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Key Takeaways
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Regional AI hosting. Workato offers automation, data and AI services with hosting and processing contained within EU data centers.
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Data sovereignty focus. The platform ensures customer data remains inside the EU for compliance.
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Enterprise impact. EU enterprises gain compliant AI orchestration supporting regulatory and security needs.
Workato announced on November 21st the availability of its core AI features hosted entirely within European Union data centers. The company positioned the move as an EU data sovereignty milestone for enterprises seeking AI-driven automation.
According to company officials, all AI models, inference and data processing operate exclusively within the EU, which they assert keeps customer data inside the region. The offering targets IT, security and compliance teams balancing innovation with regulatory requirements.
AI Orchestration Platforms' Dual Pursuits: Governance & Autonomy
Enterprise AI orchestration platforms are evolving, fusing generative AI with agentic automation to enable autonomous task execution across HR, finance and IT service management.
Trust & Regulatory Compliance Drive Architecture
These platforms rely on agent frameworks and orchestration layers that empower digital agents to act autonomously, optimize workflows and scale decision-making. As covered in our recent series on essential enterprise AI concepts, the latest orchestration engines combine intelligent task execution with governance, security and auditability, enforced at every layer, as key players strive to offer regulatory and regional compliance.
This architecture proves crucial amid growing regulatory scrutiny around data sovereignty, particularly within the European Union.
Low-Code Meets Enterprise Policy Controls
Scalable AI-first integration platforms address the governance mandate by combining low-code usability with enterprise-grade policy controls, multi-agent orchestration and built-in safeguards. These safeguards include anonymization, audit trails and role-based access.
Simultaneously, a range of vendors are working integrate legacy with modern systems, working to reduce the pesky data silo problem, and fostering more informed collaboration between agents, robots and human operators.
Multi-Agent Frameworks Enable Dynamic Workflows
Other notable innovations in AI agent orchestration include the rise of open multi-agent frameworks and of advanced protocols for agent-to-agent context sharing. Additionally, intelligent document processing modules continue to advance their ability to convert unstructured content such as contracts or onboarding forms into structured knowledge useful for AI systems and automation.
By bringing all AI model hosting, inference and processing into the EU, we are delivering the same powerful agentic AI capabilities with the governance and trust our customers demand. This is a foundational milestone for secure, enterprise-grade AI.
- Derek Thompson, Senior Vice President & General Manager, EMEA at Workato
The Workato ONE Platform
Workato officials highlight the following elements of this release and the company's iPaaS platform.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Core AI in EU | AI features hosted in EU data centers |
| Workato Genies | Production-grade AI agents |
| Agent Studio | Builds, deploys and governs Genies across the enterprise |
| Workato GO | Natural language search with Deep Action triggers |
| AI by Workato | Embeds generative AI into recipes |
| Action Board | Central place to trigger and track actions |
| Enterprise MCP | Governs AI agents via MCP and Enterprise Skills |
About Workato
Workato, founded in 2013, targets IT leaders, automation centers of excellence and business technologists in mid-market to large enterprises and public-sector organizations seeking to automate and orchestrate business processes across applications, workflows and data.
Automation Platform
Workato's workflow automation platform combines integration platform as a service features with workflow automation and AI-driven orchestration. It offers low-code and no-code tools for business users and developers focused on complex integrations.
