Connect AI to live Workday data, securely

Give your AI assistants, copilots, and agents direct access to your Workday data—no exports, no ETL, no waiting.

Using Connect AI for AI-powered Workday analytics, reporting, & actions

You have the data. It's accurate. It's valuable. But asking a simple question like "What's driving churn in Q2?" — still takes dashboards, analysts, and days. Connect AI changes that.

Natural Language Querying for Real Enterprise Data

Query Workday naturally. Answer precisely.

Let executives, PMs, and analysts use natural language to query live Workday data—without needing SQL, BI tools, or training.

Those questions you've avoided asking because the answer would require yet another reporting request? Ask them, and let AI help you explore your Workday data.
Ask questions that combine data across sources

Combine Workday data with data from other databases, data warehouses or other cloud apps — no pipelines required. Users can simultaneously blend data across multiple source systems, and produce the quantitative, descriptive, or historical analysis you need.
Secure data controls

Connect AI uses your existing authentication and your data access controls. No exposure, no shadow data, no exceptions. Users authenticate with their own credentials using the source's most trusted form of authentication to connect to the AI client. This ensures AI access respects the security and permissions your organization has already put in place.
Built for performance at scale

With query pushdown, parallel execution, and bulk operations, Connect AI delivers fast answers from even the largest orgs. Less time spent watching AI flash 'generating a response' equals faster analysis, deeper understanding, and overall better results.

How many open positions do we have by department and location?

I'll help you analyze your Workday data to answer this question. First, let me query Workday structure and data to understand what we're working with.

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AI that knows your data—and respects your rules

Connectivity—One endpoint. Every AI tool.
A single MCP endpoint connects your AI tools to live Workday data—no ETL, no replication, no custom code.
Context—Not just data. Business meaning.
Connect AI surfaces business meaning behind your Workday data, so agents reason more accurately at a fraction of the token cost.
Control—Your permissions. Your rules.
Your existing Workday permissions and RBAC rules follow your data into AI—with full query logging for IT visibility.

Use cases for Workday + Connect AI

Connect AI doesn't replace your data tools. It turns them into something everyone can use.

Your leadership asks better questions.
Your teams get faster insights.
Your org gets compound leverage.

That's what great software should do!

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What Connect AI Does

HR Director

How many open positions do we have by department and location?

Queries live recruiting data in Workday, groups open requisitions by department and region.

Finance Manager

What is our total headcount cost by business unit this fiscal year?

Joins payroll, headcount, and cost center data to deliver a financial breakdown.

Recruiting Manager

Which roles have been open for more than 45 days?

Filters job requisitions by age and status to flag long-running openings.

People Operations

Who has not completed their annual performance review yet?

Queries task completion data tied to performance cycles, filtered by employee status.

Operations Analyst

Which records in our partner system API haven’t been updated in over 90 days?

Pulls data from an external system via API, compares timestamps, and returns stale entries.

Data Engineer

What is the query volume by schema over the last 7 days?

Queries usage logs or other data to track query counts and load by schema.

Head of Analytics

Which campaigns generated the highest ROI last quarter?

Joins campaign spend, attribution, and revenue data; returns ranked performance by campaign and channel.

Make AI Actually Work with Workday

No complicated data movement, ETL, or data integration required. Securely connect live Workday data with any AI tool that supports MCP. Select your preferred tool below to learn more.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Working with Connect AI + Workday

Getting started with Connect AI in four simple steps:

Sign up for a free trial

Configure your Workday Connection

Configure your connection to Workday by securely authenticating.

Connect AI to your data

Connect your AI client, LLM, or agent to Connect AI with the remote MCP server endpoint.

Stay connected

Source tools map directly to approved system actions for predictable execution in production.

Interested in traditional analytics?

Connect directly to Workday data from the clients and tools you use everyday

BI & Analytics

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

ETL Tools

AWS Glue

Azure Data Factory

Low-Code Apps

PowerApps

AppSheet

Outsystems

And more

Ready to get started? Try Connect AI + Workday today!

Turn questions into answers — with the infrastructure you already trust.

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