Connecting its Trusted HR and Finance Data to More than 3,000 Business Applications, Helping Organizations Move From Insight to Action BARCELONA,...
Acquisition will Strengthen Workday's Platform by Connecting its Trusted HR and Finance Data to More than 3,000 Business Applications, Helping Organizations Move From Insight to Action
BARCELONA, Spain, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Workday Rising EMEA – Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents with more than 3,000 pre-built connectors to the most widely used business applications. Pipedream will give AI agents the ability to initiate workflows, pull data, and execute tasks wherever work happens—across Workday and critical third-party systems.
Trusted Data + Enterprise Connectivity: The Foundation for Actionable AI
For more than 20 years, Workday has been the trusted system of record for people and money, giving it a deep understanding of how organizations work—from team structures and approval chains to financial rules, spend policies, and security permissions that help govern a company's people and money data. This context is what sets Workday's approach to AI apart: agents built on Workday can assist the right person, at the right time, within the right security and compliance frameworks.
With Pipedream, that intelligence will extend to the thousands of applications where work happens every day, including Asana, Hubspot, Jira, Recurly, and Slack. Customers will be able to bring information and workflows from across their business directly into Workday—and take action in the external apps their teams rely on—giving AI agents the connectivity they need to move beyond insights and complete work.
For example, an agent could accelerate performance reviews using Workday's deep understanding of a company's organizational structure, pull project details from Jira or Asana, request peer feedback through Slack, and then update performance records directly in Workday. All of this happens securely and automatically, helping ensure reviews are timely, consistent, and grounded in real work.
"The ultimate promise of enterprise AI is not just insights, but action," said Gabe Monroy, senior vice president, Platform, Products and Technology, Workday. "With Pipedream, AI agents will securely connect to major enterprise systems, enabling them to retrieve data and execute tasks. Workday will be the connected system for customers to plan, orchestrate, and execute work— marking a significant advancement for actionable AI."
"We founded Pipedream to help people work faster and with far less complexity with AI, and we're proud of the more than 5,000 customers and tens of thousands of users of Pipedream," said Tod Sacerdoti, founder and CEO, Pipedream. "Joining Workday allows us to bring that simplicity to more than 11,000 organizations around the world, unlocking AI-powered workflows that make work dramatically easier."
An End-to-End Platform for Building AI Agents for Work
Workday is developing an end-to-end platform for building AI agents that deliver real business value—agents that can understand a company's full business context and take action across workflows to drive meaningful results. Recent acquisitions of Sana and Flowise, along with the planned acquisition of Pipedream, strengthen this vision by bringing together the intelligence, orchestration, and connectivity required to turn insight into action.
By unifying these capabilities within Workday's trusted environment, the company will enable customers to design custom agents, equip them with the context they need to make smart decisions, and connect them to the systems where work actually happens — so these agents can truly get work done.
Accelerating Innovation Through an Open Community
Pipedream's active builder community will accelerate the creation of new connectors, helping customers quickly extend what AI agents can do. Together with Flowise's open-source community, Pipedream will expand Workday's support for open development and fuel a steady pace of innovation across the Workday platform.
Details Regarding Proposed Acquisition of Pipedream
The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Workday's fiscal year 2026, ending January 31, 2026, subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions. Orrick is serving as legal advisor to Workday. Gunderson is serving as a legal advisor to Pipedream and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is serving as its financial advisor.
About Workday
Workday is the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one intelligent platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by more than 11,000 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 65% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
About Pipedream
Pipedream is a platform for building AI agents. Thousands of companies use Pipedream to instantly connect APIs, automate workflows, and power agentic products. With 3,000+ connectors, 10,000+ pre-built tools, a visual workflow builder, and a natural language to AI agent interface, Pipedream makes it easy for knowledge workers, and developers to ship powerful AI agents — fast.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements related to Workday, Pipedream, and the acquisition of Pipedream by Workday. These forward-looking statements are based only on currently available information and Workday's current beliefs, expectations, and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and many of which are outside of our control. If the risks materialize, assumptions prove incorrect, or we experience unexpected changes in circumstances, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements, and therefore you should not rely on any forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements in this communication include, among other things, statements about the potential benefits and effects of the proposed transaction; Workday's plans, objectives, expectations, and intentions with respect to Pipedream's business; and the anticipated timing of closing of the proposed transaction. Risks include, but are not limited to: (i) the risk that the transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all; (ii) failure to achieve the expected benefits of the transaction; (iii) Workday's ability to enable AI agents to leverage trusted finance and HR data from Workday to proactively initiate workflows and execute complex tasks across an enterprise,, accelerate Pipedreams growth, and implement its other plans, objectives, and expectations with respect to Pipedream's business and technology; (iv) negative effects of the announcement or the consummation of the transaction on Workday's business operations, operating results, or share price; (v) unanticipated expenses related to the acquisition; and (vi) other risks and factors described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including our most recent report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K and other reports that we have filed and will file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents
Pipedream indeed!
It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. Workday was an HR platform five years ago. It still an HR platform today.
That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.
"managing people, money and agents" yes, that makes total sense, agents are managed exactly the same ways that you manage people or money, I don't see anyth- WHAT AM I READING?!??
"Agents" is a term that usually refers to people working in a customer support role at a company. Anyone using "agent" without qualification to describe autonomous AI is engaging in a perversion of the English language and should be ashamed of themselves.
By johnfn 2025-11-231:08 You don’t think that words can shift meaning over time?
