Global Study: Leaders Looking for More Sustainable Pace of Digital Transformation
In our just-published global study of business leaders from the finance, IT, and HR functions, we find that the pace of transformation is shifting out of high gear.
Technology Innovation
Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.
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Workday’s Vision for AI
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the appointment of 27 experts to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), including Sayan Chakraborty, executive vice president of product and technology at Workday. The committee will advise President Biden and the White House’s National AI Initiative Office on a broad range of AI issues. Sayan shares his views on the importance of driving the development and adoption of ethical AI and shaping smart policy around it.
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The Impact of Design on the Employee Experience
Jeff Gelfuso, Workday’s chief design officer, discusses the importance of delivering seamless end-to-end experiences for employees, and how Workday is making it possible.
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Formula 1 Puts Pedal to the Metal on Digital Acceleration
Chris Roberts, head of IT infrastructure at Formula 1, shares the drivers for success in the racing organisation’s digital journey, and how it has led the pack as an “innovation machine.”
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Global Study: Workforce Skills and Data Access Are Barriers to Digital Transformation
Our global survey on digital acceleration finds that business leaders took a more measured approach in 2021 compared with the previous year. Read on to learn more about what respondents ranked as the top barriers to digital transformation.
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The Top 5 Questions CFOs Should Ask Themselves in 2022
Finance leaders helping to shepherd their companies toward an increasingly technology-enabled digital operating model are demanding more capabilities from their ERP solutions. Addressing five key questions can help enable a smooth transition.
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A Tale of Two Companies
How can two large companies in different industries—with different needs, processes, and regions—use the same technology platform effectively? By looking at two Workday customers, we see that numbers don’t always tell the full story when it comes to business needs.
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Building a Better Employee Experience
The pandemic and Great Resignation have made employee experience a business imperative for companies everywhere. Pete Schlampp discusses how we’re striving to better meet employees’ evolving needs, including using data and technology to personalize experiences and ensure people feel supported in moments that matter.
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A Focus on Employee Experience: From the CIO Lens
Work is more remote, decentralised, and digitised than ever before and employers are under great pressure to attract and retain top talent. Penelope Prett, CIO of Accenture, shared her insights on how technology can help create a vibrant new type of employee experience and keep workers energised.
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How Professional Services Automation Supports the Full Life Cycle of Client-Facing Projects
Discover how a professional services automation (PSA) platform can help services organizations better deliver on client projects and increase efficiency, insight, and customer satisfaction.
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Take 5 With Jim Stratton: Solving Big Problems
After working to uncover the mysteries of our solar system’s planets for nearly 15 years, Jim Stratton brought his passion for problem solving to Workday. In this post, our CTO explores what he sees around the corner for Workday and our customers, the challenges we can help them solve, and how guitar playing improves his thinking process.
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Global Study: Retailers Excel at Organizational Agility
According to our latest global study, retail organizations are ahead of other sectors in understanding the importance of digital revenue and, more importantly, having the agility to act quickly on opportunities.
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Webber Wentzel: Driving Innovation for South Africa’s Legal Sector
The CIO at Webber Wentzel, a prominent full-service law firm based in South Africa, talked to us about how the firm leveraged technology to navigate these unprecedented times, and its roadmap for the future.
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Workday Innovation Outlook: Aneel Bhusri on How We’re Helping Customers Emerge Stronger
Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, co-CEO, and chairman at Workday, shared insights on Workday product innovation, how we’re empowering customers, and how we’re helping organizations develop paths for growth at our Conversations for a Changing World digital event.
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Global Study: How Forward-Looking CIOs Are Driving Business Strategy
We conducted a global study of 603 executives worldwide to see how the digital acceleration spurred on by the pandemic has influenced the thinking of CIOs worldwide. Here’s an overview of the results.
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Success at Scale
When you’re evaluating cloud vendors, it’s important to understand how their technology platforms scale and whether a service can quickly adapt to meet your business needs. At Workday, we believe true scale is achieved if a service can handle the most demanding workloads of every customer—all at once, every day.
