Workday Video Recap: The Future of Financial Services
Discover the top trends shaping financial services in 2025, from AI and RPA to a new strategic role for finance teams, with firsthand insights from industry experts.
Customers and Community
Customer stories and news about our events, including Workday Rising.
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Workday Video Recap: The Future of Professional and Business Services
Explore emerging trends in professional and business services, with insights and guidance from industry experts in key areas like AI and workforce management.
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Workday Podcast: The Tech Talent War and the Secret Weapon
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 Circle’s chief people officer about the talent management challenges shaking up the financial services industry.
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Three Pillars of HR Technology Challenges
How AI is transforming the HR world: From employee retention to data protection – innovation for a future-oriented HR department.
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Skills-Based Workforce: 5 Essential Things to Know
Workday-developed documentary UNTAPPED: Closing America’s Opportunity Gap hits Netflix in the US this October. To celebrate, we’ve pulled together everything you need to know to start your journey to becoming a skills-based-workforce.
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Get Ready to Rock at Workday Rising
Workday Rising 2024 will bring us together to build invaluable connections, preview AI innovations, and discuss cutting-edge strategies to take business forever forward. Learn more from Workday Chief Marketing Officer Emma Chalwin.
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UNHCR: Unlocking the Value of Workday HCM
Learn how UNHCR transformed HR with Workday HCM, enhancing inclusion, diversity, and change management for better operations.
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HR Transformation at Philips: A Single Source of Truth Gives Organisations the Foundation to Innovate
In this podcast, Philips HRIS Solutions Architect Efthymios Zindros discusses how the global company transformed its operations.
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Controlling Costs through Digital Transformation: Sport Alliance CFO Shares Four Tips for Success
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.
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Workday Video: How AI Will Redefine the Future of Professional and Business Services
Discover how firms can solve their data, talent, and technology challenges while driving actionable, personalised insights for clients.
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Workday Video: See How AI Will Drive Innovation in Technology and Media
At Workday Rising EMEA, we spoke to industry leaders about how AI can help technology, media and entertainment companies to deliver more personalised experiences, promote talent retention, and drive profitability.
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Workday Video: How Retail Can Leverage AI’s Potential for Major Gains
Retail leaders discuss how AI is already transforming the industry and its potential for helping businesses predict and react to tomorrow’s challenges.
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Workday Video: Dive Into the Future of Financial Services
Constant change, technology disruption, and growing complexity are driving transformation in the financial services industry. Here’s what industry leaders identify as the most pressing priorities for this year and beyond.
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Workday Video: Tech Leaders on How AI is Powering the Future of IT
As the IT function evolves from in-house utility to strategic partner, AI can help deliver operational agility and efficiency, allowing the CIO to focus on innovation.
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Workday Video: How AI Will Help Finance Create Value
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.
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Workday Video: How AI is Transforming HR
As the world of work continues to evolve, HR can’t afford to stand still. Discover how HR leaders assess the challenges and opportunities created by technology —and how AI can transform the employee experience.
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Leadership Lessons From the Premier League: Six Things We Learned When We Spoke to Footballer Paul McVeigh
In this episode of the Workday podcast, we speak to footballer-turned-psychologist Paul McVeigh about his career in football, the psychology of high-performing teams, and what business leaders can learn about workplace culture from the Premier League.
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A Panel Discussion With Beazley and PwC: Navigating Uncertainty in the Insurance Space
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.
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Unifying a Fragmented Global HR Landscape
Complexity is the enemy of digital transformation. At Workday Rising EMEA, Stefan Bayer, Senior Vice President IT for Function Services at Siemens Healthineers, shared how his 68,000-employee company is streamlining – and strengthening – its fragmented IT infrastructure with Workday.
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Transform the Core: What Digital Business Models Require
There’s no shortcut to agility and the ability to rapidly scale digital initiatives. According to an IDC report, businesses must have an adaptable core architecture that is open, extensible, and intelligent to be digital first.
