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The three acquisitions work together. Flowise provides the tools to build agents, Pipedream provides the connections to other systems and Sana provides the interface. Jerry says the company plans to introduce capabilities from all three during 2026, possibly in the first half of the year.
Human oversight remains central for payroll verification Workday divides agents into two categories based on risk. The first handles processes where errors have financial or legal consequences. The second monitors and analyses continuously without human oversight.
For high-risk processes, humans make final decisions. At its Rising EMEA conference, Workday demonstrated an agent that identifies budget availability and recommends spot bonuses. The agent performs the analytical work – reviewing budgets, checking eligibility criteria and preparing recommendations – but stops short of execution. The agent suggests and the human decides.“ For a lot of business processes today, it’ s good to have human verification because getting payroll wrong is not funny,” Jerry says.“ You’ ve got to get it right. We take responsibility very seriously.”
28 February 2026