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Global Study: IT Leaders Reveal Key Goals and Challenges for Driving Digital Acceleration
Our report reveals how IT leaders at organizations of all sizes plan on tackling digital revenue growth and resilience, even in the face of pandemic-related challenges.
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The Great Acceleration: Can Your Business Keep Up?
The acceleration gap was already emerging prior to the pandemic, but the past year tested every organization’s ability to respond. Based on our work with thousands of customers worldwide, we’ve found seven imperatives businesses need to thrive in the “next normal.”
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Standard Contractual Clauses: Enabling Future Cross-Border Data Flows
Barbara Cosgrove, vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, discusses the European Commission's newly released, final version of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which provides clarity for companies that transfer personal data outside of Europe.
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Business System Scalability, Reliability, and Innovation in the Post-Pandemic Era
As organizations and the world at large start to recover from the pandemic’s impact, IT has the opportunity to reevaluate practices established out of necessity and keep the most valuable ones.
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Innovation and Upgrades Don’t Have to Be Disruptive
Many legacy enterprise application vendors are now asking their customers when they want to schedule their updates—as if this is a good thing. At Workday, we ask, “Why do updates have to cause disruption at all?” Hint: They don’t have to.
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Harvard Business Review: 4 Ways Procurement Is Evolving in 2021 and Beyond
Harvard Business Review finds that procurement’s role in the enterprise is evolving, and explains how leaders can empower their teams to act strategically.
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Workday Extend: Building New Business Capabilities for HR and Finance With Speed and Simplicity
Workday Extend empowers our customers to confidently build, deploy, and manage new business capabilities for finance and HR. Architected on the same platform as Workday's applications, Extend delivers enterprise scale and speeds development.
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Asia-Pacific Leaders Share How Digital Agility Is Enabling Them to Emerge Stronger
While the pandemic has created many challenges, The Salvation Army Australia and City Developments Limited of Singapore have also found the disruption has led to new and better ways of working. Learn more from their talk during our digital event, Conversations for a Changing World.
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Lessons from 2020: How Agility and Resilience Have Defined Successful Business Leadership
COVID-19 has accelerated the pace of digital transformation for many businesses. Carolyn Horne, our president, EMEA, looks at how a disruptive 2020 has acted as a catalyst for change—and how business leaders are increasing agility and building resilience within their organisations.
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Understanding the Basics: What Is Higher Education Software?
This blog looks at how a modern higher education software enables educational leaders to foster student success, develop more effective business processes, gain deeper insights across the organization, and navigate a disruptive landscape.
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Global Study: Organizational Agility Is Crucial During Global Pandemic
The second installment of our global survey, “Organizational Agility At Scale: The Key to Driving Digital Growth,” found that the pandemic has forced business leaders the world over to take a hard look at what they’re doing right, and what needs improving inside their own organizations.
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Creating a Culture That Fosters Product and Technology Innovation
Pete Schlampp, executive vice president of product development, and Sayan Chakraborty, executive vice president of technology, discuss how Workday’s culture encourages out-of-the-box thinking and creativity, which enables us to create products and technology that are changing the way people work.
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How Workday Integration Cloud Accelerates Digital Transformation for Our Customers
Workday Integration Cloud is key to our customers’ fast and successful transition to the cloud—and for their continued success as business needs, tools, and technologies continue to evolve.
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Workday Extend Is Now Generally Available
Workday Extend (formerly called Workday Cloud Platform) fosters an even more connected, adaptable, and extensible Workday. Learn how our customers are already using it to adapt to rapid changes brought on by the pandemic.
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Building an IT Organization That Prepares for Change
What does an IT organization need to keep innovating in the years ahead? Workday CIO Sheri Rhodes explains the four qualities that all tech leaders should instill in their teams.
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8 Ways to Help Ensure Your Company’s AI Is Ethical
Based on our experiences, here are eight lessons for technology companies looking to champion a commitment to ethical artificial intelligence (AI) across their organization.
