News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
AI has already led to huge changes in predictive analytics in finance, and the biggest are yet to come. Learn how automation and advanced data analysis are turning finance teams into strategic leaders.
2025 is firmly underway—but what will the defining trends be for CFOs? Read on to learn more about the importance of upskilling finance teams, adopting cloud-based solutions, and AI as a key enabler of integrated finance.
Sometimes taking a position not normally associated with finance pays outsized dividends. Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks career, customers, AI, and finance in a CFO Thought Leader podcast.
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Oliwia Berdak, financial technology research director at Forrester Research. We caught up with Berdak to talk about Forrester’s predictions for 2025 and beyond
Profitable, sustainable growth is the closest thing the business sector has to nirvana—but achieving this state has proved particularly challenging in recent years. An insightful webinar highlights McKinsey & Company research into how companies can move the needle.
A solid strategy, an emphasis on customer satisfaction, and having the right people in the right roles are just some of the elements that set companies up to maximise shareholder value. Executives from Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, and Snowflake share their insights.
We’re honored to once again be recognised as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.
We’re excited to be recognised as a Leader in this report once again. Workday Illuminate reflects our relentless commitment to innovation around how we deliver AI across the Workday platform to empower our customers with increased efficiency and deeper insights, unlocking the ability to seize new opportunities for growth.
Finance leaders who devote resources to a few key elements will be well positioned to elevate their roles to that of a futurist, according to a new eBook from Workday.
Financial services has been using AI for years, but what’s the next step with this transformative technology? Nicole Carrillo, managing director of financial services at Workday, talks with PwC’s Vikas Agarwal about everything AI in this installment of our podcast series, Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward.
How can professional services firms prepare for whatever comes next? To learn more, we talked with Kyle Wilkinson, strategic industry advisor for professional services at Workday, in this installment of our Industrious podcast series.
Finance leaders are ready for the top job, but what skills are needed for the transition?
Workday is introducing enhancements across an array of products focused on hyper-automating processes for financial management, planning, and spend management while improving the speed and accuracy of data insights.
A new report from Workday uncovers large businesses in the UK could save 7.9 billion employee hours per year through the use of ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI). Find out how you can embrace the future of work and consign productivity problems to the past.
Financial services has been using AI for years, but what’s the next step with this transformative technology? Nicole Carrillo, managing director of financial services at Workday, talks with PwC’s Vikas Agarwal about everything AI in this installment of our podcast series, Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward.
Organizations using true cloud platforms are best able to manage their finance, people, and data in a way that provides unprecedented transparency and agility that best prepares them for a future of growth.
Workday has over 280 five-star reviews as of April 30, 2024, in the Gartner Peer Insights “Financial Planning Software Reviews and Ratings” report.
Forrester Consulting conducted The Total Economic Impact™ of Workday for Professional and Business Services Firms study, on behalf of Workday.
Workday continues to deliver innovation to our customers, enabling advanced planning across the enterprise for increased productivity and better decision-making.
In this episode of the Workday podcast, Sport Alliance’s Philipp Rusch discusses how the right digital planning tools can enable fast-growing businesses to maintain agility while scaling. |
Operating in silos is the old way of doing business. For FP&A teams to deliver the most value to today’s organisations, they need to embrace cross-functional collaboration with key company functions.
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The unexpected is part of doing business, but smart leaders use what-if analyses to ensure they don’t miss out on opportunities or aren’t capsized by an emergency. Try these tips to guide your what-if analysis process.
Accelerate with Workday makes it easier than ever for companies to get started and see results with Workday—realizing 42% faster time to value. Learn how this new program helps keep organizations moving forever forward.
Report shows Application, Finance and IT leaders which technologies can transform their businesses as well as when and how to include them in their ERP strategy.
What’s the positive path forward for the retail and hospitality industries? Keith Pickens, managing director of retail and hospitality at Workday, shares his perspective in this installment of our Industrious podcast series.
In this episode of our Industrious podcast series, it’s all about challenges and opportunities for the tech and media industries, featuring special guest Randy Rasmussen, Workday managing director for tech and media.
