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DDB MudraMax wins media mandate for Garuda Polyflex Food
MUMBAI: DDB MudraMax has won the media mandate for Garuda Polyflex Food, which operates under the brand name ‘Gone Mad’.
The account, won after a multi-agency pitch, will be handled out of the DDB MudraMax Bengaluru office.
Garuda Polyflex Food MD V Jayachandran said, “We, at Garuda Polyflex Food are very happy to have DDBMudraMax as our media partner. They bring with them, significant expertise of having managed media for reputed organisations in India. They also bring the attitude in line with our brand “Gone Mad”, which makes them a perfect fit for us. We look forward to a long and fruitful partnership.”
DDB MudraMax AVP and head south Anilkumar Sathiraju said, “We are very excited to work on this brand called Gone Mad. It’s one of its kind and we’ve got some exciting work coming up very soon. Some of the brands coming soon from the house of Garuda Food is something that you need to wait and watch out.
Garuda Food is a $500 million, 22 year old food & beverage company. It is a part of Tudung Group which deals in Agribusiness and FMCG distribution. It has 13 production facilities in Indonesia, China and India with over 20,000 employees.
Garuda Food offers a range of snacks, confectioneries, biscuits, tea and coffee based beverages, flavoured milk, jelly drink and fruit flavoured drinks. In the year 2011, Garuda Food entered into a joint venture with Polyflex Group to form Garuda Polyflex Food Pvt Ltd to enter the Indian market.
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Workday unveils Sana, a new AI tool for businesses
New conversational interface, 300+ skills and deep integrations aim to turn AI from sidekick to operator
CALIFORNIA: Workday has fired a fresh salvo in the enterprise AI race, rolling out “Sana”, a system it touts as “superintelligence for work”, designed not merely to assist, but to act. The pitch is blunt: stop dabbling with disconnected copilots and start letting AI run the plumbing of business.
Unveiled globally on March 20, Sana arrives as a three-part stack, Sana for Workday, a conversational interface; a self-service agent with more than 300 skills; and Sana Enterprise, which plugs into tools from Gmail and Outlook to Salesforce and Slack. The aim is to collapse the sprawl of enterprise software into a single AI-led workflow engine.
At its core, Sana promises four things: find, act, build and automate. Employees can query internal data, execute tasks such as updating records or contracts, generate dashboards, and trigger multi-step workflows, all within the same interface. The twist is where it sits, inside Workday’s existing systems, inheriting their permissions, compliance rules and audit trails.
“AI only works in the enterprise when it’s connected to trusted, deterministic systems,” said Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and chief executive. “Sana is what brings it all together… a powerful way for people to search, reason and orchestrate work across the enterprise.”
The critique of current AI deployments is familiar, flashy pilots, little real impact. Workday’s answer is to embed intelligence where decisions are made and actions executed. Gerrit Kazmaier, president, product and technology, framed it as a shift from suggestion to execution: “AI agents take action using trusted context, not just provide suggestions… a single experience where AI is embedded directly in the flow of work.”
Early adopters suggest traction. Berner claims 90 per cent adoption within 40 days, scrapping 400 ChatGPT licences. Cheffelo calls Sana its “AI backbone”, while Telavox says the conversation has shifted from automating tasks to reimagining entire processes.
Analysts, too, see a broader play. Josh Bersin described the integration as “a major milestone”, arguing it could reshape both customer and employee experience by making AI-native workflows the default.
Sana is being bundled via Workday’s Flex Credits, no separate licence, no added paywall, a move that lowers friction and speeds adoption. Meanwhile, Sana Enterprise extends the system beyond Workday, allowing users to search documents, schedule meetings or track project tickets across multiple platforms in one conversation.
The bet is clear: whoever controls the workflow, controls the future of enterprise software. With Sana, Workday is trying to move AI from a helpful assistant to an invisible operator. If it works, the software menus may vanish, and with them, the way work itself is done.
