Nonprofit Research Institutions: Why Digital Transformation Matters
A report from Huron and Workday explores how nonprofit research institutions can digitally transform to reimagine their future.
Finance
News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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Transportation Industry Trends: Steering Toward a Tech-Driven Future
What keeps the transportation industry moving forward? Let’s dive into trends in this fast-paced industry to see what leaders are doing to stay flexible, innovative, and profitable.
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Workday Retail and Hospitality Innovation Award Winners 2024
We’re delighted to celebrate retail and hospitality customers who move their business forward by innovating on the Workday platform to create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
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Workday Technology and Media Innovation Award Winners 2024
We’re delighted to celebrate technology and media customers who consistently find solutions to problems and create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
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HBR Analytic Services Report: Focus Finance on Digital Transformation and Agile Planning
The report, which surveyed 265 members of the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services audience, explores the importance of digital transformation and agile planning within the finance function.
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Q&A With AI Innovator and Evisort Founder and CEO Jerry Ting
To mark the close of Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, an AI-native document intelligence platform, we spoke with its founder and CEO about the impetus and vision behind his company.
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Workday Podcast: How Bill Gosling Outsourcing Set Itself Up for AI-Powered Growth
In the process of digital transformation at Bill Gosling Outsourcing, Joe Fanutti went from the company’s CFO to its chief integration officer—while embracing technology that provided better insights, helped improve efficiency, and enabled future growth.
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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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Transactional to Strategic: Transforming Healthcare Supply Chain Management
Providers need to build resilient supply chains that help deliver patient-centric, value-based healthcare. Data-driven insights, automation, and AI and machine learning (ML) set the stage for strategic change and innovation.
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Workday Podcast: How Werner Enterprises Keeps America Moving With Workday
The transportation industry keeps shelves stocked and homes filled with the goods necessary for everyday life. In this episode, Daragh Mahon, EVP and CIO at Werner Enterprises, sits down with Kalan Comba, Workday CTO of Americas, to talk trends in the transportation industry and how Workday helps Werner move confidently into the future while keeping its employees at the forefront.
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How to Keep Up with an Ever-Changing Business Landscape
Continuous planning is more than faster forecasting—it encompasses specific planning practices that catalyze change and drive business agility across the organization.
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Navigating AI Adoption to Mitigate Risks and Bolster Competitive Advantage
Joseph Fuller, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, says business leaders have to embrace decision intelligence—and rethink company processes in the age of AI—if they want to effectively manage risk and outperform peers.
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Workday Podcast: How the CFO of Orlando Helps the City Grow
Michelle McCrimmon, CFO of the City of Orlando, shares how she leverages technology to continue to transform finance, attract and retain talent, and help the fast-growing city prepare for the future.
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How Traditional Financial Planning Software Falls Short
Although most senior decision-makers would agree that planning has a direct impact on performance, the signs of outdated planning are distributed and often hard to spot.
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To Embrace AI in Finance, CFOs Must Move Beyond Their Comfort Zone
Building trust around AI for a finance team requires “transparency, auditability, and openness as it relates to data,” Workday CFO Zane Rowe said in a recent podcast.
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Workday Podcast: How One CAO Leveled Up With the Right Technology
Evan Cabat, chief accounting officer at SiriusPoint, led a finance digital transformation that used technology to drive greater insights, increase organizational efficiency, and fuel future growth for the insurance company.
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The Future of the CFO: Generative AI as a Finance Growth Catalyst
As AI’s capabilities grow, finance leaders are best positioned to take charge of the technology to create value in new ways.
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Retail Report: Why Digital Transformation Is Non-Negotiable
In a new survey from Coresight and Workday, 45% of retail leaders said they believe AI and machine learning (ML) will help them make better business decisions. Read the new report for a deep-dive into why digital transformation is essential for retail growth and sustainability.
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Hospitality Industry Report: Optimize Operations for Sustainable Progress
In a new hospitality report from Coresight and Workday, 50% of leaders said training their frontline workers was a big challenge in times of fluctuating demand. Download the new report to learn why optimizing operations is essential for building a foundation for long-term growth.
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Serving Up Success: What’s Next for Quick-Service Restaurants
With consumer demands constantly changing, the quick-service restaurant industry is under pressure to innovate while building a sure foundation for future growth.
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Workday Podcast: Why Future CFOs Must Embrace Generative AI in Finance
Making the most of generative AI will require finance leaders to understand the potential benefits and pitfalls—and taking a hands-on approach can help. Riyaz Kasmani, senior director of data science at Workday, discusses how his team evaluates use cases, as well as other considerations for CFOs.
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A Human-Centric Approach to AI Harnesses Its Potential Effectively and Ethically
Our “Global CIO AI Indicator Report” sheds light on IT leaders’ thoughts about AI’s potential—and its potential pitfalls. A platform that integrates AI while keeping people in the driver’s seat can utilize the technology responsibly and help drive a financially healthy future.