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What the New EU-US Data Privacy Framework Means for Cross-Border Data Transfers
The seamless transfer of data between the United States and European Union plays a vital role in driving the digital economy and enabling multinational companies to effectively manage their global workforces. Workday Chief Privacy Officer Barbara Cosgrove shares an update on what the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework means for Workday customers, and for the future.
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5 Valuable Lessons Learned from Bolt’s Workday Implementation
Bolt’s Andy Turnbull and Jacqueline Broderick share tips for ensuring a smooth, swift implementation, to unlock value even faster.
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Hilti’s HR Transformation Unlocks End-to-End Efficiencies
When the global manufacturer couldn’t find HR document management system that suited its needs, the HR transformation team worked with Workday Extend expert, Kainos, to build something completely new and innovative.
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Developing Apps for Kainos and its Customers in Workday Extend
With Workday Extend, digital transformation expert Kainos creates apps that run seamlessly inside the cloud-based enterprise management platform. Here’s how and why they use it.
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Workday Podcast: Rethinking Skills, Recruiting and Retaining Talent with Accenture
From ditching the old focus on compliant employees to uncovering fresh talent by focusing on skills over pedigree, Accenture’s Tim Good talks about HR trends reshaping the future of work.
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How Workday Helps Customers Enable Digital Success
Our Chief Customer Officer Sheri Rhodes shares her best practices to help customers realize the full value of their digital investments.
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Workday Podcast: How Bolt is Leveraging Technology to Steer Through Hypergrowth
On this episode, Andy Turnbull, Head of People Technology at Bolt, talks about the challenges of managing the workforce at one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, how Bolt’s technology helps it stay flexible and efficient, and the power of being honey badgers.
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How CHROs Are Embracing the Power to Adapt Through the Evolution of Work
At Workday Rising Europe, CHROs and leaders from Air Liquide, Ofcom and Puma discussed how they’re embracing more flexible ways of working, retaining and reskilling employees and, in doing so, creating highly adaptive organisations.
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Workday Podcast: How Global Fleet Management Services Company Leaseplan Turned Siloed Data into Effective Insights
Thanks to change management that empowered local teams, a modernised HR function at LeasePlan has visibility on the entire employee experience and can drive business decisions.
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Why the Future of Financial Services Is ‘Very, Very Bright’
At Workday Rising Europe, Trevor Williams, the former chief economist of Lloyds Bank Commercial, looked beyond the near-term recession hand-wringing and argued that bigger global forces—such as aging populations and accelerating technological change—are good news for the financial services industry.
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Why the Future of Finance is Built on Value Creation
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.
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CIOs Going Further in a Post Pandemic World
At Workday Rising Europe, our flagship customer event, CIOs and technology leaders from Absa, Accuride, AstraZeneca and Cushman & Wakefield discussed how they’re removing complexity, and unleashing the power of data to drive innovation in their organisations.
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The Future of Insurance: Aiming for Agility
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.
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Workday Podcast: How Finance Transformation Helps Housing Association Hyde Group Meet Mission Demand
Hyde Group shifted from a clunky legacy system that ate up time to a user-friendly digital finance platform that gives time back. On this podcast episode, Anna Brennan, Hyde Housing’s finance system implementation director, discusses how the finance function went from reporting numbers to adding value.
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Advocating for Women in Tech: A Conversation With Michelle Carroll From GSK
Michelle Carroll came from a non-technical, HR background, but with her Workday expertise, she grew into a Senior Technology Leader at a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company.
This article is taken from Vol. 7 of SmarterCIO.
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Workday Rising Europe: The Future of Professional and Business Services - Adapt, Innovate and Thrive
At Workday Rising Europe, our flagship customer event, we were joined by Sacha Romanovitch, former CEO at Grant Thornton UK. She discussed how the professional services industry can leverage data, technology and talent to adapt and thrive.
