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How AI Is Changing Corporate Finance in 2025
From automating complex processes to delivering real-time strategic insights, AI is empowering corporate finance teams to not only keep up with the pace of change—but to lead it.
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How to Create a Financial Plan for Your Small Business
Small businesses often rely on ad-hoc financial planning even as evidence shows that a sound financial plan is key for growth. Read on to learn the components of a small business financial plan, its benefits, and common challenges.
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A Day in the Life of a Financial Analyst
Financial analysis is a critical part of operating a successful finance team. But what do they do, what tools do they use, and what skills do they need? Read on for a snapshot of the working life of a financial analyst.
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From CFO to Chief Value Officer: A Strategic Evolution
Unlock the potential of CFOs as chief value officers, balancing traditional roles with strategic foresight to drive value creation.
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The Top 5 Ways to Leverage AI for Financial Analysis
AI is playing an increasingly integral role in finance teams—but many organizations still have low adoption rates. Read on to learn five key ways to use AI for financial analysis to drive greater results.
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6 Scenario Planning Tools for Strategic Business Management
Navigating uncertain times is hard for any business—but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how scenario planning tools can set your business up for success.
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The Future of Accounting: How AI Can Help Tackle the CPA Shortage
Explore how automation is shaping the finance and accounting professions, improving organizational efficiency, and helping to recruit and retain talent for the long term.
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The CFO’s Guide to Crushing the Competition (Without Breaking a Sweat)
Navigate the competitive business landscape with our CFO guide, offering expert strategies to build sustainable growth and transform financial acumen into a strategic advantage.
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How AI Is Shaping Predictive Analytics in Finance
AI has already led to huge changes in predictive analytics in finance, and the biggest are yet to come. Learn how automation and advanced data analysis are turning finance teams into strategic leaders.
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2025 Financial Planning Trends Every CFO Should Know
2025 is well underway—but what will the defining trends be for CFOs? Read on to learn about the importance of upskilling finance teams, adopting cloud-based solutions, and AI as a key enabler of integrated finance.
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How Workday CFO Zane Rowe Took a Career Detour and Found Success
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.
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Workday Podcast | Make Your Move: The Future for FSI with Forrester
In an era of constant change, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. In this installment of the podcast series Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward, we talk with Oliwia Berdak, financial technology research director at Forrester Research. We caught up with Berdak to talk about Forrester’s predictions for 2025 and beyond
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Workday Podcast: Integrity’s People-First Approach to Large-Scale Growth
Dallas-based broker Integrity maintains a positive employee culture by focusing on its people—and employee-friendly technology is a big component of that. Integrity’s Chief People and Culture Officer Rachelle McReynolds shares insights.
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Workday Nonprofit Innovation Awards Winners 2024
We’re thrilled to celebrate our nonprofit customers who continue to provide critical services through their agility and dedication. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
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Workday Podcast: How Washington University Evolved Into a Data-Driven Organization
Washington University’s Jason Burg discusses how the prestigious St. Louis institution empowered its people with data-driven insights, setting the stage for strategic change and transforming the student experience.
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The Secrets to Outperformance: Strategies for Courageous Growth
Profitable, sustainable growth is the closest thing the business sector has to nirvana—but achieving this state has proved particularly challenging in recent years. An insightful webinar highlights McKinsey & Company research into how companies can move the needle.
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Workday Podcast: How Vertex Modernized Its ERP System to Fuel Rapid Growth
Digital transformation gave the global tax and compliance provider unprecedented insight into its data. In the process, the organization also leveled up its finance and accounting teams to provide greater value for the business.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for Third Year in a Row
We’re honored to once again be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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How 4 Factors Power Robust Growth: Leaders Reveal Their Organizational Success Secrets
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.
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Workday Podcast: WSU’s Journey from “The Oregon Trail” to AI
Washington State University (WSU) wanted to better forecast grants to support its groundbreaking research. We talked with WSU’s Gerik Kimble and Christine Galbreath about how their modernization project helped streamline inefficient processes to project future expenses and remaining balances on grants.
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Workday Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises
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.
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Nonprofit Research Institutions: Why Digital Transformation Matters
A report from Huron and Workday explores how nonprofit research institutions can digitally transform to reimagine their future.
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Transportation Industry Trends: Steering Toward a Tech-Driven Future
What keeps the transportation industry moving forward? Let’s dive into trends in this fast-paced industry to see what leaders are doing to stay flexible, innovative, and profitable.
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Workday Retail and Hospitality Innovation Award Winners 2024
We’re delighted to celebrate retail and hospitality customers who move their business forward by innovating on the Workday platform to create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
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Workday Technology and Media Innovation Award Winners 2024
We’re delighted to celebrate technology and media customers who consistently find solutions to problems and create great experiences for their employees and customers. Read on to learn this year’s category winners for the Workday Industry Innovation Awards.
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HBR Analytic Services Report: Focus Finance on Digital Transformation and Agile Planning
The report, which surveyed 265 members of the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services audience, explores the importance of digital transformation and agile planning within the finance function.
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Q&A With AI Innovator and Evisort Founder and CEO Jerry Ting
To mark the close of Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, an AI-native document intelligence platform, we spoke with its founder and CEO about the impetus and vision behind his company.
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Workday Podcast: How Bill Gosling Outsourcing Set Itself Up for AI-Powered Growth
In the process of digital transformation at Bill Gosling Outsourcing, Joe Fanutti went from the company’s CFO to its chief integration officer—while embracing technology that provided better insights, helped improve efficiency, and enabled future growth.
