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News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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How AI Is Changing Corporate Finance in 2025
From automating complex processes to delivering real-time strategic insights, AI is empowering corporate finance teams to not only keep up with the pace of change—but to lead it.
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How to Create a Financial Plan for Your Small Business
Small businesses often rely on ad-hoc financial planning even as evidence shows that a sound financial plan is key for growth. Read on to learn the components of a small business financial plan, its benefits, and common challenges.
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The Top 5 Ways to Leverage AI for Financial Analysis
AI is playing an increasingly integral role in finance teams—but many organizations still have low adoption rates. Read on to learn five key ways to use AI for financial analysis to drive greater results.
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6 Scenario Planning Tools for Strategic Management of Your Organization
Navigating uncertain times is hard for any business—but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how scenario planning tools can set your business up for success.
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How AI Is Shaping Predictive Analytics in Finance
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.
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2025 Financial Planning Trends Every CFO Should Know
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.
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How Workday CFO Zane Rowe Took a Career Detour and Found Success
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.
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Workday Podcast | Make Your Move: The Future for FSI with Forrester
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
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The Secrets to Outperformance: Strategies for Courageous Growth
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.
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How 4 Factors Power Robust Growth: Leaders Reveal Their Organisational Success Secrets
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.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for Third Year in a Row
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.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
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.
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5 Elements CFOs Must Focus on to Fuel the Future of Finance
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.
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Workday Podcast: AI for Financial Services: Beyond the Comfort Zone
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.
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Workday Podcast: The Way Forward for Professional Services Firms
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.
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Into the Hotseat: Why More CFOs Are Becoming CEOs
Finance leaders are ready for the top job, but what skills are needed for the transition?
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Workday Rising: Continued Innovations in Finance for 2024 Highlight AI Benefits of a Unified Platform
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.
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AI: The Multi-Billion Pound Key to Unlocking UK Productivity
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.
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Workday Podcast: AI for Financial Services: Beyond the Comfort Zone
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.
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Is Your ERP Holding You Back? Modern Platforms Emphasize Enterprise Data
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.
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Workday Recognized as a 2024 Customers’ Choice for Financial Planning Software by Gartner® Peer Insights™
Workday has over 280 five-star reviews as of April 30, 2024, in the Gartner Peer Insights “Financial Planning Software Reviews and Ratings” report.
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Professional and Business Services Firms Realised up to €2 Million Worth of Savings Over Three Years with Workday, Forrester Consulting Finds
Forrester Consulting conducted The Total Economic Impact™ of Workday for Professional and Business Services Firms study, on behalf of Workday.
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Reimagining the Enterprise Experience With AI
Workday continues to deliver innovation to our customers, enabling advanced planning across the enterprise for increased productivity and better decision-making.
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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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How Cross-Functional Planning Enhances Collaboration with FP&A
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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How to Create Business Resilience through What-If Analysis in FP&A
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.
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Introducing Accelerate with Workday
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.
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Our Key Takeaways From the Gartner® Hype Cycle for ERP, 2023 Report
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.
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Workday Podcast: Retail and Hospitality’s Path to Success
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.
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Workday Podcast: A New Era for Tech and Media
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.
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The Hidden Costs of Maintaining Legacy Systems in FP&A
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.
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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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Why CFOs Must Focus on Closing the AI Trust Gap
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.
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Survey: Finance Leaders Envision the Role of Generative AI in Their Organizations
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.
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Why HR Leaders Must Get More Strategic About Payroll
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.
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NRF 2024 Recap: The Future Is Today
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.
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3 Steps to Select the Best FP&A Software Tool for 2024
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.
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Workday Podcast: Reimagining Resource Management with AI
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.
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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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The Future of FP&A: Automation, AI, and the Trends of 2024
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.
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Why Technology Industry CFOs Must Be Ready to Drive Change
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.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for Second Year in a Row
We believe our Leader position reflects the value customers gain by adopting Workday Adaptive Planning.
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Global CFO AI Indicator Report: How Finance Leaders Can Become Value Creators
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.
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Video: Q&AI: How Will Artificial Intelligence Impact the Role of the CFO?
In the first installment of the Q&AI video series, Sayan Chakraborty, co-president of Workday, explains how artificial intelligence is transforming finance.
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Workday Adaptive Planning and Consolidation—Another Starting Point on the Finance Transformation Journey
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.
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Drive Flexibility With an Agile Approach to Budgeting
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.
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Workday Again Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
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.
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Bridging the Gap Between Finance and HR Delivers Positive Business Outcomes
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.
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The Power of AI and ML for Tech and Media CFOs
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?
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