By darth_avocado 2025-11-202:362 reply Ironically Workday is the worst product to use as a job seeker to upload your resume.
By SideburnsOfDoom 2025-11-209:32 As an employee who has to interact with workday, I can assure you that it sucks so badly since you are not the person that Workday is sold to. It is sold to c-suite and head of HR. In that context, you as an employee using workday are the product not the user, and usability to you just does not matter.
By RexM 2025-11-208:10 As an employee, too.
By Esophagus4 2025-11-201:571 reply I was gonna try to contradict you by looking up Workday’s multiple and showing that it is valued like an HR company, but holy smokes…
Their multiple is 105 lol
By nrhrjrjrjtntbt 2025-11-203:221 reply Well if we are using crystal balls then the future stock price is the only thing that matters.
By airstrike 2025-11-203:35 That's disingenuous and uninformed, sorry. You're trying to refute my claim but kind of just proving my point.
The current price is indeed an indication of what the market believes will happen to the company's performance. It doesn't matter if their estimates will eventually be proven right or wrong. Looking at forward P/E will serve precisely to express what the market's "crystal ball" is saying! That's what we want to know. What do people think this company is worth?
Conversely, the current price and their past earnings are not related, so dividing one by the other is mostly just noise.
By Esophagus4 2025-11-203:13 Ah, well that brings the number back to reality.
I suppose all comes down to who runs the leading (or any) investment companies. Money people are not known to be technically literate enough for not being fooled by magic (any sufficiently advanced technology).
They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms.
> They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms.
I don’t think they’re fascinated by LLMs in the way the average Hacker News user is. They are fascinated by the pipedream (intended) of LLMs enabling them to lay off masses of workers and having AI do the work instead. It fascinates them the same way offshoring has fascinated them for years.
By fsniper 2025-11-201:21 > They are fascinated by the pipedream (intended) of LLMs enabling them to lay off masses of workers and having AI do the work instead
I am not fascinated by that part, I am honestly scared for my future.
As someone with no experience with either of those two services, I read that description and had no idea what Workday does. So I thought, maybe their homepage will explain it better.
> Manage HR, finance, and all your AI agents. All in one place.
> Elevate the potential of your people and boost productivity across your organization with human-AI collaboration.
> Turn AI into ROI faster and deliver transformational outcomes driven by trust, agility, and data readiness you can rely on.
> 11,000+ organizations worldwide trust Workday.
Huh?
Sure, whatever, I'm not even surprised about them trying to cram AI buzzwords into every sentence, I'm used to that by now. But what's the deal with enterprise products having marketing which only makes sense to people who already use the product? Not a single sentence on their homepage explains what their product does.
Ok, let's assume I've heard about Workday and know it's a tool for HR. I want to evaluate it, so, naturally, I click the "HR solutions" link on their homepage, and get to yet another page full of buzzwords that does nothing to help me understand the service they offer.
By recursivecaveat 2025-11-2117:46 There's some marketing advice that customers care about solving their problem and not how your solution works. I think this often gets misapplied to turn simple and comprehensible products into vague blobby messes. The customers don't care how your scooters work, but they know what scooters are. They don't know what "get your daily errands done hassle free" means.
Plus if you describe yourself in very high level terms, then your addressable market is bigger and you can get more money from investors.
By chanux 2025-11-201:05 I came here to say this. I was chuckling thinking that this is how I should write my LinkedIn intro.
Also, anyone who loves coming across Workday and friends (enemies) when applying for jobs?
By rustystump 2025-11-202:00 If their product wasnt an absolute dumpster fire, id give em a pass.
My company uses Workday. It is integrated with our EntraID SSO. If you leave a tab open for a few minutes, it will close your session automatically, which means logging you out of Microsoft 365 altogether. Simply bizarre. Maybe more AI will help them.
By bri3d 2025-11-202:08 One of the hardest problems with making a configurable Enterprise Software thing with a strong brand is figuring out how not to make every misconfiguration a reflection on the brand; there’s no Workday specific reason your configuration had to federate logout in this way.
In the same vein, I always thought it was a mistake that Workday branded the recruiting portal so strongly; everyone is furious that they can’t share an account across applications but it really makes sense. They’re supplying the Workday customer with their recruiting data / PII using Workday, not furnishing that data to Workday directly, so sharing across customers would require a whole legal and data tenancy refactoring.
(disclosure: I worked at Workday for a long time ages ago and people were certainly not living with their heads in the sand. I don’t think I particularly agree with the direction the company is going but it is always interesting to reflect on some of these threads and the challenges with running that kind of business)
By mk89 2025-11-201:51 This is probably done to invalidate your session token, which is required in some industries (see banks, logging you out after 5 minutes of inactivity).
By hamdingers 2025-11-203:01 I have to assume the backoffice is phenomenal because nobody on the employee side ever has good things to say about it.
By chanux 2025-11-201:08 The other day my friend ranted to me how he hates their company system for applying for PTO. Since he said he only uses it to apply for PTO, I was wondering if it really deserves that much wrath.
I think I now understand.
By YZF 2025-11-202:20 We use it and I never had any issues applying for PTO...
It is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it
By mk89 2025-11-202:01 For me it's just incomplete. We used to have Successfactors and although the UI was less fancy, I have the feeling it was more complete and thorough.
After so many years with Workday I still cannot sync my calendar to outlook365, so I need to manually put the entries. A problem solved a million years ago in successfactors.
By wirehack 2025-11-2021:45 Try https://www.klavis.ai, which is a open source MCP integration platform. (I am one of the co-founders)
