Workday has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents, in a move that deepens its enterprise AI strategy by connecting trusted HR and finance data with more than 3,000 business applications.
The planned acquisition was announced during Workday Rising EMEA in Barcelona and reflects Workday’s continued investment in building an end-to-end platform for AI agents that can understand organizational context and take meaningful action.
Workday has spent more than two decades building its position as a trusted system of record for people and money, capturing organizational structures, approval flows, financial rules, spend policies, and security models. This foundational context is central to the company’s AI approach, enabling agents built on Workday to assist the appropriate individuals with precision and within proper governance.
The integration capabilities unlocked by Pipedream will expand this intelligence across thousands of applications where modern work occurs, including Asana, HubSpot, Jira, Recurly, and Slack. Customers will be able to seamlessly bring external data and workflows into Workday while extending Workday-driven actions into third-party systems. This will give Workday’s AI agents the connectivity required to shift from offering insights to completing work.
Workday outlined examples such as AI agents orchestrating performance reviews by combining internal organizational context with project data from Jira or Asana, gathering feedback from peers in Slack, and updating performance records directly in Workday. These tasks would be executed securely and automatically, driving consistency and improving cycle times.
The acquisition also complements Workday’s recent purchases of Sana and Flowise. Together, these deals reinforce Workday’s plan to create a unified environment where customers can design AI agents, embed them with organizational context, and connect them to external systems to power real business actions. Pipedream’s active builder community and the open-source ecosystem around Flowise will help accelerate the creation of new connectors and expand the capabilities of Workday’s AI agents.
The proposed transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Workday’s fiscal year 2026, ending January 31, 2026, pending closing conditions. Orrick is serving as Workday’s legal advisor. Gunderson is advising Pipedream, and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is acting as Pipedream’s financial advisor.
KEY QUOTES:
“The ultimate promise of enterprise AI is not just insights, but action. With Pipedream, AI agents will securely connect to major enterprise systems, enabling them to retrieve data and execute tasks. Workday will be the connected system for customers to plan, orchestrate, and execute work— marking a significant advancement for actionable AI.”
Gabe Monroy, Senior Vice President, Platform, Products and Technology, Workday
“We founded Pipedream to help people work faster and with far less complexity with AI, and we’re proud of the more than 5,000 customers and tens of thousands of users of Pipedream. Joining Workday allows us to bring that simplicity to more than 11,000 organizations around the world, unlocking AI-powered workflows that make work dramatically easier.”
Tod Sacerdoti, Founder and CEO, Pipedream
