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Financial consolidation and close is more than a reporting cycle—it’s a test of how connected, agile, and future-ready finance really is. Modernizing the process is the key to moving faster with confidence.
Workday CFO Zane Rowe talks about the importance of agility, technology, and self-care in a finance organization poised to thrive into the future.
Finance leaders must think about how their organizations should respond in the face of future uncertainty, both in the short-term and beyond.
Big data and data mining are hot topics—but how do they relate to each other? Discover how data mining transforms raw big data into actionable knowledge, enabling companies to identify trends and gain a competitive edge.
Explore how modern CFOs can transform financial data into powerful narratives, engage stakeholders, and drive strategic decisions with storytelling acumen.
Uncover pivotal trends shaping financial services in 2025. Learn how AI, embedded finance, and personalized wellness strategies are crucial for financial professionals and analysts.
Workday metrics show that employers need to prioritize key talent retention, internal mobility, and clear communication of business goals to successfully navigate the evolving labor landscape.
Unlock the potential of CFOs as chief value officers, balancing traditional roles with strategic foresight to drive value creation.
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.
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 maximize shareholder value. Executives from Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, and Snowflake share their insights.
We’re excited to be recognized 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.
If there’s one thing about financial services regulation that never changes, it’s the fact that regulation always changes. In this installment of our podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk about not just catching up or keeping up with regulation, not just getting ahead of it, but also about making it work to create value for financial services organizations.
As AI’s capabilities grow, finance leaders are best positioned to take charge of the technology to create value in new ways.
After the roller-coaster ride of the last few years, manufacturers are eager to shore up supply chain volatility, retain and upskill talent, and lean on technology to be better prepared for transformative events.
Discover an easy way to determine which stakeholders can help you identify the right VMS for your business.
With billions of dollars spent on outdated legacy systems every year, the U.S. federal government has the opportunity to become more efficient, agile, and impactful by modernizing its technology.
Metrics from Workday customers indicate the hiring slowdown may be coming to an end. We explore how that impacts organizations’ talent strategies and why that makes “retaining” the new “recruiting.”
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.
To build the federal workforce of the future, agencies must first have a holistic understanding of their current skills gaps.
Value creation increasingly has become a key part of the CFO role. In a recent webinar, finance leaders from AICPA-CIMA, Aon, McKinsey & Company, and Workday shared their insights on what it takes to shape the future.
The first half of 2023 has seen big changes in the labor market, with reverberating effects on the workforce including signs of decreased engagement. Based on metrics from the Workday platform—which shows more applications for fewer jobs and voluntary turnover declining by 20% compared to the same time frame last year—we’ve pulled together key trends and insights to help HR leaders chart their course for the near-term future.
We're in a different labor market, with fewer job requisitions and increased competition among job seekers. Read on to learn how to attract top talent and cultivate higher levels of employee resilience in this new environment.
Laura Newinski of KPMG, Juliet Grabowski of Boston Consulting Group, Sheryl Estrada of Fortune, and Workday Chief Diversity Officer Carin Taylor examine ways businesses can boost innovation, resiliency, and performance by creating more inclusive and supportive workplaces.
Senior leaders in people and technology at Southwest Airlines share the game-changing impacts of partnering with Workday.
Technology—including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)—will play a significant role in helping finance leaders retain talent, achieve accounting automation, and create value for the enterprise. Philippa Lawrence, chief accounting officer and vice president at Workday, lays out what she sees on the horizon.
Last year saw significant change for our customers, and those changes are reflected in how they used Workday products—specifically in hiring trends globally and by industry. Our findings, based on metrics from the Workday platform, provide insights into momentum around growing internal talent and what it all might mean for companies and job seekers in the year ahead.
An annual global sentiment study by the CFO Alliance found strong optimism among finance leaders at midmarket enterprises, a desire to invest in talent, and a drive to improve processes in order to achieve growth objectives.
Research from Workday shows how hospitality leaders can accelerate their digital strategy to plan for future success.
