Workday Acquires Flowise to Boost AI Agent Development

Workday, Inc. has finalized the acquisition of Flowise, a low-code platform designed to simplify the creation of AI agents, ranging from basic chatbots to complex automated workflows. This move is expected to facilitate greater innovation across the Workday platform, enabling customers and partners to efficiently build and manage AI agents with enhanced speed, flexibility, and confidence.

Flowise's comprehensive platform supports the entire AI development process, offering tools for prototyping, building, debugging, evaluation, and analytics, streamlining the transition of AI agents from concept to production. The platform's user-friendly visual builder and seamless integration within the AI ecosystem empower developers to establish robust agentic systems with enhanced control and scalability. With a foundation rooted in open-source technology, Flowise has garnered significant adoption, processing millions of chats and workflows, amassing over 42,000 GitHub stars, and gaining traction across various industries.

Workday's Chief Technology Officer, Peter Bailis, emphasized the technical challenge of making AI agent development reliable and accessible, stating that incorporating Flowise into Workday and investing in its open-source foundation will enable clients and partners to create and deploy their own AI agents. Henry Heng, CEO and co-founder of Flowise, expressed the company's vision of simplifying AI development for all, highlighting the pivotal role of the open-source community in realizing this goal. The integration of Workday and Flowise is expected to offer unique benefits to customers, leveraging AI to elevate workforce management and business operations. Workday is a renowned AI platform used by over 11,000 organizations globally, while Flowise is recognized for its low-code platform democratizing AI development.