Workato has opened its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad, expanding the enterprise automation company’s global network of AI innovation centres and strengthening its investment in India’s growing enterprise AI ecosystem.
The new facility, located at Aurobindo Orbit in Hyderabad Knowledge City, HITEC City, joins Workato’s existing AI collaboration hubs in San Francisco and Singapore.
The Hyderabad centre is designed to bring customers, global system integrators, developers and Workato engineers together to build and deploy enterprise-grade artificial intelligence solutions. Rather than functioning solely as a research or office facility, the hub is positioned as a hands-on environment where teams can develop, test and operationalise agentic AI workflows using real enterprise systems.
Workato Builds Enterprise AI Collaboration Centre in Hyderabad
At the heart of the new facility is an Enterprise AI Collaboration Centre, where customers and partners can work directly with Workato’s engineering teams.
The space combines collaborative work areas, hot-desking facilities and dedicated build labs. The objective is to shorten the journey from an initial AI concept to a functioning enterprise workflow.
Workato says teams can collaborate on use cases involving customers’ actual systems, data environments and business processes, allowing AI solutions to be developed with enterprise requirements in mind from the beginning.
The approach reflects a broader shift in enterprise AI. Companies are increasingly moving beyond experimental generative AI projects and looking for solutions that can integrate with existing technology infrastructure while meeting security, compliance and governance requirements.
Why Enterprise AI Struggles to Move Beyond Pilots
The launch comes as businesses continue to face challenges in converting AI experiments into measurable business outcomes.
Research from McKinsey & Company has highlighted the difficulty many organisations face in generating tangible value from generative AI investments. For enterprises, the challenge often extends beyond the capabilities of an AI model itself.
Legacy enterprise applications, fragmented data, regulatory requirements and complex multi-cloud environments can make deploying AI at scale considerably more difficult.
Workato’s platform is designed around automation, integration, orchestration and governance. The Hyderabad hub will allow customers and partners to work directly with these capabilities while developing AI applications for real-world enterprise environments.
The focus is particularly relevant to agentic AI, where AI systems can execute multi-step tasks and interact with enterprise applications rather than simply generating text or providing recommendations.
Hyderabad Emerges as an Enterprise AI Engineering Hub
Workato’s decision to establish its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad reflects India’s expanding role in the global AI ecosystem.
According to the Stanford AI Index 2026, India has become one of the world’s largest contributors to AI development activity, accounting for a significant share of global AI-related GitHub activity. India and the United States also represent a substantial portion of the global AI workforce.
Hyderabad has developed a particularly strong technology talent base spanning software engineering, cloud infrastructure, enterprise applications and artificial intelligence.
For Workato, this provides an opportunity to combine India’s engineering capabilities with direct collaboration involving customers and technology partners.
Workato’s India Operations Continue to Expand
Workato established its India operations in 2022 and has since expanded its workforce to more than 200 employees across Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai.
India has increasingly become an important part of Workato’s global engineering and AI strategy.
The Hyderabad AI Collaboration Hub represents the next stage of that investment. Instead of focusing only on internal engineering activities, the facility brings customers and ecosystem partners into the development process.
This model is intended to enable companies to jointly identify AI opportunities, develop solutions and move successful applications into production.
What the Hyderabad AI Hub Means for Customers
For enterprise customers, Workato’s new facility is designed to reduce the time between identifying an AI opportunity and deploying a working solution.
Rather than relying entirely on conventional consulting and product-development cycles, customers can collaborate directly with Workato engineers and partners on their own business environments.
This can help teams address practical issues such as:
- Enterprise system integration
- Data access and management
- AI workflow orchestration
- Security and governance
- Automation
- Deployment and scalability
- Measurement of business outcomes
The goal is to move enterprise AI projects from proof-of-concept stages toward production-ready deployments.
New Opportunities for Global System Integrators
The hub will also serve as a collaborative environment for global system integrators (GSIs).
Partners can work with Workato to develop repeatable AI solutions, build new enterprise AI capabilities and create joint offerings for customers.
This could become increasingly important as enterprises seek technology partners capable of combining AI models with existing business applications and infrastructure.
Persistent Systems and Tech Mahindra Join the Collaboration Ecosystem
Workato’s Hyderabad initiative is also supported by collaboration with technology services companies including Persistent Systems and Tech Mahindra.
Sameer Dixit, Corporate VP – Data, Integration & AI at Persistent Systems, said enterprise AI adoption requires more than advanced AI models and highlighted the importance of integration, orchestration and governance in moving AI into production environments.
Gopikrishnan Konnanath, Global Head, Digital Enterprise Applications at Tech Mahindra, similarly emphasised the need to move enterprise AI projects beyond pilots and accelerate the path from experimentation to deployed solutions.
Their participation highlights the role that system integrators can play in helping businesses implement AI across complex enterprise environments.
Workato CEO Highlights Hyderabad’s Strategic Importance
Workato CEO and Co-founder Vijay Tella, who grew up in Hyderabad, said the new hub has a personal connection for him but is primarily focused on addressing the practical challenges faced by enterprise customers.
According to Tella, the central challenge in enterprise AI is not simply developing powerful AI models but making those systems work effectively with existing enterprise applications, data and compliance requirements.
The Hyderabad centre is therefore intended to bring together engineers, customers and partners to develop production-grade AI solutions collaboratively.
The Future of Enterprise AI Could Be Built Through Co-Innovation
Workato’s new Hyderabad hub reflects a broader evolution in the enterprise AI market.
As businesses move from AI experimentation toward large-scale deployment, the competitive advantage may increasingly depend on the ability to connect AI with existing enterprise infrastructure.
That requires more than AI models.
It requires integration, automation, orchestration, governance, engineering expertise and deep knowledge of business workflows.
By bringing customers, developers, system integrators and engineers into the same physical environment, Workato is betting on a collaborative approach to solving those challenges.
With Hyderabad emerging as a major global technology and engineering centre, the new AI Collaboration Hub could also strengthen India’s role in the development and deployment of enterprise AI solutions.
Key Takeaways
- Workato has opened its third AI Collaboration Hub in Hyderabad.
- The facility is located at Aurobindo Orbit, Hyderabad Knowledge City, HITEC City.
- It follows existing hubs in San Francisco and Singapore.
- The centre will focus on enterprise AI, automation and agentic AI solutions.
- Customers, developers, system integrators and Workato engineers will collaborate at the facility.
- Workato has grown its India workforce to more than 200 employees across Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai.
- The hub aims to accelerate the transition from AI pilots to production-ready enterprise deployments.
- Persistent Systems and Tech Mahindra are among the partners involved in the collaboration ecosystem.
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Ruchi Kumar is the associate editor at Entrepreneur News Network and TVW News India, where she leads editorial strategy, brand storytelling, and startup ecosystem coverage. With a strong focus on innovation, business, and marketing insights, he curates impactful narratives that spotlight India’s evolving entrepreneurial landscape. She has written extensively on fintech, AI and emerging startups.