Workday DevCon 2022: Innovating, Connecting, and Celebrating With Workday Developers
At Workday DevCon 2022, we’ll showcase how developers can build innovative business capabilities with the latest Workday technologies.
Technology Innovation
Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.
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Workday Podcast: Elevating the Employee Experience With Mobile
In order to deliver a positive employee experience, businesses must embrace an “anytime, anywhere” philosophy. Berea Schaffer, Workday’s vice president of mobile, shares insights on how businesses can increase employee satisfaction by delivering an engaging end-to-end mobile app experience.
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How IT Is Empowering Today’s Workers
During an unpredictable time, IT teams can offer their companies a competitive edge in employee retention by helping create flexible work experiences.
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Workday CTO: 3 Critical Factors For Delivering Business Continuity at Scale
Agility, reliability, and configurability are the core of continuous enterprise cloud service delivery. Our Global CTO Dave Sohigian discusses how incorporating these concepts supports our customers’ ability to remain adaptable during periods of growth and change.
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Global Study: Leaders Looking for More Sustainable Pace of Digital Transformation
In our just-published global study of business leaders from the finance, IT, and HR functions, we find that the pace of transformation is shifting out of high gear.
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Workday’s Vision for AI
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the appointment of 27 experts to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), including Sayan Chakraborty, executive vice president of product and technology at Workday. The committee will advise President Biden and the White House’s National AI Initiative Office on a broad range of AI issues. Sayan shares his views on the importance of driving the development and adoption of ethical AI and shaping smart policy around it.
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Workday Podcast: Lessons in HR Transformation From AirAsia
Because of the pandemic, HR leaders have been forced to redefine their roles—and their workforces—from the inside out. In this episode of the Workday Podcast, Bilal Waris, head of HR center of excellence and operations at AirAsia, joins us to talk about this reexamination and his reflections on our recent global survey of senior leaders.
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Workday Podcast: Why Context Is Everything for Today’s CIO
Charles Ewen, CIO at the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, joins us to talk about why there’s no one-size-fits-all approach for today’s CIOs. Informed by the findings of our latest global research, we also discuss how IT’s role within the business must evolve for a new hybrid world of work.
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Workday Podcast: Are CFOs the New Data Leaders?
Finance leaders have a number of opportunities to help their teams and the broader business by harnessing technology, data, and insights. Armed with the results from our latest global study, we spoke to Denise Chamberlain, executive vice president and CFO at EE Health, to get her perspective.
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The Impact of Design on the Employee Experience
Jeff Gelfuso, Workday’s chief design officer, discusses the importance of delivering seamless end-to-end experiences for employees, and how Workday is making it possible.
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Workday Podcast: Transforming Finance in Finland During the Pandemic
In this episode of the Workday Podcast, Elizabeth Schauman, head of finance at Academic Work was joined by Karin Hagman, regional vice president, Nordics at Workday to discuss finance agility and looking to the future of the function beyond the pandemic.
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Workday Podcast: Driving Healthcare Forward with Technology Innovation
How is technology helping healthcare organizations stay competitive and move their business forward? OhioHealth’s Anna Hensley and KPMG’s Vince Vickers share their insights.
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Formula 1 Puts Pedal to the Metal on Digital Acceleration
Chris Roberts, head of IT infrastructure at Formula 1, shares the drivers for success in the racing organisation’s digital journey, and how it has led the pack as an “innovation machine.”
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Workday Podcast: Are Businesses Facing a Digital Reckoning?
How can business leaders tackle the digital acceleration gap head on? In this episode of the Workday Podcast, Pete Schlampp, chief strategy officer at Workday, discusses why expanding digital capabilities to better meet new opportunities is a business imperative.
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How Innovative Technologies Are Transforming the Future of Healthcare
At Workday’s Conversations for a Changing World event, healthcare leaders from OhioHealth and KPMG shared how cloud technologies are improving employee engagement, creating more resilient supply chains, and helping organizations to optimize costs while delivering quality care.
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Global Study: Workforce Skills and Data Access Are Barriers to Digital Transformation
Our global survey on digital acceleration finds that business leaders took a more measured approach in 2021 compared with the previous year. Read on to learn more about what respondents ranked as the top barriers to digital transformation.
