Workday Extend vs. CData Connect AI

Workday Extend unlocks the Workday Build platform, giving developer and IT teams an end-to-end toolkit to build, run, and scale custom agents, apps, and orchestrations. It force multiplies your builders using natural language in preferred agentic IDEs—including Claude Code, Cursor, and Google Antigravity—allowing teams to build in plain language at the speed of thought without sacrificing compliance or control. By combining agentic acceleration with built-in enterprise guardrails, custom agents execute on the Workday Trusted Agent Platform.

CData Connect AI is the AI gateway that makes AI more accurate, for less. Built on CData's enterprise MCP platform, it gives every agent, copilot, and model one governed path to hundreds of enterprise systems, including Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP, ServiceNow, Workday, Snowflake, and Databricks, over live data instead of stale copies. Unlike gateways that only proxy traffic to model providers, Connect AI starts at the source connection.