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News, trends, and insights for finance leaders and professionals.
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Workday Podcast: The Keys to Successful Retail Transformation
Insights, analytics, and data—three key ingredients for real retail transformation. On this podcast episode, KPMG retail expert Sam Ganga talks about what matters for retailers as they look to effectively adapt to a rapidly changing retail landscape.
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Why Future-Focused Retailers Must Ready Their Tech Foundations
To thrive in the fast-paced retail landscape, businesses must ensure their technological foundations are in good order. A great place to start? An enterprise management cloud solution.
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Workday Podcast: How Tech Companies Innovate in Disruptive Times
Deep Kular from Accenture and Ben Askin from Vertex join us on the Workday Podcast to talk about trends in the tech industry and the role of Workday's Industry Accelerator for Technology in helping companies adapt quickly and thrive in fast-changing environments.
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Creating the Federal Workforce of the Future
Nearly 28% of U.S. federal employees will be eligible for retirement within five years. Read the report by Deloitte and Workday to learn how federal agencies can modernize their HR processes to attract and retain a skilled workforce.
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Workday Global Study: Professional Services Leaders Say Digital Transformation Is Key to Resilience
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.
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How Match Group Found the Perfect Partner in Workday for Financials
Trey Henderson, Match Group vice president and corporate controller, spoke with Bob Evans of Acceleration Economy about how digital transformation empowered the company to move beyond traditional finance cycles, accelerating its ability to create value and provide a better employee experience.
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Workday Podcast: How Banking and Capital Markets Can Innovate and Thrive
Banks and investment organizations face increased pressure and complexity with reporting and accounting requirements that call for speed, accuracy, and data insights. John Van Puffelen of PwC and Jay Rabinowitz from Workday discuss financial services trends and the role of Workday’s Industry Accelerator for Banking and Capital Markets in empowering companies to more quickly innovate and streamline their operations.
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Workday Podcast: Understanding the Finance Role in ESG Transformation
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.
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Workday Podcast: Transforming Banking and Capital Markets
In a highly regulated financial services industry, gaining insights and simplified reporting capabilities is essential. Learn how companies can solve their most pressing needs and be more agile with Workday’s Industry Accelerator for Banking and Capital Markets.
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Navigating Seismic Change in the Public Sector
Learn how government finance, human resources, and technology leaders can guide their organizations through change with an insightful new report from Workday and Accenture.
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How Future-Ready Tech Helps Nonprofits Focus on Their Mission
For the nonprofit industry, technology empowers people to carry out an organization’s overall mission and vision. Tim DeMagistris, national director of nonprofits at Workday, shares how nonprofits can invest in a modern foundation of technology to strengthen their missions.
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Workday Podcast: Helping Insurance Firms Accelerate to the Cloud
Insurance companies must innovate and transform their finance, human resources, and planning operations to adapt to a changing world. Dave Zager from Deloitte and Jay Rabinowitz from Workday talk about the trends impacting companies, embracing tech to fuel growth, and how Workday’s Industry Accelerator for Insurance can help.
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Say Goodbye to Your Legacy Enterprise Performance Management Solution
Forward-thinking organizations are considering cloud alternatives to outdated enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions as end of life looms for on-premise systems.
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Why Technology Companies Are Choosing Workday
Tech companies face a litany of challenges to stay competitive. Here’s why Salesforce chose Workday Financial Management to drive its next generation of growth.
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What Is Financial Planning and Analysis?
FP&A teams play a crucial role in companies by piloting the budgeting, forecasting, and analysis that support major corporate decisions.
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Workday Podcast: Automation Drives the Professional Services Industry to Improve Business Outcomes
Technology helped the professional services industry weather the uncertainty of the past couple of years. Hear Jon Milkovich, director, Workday Financials, at ERPA, talk about the benefits of automation, a better employee experience, and thoughtful change management.
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Workday Global Study: Financial Services Industry Leaders Share Their 3 Biggest Digital Opportunities
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.
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How Financial Services Companies Can Unleash Their Data-Fueled Power
Like the tech giants, the financial services industry (FSI) can better use all the data they have to drive revenue and growth and provide a better customer experience—Workday’s Jay Rabinowitz explains how.
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8 Tactics Organizations Can Use to Navigate a Changing World
Uncertainty can take a variety of different forms. That’s why it’s imperative for business leaders to have plans in place in the event of an economic downturn—and what comes after.
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CFOs Striving for Greater Relevance Should Consider These Top Priorities
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.
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Workday Podcast: Driving Procurement Transformation Through Strategic Contract Management
Canda Rozier, founder and president of Collabra Consulting, shares her insights on how to uplevel procurement through proactive collaboration and strategic contract management.
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10 Tips for Fixing FP&A During an ERP Upgrade
If you want to make changes to your planning system amid an ERP upgrade project, these do’s and don’ts will help ensure a successful outcome.
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Workday Podcast: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Strengthen Their Mission
Running a nonprofit organization can be challenging—from building revenue to working with a board of directors and elected officials. Robert Egger, a nonprofit founder and award-winning author and speaker, joins the Workday Podcast to share how nonprofit leaders can get the most from their organizations.
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Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Study: Modern Planning Tools Boost Agility
A new report uncovers a divide between the modern planning tools that organizations want and the ones they have—but also finds growing efforts to bridge the gap.