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Retaining Talent: Why We Need to Talk About Menopause at Work
Business leaders can improve retention of midlife workers and create inclusive measures to better support multiple generations of employees now and into the future. One place to start: menopause care.
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Formula 1 and The Future of Manufacturing: Adapt, Innovate and Thrive
At Workday Rising Europe, our flagship customer event, we were joined by Peter Van Manen, former managing director at McLaren Electronics. He discussed the parallels between Formula 1 race car development and how the manufacturing industry can solve some of its most fundamental challenges.
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Top 10 Workday Podcast Episodes of 2022
Throughout the year, we invited some of the best minds in business to discuss how to navigate change and build a brighter future. Pop in your earbuds and check out our top Workday Podcast episodes of 2022.
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Top 10 Workday Blog Articles of 2022
Our top 10 blog posts from the past year cover topics that are as popular among business leaders now as on the day they first published. We’ve included some of our favorite Workday customer and community stories, too.
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Workday Rising Europe Daily: Meet the Changemakers Thriving Through Uncertainty
In our final edition of the Workday Europe Rising Daily, read inspiring stories from the industry trailblazers who are meeting change head on. Read on to find out what happened on day three of our marquee customer event in Stockholm, and meet changemakers with adaptability in their DNA.
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Accenture CEO: 5 Forces That Will Define Leaders’ Priorities in the Next Decade
During the “Changemaker Keynote: Customer Perspectives on Embracing Change” at Workday Rising, Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet shared how leaders can guide their organizations amid massive change.
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Workday Rising Europe Daily: Celebrating the Changemakers
Learn what Workday leaders and our customers shared during the second day of Workday Rising Europe. See recaps from conference sessions on the challenges and opportunities facing finance, HR, and IT leaders in our changing world.
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Workday Rising Europe Daily: Stockholm Welcomes Our Community to Workday Rising Europe
After three long years, we’re thrilled to welcome back our customers, partners, and others in our community back to Workday Rising Europe. Read on to find out what happened as we opened our doors on day one of our marquee customer event in Stockholm.
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Workday Named as a Leader for 7th Consecutive Year in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises
We’re thrilled that Workday has been named as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. We believe being named as a Leader for the seventh consecutive year demonstrates that we consistently enable our customers with the power to adapt.
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Looking Forward: How Data Champion AstraZeneca is rising to the ESG challenge
In a recent webinar, Clare Hickie, Workday’s EMEA CTO was joined by Phil Carter, GVP and European chief analyst at IDC, and Russell Smith, Head of Enabling Units IT at AstraZeneca, to discuss the findings of a recent IDC report “The Digital Business Fabric: Unlocking the Right Data Architecture to Power Your Business” and to explore how the role of data champion is helping AstraZeneca to meet its bold ESG ambitions.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
We’re delighted to announce that Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, a new category. Answering the call from our customers, Workday Enterprise Management Cloud transforms the way organizations operate by going beyond the boundaries of traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
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How IT Can Advance the Business Case for Cloud Computing
Making the business case for moving to the cloud is often about developing strong partnerships across the C-Suite and establishing internal trust in an organization. Christoph Frank, head of process and technology solutions and strategy at LGI, talks about his organisation’s shift to the cloud, and how companies should think about its return on investment.
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Workday Experts Discuss HR Insights From Online Workplace Reviews
There’s been an upward trend in employees posting negative reviews about their employers on public sites. Workday’s Lauryn Bissell, senior business psychologist, and Gabriel Dizon, manager of customer success, joined a podcast with Nick Ciavatta at Argyle Insider to discuss what’s motivating this movement and how businesses can respond.
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How Thomson Reuters Made Self-Identification Initiatives Work for Its Employees
Self-identification is essential when prioritizing belonging and diversity, but how do you make it work across a global team? Discover how Thomson Reuters expanded belonging and diversity self-identification capabilities to 68 countries.
