Announcing Winners of the 2022 Workday Partner Innovation Awards
The Workday Partner Innovation Awards honor select services and software partners for their commitment to powering our customers’ success by extending key Workday solutions.
Analytics and Insights
News and guidance on using data-driven insights to make better decisions.
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3 Industries Driving Customer-Centered Innovation With Cloud Technology
Learn how three industries are driving the “last mile of industry innovation” with the right cloud partner.
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Building Resiliency and Sustainability Through Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting
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.
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Best Practices: Optimizing Analytics for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
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.
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Planning for Volatility: Elements and Strategies CFOs Need to Succeed
CFOs at Broadridge, DocuSign, and Trivago have relied on their diverse professional experiences to lead during the pandemic-related uncertainty of the past few years. They spoke about their priorities during a recent Fortune virtual event.
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Uncovering Industries With an Elevated Risk of Employee Attrition
Learn more about how the pandemic has impacted the risk of employee attrition in different industries and regions based on a sample of over 1 million employees across 250 organizations worldwide.
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Introducing Workday Peakon Employee Voice: Why Businesses Thrive When Employees Are Heard
We spoke to David Somers, Workday’s group general manager of product for the office of the CHRO, and Phil Chambers, general manager for Peakon, to hear about Peakon’s new name, our vision for it, and why listening to your employees has become so critical.
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Winning On and Off the Field: NFL Stars Share Their Leadership Insights
Larry Fitzgerald and Peyton Manning discuss what constitutes championship-winning leadership—including integrity, adaptability, and vision—at Workday’s Conversations for a Changing World.
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Building Your Business Case for Skills Data
Skills are the currency of the modern organization, and companies have the opportunity to add value and objectivity to every practice that involves skills data. Guest author and HR thought leader Ben Eubanks shares his insights.
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Workday and Microsoft: Connecting the Employee Experience
We’re proud to share that we’re expanding our collaboration with Microsoft through a new Microsoft Viva Connections integration that will be available later this year. In this article, Josh Lannin, vice president of employee experience technology at Workday, shares insights on what customers can expect from this beneficial integration.
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What Your Employees Need: Supporting Caregivers in 2021
The pandemic has required many employees to juggle online meetings with their roles as caregivers. Are businesses providing the support caregivers need? A recent global report reveals how employee expectations have evolved.
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A Structured Approach to Belonging and Diversity
Every person should feel valued for the work they do and the unique perspectives they bring. With the VIBE Index, we want to help equip organizations with the tools they need to build stronger, more inclusive workforces.
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Analyzing the Right Data to Build Diversity and Belonging
To move the needle on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, companies must define it as part of their business strategy and hold leaders accountable, according to research shared by thought leader Josh Bersin.
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Workday Industry Insights Europe: Technology and Data Strategies for Financial Services
At our recent digital event, an IT leader at Netherlands-headquartered trading firm IMC spoke about how the ability to unlock data has served their customers, even while facing unprecedented business disruption.
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5 Steps to Becoming a Decision-Ready Organization
Finance is being asked to provide more frequent guidance than ever before and must shift its focus from delivery of core financial processes to providing guidance and strategic partnership across the enterprise—a shift made possible by accelerating digital initiatives and the cloud.
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Announcing the Winners of the Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards
The Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards honor industry-specific solutions from our services partners built on top of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning.
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Workday Podcast: Technology Trends and Strategies in Healthcare
Keith Lohkamp, senior director, healthcare industry strategy at Workday, talks with Ray Wang, principal analyst, founder, and chairman at Constellation Research, about technology trends and strategies healthcare organizations are adopting to keep up with industry standards and adapt in the changing world of healthcare.
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How Banks and Insurers Can Turn Quantities of Data Into Quality Insights
Banks and insurers need to know how unprecedented disruption impacts customer behavior, and consequently, the business. This article, the first in a two-part series, explores why combining operational and finance data is essential for business insights.
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How Finance Can Accelerate Digital Transformation—Even in Complex ERP Environments
Digital transformation comes in different forms, and for many organizations, “rip and replace” isn’t an option. Barbara Larson explains how Workday’s enterprise finance solution empowers finance teams to deliver business insights and strategic planning within multi-system environments.
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Even in Times of Uncertainty, Banks Can Chart a Course for Growth
Disruption is no longer a dark cloud on the horizon. It’s present and fully accounted for, and banks are transforming their planning operations with agile solutions so they can chart a course for growth—no matter what weather lies ahead.
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Global Study: Organizational Agility Is Crucial During Global Pandemic
The second installment of our global survey, “Organizational Agility: The Roadmap to Digital Acceleration,” 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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3 Steps for Planning in a Changing World
Technological advances, ever-increasing customer expectations, and smarter, data-driven decision-making put pressure on finance teams to find new ways to operate with agility. But how do you plan in a way that allows you to respond to such events, from the predictable to the unlikely?
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Bringing Out the Best in Your Workforce
Workday’s Greg Pryor recently chatted with Marcus Erb, vice president of data science and innovation and Matt Bush, culture coaching lead at Great Place to Work, to discuss the data science behind being a great place to work for all, under all circumstances.
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Focusing on People to Make Companies Stronger
We’ve launched three new solutions—fueled by machine learning and other advanced technologies—to empower companies to create hyper-personalized employee experiences, respond faster, and better understand their workforces.
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Workday Podcast: Why the Spotlight Is on People Analytics
How do you measure the quality of the employee experience within your organization? Workday’s Phil Willburn, head of people analytics and insights, discusses how deeper insights into your own data can help improve that experience.
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3 Key Ingredients of M&A Success
Many companies have mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on their radar in 2020. Robynne Sisco, co-president and CFO at Workday, identifies key factors for M&A success based on our own experiences acquiring Adaptive Insights and Scout RFP.
