How Automation and Machine Learning Are Reshaping the Finance Function, Part Two
Take a deeper look at the specific use cases of automation and machine learning across finance, and what they mean for traditional, day-to-day finance activities.
Planning
Guidance and insights into financial and workforce planning.
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Organizational Agility: The Power of Continuous Planning
Our recent research finds that only a small group of elite high-performers have adopted an active planning process.
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Results From Our Global Research: The Future Belongs to the Agile
Companies report stronger performance when they embrace agile ways of working: breaking down bureaucracy, eliminating data and process silos, building a workforce with modern skills, and prioritizing technologies that evolve along with them.
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Workday Podcast: Getting in on the Act with Active Planning
Kerman Lau, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Adaptive Insights, discusses active planning: what it is, why it matters, and what successful planning looks like.
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Planning for the Future with the Power of One
Adaptive Insights was recently named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions. Barbara Larson reflects on what the Power of One holds for the future of planning.
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Third Time Running: Adaptive Insights Named Planning Leader
Gartner has positioned Adaptive Insights as a Leader in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions for the third time. Connie DeWitt shares the importance of customer satisfaction, execution, innovation, and vision.
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Celebrating One Year: Adaptive Insights, a Workday Company
Today marks the one-year anniversary since Adaptive Insights joined Workday. Tom Bogan reflects on what we've accomplished together, including customer adoption and momentum, innovation with machine learning, and advancing on the path to the Power of One.
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Workday Podcast: Managing Growth and Planning for Change at Ivanti
Mark Chamberlain, vice president of global sales operations at software company Ivanti, shares what he's learned about growing through acquisitions, the importance of planning, and what it's like to spend time on both the finance and sales sides of the house.
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3 Workforce Planning Tips for Project-Based Businesses
Here's how professional services organizations can develop capacity flex—the ability to rapidly increase or decrease staffing levels or to shift quickly from one project to another.
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How to Step Up Your Finance Game with Dashboards and Analytics
Visual analytics opens the door for collaboration with easy-to-interpret data that can be shared and accessed by anyone with permission. See five ways dashboards help identify valuable business insights.
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How to Increase Buy-in for Driver-Based Planning
Encouraging buy-in for driver-based planning helps assure teams that they'll reap the maximum benefit of the approach. Follow these five steps to get both executives and business partners on board.
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Professional Services Firms: Five Critical Factors for Better Capacity Planning
Pop quiz: How many resources do you need in a week, month, or season from now? Here are the most important areas to consider for capacity planning.
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How to Improve Your Finance Game with Cube Sheets
These multidimensional spreadsheets make it easy to create sophisticated planning models with up to 10 dimensions. With your data imported, you can start to twist and turn your model just like, well, a Rubik’s Cube.
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Three Easy Steps to More Impressive Board Reports
Standard slide templates and data charts may satisfy most board members. But to really dazzle them—and establish the finance team as a strategic partner in driving the business forward—consider these presentation tips for your board reports.
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Five Ways to Improve Business Planning Using Rolling Forecasts
Companies often spend weeks or months developing an annual plan or budget, but by the time they’re finished, the market has changed and the budget has become obsolete. There’s a better way: rolling forecasts.
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Now More Than Ever, It’s About Agility
In the age of urgent, rapid digitalization, businesses that take on an agile philosophy for planning have a strategic advantage over those still clinging to old ways of planning. Read more from Tom Bogan, executive vice president, Planning Business Unit at Workday.
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Customer Voice: How Workforce Planning Supports Rapid Growth
Rapid global growth is never easy—but it can be much smarter and more efficient with workforce planning. That's the experience of international law firm Pinsent Masons LLP. Andrew Brett, financial accounting manager, shares how the firm uses workforce planning to better manage growth—and the insights it's gaining in the process.
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HR Leader Perspective: How Finance Should Think about Workforce Planning
Today's workforce planning looks at more than full-time employees and their fully loaded costs. It involves looking at your talent through a broader lens. Amy Reichanadter, chief people officer at Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, explains how workforce planning can be the product of a happy marriage between HR and finance.
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Diary of a Deployment: Workday Adopts Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud
Workday is now live on Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud—only 10 short weeks from when we kicked off the deployment. Barbara Larson, vice president of corporate finance at Workday, shares details of the deployment and what it's going to mean for our FP&A organization.
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Everybody Plans: A Conversation with Tom Bogan
When Adaptive Insights became a Workday company, we brought together two amazing cultures and gained an incredible leader. Tom Bogan, who will remain as CEO of Adaptive Insights, shares his thoughts on the key tenets of successful business planning, innovations on the horizon for business planning software, and the shared vision of Workday and Adaptive Insights.
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What Adaptive Insights Has Learned About Planning From Helping Thousands of Customers
“Every leader knows that success is no accident—you have to plan for it,” writes Adaptive Insights CEO Tom Bogan. In addition to a great product, the Adaptive Insights crew brings to Workday extensive planning experience and insights from working with more than 4,000 organizations. Learn from Adaptive Insights, a Workday Company, how active planning drives the business forward and enables the finance organization to become a strategic partner.
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Workday + Adaptive Insights: A Single Planning Solution for Customers
In the next step in our journey to jointly enable customers to better plan, execute, and analyze across the enterprise, we've determined that the Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud will become the single planning solution moving forward for our customers. This strategy ensures we are offering customers the best solution to accelerate their finance, workforce, and business transformations.
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Planning and Forecasting for the Professional Services Firm of the Future
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a crystal ball that allows you to gaze into your firm’s future? With the proper business processes, measures, and systems in place, you can more easily forecast which clients and services lines are expected to deliver the most revenue and allocate budget and resources to support them.
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Workday to Acquire Adaptive Insights
Workday has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Adaptive Insights, a leading cloud-based platform for modernizing business planning. With this incredible team and their industry-leading technology unified with Workday, we will accelerate customers' finance and business transformations across the organization through a powerful combination of integrated planning and a complete finance suite of products.
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5 Questions for Paul Hamerman on Financial and Workforce Planning
Paul D. Hamerman, vice president at Forrester, answers five key questions that organizations should consider when exploring workforce and financial planning approaches in today’s business world.
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The Perils of Planning—and the Promise of a New Approach
Today's complex business environment requires a shift from annual planning and budgeting to dynamic planning and forecasting, says Matthew Schwenderman, principal at Deloitte Consulting. It's a mountain that finance organizations will need to summit, he writes, and getting there will require a strong technology backbone.