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Mobile App Trends to Watch in 2022 and Beyond
Mobile app technology innovation continues to accelerate rapidly. Berea Schaffer, our vice president of mobile, provides a look into the latest app trends businesses are embracing this coming year.
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The Top 5 Questions CFOs Should Ask Themselves in 2022
Finance leaders helping to shepherd their companies toward an increasingly technology-enabled digital operating model are demanding more capabilities from their ERP solutions. Addressing five key questions can help enable a smooth transition.
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A Tale of Two Companies
How can two large companies in different industries—with different needs, processes, and regions—use the same technology platform effectively? By looking at two Workday customers, we see that numbers don’t always tell the full story when it comes to business needs.
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Building a Better Employee Experience
The pandemic and Great Resignation have made employee experience a business imperative for companies everywhere. Pete Schlampp discusses how we’re striving to better meet employees’ evolving needs, including using data and technology to personalize experiences and ensure people feel supported in moments that matter.
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A Focus on Employee Experience: From the CIO Lens
Work is more remote, decentralised, and digitised than ever before and employers are under great pressure to attract and retain top talent. Penelope Prett, CIO of Accenture, shared her insights on how technology can help create a vibrant new type of employee experience and keep workers energised.
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How Professional Services Automation Supports the Full Life Cycle of Client-Facing Projects
Discover how a professional services automation (PSA) platform can help services organizations better deliver on client projects and increase efficiency, insight, and customer satisfaction.
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Workday Podcast: How Doctolib Is Spearheading a Digital Revolution in Healthcare
In this episode, Sebastien Louyot, CIO of France-based Doctolib, joins us to talk about the company’s story, how they’re shaping the future of virtual healthcare, and the evolution of the CIO role.
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Take 5 With Jim Stratton: Solving Big Problems
After working to uncover the mysteries of our solar system’s planets for nearly 15 years, Jim Stratton brought his passion for problem solving to Workday. In this post, our CTO explores what he sees around the corner for Workday and our customers, the challenges we can help them solve, and how guitar playing improves his thinking process.
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Global Study: Retailers Excel at Organizational Agility
According to our latest global study, retail organizations are ahead of other sectors in understanding the importance of digital revenue and, more importantly, having the agility to act quickly on opportunities.
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Webber Wentzel: Driving Innovation for South Africa’s Legal Sector
The CIO at Webber Wentzel, a prominent full-service law firm based in South Africa, talked to us about how the firm leveraged technology to navigate these unprecedented times, and its roadmap for the future.
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How Workday Student Is Transforming the Student Experience
Matt Sherman, our general manager of Workday Student, shares highlights about our student system and the momentum we’re seeing as more and more higher education institutions look to transform and elevate the student experience.
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Cloud Technology Helps Federal Workers Make a Meaningful Impact
For U.S. federal agencies looking to attract and retain talent and modernize human resources operations, moving to the cloud is the logical choice. Learn more about how to empower employees, make HR a more strategic partner, and bring predictability to budget cycles.
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The Future of Professional Services Firms: A View From 2025
More than one-third of professional services firms now expect that 75% or more of their revenue will come from digital within the next three years. Industry experts from PwC and Workday recently partnered to explain what this means for the industry’s future.
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Workday Podcast: Florida Gulf Coast University Enables Digital Agility
Digital transformation is more than just deploying new technology—it’s rethinking how you operate your entire organization. Florida Gulf Coast University CIO Mary Banks discusses how the school’s own transformation is enabling the leadership team to make better decisions that impact costs, productivity, and success.
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A Vital Business Growth Driver: Employee Experience and Wellbeing
Andrew Dubowec, chief growth officer at League, and Cristina Goldt, general manager, talent optimization at Workday, discuss how the pandemic dramatically upleveled the importance of the employee experience and how employees use their benefits—all the way up to the C-suite.
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Workday Podcast: A Positive Look Forward for Retail CIOs
Retail CIOs have plenty on their minds, but they’re seizing the moment to help guide their organizations toward a positive future with creativity and innovation.
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Workday Podcast: Why Employee Experience Innovation Is Crucial
Workday leaders Pete Schlampp, executive vice president of product development, and Jeff Gelfuso, chief design officer, talk about why a consumer-like user experience in the enterprise is more important than ever.
