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Havas Media Group strengthens team with three appointments
MUMBAI: Havas Media Group India has made some senior management appointments in keeping with its growth pace and new business acquisitions since the beginning of 2013.
In the light of the recently acquired LG business, the Havas Media Arena team has been strengthened with two key appointments. Love Guglani joins as vice president and Saurabh Bhatnagar joins as group account director-Digital. Their main mandate is to manage the LG business in keeping with the philosophy of being Digital at the core.
Besides this, Havas Media Delhi has appointed Roopali Sharma as vice president, to manage key clients like MTS which are on their growth phase.
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Commenting on the appointments Havas Media Group India and south Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “Our growth strategy needs the right people. All three have had illustrious careers and collectively bring in huge wealth of knowledge and experience.”
Love who has more than 12 years of experience across media agencies said, “Havas is looking at an aggressive growth path in India so I am glad to be here. I have worked with Anita Nayyar in the past – her passion and support is a fantastic proposition to drive a business, in addition to the working wavelength we share. My mandate presents opportunities and challenges. I look forward to giving brands, global or local a meaningful voice to further their business plans in India,” on his new role.
“Havas is a great opportunity and I am thrilled to be associated with great minds. I look forward to institute a richer, multi level digital experience for the clients and create new business associations in India. The expectations and challenges are big and I consider them as motivators to achieve greater results and growth”, said Saurabh Bhatnagar who comes with rich experience of 12+ years, most of which have been with digital.
On the move, Roopali said, “I look forward to an exciting and enriching career at Havas. My role and responsibility is to further strengthen our quality of work and lead the clients to more strategic directions helping them achieve their business goals. I look forward to working in this exciting and inspiring work place under the inspiring and always motivated leadership”. She has over 13 years of experience which spans across strategy, planning and buying.
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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.
