Workday Rising® 2026 · Las Vegas · October 12–15
Whichever agents you choose, Workday already knows who they work for.
Whether your organization is adopting Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude or Sana from Workday, every agent needs to know who holds which role, what they may approve and what they may access. Polymath Digital helps you use the governance you already maintain in Workday so agent adoption succeeds across HR, Finance, IT and operations.
In Las Vegas October 12–15. Pick a time that works, and we’ll confirm where to meet.
Wherever you are on the journey
Every agent platform needs the same four answers. Workday already holds most of them.
Most organizations will run agents from more than one vendor. Each platform brings its own models and tools. None of them can decide on its own who in your organization holds authority. That answer lives in your organization model, and for Workday customers much of it is already maintained in Workday.
Google Gemini
Gemini agents working across your content and applications act with the roles and approval limits defined in Workday, so answers and actions respect who is asking.
Microsoft Copilot
Copilot and Copilot Studio agents rely on Microsoft Entra identities and groups. Keeping those groups aligned with Workday roles and reporting lines gives every agent the right access from the first day.
Claude
Claude connects to enterprise tools through connectors, including MCP. Using Workday as the reference for role and authority keeps each connected action within the right permissions.
Sana from Workday
Sana inherits Workday’s security model directly, and the Agent System of Record registers agents with owners and permissions. Security groups designed for HR can now be designed for the whole enterprise.
From system of record to enterprise context
Define it once. Let the enterprise inherit it.
Workday already maintains job architecture, organizational structure, reporting relationships, roles and skills. When the ERP, identity, service and AI layers inherit those definitions instead of rebuilding them, every system and every agent works from the same version of the organization.
Workday
- Job architecture
- Org structure
- Reporting relationships
- Roles
- Skills
- Workforce data
Organizational context
CFO
- Approval authority
- Controls
CIO
- Identity
- RBAC
- Systems access
CHRO
- Job architecture
- Organization
- Skills
Transformation
- Process ownership
- Decision rights
- Benefits realization
AI
- Agent authority
- Access
- Human escalation
- Any agent platform
- 01
Approvals
Authority derived from role, not maintained beside the org chart.
- 02
Access
Defined once and inherited across systems, people and agents.
- 03
Controls
The same segregation of duties everywhere it applies.
- 04
AI
Agents acting with the authority of the role they act for.
From operating roles, not slides
~98%
workforce forecast accuracy across about 21 countries, with Workday as the employment record and a workforce P&L above $200M.
One hire, recorded once
flowing to Azure AD, ServiceNow and SAP access instead of being retyped.
Results from Polymath’s founder’s operating roles, described in full in each paper.
In Las Vegas
Going to Rising? Let’s use 20 minutes well.
In 20 minutes we’ll:
- find where organizational context is being rebuilt outside Workday
- pick one workflow where your agents, whether Gemini, Copilot, Claude or Sana, need clearer roles, approvals and access
- leave you with one next step you can take back to your team
Bring one of these
- Agent adoption and governance
- Workday value realization
- RBAC and identity
- Business process redesign
- Enterprise architecture
Can’t find a time? Email hello@polymathdigital.ai
Read before you go
What we have already written about this.
Signal
Workday Rising 2026: Sana Works Across Your Stack. Your Organization Model Decides How Far.
Rising puts Sana for HR, Finance and IT on the main stage. How organizations running Workday alongside SAP, Oracle, Salesforce or ServiceNow can get the most from it.
Paper 15
Hire to Retire Runs on One Event
The hire happened once. Whether it is entered once is an architecture decision, not an HR one.
Paper 08
Global HRIS Modernization Done Right
Local variation arrives as a configuration request. It is never a configuration question.
Paper 14
AI in the Enterprise
Your processes have a documented path and an actual path. Only one is written down
Why Polymath
We work outside the platform because enterprise value does too.
Operator-led
We have run the functions and processes we redesign, not just advised them.
Technology-agnostic
We start with the platforms you already own and design how they work together.
Strategy through execution
Operators, architects and engineers work alongside internal teams to redesign and build the result.
Value. Realized.
You already invested in Workday. Let’s extend the return.
Meet Polymath at Workday Rising and explore one place where the organizational context you already maintain can create value elsewhere in the enterprise.
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