FP&A teams have long relied on legacy systems. But as the associated costs climb—from maintenance requirements to operational inefficiencies—more finance and IT leaders are rethinking the status quo.
Today’s finance teams have more responsibilities than ever as CEOs increasingly look to the CFO to shape business strategy. In an increasingly challenging environment, AI and machine learning can cut through complexity and help finance add greater value.
Finance leaders should work to improve trust around AI to help improve adoption of the technology and enable digital transformation to achieve greater productivity, Workday CFO Zane Rowe said at the most recent World Economic Forum in Davos.
With the vast economic potential of generative AI becoming increasingly apparent, finance leaders are taking note. Deloitte’s recent CFO Signals quarterly survey shows what’s on their minds around benefits, risks, and barriers to adoption of the transformative technology.
Payroll has the potential to provide valuable insights for strategic decision-making, creating a big impact on business outcomes and significantly influencing the success of an organization.
Explore the standout insights, trends, and technological innovations from NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show. Hear stories from Workday customers on how they’re reimagining the future of retail and delivering extraordinary customer experiences.
The right FP&A software can help transform your organisation—reducing manual processes and mistakes, speeding time to insights, and helping your company quickly react to market changes.
New ways of working have sparked professional services firms to rethink their approach to resource management and explore how technology, including AI and automation, can help. This episode offers a deep-dive into resource management with Richard Cassidy, chief commercial officer of Dayshape.
At Workday Elevate in London, Workday's Viren Patel was joined by Beazley's Head of Finance Operations, Dauda Jammeh, and PwC Partner and Head of Insurance & AWM, Tom Brown, to discuss the challenges companies face on their financial and digital transformation journeys and how technology and expertise can come together to deliver the best outcomes.
AI has the potential to transform many FP&A functions including quicker access to higher-quality data. But to reap the benefits, organisations will need smart security and privacy policies.
Tech industry CFOs must take a central role in technology transformation projects. Justin Joseph examines three critical areas where they can drive change through modernization.
We believe our Leader position reflects the value customers gain by adopting Workday Adaptive Planning.
While the opportunity for AI in finance is nearly unlimited, it can also be overwhelming. To clarify a path forward, we created the “Global CFO AI Indicator Report,” commissioned with FT Longitude.
In the first installment of the Q&AI video series, Sayan Chakraborty, co-president of Workday, explains how artificial intelligence is transforming finance.
Now there’s another starting point on the finance transformation journey for companies that desire to modernize their financial consolidation process along with their planning function. Learn about our new offering.
Agile budgeting can help companies build confidence that they’re making the right choices in response to change—and work faster while they’re doing it.
We’re thrilled to be named a Leader in this category for the second time since the category’s inception last year. With artificial intelligence and machine learning built into its core, Workday Enterprise Management Cloud unlocks the potential of our customers’ processes, data, and people.
By joining together to plan, measure, and optimize talent, finance and HR can elevate workforce planning, taking it from a static exercise that attempts to guess future needs to an active process that’s able to adjust to constantly changing operational realities.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be major differentiators in how effectively tech and media companies can compete. How can industry CFOs harness the power of these technologies for maximum benefit?
A Workday survey of civil servants responsible for workforce management uncovers the current state of HR, finance, and enterprise planning systems within government—and tracks the progress in transforming these systems.
Organizations, especially large ones, need a planning platform that can handle big, complex models without compromising user experience. Learn how Elastic Hypercube Technology (EHT)—Workday’s next-generation, in-memory architectural engine for Workday Adaptive Planning—is making that possible.
By envisioning and preparing for what’s ahead, organizations can be far more agile, proactive, and successful.
The world is changing, really, really fast — stop me if you’ve heard this one before. That means organisations need the finance function to step up from the role of business partner and become a value creation partner. At Workday Rising Europe in Stockholm, finance leaders from Kainos, Monex and Veolia joined Workday’s co-president Robynne Sisco to get to the heart of the finance function’s changing role and what being a value creator really means.
Rising climate change risks, heightened consumer expectations, and a dearth of tech talent loom large among the insurance industry’s near-term issues and opportunities. Industry experts share how these demands—and more—will shape the industry in the years to come.