For businesses to remain competitive during times of uncertainty and transformation, understanding employee sentiment is critical. That’s where employee engagement software gives you the edge.
Leading healthcare organizations will continue to embrace hybrid work, AI, and ESG in the coming years, new research shows. Mutaz Shegewi, research director at IDC, discusses how new investments in digital technology will be crucial and shares what’s coming next in healthcare.
Finance leaders are increasingly relying on forward-looking and customer-centric key performance indicators to drive business success.
More than ever, successful finance leaders must think about how to improve organizational agility by integrating the right talent, tools, and technology to thrive in any economic climate.
The “Great Resignation” has slowed down, but employee burnout persists as retailers continue to try filling essential roles. In a recent study, “Empathy and Empowerment: The New Front-Line Experience” findings show, some leaders are blazing a hopeful path amid turnover woes.
Making change happen can be difficult, especially within the federal government. Marina Nitze, former CTO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, advocate for foster care reform, and author of the new book “Hack Your Bureaucracy,” discusses how she helped solve seemingly impossible challenges in governmental and private organizations to create lasting change.
People—perhaps the most important elements of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) transformation—are often overlooked. In this episode of the Workday Podcast, Andrea Walsh, global ESG and sustainability leader at consulting firm Korn Ferry, talks about how business leaders can help enable successful ESG initiatives.
Only 38% of professional services leaders say their organization is digitally well equipped to ensure business continuity in times of crisis. We talk with Workday’s Patrice Cappello and Justin Joseph to learn what this new research means and how organizations can accelerate their digital transformation to adapt to any change.
In our global survey, we found that CEOs are the most ambitious members of the C-suite when it comes to digital revenue targets, but poor-quality data holds back confident decision-making.
As organizations around the globe continue to ramp up environmental, social, and governance (ESG) efforts, the finance function is already taking the lead in creating and evaluating underlying processes. On the Workday Podcast, Brigham McNaughton, a partner at PwC, talks about ESG trends and what role finance plays.
While data may be free-flowing and abundant for HR leaders, there isn’t always a clear path to gaining real insights from it. Jay Chang, executive director of HR analytics at Comcast, joined us to talk about how the company uses Workday Prism Analytics to turn data into insights.
A whopping 96% of college students say a high-quality digital experience is important to their campus satisfaction. Experts from Accenture and Workday recently partnered to explain what this means for the higher education industry’s future.
Our survey found that only 38% of financial services leaders are confident in their ability to make data-informed decisions in real time. Workday’s Pete Rutman discusses what this means for the industry and its digital growth.
The best CFOs understand the need for advanced technologies—and teams skilled in using them—to deliver better insights that strengthen the business and create value. Learn how finance leaders can map out a successful future for their organizations.
To survive (and thrive) in a fast-paced world, retailers must invest more than ever in the power of data and insights.
At Workday, we believe understanding employees’ skills is essential to operating a business and imperative for the future of work. We’re introducing next-generation technology that amplifies the impact of Skills Cloud, helping our customers strengthen their foundation as a skills-based organization.
Next-generation finance professionals face an increasingly complex set of expectations. Philippa Lawrence, vice president and chief accounting officer at Workday, describes what successful accounting teams will look like going forward.
Workday’s finance and strategy leaders spoke with Boston Consulting Group on how finance at Workday has evolved to support our growth, and the lessons other finance leaders can learn through their approach to data and cross-functional collaboration.
The Workday Partner Innovation Awards honor select services and software partners for their commitment to powering our customers’ success by extending key Workday solutions.
Learn how three industries are driving the “last mile of industry innovation” with the right cloud partner.
What should enterprises be thinking about when gearing up their sustainability reporting efforts? Specialists from PwC and Workday share some of the data and organizational considerations in Conversations for a Changing World, a digital event.
Organizations everywhere understand they must do more to take a disciplined approach and prove tangible progress in hiring, retaining, and promoting diverse talent—while also fostering a culturally aware workforce. In a recent webinar, HR leaders discussed how providing real-time data on businesses’ progress can help, pushing leaders to take direct, timely action to create a more diverse workplace.
