By Lynn Greiner

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The two organizations share a vision, added Gerrit Kazmaier, president of product and technology at Workday. “AI is not a single vendor solution. I think AI actually is not even a vendor solution. It’s an ecosystem that emerges on shared data, shared governance and shared intelligence across a network of systems.”

With the announcement, Kazmaier said, the program enters the early adopter phase during which customers can try it out and provide feedback before it becomes generally available.

“One of the really important elements of both our joint strategies is this idea of that open ecosystem,” Lamanna said. “So if someone wants to use the Entra Agent ID, anyone can use that. That’s a fully open capability, it’s a protocol. Any other large hyperscaler or application vendor or AI lab can use that API and start to provision agents which take advantage of it inside the Microsoft ecosystem, because we don’t want to have our customers end up in a world where it’s fractured between how people get jobs done and how you secure your human workers versus the AI agents.”