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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.

Workday Staff Writers
Finance Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Steve Dunne
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Matt Sherman
Human Resources Technology Innovation

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.

Greg Thomas
Technology Innovation

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.

Patrice Cappello
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Josh Krist
Human Resources Technology Innovation

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.

Sarah Ospina
Technology Innovation

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.

Jeremiah Barba
Technology Innovation

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.

Josh Krist
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

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.

Ellen Murphy
Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

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.

Jim Stratton
Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Human Resources Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

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.

Will Greer
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

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.

Sheri Rhodes
Technology Innovation

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.

Sarah Ospina
Technology Innovation

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.”

Pete Schlampp
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Standard Contractual Clauses: Enabling Future Cross-Border Data Flows

Barbara Cosgrove, vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, discusses the European Commission's newly released, final version of new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), which provides clarity for companies that transfer personal data outside of Europe.

Barbara Cosgrove
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Stuart Bowness
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

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.

Steve Dunne
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Steve Dunne
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

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.

Workday Staff Writers
Procurement Technology Innovation

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.

Danyelle Guernsey
Technology Innovation

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.

Dave Sohigian
Technology Innovation

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.

Dave Sohigian
Procurement Technology Innovation

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.

Danyelle Guernsey
Technology Innovation

Workday Extend: Building New Business Capabilities for HR and Finance With Speed and Simplicity

Workday Extend empowers our customers to confidently build, deploy, and manage new business capabilities for finance and HR. Architected on the same platform as Workday's applications, Extend delivers enterprise scale and speeds development.

Jim Stratton
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

How Sun Life Uses Workday Extend and People Experience to Engage Employees

Learn how the financial services company extended the power of Workday to make the employee experience smoother and more productive—especially as it looks ahead to bringing employees back to the office.

Workday Staff Writers
Analytics and Insights Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Technology Trends and Strategies in Healthcare

Keith Lohkamp, senior director, healthcare industry strategy at Workday, talks with Ray Wang, principal analyst, founder, and chairman at Constellation Research, about technology trends and strategies healthcare organizations are adopting to keep up with industry standards and adapt in the changing world of healthcare.

Workday Staff Writers
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Asia-Pacific Leaders Share How Digital Agility Is Enabling Them to Emerge Stronger

While the pandemic has created many challenges, The Salvation Army Australia and City Developments Limited of Singapore have also found the disruption has led to new and better ways of working. Learn more from their talk during our digital event, Conversations for a Changing World.

Jillian Ogawa
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

How Resilience Became A Powerful Enabler for Business Continuity—and Ingenuity

Leighanne Levensaler, executive vice president of corporate strategy at Workday and managing director and co-head of Workday Ventures, discusses how the pandemic has accelerated key business initiatives such as cloud computing, worker reskilling, and inclusive company cultures.

Leighanne Levensaler
Technology Innovation

5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2021

When we look back on 2020, we’ll likely regard it as the year digital transformation reached escape velocity. Jim Stratton, chief technology officer at Workday, expects big leaps in these technology areas this year.

Jim Stratton
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

Discovering the Power of Agility, Collaboration, and Employee Engagement

Workday CIO Sheri Rhodes reflects on a year that was challenging but not without silver linings—including a greater understanding of how to adapt to rapid and unexpected change.

Sheri Rhodes
Technology Innovation

Video: A Discussion on AI Ethics, Privacy, and Regulation With Amie Stepanovich of CU Boulder

The increasing use of AI and ML is raising new questions around privacy, ethics, and regulation. Workday’s Jim Shaughnessy talked with Amie Stepanovich from the University of Colorado, Boulder to learn more.