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Workday Global Study: Government Leaders Say Data Silos Are Hampering Digital Transformation
Investing in people, technology, and flexible work methods can increase efficiency and effectiveness for the public sector. New research from Workday shares how governmental organizations can accelerate their digital strategy.
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The 3 Elements That Will Define the Future of Accounting
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.
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Q&A: Workday’s Barbara Larson and Pete Schlampp on the Evolving Finance Function
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.
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How Governments Can Rethink Their RFP Process
Public sector organizations require a more nimble and holistic request for proposals (RFP) process that empowers them to find the best technology vendor for their needs. Workday’s Will Greer, vice president, government, explains how this will provide long-term benefits for governmental organizations.
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From Zero to Sixty: Team Car Care Accelerates Digital Finance With Workday
At the recent IMA Accounting & Finance Conference, a finance executive at Team Car Care described his team’s journey to the Workday Enterprise Management Cloud, including financial planning, financials, and human capital management all in one system.
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Scenario Planning: The Reality Check Every Business Needs
The ability to quickly and easily assess potential outcomes—best case, worst case, most likely case—is extremely valuable when variables are constantly changing.
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How Salt Lake City’s Innovation Team Is Building a Better Government
How do you update decades-old technology, policies, and practices to better serve your constituents? We talked with the Innovation Team for Salt Lake City—Utah’s state capital and most populous city—to learn more.
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The Importance of Relationships for Successful ERP Modernization
Many CIOs are in the driver's seat when it comes to deciding their organization's overall ERP strategy. Yet successful transformation requires effective partnership with other stakeholders, particularly the CFO. Learn why building strong relationships across the business is critical to ERP modernization, and the business benefits that come from an adaptable platform.
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Top 5 CFO Questions About Going Beyond ERP
Finance leaders looking to the next generation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems must focus on how their software will connect people, operational, and financial data to create value now and well into the future.
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Why Modern Planning Software Is Essential in Times of Uncertainty
For true business agility, companies can no longer rely on spreadsheets, manual processes, and legacy financial planning and analysis (FP&A) technology.
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CFO-CIO Alignment Can Help Drive Digital Finance Transformation Goals, Global Research Finds
Our latest survey of more than 1,000 senior finance and IT leaders provides insights into how organizations can supercharge their finance transformation efforts—and ensure they succeed.
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How CapTech Took Control of Its Growth
What should professional services firms do when rapid expansion leads to growing pains? We talked with Heather Long, CFO of CapTech, to learn how she helped her organization solve increasingly complex growth challenges.
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Is It Time to Automate Your Finance Planning Processes?
Automating repetitive financial planning tasks can reduce errors, shorten cycle times, and increase financial planning and analysis (FP&A) productivity.
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Connecting Retail’s Front and Back Office
Learn why the connection between retail’s front and back office is essential for solid decision-making.
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8 Ways to Supercharge Supplier Contract Management
Learn best practices for creating a supplier contract management strategy to identify supplier gaps and drive savings.
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FP&A’s Role in ESG Planning and Reporting
As demand for disclosure increases, CFOs will need help from their financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams to meet and report on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
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Economic Outlook, Talent Retention, and ESG Efforts Among Top CFO Concerns
Finance leaders say talent, retention, and strategy execution are among their top concerns, while inflation, broader economic trends, and geopolitics play a large role in their outlook, according to Deloitte’s latest CFO Signals survey.
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Global Research: CFO-CIO Partnership Powers a Bold Approach to Finance Digital Transformation
Our latest global survey of senior finance and IT leaders tracks the state of digital finance transformation in today’s organizations, and details why CFO-CIO alignment is central to success.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
We’re delighted to announce that Workday has been recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, a new category. Answering the call from our customers, Workday Enterprise Management Cloud transforms the way organizations operate by going beyond the boundaries of traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
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Workday Podcast: CFO-CIO Partnership Powers a Bold Approach to Finance
Workday executives Barbara Larson, CFO, and Ernesto Boada, interim CIO, join the Workday Podcast to explain how tech and finance leaders can partner to digitally transform the finance function.
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How Can Nonprofits Build a Sustainable Financial Future to Propel Their Missions?
For the nonprofit industry, an organization’s financial health is essential to carrying out the overall mission and vision of the organization. CFO Caroline Croen of The WNET Group and CFO Evelyn Barnes, formerly of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and CityYear, share how they’ve created financial sustainability for their organizations.
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CFOs and CHROs Identify Top Factors in Building Sustainable Growth
Finance and HR leaders in midmarket companies say landing key talent and improving operational efficiency are critical for success, according to a new AchieveNEXT survey.
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What the Next Generation of Future-Ready Insurance Leaders Will Look Like
To best meet intensifying challenges, insurers are becoming digital leaders—adopting cloud-based management platforms that make the most of their wealth of data. In a new report, industry experts from KPMG and Workday explain how insurers can rethink their strategies.
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How ESG Strategies Help Banks Protect Profits and the Planet
Sustainable and socially responsible investments can boost growth while also building a brighter future. Workday’s Pete Rutman discusses how banks need transparent reporting to make a meaningful impact.
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4 Trends Shaping the European Banking Sector, Part 1
The banking sector has long been ripe for transformation. Yet, legacy technologies have often prevented wholesale digital change. We’ll take a look at two challenges facing the European banking sector and the risks facing organisations on the path to transformation.
