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AI-driven software agents deployed within businesses to autonomously perform multi-step tasks, integrating with tools like email, chat, and productivity suites.
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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 Rob Enslin said the C1.ai acquisition makes Workday the identity governance layer for people, money and agents. The customers on stage, BMO and Intermountain Health, framed their own agent controls as scope, spending and sign-off.
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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 made Sana Home the starting point for work and put Agent Harness into general availability, with both priced on Flex Credits. Agents built on it run in isolated environments over finance and HR data, Constellation Research reported.
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ServiceNow's AI Passport credential rejected a $40 refund at runtime in a demo where the agent's limit was $25. The company says the credential travels across tools and vendors, but the evidence so far is its own demonstration.
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SAP began rolling out Joule Work to customers on 6 October, citing a 20% productivity gain across 110,000 of its own employees. The gain is SAP's own, reported for its finance, HR and procurement work, so buyers will have to test it on their processes.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent works inside Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line, keeping one set of memories across all of them. For whoever rolls it out, the work becomes wiring in the systems of record and access controls it depends on.
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NTT Docomo Business now runs more than 200 'AI boss' replicas of its managers across all 37 of its organisations, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. Each one reads drafts before the real manager does, so the program pays only if chiefs spend less time on review.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent, launched on October 8, gives each AI coworker its own company email address, calendar and directory entry. For now, customers are left to set the policies for licensing those accounts and answering for their work.
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SAP unveiled Joule Assistants for five business areas at Connect, with most due via early adopter and GA releases by the first quarter of 2027. Controllers get a pilot calendar, while SAP Pay already moves money in the US and UK.
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Zetaris has launched a cloud harness that lets AI agents query enterprise data in place, citing cost savings of up to 67 percent at one customer. The figure is Zetaris' own before-and-after assessment, so buyers need their own numbers to know if it applies.
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SAP said its Autonomous Enterprise architecture and Joule Work and Desktop become generally available this month, extending its agents to non-SAP apps. Rollout teams now have to decide where those agents may read and where they may act.
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Cohere's North 2 agent platform lets administrators track token use down to each user and agent and cap spending across the whole company. Cohere is selling to whoever answers for agent cost and risk, and the launch report backs that with three customer accounts and no prices.
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Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen wants the 200 exabytes of backups it guards for about 12,000 customers put to work feeding AI. Taking up the offer means opening the copy a company keeps for recovery to AI tools that someone has to supervise.
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Eon's free Era, launched October 5th, generates a synthetic company whose staff, deals and tickets match across Salesforce, Slack, Jira and other tools. Its documentation says the emulators do not replace a staging system holding real customer data.
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Google made Live Avatar, a lip-synced video face for Gemini 3.8 Live agents, generally available in Gemini Enterprise on September 24. Custom likenesses need an allowlist and Google has not disclosed an avatar rate, so teams can pilot preset avatars but cannot yet budget for them.
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Satya Nadella pitched Microsoft's merged Copilot app to invited enterprise customers as the 'OS for work', with tabs for chat, coding and an Autopilot agent. IT teams now have to plan for a second route into Office, along with an agent whose autonomy Copilot chief Jacob Andreou calls terrifying to admins.
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Ping Identity has launched three agents that let Gemini Enterprise administrators reset passwords, end sessions and change access by typing a request. IT teams now have to decide whether a confirmation inside a chat window meets their change-control and audit rules.
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Microsoft made Fabric IQ the default business context for Microsoft 365 Copilot at FabCon Barcelona and opened it to outside agents over MCP. The metric definitions teams keep in Power BI semantic models now shape what those agents answer.
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