Workday Staff Writers
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: Driving Innovation in Healthcare IT

Sarah Richardson, vice president of IT change leadership at Optum, and Joe Wilson, chief technology officer for North America at Workday, discuss how healthcare IT is evolving, the importance of alignment across business functions, and how communication is key for effective digital transformation.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

Reimagining Productivity to Spur Innovation

We’re thinking of common business challenges in fresh ways to help make our customers more productive, collaborative, and informed. Learn more about our built-in Workday Productivity Suite, consisting of Workday Drive, Worksheets, and Slides for early adopters.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

Lessons from 2020: How Agility and Resilience Have Defined Successful Business Leadership

COVID-19 has accelerated the pace of digital transformation for many businesses. Carolyn Horne, our president, EMEA, looks at how a disruptive 2020 has acted as a catalyst for change—and how business leaders are increasing agility and building resilience within their organisations.

Carolyn Horne
Human Resources Technology Innovation

How We Can Collaborate to Empower the Future Workforce

The COVID-19 pandemic has damaged local economies and led to high unemployment. We believe there is an innovative solution to help address these challenges: the creation of skills-based talent marketplaces.

Aneel Bhusri
Technology Innovation

Understanding the Basics: What Is Higher Education Software?

This blog looks at how a modern higher education software enables educational leaders to foster student success, develop more effective business processes, gain deeper insights across the organization, and navigate a disruptive landscape.

Workday Staff Writers
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Workday Ventures: Investing in Companies That Help All People Access Opportunities

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
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

Workday Podcast: How Citrix Is Closing the Skills Gap With Machine Learning

During times of disruption, it’s critical for businesses to have the right skill sets to be able to quickly respond and adapt. Trenton Cycholl, vice president of business technology at Citrix, shares how machine learning can help companies close the skills gap.

Josh Krist
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

ChristianaCare: Embracing a Culture of Agility and Innovation

Kevin Kain, director of financial planning and operational analysis, and Kristen Raber, corporate director, Cloud Innovation Lab at ChristianaCare, share how the healthcare provider has rapidly adapted to change while continuing to drive digital transformation within the organization and provide affordable, high quality care for the communities it serves.

Ellen Murphy
Analytics and Insights Technology Innovation

Global Study: Organizational Agility Is Crucial During Global Pandemic

The second installment of our global survey, “Organizational Agility: The Roadmap to Digital Acceleration,” found that the pandemic has forced business leaders the world over to take a hard look at what they’re doing right, and what needs improving inside their own organizations.

Josh Krist
Human Resources Technology Innovation

The Foundation of the Workday Skills Cloud

Skills are the fundamental currency of the changing world of work, and we believe our skills cloud is a true differentiator for talent optimization. Workday CTO Jim Stratton provides a closer look at how we’ve engineered skills cloud to provide the greatest possible value to our customers.

Jim Stratton
Technology Innovation

How Cooperative Purchasing of Cloud Solutions Supports Higher Education and the Public Sector

Cooperative purchasing agreements and group contract vehicles allow higher education and public sector organizations to adopt cloud-based finance, human resources, planning, and student technologies more quickly and efficiently.

Sherry Amos
Customers and Community Technology Innovation

CEO Perspective: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Businesses

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables business leaders to focus their time on the challenges that really matter. Workday Co-Founder and Co-CEO Aneel Bhusri, Nasdaq President and CEO Adena Friedman, and Fortune President and CEO Alan Murray share their thoughts on how AI will further shape the future of business.

Workday Staff Writers
Technology Innovation

Schrems II: The Path Forward

Following the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) decision in the “Schrems II” case, some wondered what it would mean for cross-border data transfers and whether they remained valid. Upon more analysis, they remain intact—with some caveats.

Jason Albert
Technology Innovation Workday News and Culture

Workday Podcast: A Smarter, More Ethical Future With Machine Learning

On today’s Workday Podcast, we examine the role AI and ML play in economics and the intricate relationship between human, machine, and society at large. Ajay Agrawal, co-author of “Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence,” joins Workday Executive Vice President of Technology Sayan Chakraborty to discuss the AI landscape and how it has changed since the book’s publication.

Josh Krist