Workday is transforming “from Workday.com to Workday.ai,” Gerrit Kazmaier, president of product and technology, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. They discuss how cognitive computing is reshaping enterprise software, why deterministic systems such as payroll remain essential and how AI agents could transform recruiting, travel, expenses and employee services. Kazmaier explains how Workday is combining trusted HR and finance data, outcome-based pricing and a fleet of specialized models to deliver accurate automation while reducing deployment complexity and expanding further into the midmarket.

 Workday’s Shift From SaaS to AI

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Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. My name is Anurag Rana. I'm a technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, part of Bloomberg's research department with 500 analysts and strategists working across all major world markets.

Our podcast today features Gerrit Kazmaier. Gerrit is President of Product and Technology at Workday. In this role, he's responsible for the strategy, delivery, infrastructure, and security of the company's platform, as well as its entire suite of solutions and AI agents.

Prior to joining Workday, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Data and Analytics at Google Cloud for nearly four years. He led Google's cloud data analytics and business objects business, overseeing services such as Google BigQuery, Looker, Dataflow, and Dataplex.

Gerrit's career also includes over 11 years at SAP, where he rose to President, leading the company's database, SAP HANA and Sybase, analytics, BI, and enterprise performance management business. On today's podcast, we'll do a deep dive into what Workday is doing to add more AI and agentic capabilities to its product suite. We'll also talk about rising threats to its core business from Frontier Models. Gerrit, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Great to be on.

So perhaps to start off with, please give us an overview of your current role and what are some of the bigger initiatives you're working on? Yeah, happy to, Anurag. So I'm the President of Products and Technology, which means that at Workday, I'm heading our product and engineering organization and, you know, the teams that are operating our services.

Workday’s Shift From SaaS to AI

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Workday’s Shift From SaaS to AI

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.