How AI and ML Are Powering the Future of Work
At Workday, we’ve embedded AI and ML into the very core of our platform—delivering unrivaled business adaptability and competitive advantage to our customers. Here’s how.
Technology Innovation
Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.
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How Skills-Based Organizations Can Use AI to Create the Jobs of Tomorrow
To help prepare for the jobs of tomorrow, it’s imperative for organizations to adopt a skills-based mindset driven by the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
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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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Workday’s Continued Diligence to Ethical AI and ML Trust
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to modernize, so do our ethical principles. Kelly Trindel, head of machine learning (ML) trust at Workday, shares how we’re building trustworthy AI for our customers and their employees.
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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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Riding the Wave of Innovation at Workday to Deliver a Seamless Experience
Jeff Gelfuso, Workday’s chief design officer, shares how our redesigned user experience is helping customers adapt in a changing world.
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Innovating With Our Community in a Changing World
Organizations across every industry face the same challenge: how to adapt at speed. With Workday apps and solutions—enabled by our Workday community and broad ecosystem—we bring the flexibility and adaptability our customers need to thrive.
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The Importance of Relationships for Successful ERP Modernization
Many CIOs are in the driver's seat when it comes to deciding their organization's overall ERP strategy. Yet successful transformation requires effective partnership with other stakeholders, particularly the CFO. Learn why building strong relationships across the business is critical to ERP modernization, and the business benefits that come from an adaptable platform.
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Reevaluating ERP: Paving a Way Forward
The prospect of transforming complex business-critical systems is enough to scare off some CIOs from tackling core modernization efforts. But maintaining the status quo presents an even greater risk to the business. Learn what the path to a modern ERP environment looks like.
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Global Research: Business Success Depends on Strong CIO-CFO Partnerships
Our recent CFO-CIO global survey found that IT leaders are more likely to advise on emerging technology and achieve digital transformation for the finance function once they align with their finance counterparts.
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Why Businesses Can’t Avoid ERP Modernization Any Longer
Forward-thinking CIOs are using the opportunity to rethink traditional ERP environments, with an emphasis on transforming business processes and creating a foundation for a decision-ready organization. Learn why neglecting the digital ERP core is a dead-end strategy.
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4 Trends Shaping the European Banking Sector, Part 2
In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges facing the European banking sector, the risks and barriers organisations face on the path to digital transformation, and how the sector will benefit from increased agility.
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Redefining Cloud Value in the Post-Pandemic World
Clare Hickie, CTO, EMEA at Workday, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic heightened business demand for a shift to the cloud, and how CIOs can prove the cloud’s value to their organisations.
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4 Trends Shaping Digital Innovation in the European Banking Sector, Part 1
The finance and banking sectors have long been ripe for digital transformation. Yet, legacy technologies have often prevented wholesale digital change. We’ll take a look at two challenges facing the European banking sector and the risks facing organisations on the path to financial transformation.
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Workday Global Study: CIOs Hold the Key to Data-Fueled Transformation
According to our latest global survey, the requirements of digital transformation are placing huge demands on technology leaders. See how CIOs can gain a strategic edge in the new world of work.
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Workday Podcast: Elevating the Employee Experience With Mobile
In order to deliver a positive employee experience, businesses must embrace an “anytime, anywhere” philosophy. Berea Schaffer, Workday’s vice president of mobile, shares insights on how businesses can increase employee satisfaction by delivering an engaging end-to-end mobile app experience.
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How IT Is Empowering Today’s Workers
During an unpredictable time, IT teams can offer their companies a competitive edge in employee retention by helping create flexible work experiences.
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Workday CTO: 3 Critical Factors For Delivering Business Continuity at Scale
Agility, reliability, and configurability are the core of continuous enterprise cloud service delivery. Our Global CTO Dave Sohigian discusses how incorporating these concepts supports our customers’ ability to remain adaptable during periods of growth and change.
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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.
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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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Appetite for Change: How UK Businesses Are Accelerating Digital Transformation
Michael Douroux, who serves as our general vice president for Northern Europe and South Africa and country manager for the UK and Ireland, takes a look at the pace of digital acceleration in the UK and why businesses are choosing Workday as their partner for change.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
