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MPG appointed as media AOR for Vaswani Group
MUMBAI: MPG India, a flagship brand of Havas Media, has been appointed the media AOR of real estate company Vaswani Group.
The account, worth upwards of Rs 100 million, will be handled by MPG Bangalore. The agency won the account in a competitive pitch process.
MPG has been tasked with developing a media planning and buying strategy towards building an exclusive brand – The Vaswani Reserve.
Vaswani Group GM of marketing Joseph Angelo said: “We felt the MPG approach was thorough and insightful. Their strategic thinking, drive and passion instilled in us the confidence to believe that this will be a successful partnership.”
Commenting on the win, MPG South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said: “It is a great privilege to be working with a very professional set of clients from Vaswani Group. The real estate space is booming in our country and the company has already created a niche for itself in commercial and residential property development arena. Partnering them in their journey is exciting and we are looking to play an important role in their next phase of growth. “
“One of the factors that helped us win this business was our strategic approach to communication mix using our proprietary tools. We made very targeted recommendations especially for consumer activation program.”
The Bangalore based Vaswani Group is a well-established property development company with strong presence and South India. The group has been in operation for the last 16 years and has developed eight million square feet of built area.
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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.
