Workday Jumps Into ERP Powered by Agents + AI

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans · Sep 18, 2025 · 5m

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I look at Workday’s bold pivot into the ERP market — after 20 years of steering clear.

Highlights

00:14 — Workday has been having a lively week here in San Francisco at its big Rising event. But I think the biggest news here is that Workday says that after 20 years of saying, "Hey, we don't do ERP," now Workday’s going into the ERP market. But they say it's ERP for the AI Era, it's going to be powered by agents and AI.

01:05 — It introduced a fleet of new agents that will become available later this year or into 2026. Workday introduced its own Data Cloud…