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Sloan India promotes Anup Kumar Tripathi to general manager
NEW DELHI: Sloan India Pvt Ltd – a leader in smart sustainable restroom solutions and water-efficient products – today announced the promotion of Anup Kumar Tripathi as general manager – India operations, Sloan India. In his new role, Tripathi will head India’s business operations and work to strengthen Sloan’s brand while growing business across the country. He will report directly to Parthiv Amin, chief sales and marketing executive at Sloan headquarters in Franklin Park, IL US. Tripathi’s elevation comes at a crucial time when India’s economic growth is entering the recovery phase post-Covid2019-led lockdown. The Indian market holds enormous potential for Sloan’s wide range of touch-free sensor faucets, soap dispensers, flushometers, and other products. In this new role, Tripathi will oversee daily business operations, develop and implement growth strategies that lead to long term market share growth and profitability.
Tripathi joined Sloan India in 2016 as the country head and has spearheaded the sales and marketing functions of the company.
Sloan chief sales and marketing officer Parthiv Amin said: “As one of the first team members, Anup has helped build our organisation from the ground up, creating a robust team in the newly-opened office at Gurugram. In this new role, Anup will oversee daily business operations while developing and implementing long-term growth strategies to increase company’s market share. With rich experience in the segment, I am confident that he will take the company to new heights. My congratulations and best wishes to Anup on the new role.”
In his previous role, Tripathi implemented some of the most prestigious projects for Sloan across the country. These projects include: Infosys Campus, Bangalore; World Bank, New Delhi; US Embassy, New Delhi; Taj Coromandel, Chennai; KIA Motors showrooms, Pan-India; Lokhandwala International School, Mumbai; and many others.
Prior to joining Sloan India, Tripathi was associated with some of the premium faucet brands in India such as Tropical Industries International, Hindware, and Jaquar and Co. Tripathi brings with him a rich experience of over 20 years. An alumnus of Agra University and Poorvanchal University, he holds degrees in mechanical engineering and business management.
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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.
