Technology Innovation

Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.

Technology Innovation

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.”

Pete Schlampp
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Barbara Cosgrove
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

Dopamine, Motivation, and the Science Behind Not Giving Up

At the Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, Shivvy Jervis, a futurist, speaker, and broadcaster, discussed her research on human motivation and how business leaders can best engage an increasingly distributed workforce.

Steve Dunne
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

3 Workday Customers Share Their Paths to Digital Acceleration

At our Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, leaders in finance, HR, and technology discussed how they’re reducing complexity, engaging employees, and driving innovation through digital transformation efforts.

Steve Dunne
Technology Innovation

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.

Dave Sohigian
Technology Innovation

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.

Dave Sohigian
Procurement Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

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.

Jim Stratton
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Jillian Ogawa
Technology Innovation

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.

Carolyn Horne
Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Analytics and Insights Technology Innovation

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.

Josh Krist
Technology Innovation

Schrems II: The Path Forward

Following the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) decision in the “Schrems II” case, some wondered what it would mean for cross-border data transfers and whether they remained valid. Upon more analysis, they remain intact—with some caveats.

Jason Albert
Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

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.

Jim Stratton
Technology Innovation

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.

Sheri Rhodes
Analytics and Insights Technology Innovation

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.

Barbara Cosgrove