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Workday Podcast: How the Best Stay on Top in Professional Services
With fierce competition, it’s tough for any business to get to the top and stay there. Industry analyst Jeanne Urich explains how the most successful professional and business services firms do it.
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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.
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Financial Services: Why Is Data Stuck in the Dark Ages?
The traditional view of data is no longer a fit for the changing world of business. Just like how the printing press accelerated the dissemination of knowledge, modern innovations have furthered the power of data.
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How AI Improves Predictions, Not Human Judgment
Ajay Agrawal, co-author of “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence,” provides business leaders with actionable advice on how to realize the value of AI.
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Why a Midsize Company’s Best Employee Could Be the ‘Citizen Data Scientist’
You don't necessarily need formally trained experts to gain data-driven insights—others can put their (analytical) minds to it. Here's how to cultivate citizen data scientists in your midsize company.
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Organizational Agility: Making Informed Decisions with Speed
Our research finds a strong correlation between enterprise-wide data access and the ability of businesses to make the best decisions for their future success.
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How Your Professional Services Firm Stacks Up Against the Competition
In the webinar, “Best in Class KPIs: Benchmarking Your Professional Services Business,” Jeanne Urich, managing director of SPI, shares compelling data from her company’s 2019 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark.
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Workday Podcast: Don’t Take Payroll for Granted
Experts discuss how payroll professionals can cope with changing regulations, higher expectations, and shifting workforce dynamics.
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Shelter Insurance Brings HR, Financials, and Analytics Together, part 2
The director of accounting at Shelter Insurance shares how his team is using Workday Prism Analytics to increase efficiencies, layer in data, and gain insights into Shelter's workforce and financials.
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Shelter Insurance Brings HR, Financials, and Analytics Together, part 1
The director of accounting at Shelter Insurance shares his experience of deploying Workday HCM, including benefits they're already seeing from having financials and HR in one system.
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Workday Podcast: How CFOs Can Forge an Analytics-Driven Culture
How can CFOs be catalysts for change? Matt Schwenderman of Deloitte Consulting LLP explains how this starts by creating an analytics-driven culture.
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Announcing Workday People Analytics: Leveraging the Strength of AI, Machine Learning, and Augmented Analytics
Almost all companies produce far more data than they can analyze, and for quite a while, Workday’s goal has been to help companies extract valuable insights. Today, we’re pleased to announce Workday People Analytics, a new application that will give executives, organization leaders, and HR business partners a view into the most critical trends in their workforce, and an understanding of the most likely drivers of those trends.
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Scale or Derail: Three Ways to Improve Your Firm’s Efficiency
Effectively handling growth means thoughtfully approaching scaling, which is about more than just piling on more people and resources. That can actually slow your professional services' firm down if you don't create sustainable business practices and processes that revolve around consistent, reliable data.
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Financial Services: Innovating in a Risk-Averse Industry
When it comes to innovation, many financial organizations focus solely on optimizing the customer experience. Yet firms must evaluate their internal systems with just as much scrutiny. Learn how the right technology can enable your employees, improve business performance, and help keep data secure.
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Workday Furthers the Power of Analytics with Data Discovery
Last October, Workday announced the availability of Workday Prism Analytics, providing self-service tools across the entire analytics process. Today, Workday Prism Analytics has moved into primetime with the introduction of data discovery, a new way to build reports and explore your data visually in Workday. Learn more in this interview with Pete Schlampp, vice president of Workday Analytics.
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The Role of the Cloud in Healthcare Data Security
Data security became front and center in 2017, and organizations that collect personal data are held to an even higher standard. Learn how a cloud approach, coupled with a "culture of security," can help healthcare providers keep data safe.
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How Financial Services Firms Can Shift from Data Hoarding to Decision-Making
While financial services firms have innovated their front office with new technologies to meet rising customer expectations, they may have overlooked the needs of their internal customers—their employees. With the right strategy and systems to make sense of information, organizations and their employees can turn valuable finance and HR data from a collection of facts into actionable insights.
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Talking Analytics with Ray Wang of Constellation Research
Pete Schlampp, vice president of Workday Analytics, interviews R. “Ray” Wang, founder and chairman of Constellation Research, and author of the book, "Disrupting Digital Business." Wang reveals what business leaders should be thinking about when it comes to the accelerating evolution of enterprise analytics.
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How Workday is Doubling Down on Data and Analytics
Companies are awash in a sea of data, but short on ways to quickly turn that data into information they can act on with confidence. At Workday, we’re extending our customers’ ability to gain more from their data with two new products, Workday Benchmarking and Workday Prism Analytics. Read more from Pete Schlampp.
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Finance Organizations Transform with Self-Service Analytics
CFOs are increasingly adopting self-service analytics to get the insights that will help them drive their organizations forward—and to help their business partners make decisions better aligned with financial goals.
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Why Student Information Systems Will Shape Higher Education
Next-generation IT is top-of-mind for many higher education CIOs. How can new technologies help colleges and universities better support our next generation of students?
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Why the Healthcare Industry is Moving to the Cloud
A greater focus on actionable insights, employee engagement, and supply chain management is prompting more healthcare organizations to move to cloud-based enterprise systems. Learn more from Workday's healthcare customers in Keith Lohkamp's blog.
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Workday Unveils Data-as-a-Service Based on Customer Demand
Workday's new Data-as-a-Service extends the analytical power of Workday in an innovative new way. Most importantly, our customers told us they need real-time, drillable information that delivers the kind of business benchmarks required in today’s world.
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4 Essential Tips for Leading a Smart Data Strategy
The CIO has an incredible opportunity to take the lead on developing a data strategy that results in the best decisions for customers and the business. Workday CIO Diana McKenzie shares lessons learned about guiding a successful data strategy.
