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News, trends, and insights about the technology industry.
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4 Projects That Are Top of Mind for Tech and Media Leaders
2024 has been a period of major change across all industries. As we look ahead to 2025, here are four projects that top tech and media leaders are already putting in motion, in their own words.
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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 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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Keeping the Best and Brightest in Tech During a Talent Shortage
In the current talent market, the tech industry requires an innovative strategy to attract and keep top talent. Learn some of the strategies that are on the rise to help build talent pipelines and keep a step ahead of competitors in attracting talent.
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Workday Podcast: The Benefits of Moving to the Public Cloud
Experts from Salesforce and Amazon Web Services talk about how moving to the public cloud can have a positive impact on security, reliability, and scalability.
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How AI Transforms Finance within Technology, Media, and Entertainment Companies
Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst at Amalgam Insights, discusses why finance leaders in tech, media, and entertainment shouldn’t miss these clear opportunities to improve operations with AI.
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Workday DevTalk: Community Leadership in Workday Development
In this episode of Workday DevTalk, host Chris Bledsoe sits down with Sreenivas Raman, staff enterprise engineer at LinkedIn, to discuss his journey into the world of development and how he’s contributing to the Workday developer community.
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Tech, Media, and Entertainment Industries Outlook: 4 Transformative Trends
Focus areas for leaders in the tech, media, and entertainment industries include upleveling their forecasting and planning capabilities, and using data-driven insights to gain a competitive advantage and meet consumer demand.
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Workday Podcast: A New Era for Tech and Media
In this episode of our Industrious podcast series, it’s all about challenges and opportunities for the tech and media industries, featuring special guest Randy Rasmussen, Workday managing director for tech and media.
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Why Technology Industry CFOs Must Be Ready to Drive Change
Tech industry CFOs must take a central role in technology transformation projects. Justin Joseph examines three critical areas where they can drive change through modernization.
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Why Tech Leaders Should Rethink Data Management and Tap AI for Insights
Kieron Allen, analyst at Acceleration Economy, discusses the importance of data-driven insights, the role of tech leaders in extracting and implementing them, and the influence AI has on this critical business strategy.
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The Power of AI and ML for Tech and Media CFOs
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be major differentiators in how effectively tech and media companies can compete. How can industry CFOs harness the power of these technologies for maximum benefit?
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Workday Podcast: DevTalk: The Human Side of Application Development
What are the human challenges developers typically face? Matt Weseloh, HR applications architect at Raytheon Technologies, shares his experiences with Workday development and the profound impact it has had on his career.
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The Future of the Technology Industry: Defined by Data
To spur innovation and growth—economic headwinds be damned—technology leaders are racing to modernize their data foundations, rethink their talent strategies, and better connect the dots between strategic priorities and value creation.
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Workday Global Study: For Tech Leaders, The Time for Change Is Now
The tech industry has never lacked for data, but siloed systems have cut short the ability to deeply interpret that data. This is all changing as the industry is shedding its past—and tapping the transformative power of a single, unified system.
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Thriving in a Changing World: Lessons From Tech and Media Leaders
In an industry keynote from Workday Rising, our flagship customer event, leaders from LiveRamp and Warner Bros. Discovery shared their approach to effectively adapting to change.
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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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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 Comcast Turns Data Into Insights With Workday Prism Analytics
While data may be free-flowing and abundant for HR leaders, there isn’t always a clear path to gaining real insights from it. Jay Chang, executive director of HR analytics at Comcast, joined us to talk about how the company uses Workday Prism Analytics to turn data into insights.
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Workday Podcast: Building Internal Talent and Support Teams at Cisco Systems
Todd Scott, director of the Workday Solutions Organization at Cisco Systems, talks about what he’s learned about building internal talent and support teams.
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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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CFOs Can Create a Business Culture That Embraces Change and Generates Value
As cloud-based technologies take over traditional finance tasks, today’s CFOs are focusing on creating value and driving decisions. Finance leaders from AICPA, Franklin Templeton, Snowflake, and Workday share four principles of value creation: agility, insight, collaboration, and innovation.
