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title: "How Workday connects context across business tools"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-workday-connects-context/"
description: "Every AI tool ships with its own bespoke semantic layer - but businesses need these tools to work together, not in silos."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

**How Workday Connects Context Across Business Tools** - a Re:Govern 2025 recording on the Atlan Re:Govern watch center, with Joe DosSantos, Vice President, Enterprise Data & Analytics (Workday). The recording plays for about 2 minutes, then the page asks for an email to keep watching. Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-workday-connects-context/.

## Speaker

- **Joe DosSantos**, Vice President, Enterprise Data & Analytics, Workday. From EMC and TD Bank to Qlik, Joe has built data foundations at scale. At Workday, he leads AI readiness - creating semantic layers that transform the world's largest and cleanest HR-and-finance dataset into precise, trustworthy, organization-specific AI insights.

## Company: Workday

Workday is the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents - powering 11,000+ organizations including half the Fortune 500.

## What's inside

Workday discovered a frustrating pattern: every AI tool brings its own unique semantic layer, data layer, and storage layer, making integration nearly impossible. But businesses don't care what tool you're using - they need context to flow across platforms seamlessly.

Key takeaways:

- Every AI tool building its own semantic layer creates interoperability nightmares across your tech stack
- Businesses need integrated AI experiences, not siloed tools with incompatible context layers
- A neutral, platform-agnostic layer needs to understand context across users, data, and platforms
- Context should be available to everyone regardless of which tool they're consuming it from
- Partnering on shared semantic infrastructure solves what individual vendors can't fix alone

## More from Re:Govern 2025

- [CME Group: Context at Speed](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/cme-group-context-at-speed/) (Session Recordings)
- [Mastercard: Context by Design](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-context-by-design/) (Session Recordings)
- [Workday: Context as Culture](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-context-as-culture/) (Session Recordings)
- [Why Workday is Building a Semantic Layer](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-building-semantic-layer/) (Highlights)
- [Workday's Learnings From its First Talk to Data experiment](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-talk-to-data-learnings/) (Highlights)
- [How Mastercard Designs Context at Scale](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/how-mastercard-designs-context/) (Highlights)
- [Mastercard's Federated Architecture for Agentic Commerce](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-federated-architecture/) (Highlights)
- [How Protocols and Tools are Evolving for Agentic Governance](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/protocols-agentic-governance/) (Highlights)
- [How Data Roles are Evolving: From Modelers to Context Engineers](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/data-modelers-to-context-engineers/) (Highlights)
- [The Evolution of Trust: Building the Foundations for Future-Readiness](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/evolution-of-trust/) (Session Recordings)
- [How Mercury Insurance is creating PII-free workspaces for AI use cases](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/pii-free-workspaces/) (Highlights)
- [GitLab's Strategies for Building Reliable Conversational Analytics](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gitlab-conversational-analytics-strategies/) (Highlights)
- [AI-Ready Tech Pioneers Share their Single Most Effective AI Readiness Strategies](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/ai-readiness-strategies-pioneers/) (Highlights)
- [GitLab's Learnings from its First Experiment with Conversational AI](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gitlab-conversational-ai-learnings/) (Highlights)
- [Vimeo's Approach to Data Governance in the Era of Conversational Analytics](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/Vimeo-approach-to-data-governance/) (Highlights)
- [Inside General Motors Metadata Lakehouse](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/gm-metadata-lakehouse/) (Highlights)
- [Workday's Semantic Layer Strategy](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/workday-semantic-layer-strategy/) (Highlights)
- [Modern Data & AI Governance Blueprint](https://atlan.com/blueprint) (Resources)

Back to the watch center: https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/