Betsy Bland
Betsy Bland previously served as vice president and managing director for Workday Ventures.
At this week’s All Raise VC Summit 2020, female/non-binary investors are gathering virtually to discuss how to create a more equitable future for all. Betsy Bland, vice president and managing director of Workday Ventures, shares how our portfolio companies are helping to elevate people and reduce barriers to opportunity.
Betsy Bland, vice president and managing director of Workday Ventures, shares insights on how companies can improve employee well-being, prepare for a return to the workplace, and unlock workforce potential.
We’re excited to announce that once again, Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large, and Global Enterprises. We believe this reflects our ongoing commitment to delivering a financial management system that helps our customers manage risk, identify new opportunities, and keep pace with change.
New lease accounting standards that go into effect starting in late 2018 could have a big impact on companies’ financial statements. Betsy Bland explains the rules and how corporate accounting teams can prepare.
While auditing has mostly focused on evaluating the past and ensuring compliance, organizations are looking to their internal auditors to help them identify and address issues as they are happening and predict future risks that could impact performance. Read more in the final segment in Betsy Bland's "Finance and the Tech Foundation" blog series.
We are thrilled to share another milestone at Workday: We have been named a leader in Gartner’s first-ever "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises."
Just as a house’s foundation impacts its ability to weather change, the same concept applies to business technology. With the right tech foundation, an organization can more easily change workflows and core business processes to support mergers, acquisitions, and market expansions. Read more in part six of Betsy Bland's blog series.
To remain competitive, businesses must continuously adapt and take action. That requires the right technology systems in place that enable collaborative and continuous planning.
The fourth post in Betsy Bland's "Finance and the Tech Foundation" blog series explains why a finance system's underlying technology architecture is critical to gaining the needed data for relevant and timely business decisions.
With the right tech foundation, finance is able to create consolidated reports on a daily basis if needed, across multiple legal entities and currencies, significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to close the books. Read more in part three of Betsy Bland's blog series.
In her second post in the "Finance and the Tech Foundation" blog series, Betsy Bland looks at three additional tech concepts: a unified architecture, built-in workflow, and having transactions and analytics in one place.
Just like a house needs a good foundation, a finance system needs the right technology foundation. In the first blog in a series, Betsy Bland examines two critical aspects of that foundation: the cloud delivery model and data security.
New revenue recognition changes go into effect in just a little over a year. Betsy Bland explains how Workday is helping our customers prepare for the new standards.
In a survey, CEOs said the CFO is the executive who will gain the most importance in the next three years. Here's what will be expected of them this year and beyond.
Today we unveiled Workday Planning, our new planning, budgeting, and forecasting application. Here are the top three takeaways of this exciting announcement.
Big changes to revenue recognition standards are on the horizon. Finance teams need to consider these important questions in preparation for the changes.
Workday received high scores for customer satisfaction in a Gartner, Inc. report based on a survey of 194 customers from 15 core financial management vendors.
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.
At Workday Rising 2014 a number of customers took the stage to share stories about the business benefits they're seeing with Workday Financial Management, underscoring the community's growth and momentum. But what really stood out for me were the stories about letting go of the familiar—legacy systems and processes—and coming out on the other side with something that delivers far more value.
This week, more than 4,500 customers, prospective customers, partners, and employees will come together for Workday Rising 2014 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. We often celebrate milestones each year at Workday Rising, and this year we have a lot to celebrate with our Workday Financial Management customers. We’ll have a lot to discuss this week, but I think there are two key themes that are top-of-mind for most customers and prospective customers as we continue to welcome more corporate finance teams to the cloud.