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Analytics and Insights
News and guidance on using data-driven insights to make better decisions.
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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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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.
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The Future of HR Analytics: Q&A with Workday’s Adeyemi Ajao
Adeyemi Ajao, VP of technology product strategy at Workday, discusses trends in HR analytics and what HR professionals need to be thinking about.
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Workday Acquires Upshot, Strengthens Data Science Expertise
From Harvard to Hackathon to Workday, Thomas Kim and Joseph Turian are helping to bring the latest innovations in data science to enterprise customers.
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In Our Customers’ Words: Driving Better Business Decisions and Growth
Customers often say Workday delivers the insights they need to support their growth strategies. Dan Beck shares some of those stories, and describes how Workday is different by design.
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5 Questions on Workday Professional Services Automation
Today we introduced Workday Professional Services Automation (PSA), a new solution I am very excited about. Here are some of the questions I've received from customers, prospects, and partners about Workday PSA and how it's differentiated.
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How Data Plays Matchmaker between Students and Colleges
In the book “College Unbound,” author Jeff Selingo observes that if online dating sites can “help two people fall in love based on a short questionnaire, we should be able to design a better method for matching students with colleges.” Selingo’s observation highlights one of the biggest challenges that higher institutions face today: recruiting the right students.
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Predict & Prepare 2015: Experts Recommend Putting Data to Work
At Workday’s 7th annual Predict & Prepare, a panel of industry experts discussed how individuals and organizations should best prepare for 2015 in the areas of finance, human resources, and technology. While they didn’t agree on everything, panelists did find areas of common ground. Chief among them was the growing opportunity to use data to gain insights.
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Profile: Mohammad Sabah, Director of Data Science at Workday
Mohammad Sabah has always been searching for answers. As a child he spent hours piecing together clues in detective novels, and as he grew older he took a personal interest in the study and comparison of world religions.
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5 Questions on Workday Insight Applications
Workday today announced Workday Insight Applications, a brand new approach to business analytics. Workday's Dan Beck, vice president of technology products and Adeyemi "Ade" Ajao, vice president of technology strategy, answer five questions about how the applications work─and the talent and technology behind them.
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Developing Workday Big Data Analytics With Customers, For Customers
At last year’s Workday Rising our Co-Founder and Co-CEO Aneel Bhusri announced our plans to offer Workday Big Data Analytics. Earlier today, Aneel announced during his Workday Rising 2013 keynote address that Workday Big Data Analytics is now available as part of our latest update, Workday 20. The timing is very fitting, and not just because it’s our annual customer conference.
