Transforming the Future of Work With Workday Illuminate

The September 17th Innovation Keynote at Workday Rising 2024 unveiled an exciting new solution — Workday Illuminate. As the next generation of Workday AI, this solution will empower Workday users to leverage generative AI to an even greater degree in their day-to-day work.

From candidate outreach to expense report processing to succession planning, Workday Illuminate promises to harness the power of automation to drive productivity gains and significant cost savings.

Interested in learning how Workday Illuminate could streamline tasks for your organization? As Workday experts ourselves, ERPA is here to provide the Workday Rising insights you need.

In this blog, you’ll discover all the details from Workday’s latest announcement and find out how Workday Illuminate can benefit your business.

Workday Illuminate Announced at Workday Rising 2024

As anyone familiar with the Workday ecosystem can attest, Workday is an innovator.

And Workday Illuminate is yet another transformative solution that the company has brought to market to empower organizations to take their business processes to the next level.

Following this exciting announcement, you likely have many questions about this new solution: What is Workday Illuminate? What are the benefits? When will it be available?

As a trusted Workday Services Partner, ERPA is committed to helping you get the most out of your Workday platform.

And that includes helping you understand and take advantage of new solutions like Workday Illuminate.

This blog will walk you through everything we know so far about this innovative new tool and how you can take advantage of its capabilities as quickly as possible.

Workday Illuminate Combines Data and Context for Powerful Results

Let’s start by exploring the technology behind Workday Illuminate.

This newly announced solution is built on Workday’s dataset — a dataset that Workday highlights as the world’s largest and cleanest HR and finance dataset.

The 800 billion business transactions processed by the Workday platform each year fuels Illuminate’s AI models.

Workday Illuminate pairs this data with an understanding of context too.

This means that this technology understands the reasoning behind HR processes, how different processes interconnect, and the individuals that would be involved in each instance.

The result is a powerful solution that takes full advantage of AI’s vast capabilities to revolutionize the way Workday users work.

3 Ways to Save Time and Money With Workday Illuminate

Now that we’ve covered the basics of how this solution works, you’ll want to know exactly how it could benefit your organization.

From what Workday has shared so far, the value of this solution centers on its ability to free your HR and finance teams to focus on the work that matters most. Work that requires a uniquely human touch.

Here’s how Workday Illuminate enables you to do that:

1. Generative AI Speeds Up Common Tasks

To achieve unprecedented productivity, some tasks need to be taken off your team’s plate.

Workday Illuminate leverages generative AI to accelerate manual tasks. It provides content creation and summarization capabilities for items like job descriptions, knowledge articles, and contracts.

Then, it further improves efficiency with automation tools that can detect anomalies, auto-fill, document scan, and more.

With this tool’s help, your team can focus on more high-value and strategic activities.

2. Real-time AI Assistance Improves Prioritization

Workday Illuminate doesn’t simply automate manual work.

It goes beyond automation to provide seamless, intuitive assistance as your team works through routine HR and finance tasks.

This real-time guidance can aid Workday users through complex processes, ultimately helping them to prioritize the most critical tasks and focus more on strategic work.

3. Workday Illuminate Orchestrates Business Processes

Workday’s newest AI-enabled technology will dramatically simplify HR and finance processes through its use of AI agents.

Workday announced four new agents: Recruiter Agent, Expenses Agent, Succession Agent, and Workday Optimize.

These agents will serve as an AI team of business process experts to streamline common processes.

Then, Workday Illuminate will coordinate these AI agents and manage end-to-end business process orchestration to transform the way work is completed.

New AI Innovations Ahead for Workday

Wondering how soon you can implement Workday Illuminate for your business? Good news! It’s already available to Workday customers.

But there’s even more to come in the solution’s exciting roadmap.

One of the AI agents mentioned above (Recruiter Agent) is currently available. Expenses, Succession, and Optimize Agents are slated to be available in Early Access sometime next year.

Powered by Workday Illuminate, these AI agents are touted by Workday as “the first of many” as the company continues to roll out new innovations that elevate humans at work.

Embracing a New Era of Work With Workday Illuminate and ERPA

Ready to experience improved productivity, more precise decision-making, and streamlined business processes?

Contact to ERPA today! Our Workday experts would love to discuss how you can implement Workday Illuminate and start revolutionizing how your team works.

For the rest of this week, stay tuned to our Workday Rising 2024 coverage page. It’s your one-stop-shop for all the latest updates from the conference.