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How to Make Finance Transformation Work for You
A successful finance transformation reduces reliance on manual, outdated, and low-value processes, empowering FP&A teams to focus on strategic finance initiatives.
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Workday Podcast: What Finance Leaders Need to Start Exploring With Generative AI
Michael Schrage, a research fellow with the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Center for Digital Business, and Stacy Hilgendorf, chief accounting officer and corporate controller at Sprouts Farmers Market, talk about their approaches to artificial intelligence and generative AI, as well as the technologies’ potential benefits for the future of the finance function.
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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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Creating a Modern Insurance Organization
How can insurers take advantage of AI, and why is data quality so important? We explore key takeaways from a new report from Celent, including what companies can do to create a modern insurance enterprise.
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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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How AI Transforms Finance within Technology, Media, and Entertainment Companies
Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights, discusses why finance leaders in tech, media, and entertainment shouldn’t miss these clear opportunities to improve operations with AI.
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Retail Survey: Efficient Growth Requires Finance Transformation
In a new survey, 46% of retail leaders said improving finance through transformation projects is a top priority. Read the Workday and KPMG report to learn what this means for retail CFOs.
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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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Introducing Launch for Government: A New Way to Deploy Workday
Built for small and midsize local governments, Launch for Government is a new, data-driven approach to deploying Workday that results in an accelerated, more affordable, and lower-risk approach to digital transformation.
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What’s Trending in the Grocery Industry
The next generation of grocers are constantly adapting to their customers’ needs. Value pricing, smart planning, and leveraging technologies such as AI are all key to an incredible consumer experience.
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4 Common Financial Reporting Challenges and How to Tackle Them
Creating timely, accurate, consolidated, and easy-to-digest reports doesn’t have to be a painful experience for FP&A teams.
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Government Industry Outlook: 3 Ways Technology Will Enable Mission
From tight staffing levels to the public’s expectations for digital experiences, government agencies are dealing with a lot. That’s why they’re embracing new technologies and approaches, such as AI for productivity improvements and skills-based talent management.
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Banking and Capital Markets Industry Outlook: 4 Realities Shaping the Future
As financial services companies continue to grapple with many challenges, they’ll achieve agility with new technologies—including AI—and smarter talent management strategies.
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Higher Education Industry Outlook: 3 Strategies to Navigate the Hurdles Ahead
Transformative trends promise to impact higher education over the next few years. From AI and digital experiences to the power of data, here’s how higher ed leaders can prepare now for what’s next.
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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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Transfer Credits: Supporting Student Mobility in Higher Education
Students on average lose 43% of their credits upon transferring from one institution to another. Learn how higher education leaders can make the credit process more transparent, efficient, and clear so students can more easily complete their degrees.
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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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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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Shutterstock and Vancouver Coastal Health Move to Agile Planning for an Agile World
Faster, more confident decision-making starts with real-time access to data spanning the enterprise—so that finance can scenario plan in tune with a rapidly changing world. Shutterstock and Vancouver Coastal Health share their journeys to better planning.
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Tech, Media, and Entertainment Industries Outlook: 4 Transformative Trends
Focus areas for leaders in the tech, media, and entertainment industries include upleveling their forecasting and planning capabilities, and using data-driven insights to gain a competitive advantage and meet consumer demand.
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Donors, Dollars, and Data: Enhancing Nonprofit Financial Stewardship
More than 80% of nonprofits cite a lack of adequate technology as a barrier to gathering information on mission impact. In a new report, industry experts from CrossVue and Workday partnered to explain what this means for the future of the nonprofit industry.
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Workday Podcast: What’s Next for the Insurance Industry
Is the insurance industry ready for the next stage of AI and machine learning? We talked with PwC’s Rima Safari about insurance trends, opportunities, and challenges.
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Hospitality Industry Outlook: 4 Ways to Meet Rising Expectations
Savvy hospitality leaders will invest not just in technology, but also in workforce reskilling and upskilling to leverage innovative capabilities and deliver customer-centric experiences.
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How P.F. Chang’s Keeps Its Talent and Technology Fresh
The hospitality industry has faced wave after wave of difficulties in the past few years. Learn how restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s has risen above those challenges thanks to its innovative approach to talent and technology.
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RaceTrac Champions Data-Driven Innovation and Cost Management with Workday
Kieron Allen, analyst at Acceleration Economy, discusses the impact that Workday is having on cost control and data-driven innovation at RaceTrac.
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Retail Industry Outlook: 3 Ways Retailers Are Accelerating Their Operations
Retailers are using AI to meet evolving employee and customer expectations, and building out data capabilities to weather unexpected challenges and support future growth.
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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.