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Workday Innovation Outlook: Aneel Bhusri on How We’re Helping Customers Emerge Stronger
Aneel Bhusri, co-founder, co-CEO, and chairman at Workday, shared insights on Workday product innovation, how we’re empowering customers, and how we’re helping organizations develop paths for growth at our Conversations for a Changing World digital event.
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Global Study: How Forward-Looking CIOs Are Driving Business Strategy
We conducted a global study of 603 executives worldwide to see how the digital acceleration spurred on by the pandemic has influenced the thinking of CIOs worldwide. Here’s an overview of the results.
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Success at Scale
When you’re evaluating cloud vendors, it’s important to understand how their technology platforms scale and whether a service can quickly adapt to meet your business needs. At Workday, we believe true scale is achieved if a service can handle the most demanding workloads of every customer—all at once, every day.
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Global Study: IT Leaders Reveal Key Goals and Challenges for Driving Digital Acceleration
Our report reveals how IT leaders at organizations of all sizes plan on tackling digital revenue growth and resilience, even in the face of pandemic-related challenges.
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Study Shows CIOs Near Top, CHROs at Bottom of Digital Champion List
We commissioned Harvard Business Review Analytic Services to test the idea that a faster speed of digital transformation has become the new normal. Our global study found that not all digitization efforts are created equal.
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5 Reasons Government Leaders Should Avoid Lift-and-Shift Cloud Migrations
Not every “cloud” is the same. Government finance and human resources teams should carefully weigh the differences between an enterprise management cloud approach and simply migrating existing ERP systems to a hosted data center.
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Workday CIO: What We’re Doing to Respond to a Changing World
Workday CIO Sheri Rhodes recently talked with Miriam McLemore, AWS enterprise strategist, as a guest on AWS’s Conversation with Leaders series. Rhodes discussed how the pandemic increased collaboration, why we shifted to a product-focused IT operating model, and how our Workday on Workday approach benefits customers.
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Workday Ventures: Reflections From Women Transforming Technology Conference
Workday recently had the honor of being a Platinum Sponsor of VMware’s Women Transforming Technology Conference, an event that aligns with Workday Ventures’ goals and vision to support a strong, inclusive future.
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The Great Acceleration: Can Your Business Keep Up?
The acceleration gap was already emerging prior to the pandemic, but the past year tested every organization’s ability to respond. Based on our work with thousands of customers worldwide, we’ve found seven imperatives businesses need to thrive in the “next normal.”
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Powering a Richer Workday Experience in Microsoft Teams
We’re excited to announce an even more immersive and productive experience for users of our Workday for Microsoft Teams app. This should translate into greater worker productivity and engagement, and most importantly, organizational success.
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Dopamine, Motivation, and the Science Behind Not Giving Up
At the Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, Shivvy Jervis, a futurist, speaker, and broadcaster, discussed her research on human motivation and how business leaders can best engage an increasingly distributed workforce.
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3 Workday Customers Share Their Paths to Digital Acceleration
At our Workday Elevate Digital Experience 2021 in the UK, leaders in finance, HR, and technology discussed how they’re reducing complexity, engaging employees, and driving innovation through digital transformation efforts.
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How Workday Extend Allows Accuride to Punch Above Its Weight
Paul Wright, CIO of vehicle components-maker Accuride, talks about how he helped the company detangle its technology footprint while gaining functionality, how the company saves time and money with Workday Extend, and how strong business partnerships lead to successful digital transformation projects.
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How Automation Helps Strategic Sourcing Teams Do More With Less
After being stress-tested by the pandemic, leaders are finding innovative ways to elevate the office of procurement despite limited resources.
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Business System Scalability, Reliability, and Innovation in the Post-Pandemic Era
As organizations and the world at large start to recover from the pandemic’s impact, IT has the opportunity to reevaluate practices established out of necessity and keep the most valuable ones.
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Innovation and Upgrades Don’t Have to Be Disruptive
Many legacy enterprise application vendors are now asking their customers when they want to schedule their updates—as if this is a good thing. At Workday, we ask, “Why do updates have to cause disruption at all?” Hint: They don’t have to.
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Harvard Business Review: 4 Ways Procurement Is Evolving in 2021 and Beyond
Harvard Business Review finds that procurement’s role in the enterprise is evolving, and explains how leaders can empower their teams to act strategically.