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Workday Rising: Continued Innovations in Finance for 2024 Highlight AI Benefits of a Unified Platform
Workday is introducing enhancements across an array of products focused on hyper-automating processes for financial management, planning, and spend management while improving the speed and accuracy of data insights.
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Transactional to Strategic: Transforming Healthcare Supply Chain Management
Providers need to build resilient supply chains that help deliver patient-centric, value-based healthcare. Data-driven insights, automation, and AI and machine learning (ML) set the stage for strategic change and innovation.
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Workday Podcast: How Werner Enterprises Keeps America Moving With Workday
The transportation industry keeps shelves stocked and homes filled with the goods necessary for everyday life. In this episode, Daragh Mahon, EVP and CIO at Werner Enterprises, sits down with Kalan Comba, Workday CTO of Americas, to talk trends in the transportation industry and how Workday helps Werner move confidently into the future while keeping its employees at the forefront.
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How to Keep Up with an Ever-Changing Business Landscape
Continuous planning is more than faster forecasting—it encompasses specific planning practices that catalyze change and drive business agility across the organization.
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Navigating AI Adoption to Mitigate Risks and Bolster Competitive Advantage
Joseph Fuller, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, says business leaders have to embrace decision intelligence—and rethink company processes in the age of AI—if they want to effectively manage risk and outperform peers.
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Workday Podcast: How the CFO of Orlando Helps the City Grow
Michelle McCrimmon, CFO of the City of Orlando, shares how she leverages technology to continue to transform finance, attract and retain talent, and help the fast-growing city prepare for the future.
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How Traditional Financial Planning Software Falls Short
Although most senior decision-makers would agree that planning has a direct impact on performance, the signs of outdated planning are distributed and often hard to spot.
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To Embrace AI in Finance, CFOs Must Move Beyond Their Comfort Zone
Building trust around AI for a finance team requires “transparency, auditability, and openness as it relates to data,” Workday CFO Zane Rowe said in a recent podcast.
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Workday Podcast: How One CAO Leveled Up With the Right Technology
Evan Cabat, chief accounting officer at SiriusPoint, led a finance digital transformation that used technology to drive greater insights, increase organizational efficiency, and fuel future growth for the insurance company.
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The Future of the CFO: Generative AI as a Finance Growth Catalyst
As AI’s capabilities grow, finance leaders are best positioned to take charge of the technology to create value in new ways.
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Retail Report: Why Digital Transformation Is Non-Negotiable
In a new survey from Coresight and Workday, 45% of retail leaders said they believe AI and machine learning (ML) will help them make better business decisions. Read the new report for a deep-dive into why digital transformation is essential for retail growth and sustainability.
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Hospitality Industry Report: Optimize Operations for Sustainable Progress
In a new hospitality report from Coresight and Workday, 50% of leaders said training their frontline workers was a big challenge in times of fluctuating demand. Download the new report to learn why optimizing operations is essential for building a foundation for long-term growth.
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Serving Up Success: What’s Next for Quick-Service Restaurants
With consumer demands constantly changing, the quick-service restaurant industry is under pressure to innovate while building a sure foundation for future growth.
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Workday Podcast: Why Future CFOs Must Embrace Generative AI in Finance
Making the most of generative AI will require finance leaders to understand the potential benefits and pitfalls—and taking a hands-on approach can help. Riyaz Kasmani, senior director of data science at Workday, discusses how his team evaluates use cases, as well as other considerations for CFOs.
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A Human-Centric Approach to AI Harnesses Its Potential Effectively and Ethically
Our “Global CIO AI Indicator Report” sheds light on IT leaders’ thoughts about AI’s potential—and its potential pitfalls. A platform that integrates AI while keeping people in the driver’s seat can utilize the technology responsibly and help drive a financially healthy future.
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How to Make Finance Transformation Work for You
A successful finance transformation reduces reliance on manual, outdated, and low-value processes, empowering FP&A teams to focus on strategic finance initiatives.
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Workday Podcast: What Finance Leaders Need to Start Exploring With Generative AI
Michael Schrage, a research fellow with the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Center for Digital Business, and Stacy Hilgendorf, chief accounting officer and corporate controller at Sprouts Farmers Market, talk about their approaches to artificial intelligence and generative AI, as well as the technologies’ potential benefits for the future of the finance function.
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Workday Podcast: AI for Financial Services: Beyond the Comfort Zone
Financial services has been using AI for years, but what’s the next step with this transformative technology? Nicole Carrillo, managing director of financial services at Workday, talks with PwC’s Vikas Agarwal about everything AI in this installment of our podcast series, Shift: Moving Financial Services Forward.
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Creating a Modern Insurance Organization
How can insurers take advantage of AI, and why is data quality so important? We explore key takeaways from a new report from Celent, including what companies can do to create a modern insurance enterprise.
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Is Your ERP Holding You Back? Modern Platforms Emphasize Enterprise Data
Organizations using true cloud platforms are best able to manage their finance, people, and data in a way that provides unprecedented transparency and agility that best prepares them for a future of growth.
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Workday Recognized as a 2024 Customers’ Choice for Financial Planning Software by Gartner® Peer Insights™
Workday has over 280 five-star reviews as of April 30, 2024, in the Gartner Peer Insights “Financial Planning Software Reviews and Ratings” report.
