More than 5,500 customers now use one or more Workday agents—up over 35% from just last quarter. Here's how leading brands put Workday AI agents and Sana Enterprise to work across HR, finance, and IT in Q2.
For years, the world's leading brands have trusted Workday to power the most critical parts of their business: people and money. And now, they're using Workday AI not just to make those processes faster but to reshape them entirely—on the same foundation they already trust. More than 65% of the Fortune 500 run on Workday, and over 5,500 customers now use one or more Workday agents, a 35% increase in a single quarter.
Take hiring. Last quarter, customers like BWX Technologies and Cars.com adopted Candidate Experience Agent to answer questions around the clock and coordinate interviews in real time, freeing HR teams to build stronger relationships with qualified candidates. Contract analysis is another example. Customers such as Merit Financial Group and First Student deployed Contract Intelligence Agent, which automatically scans every signed agreement, surfaces terms that matter, and puts those insights in front of the right people for better decision-making.
Customers are also increasingly adopting Sana Enterprise, our AI workbench for HR, finance, and IT that lets teams build, orchestrate, and run AI across the entire enterprise. Last quarter, The Carlyle Group, Delivery Hero (Talabat), and Caterpillar Inc. were among the customers who brought it on board.
And that momentum is only building. Here's how customers drove real results with Workday AI in Q2.
Over 5,500 customers now use one or more Workday agents, up more than 35% from just last quarter.
The clearest proof of AI's impact is what our customers are doing with it today, and where they’re headed next. In Q2, more customers adopted Sana Enterprise and Workday agents to give employees instant answers, automate payroll compliance, and cut deployment research from hours to minutes.
The Carlyle Group was Workday's twentieth customer, and they're still with us today. They're one of the largest investment firms in the world, and every few years they've chosen to do more with us. Last quarter, they added Sana Enterprise, so their people can ask a question and get an answer instead of hunting through systems.
By leveraging Workday Deployment Agent to instantly trace complex related values and configuration instances, Mohegan Gaming can bypass hours of manual research. For intricate tasks like building nested calculated fields, the agent delivers precise configuration breakdowns in just 30 seconds, enabling administrators to replicate details and begin integration testing within an hour. While these massive technical time savings are impressive, the most invaluable organizational metric is the downstream impact: deploying updates rapidly so that employee focus remains entirely on their core business operations.
Seminole Hard Rock runs complex weekly payroll for 28,000 employees across multiple countries. The team has used Payroll Agent, nicknamed “Wally,” to automate manual analysis around FLSA calculations, pay statements, configuration issues, retro processes, and transfer-related tax implications. Payroll Agent is helping the team move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive compliance, saving time for centralized payroll operations and enabling Seminole Hard Rock to scale with greater confidence as it expands and brings more Workday modules onto one platform.
CLEAResult, North America’s largest provider of energy efficiency, energy transition, and energy sustainability services, deployed Workday's Deployment Agent and Adoption Agent, significantly reducing research time. Deployment Agent alone trimmed manual analysis of complex reports from two hours to under 30 minutes.
Last quarter, we welcomed new customers around the world, adding to a global community that now spans more than 80 million users under contract. More than half of those new customers signed up for one or more AI solutions, with AI products alone generating over $100 million in new annual contract value (ACV)—more than 25% of all new business closed in the quarter. In other words, AI is now a foundational part of why companies choose Workday.
Some of the leading brands we welcomed in Q2 include:
BWX Technologies, Inc., United States
Guess, Italy
Kirin, Japan
Konecta, Spain
KPMG LLP, United States
Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, Canada
S-E-B, Sweden
More than half of new customers signed up for one or more AI solutions.
Existing customers are adopting Workday AI faster than ever. In Q2, more of them moved agents from pilot to production, and that shift is showing up in the numbers: our AI SKUs drove nearly $600 million in ARR (annual recurring revenue), up more than 200% year-over-year and more than 20% in a single quarter.
Here are some of our existing customers that adopted Sana Enterprise or Workday agents in Q2:
Cars.com - Candidate Experience Agent
Caterpillar Inc. - Sana Enterprise
Delivery Hero (Talabat) - Sana Enterprise
First Student - Contract Intelligence Agent
ICON Clinical Research Limited - Recruiting Agent
Lithia & Driveway - Recruiting Agent
Merck & Co., Inc. - Sana Enterprise
Merit Financial Group LLC - Contract Intelligence Agent
Remondis Australia - Candidate Experience Agent
SSM Health - Sana Enterprise
Taylormade Golf Company - Candidate Experience Agent
The Carlyle Group - Sana Enterprise
TKO Group Holdings - Candidate Experience Agent
Zollsoft GmbH - Candidate Experience Agent
Our AI SKUs drove nearly $600 million in ARR (annual recurring revenue), up more than 200% year-over-year and more than 20% from just last quarter.
Join us at Workday Rising to hear directly from organizations like these that are reshaping their businesses with Sana and Workday agents. You'll also get a first look at what's coming next: new agents, new Sana Enterprise capabilities, and new ways to run AI across the enterprise.
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