Tired of the endless cycle of complex automations and overwhelmed developer teams? As your organization's SaaS landscape expands, the mounting pressure on your technical team to build efficient integrations is only growing heavier. However, traditional API-driven methods and iPaaS platforms can often be time-consuming and struggle to build truly effective AI agents. It's time for a new approach.
That’s why on October 11, Moveworks hosted a Hackathon with the aim of creating better AI agents. Developers and engineers from across the country came together at the iconic New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street to understand how Moveworks could elevate their AI strategy.
Participants from leading global companies built three unique agents for their Moveworks copilot and explored innovative ways to streamline processes, reduce developer burden, and unlock the full potential of their business applications.
The hackathon was an ideal opportunity for engineers, developers, and architects to build their first AI agent using Creator Studio, made easier with the guidance of Moveworks’ developer advocates. Developers reported being “blown away” by the power and simplicity of the automation engine, despite the limited time to build.
In this recap overview of our event, we’ll dive into our new agentic offering and everything else you want to know, including:
- What is Agentic Automation?
- What was built during the hackathon?
- What’s possible with Agentic Automation
Agentic Automation raises the bar for what's possible with AI— giving developers the flexibility and tools they need to build AI agents that automate work across the business.
Building with Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Engine
Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Engine offers a potentially game-changing solution to automation that helps enable developers to build AI agents faster and easier. AI agents represent a new automation paradigm, unlike traditional SaaS applications that typically expect users to discover and navigate interfaces, AI agents use large language models (LLMs) to perform automations for users.
With Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Engine, developers were able to build powerful AI agents that could handle more complex tasks than AI agents powered by a traditional automation engine. During the hackathon, participants built three unique agents for the Moveworks copilot, exploring how to:
- Bring agents to life: Connecting their Moveworks Copilot to real business systems
- Make agents useful: Automating multiple tasks across business systems
- Talk to agents: Enable agents to interact with business systems, directly by chatting
So what was the experience like building with our Agentic Automation Engine? Here’s what participants said about their experience building with Moveworks.
One developer described the experience as 'building digital coworkers that never sleep or take breaks.' Moveworks' underlying technology, the Agentic Automation Engine, helps to provide a robust platform for rapid development and deployment.
Throughout the day participants reported being able to build AI agents faster, using a small fraction of the code of traditional approaches, and being able to centralize all development in one platform, which helps to minimize code sprawl and simplify deployment practices.
Agentic Automation – A new class of tools
Most of today’s automation tools rely heavily on API-driven processes. While this works well for predictable, structured tasks, these platforms may falter when it comes to handling the dynamic nature of human language. For instance, in a traditional system, if a user wanted to reassign tasks within a project management tool like JIRA or Asana, they would typically need to know the specific API inputs.
While traditional iPaaS platforms excel in connecting predefined APIs, they often fall short in the era of AI agents. Agentic Automation doesn’t just connect APIs – it also helps to enable reasoning, interpretation, and decision-making, using LLMs to take intelligent action.
Building faster with powerful Agentic Automation
Agentic Automation brings a revolutionary set of tools that empower AI agents to bridge the gap between human language and structured system APIs. This platform allows developers to create AI agents that are able to understand vague instructions and transform them into precise actions.
Judging from the real enthusiasm from customers, prospects, and industry experts at the hackathon, the future of automation seems bright. Moveworks customers who built agentic solutions during the hackathon raved about the potential impact on their organizations. One customer expressed that, "It felt like there's no limit to what these AI automations can do.”
Participants of the hackathon were also impressed by the potential of Agentic Automation, with many seeing it as a game-changer for their own businesses. As one experienced developer stated, "If you're looking to level up your productivity, rapidly deploy automations, and free up time for your more exciting work, AI agents are the way to go. Moveworks makes it really easy to get started.”
Understanding the Moveworks’ Agentic Automation Engine
The Moveworks Copilot is powered by an agentic Reasoning Engine capable of performing hundreds of out-of-the-box agentic use cases. With Agentic Automation, developers are able to extend the power of the Moveworks Copilot by creating any agentic automation within any business application of their choice. Just take it from our hackathon participants, who shared, ‘In just a day, I ended up building agents that really didn’t seem possible.’
Key benefits:
- Fast development: Build powerful agents with as much as 80% less code compared to many traditional tools.
- Unified platform, reduced dependencies: Helps centralize all AI agent automation tasks onto one platform for fewer dependencies, making it faster to build, easier to maintain, and easier to deploy.
- Built-in compliance: Agents are able to adhere to company policies automatically, helping to support risk reduction and proper governance.
- Create complex use cases: Build more powerful/complex Agentic use cases than we normally would with traditional iPaaS
With the release of the Agentic Automation Engine, Moveworks helps to make it faster and easier for developers to create sophisticated AI agents that are able to automate complex tasks.
Now as the ecosystem of AI agents expands, Moveworks envisions a world where every organization can build its own set of intelligent agents—ready to assist with anything from simple data entry to complex decision-making tasks, supercharging developers’ ability to bring new agents to life.
Discover how Agentic Automation can revolutionize your business operations. Download our white paper, join our webinar or build powerful AI agents with our Activate Program for key systems like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Workday. Reach out to your Account Executive or Customer Success Manager to learn more.
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