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Workday Podcast: The A to Z of Quote-to-Cash for Tech and Media Companies
You may not realize how quote-to-cash is a part of everyday life, but it’s humming behind the scenes as companies work to influence your decisions about apps, services, and subscriptions. In this episode, it’s all about quote-to-cash for technology and media companies with Igor Stenmark from MGI Research and Justin Joseph from Workday.
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Workday Podcast: A European Perspective on How HR Leaders Became Change Champions
Ciara Lakhani, chief people officer at technology platform Dashlane, joins us to talk about the results of our latest global study and the multifaceted world of today’s HR function. She also draws on her experiences from Europe to discuss the latest in workforce transformation trends.
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Technology, Media, and Entertainment Companies Explore the Future of Hybrid Work
At Conversations for a Changing World, leaders from Cisco and Accenture talked about the future of hybrid work for technology, media, and entertainment companies.
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How European Finance Leaders Are Preparing for a Post-Pandemic World
As businesses across Europe take the first tentative steps toward normality following the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is now turning to how to prepare for the future. Finance leaders from Workday customer companies discuss resilience, digital transformation, and some of the lessons learned.
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Workday Industry Insights EMEA: Accelerating the Journey to Becoming a Digital Enterprise
Businesses must continue to accelerate their journey to become agile, digital enterprises that are primed to respond to unseen challenges. On 18 November, Workday Industry Insights EMEA will bring together a cross-section of industry experts who will share valuable insights on thriving in such uncertain times.
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Communications, Media, and Technology Summit: Why Innovation Is the Only Way Forward
Business leaders in the communications, media, and technology industries at a recent Workday summit discussed what matters most as they find new ways to reach their customers.
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Workday Podcast: A Tech CFO Looks to the Future
The disruption of the pandemic affects tech, media, and entertainment companies in many different ways, and the office of the CFO is adapting through it all. On this episode, our guest is Liz Brittain, CFO of cybersecurity company HackerOne.
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Tech, Media, and Entertainment: Transformation in Real Time
The tech, media, and entertainment industries are changing by the minute with some changes sparked by the pandemic and others accelerated by it. Let’s take a look at the transformation and what it means for the future of these industries.
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Announcing the Winners of the Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards
The Workday Partner Industry Innovation Awards honor industry-specific solutions from our services partners built on top of Workday Prism Analytics and Workday Adaptive Planning.
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Equiniti and Netflix: Finance Transformation in the Age of Disruption
Finance leaders from Equiniti and Netflix share how they pivoted to virtually operating their company’s financials when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and how they’re better preparing for future disruption.
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How First Advantage Is Creating an Anti-Bias Culture
With a greater spotlight on social injustice over the last year, organizations are re-examining how they can build greater diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Michael Pilnick, executive vice president of global human resources at First Advantage, discusses how the company is evolving its culture to create inclusivity for all.
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The Importance of Two-Way Trust During Times of Adversity
Trust in the workplace is built through actions, not words. Bob Saccullo, director of people operations at Blackbaud, shares how the company has been able to maintain two-way trust between leadership and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Workday Podcast: Slack’s VP of People on the Future of Work
The traditional work environment may never return. In this two-part podcast, Slack’s head of people, Dawn Sharifan, joined us to discuss remote workforce management in a crisis and the new world of work.
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8 Ways to Help Ensure Your Company’s AI Is Ethical
Based on our experiences, here are eight lessons for technology companies looking to champion a commitment to ethical artificial intelligence (AI) across their organization.
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Why It’s Time to Open Up the Workday Cloud Platform
Workday is taking a big step forward by opening up our platform to customers and a broader ecosystem of partners, independent software vendors, and developers. Read more from Workday Co-Founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri.
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Why Workday Is Different by Design, and Why It Matters
At Workday, a large part of my time is spent explaining how we are different by design. There is a long list of points we make to describe our different approach, but at the core the main difference between Workday and traditional enterprise applications is how we’ve made the object model the core of our architecture.
