Workday announced on 13 October that it will buy C1 (formerly ConductorOne), because an HR system now wishes to be “the identity governance layer for people, money, and agents”. The logic holds: if you already know who works there, policing what their agents can do is a short stroll. No price was disclosed, and closing is expected by the end of Workday’s fiscal year on 31 January 2027.
Specialist IGA vendors may wish to note that the neighbours have noticed the garden.
One may question whether yesterday’s Workday downtime has any correlation with ungoverned agents or humans being replaced with agents for no reason…
Sources:Â Workday
