Looking back at an incredible Workday DevCon, where hackathon team H4ckerJACS was top 10 and presented on main stage! Our app AlgoRhythm has an Agent that measures and identifies decreasing team sentiment from peakon, recommends a team event, and even the Agents schedules the event by actually calling the venue. The agent has a conversation with the venue, after confirming the details, the agent creates the event in Workday and invites team members. Giving managers the time back to focus on their team. 

This just shows the endless capabilities of the new features on Workday’s roadmap. Here are the technologies used in our Hackathon submission:

✅ 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁: Building features faster by conversation

✅ 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱: Creating and maintaining agents and access within Workday

✅ 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: Certify Agents on various common risks

✅ 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Connecting new services natively into Orchestrate (phone services in our case)

✅ 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Build orchestrations fast

✅ 𝗔𝟮𝗨𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀: Embed pages/forms into Agent responses

✅ 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲: See and analyze what the agent is doing and what steps cost time and tokens. 

Check out our presentation below.

Super excited to share our vision for 2026: Giving Time back to the Business with Configurable Workday Apps.

Time, that is what it is all about. Focus on the things that add value and contribute to your organization's mission. With configurable Workday apps from JACS you are able to reduce the admin burden and give that time back to supporting the business directly. Less interventions, more Employee and Manager Self Service and automated outcomes. During the year our solutions will be powered by AI Agents to further reduce the admin and enhance the user experience.

🤖Workday DevCon Hackathon🤖 was a blast! Great new technologies amazing apps and beautiful people in the community. 

Thanks to the H4ckerJACS hackathon team (combination with Workday clients) delivering an app that predicts team success using the DISC methodology, this goes beyond skills and feedback and looks at team composition based on personalities.

Our highlight of new technologies available at Devcon:

✅ Enhanced and updated App Logging: Improved Log section

✅ CoPilot PMD scripts writing: create scripts using natural language

✅ GenAI Enabled RichText widgets: use GenAI to enhance the content of a text box, based on page content

✅ Extend Cards: Add apps and actions directly to your home page

✅ Email and SMS API: send emails and text messages directly from Extend apps

✅ Extend Profile Groups: Add your extend app directly to various profiles such as Worker

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀

✅ Document Classification: Identifies type of document (eg passport or receipt)

✅ Document Parser: Get information from the document in json

✅ Ask WQL: Natural Language WQL conversator

These pre-released features really take Extend to the next level and opens loads of new opportunities. Hope these will be generally available soon!

On the 20th of May,  JACS was present at Workday Elevate in Amsterdam. Showing the possibilities for Configurable Local Fields and how it can optimize your country-specific processes.

Next to that it was an inspiring day discussing customer challenges and how to enable Agentic AI with Workday. 

January 2025: Workday organized an innovation challenge for Built on Workday partners, hosted by AWS. JACS attended this challenge to try out the latest AWS innovations for Workday, and to finalize our first app.