News and guidance on using data-driven insights to make better decisions.
ERP systems are often considered a necessary evil. But DeepL shows that they can achieve much more strategically – if you don't just digitise them, but rethink them. A story about growth, data intelligence and operational excellence in finance.
Discover how Midsize Enterprises (MSE) can earn lender trust and unlock capital by connecting financial data.
5 Steps to Get Ready for EU Pay Transparency
The EU Pay Transparency Directive is changing the way companies think about and communicate remuneration. This guide shows organisations how to prepare their HR structures, data and narratives in five clear steps.
More than ever, finance leaders must possess a broader skill set, including the ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and provide insights that inform critical business decisions and create value.
Financial consolidation and close is more than a reporting cycle—it’s a test of how connected, agile, and future-ready finance really is. Modernizing the process is the key to moving faster with confidence.
Big data and data mining are hot topics—but how do they relate to each other? Discover how data mining transforms raw big data into actionable knowledge, enabling companies to identify trends and gain a competitive edge.
Uncover pivotal trends shaping financial services in 2025. Learn how AI, embedded finance, and personalized wellness strategies are crucial for financial professionals and analysts.
Workday metrics show that employers need to prioritize key talent retention, internal mobility, and clear communication of business goals to successfully navigate the evolving labor landscape.
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.
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 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.
If there’s one thing about financial services regulation that never changes, it’s the fact that regulation always changes. In this installment of our podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk about not just keeping up with regulation, but making it work to create value for financial services organisations.
Metrics from Workday customers indicate the hiring slowdown may be coming to an end. We explore how that impacts organizations’ talent strategies and why that makes “retaining” the new “recruiting.”
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.
The first half of 2023 has seen big changes in the labor market, with reverberating effects on the workforce including signs of decreased engagement. Based on metrics from the Workday platform—which shows more applications for fewer jobs and voluntary turnover declining by 20% compared to the same time frame last year—we’ve pulled together key trends and insights to help HR leaders chart their course for the near-term future.
Technology—including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—will play a significant role in helping finance leaders retain talent, achieve accounting automation, and create value for the enterprise. Philippa Lawrence, chief accounting officer and vice president at Workday, lays out what she sees on the horizon.
This Workday-sponsored podcast series gives HR leaders the insights they need to start building their own successful people analytics strategies.
For businesses to remain competitive during times of uncertainty and transformation, understanding employee sentiment is critical. That’s where employee engagement software gives you the edge.
Finance leaders are increasingly relying on forward-looking and customer-centric key performance indicators to drive business success.
Our survey found that only 38% of financial services leaders are confident in their ability to make data-informed decisions in real time. Workday’s Pete Rutman discusses what this means for the industry and its digital growth.
At Workday, we believe understanding employees’ skills is essential to operating a business and imperative for the future of work. We’re introducing next-generation technology that amplifies the impact of Skills Cloud, helping our customers strengthen their foundation as a skills-based organization.
Next-generation finance professionals face an increasingly complex set of expectations. Philippa Lawrence, vice president and chief accounting officer at Workday, describes what successful accounting teams will look like going forward.
Workday’s finance and strategy leaders spoke with Boston Consulting Group on how finance at Workday has evolved to support our growth, and the lessons other finance leaders can learn through their approach to data and cross-functional collaboration.
Learn more about how the pandemic has impacted the risk of employee attrition in different industries and regions based on a sample of over 1 million employees across 250 organizations worldwide.
We spoke to David Somers, Workday’s group general manager of product for the office of the CHRO, and Phil Chambers, general manager for Peakon, to hear about Peakon’s new name, our vision for it, and why listening to your employees has become so critical.
Skills are the currency of the modern organization, and companies have the opportunity to add value and objectivity to every practice that involves skills data. Guest author and HR thought leader Ben Eubanks shares his insights.
The pandemic has required many employees to juggle online meetings with their roles as caregivers. Are businesses providing the support caregivers need? A recent global report reveals how employee expectations have evolved.
Every person should feel valued for the work they do and the unique perspectives they bring. With the VIBE Index, we want to help equip organizations with the tools they need to build stronger, more inclusive workforces.
At our recent digital event, an IT leader at Netherlands-headquartered trading firm IMC spoke about how the ability to unlock data has served their customers, even while facing unprecedented business disruption.
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.
Technological advances, ever-increasing customer expectations, and smarter, data-driven decision-making put pressure on finance teams to find new ways to operate with agility. But how do you plan in a way that allows you to respond to such events, from the predictable to the unlikely?
We’ve launched three new solutions—fueled by machine learning and other advanced technologies—to empower companies to create hyper-personalized employee experiences, respond faster, and better understand their workforces.
Based on our experiences, here are eight lessons for technology companies looking to champion a commitment to ethical artificial intelligence (AI) across their organization.
