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Spotlight on the enterprise technologies that are changing the way we work.
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Responsible AI Takes Two: Developers and Deployers Must Partner
AI developers and the companies that deploy and use their technology must work together to ensure AI is leveraged for good. All parts of the AI value chain have a role to play in the responsible development and use of AI.
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What Is Machine Learning? Understanding ML
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are behind some of the most significant innovations in recent years. Learn more about machine learning, how it works, and why it’s critical to the future of work.
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What Workday Is Doing to Move Global Privacy Forward
Workday is committed to safeguarding global privacy by anticipating regulatory changes and supporting customers with compliance across diverse privacy laws worldwide. Workday Chief Privacy Officer Barbara Cosgrove shares more about our proactive approach, including our dedicated privacy team, ongoing employee education, and the integration of privacy and AI principles into our products and practices.
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What Is Artificial Intelligence? Why AI Matters
Conversations around artificial intelligence are happening everywhere, but how is this technology relevant to the world of work? Break through the jargon and learn about the business benefits of AI.
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Our Key Takeaways From the Gartner® Hype Cycle for ERP, 2023 Report
Report shows Application, Finance and IT leaders which technologies can transform their businesses as well as when and how to include them in their ERP strategy.
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EU AI Regulation: A Call for Global Action
The European Parliament’s AI Act sets the stage for the adoption of the world’s first comprehensive AI regulatory framework. Learn the latest from Workday Vice President of Public Policy Chandler C. Morse.
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Global CIO AI Indicator Report: A Four-Point Plan to Level Up
Our report finds that technology leaders everywhere face similar challenges, and highlights how one type of CIO—the “AI Pioneer”—is leading their organization into the best possible future with artificial intelligence.
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Unleashing the Power of Innovation With Public Cloud
Workday technology leader Campbell Webb explains why expanding Workday’s public cloud offerings supports our commitment to deliver unique value to our customers—regardless of their size, region, or industry.
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How Workday Is Leading the Enterprise Generative AI Revolution
Workday’s chief technology officer, Jim Stratton, shares his perspective on the recent buzz around generative AI, how Workday is utilizing its capabilities, and what it means for the future of work.
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Workday Podcast: Could AI Be the Best Thing to Happen to Your Business?
In this special episode of the Workday Podcast, guest host Meg Wright, head of audio and innovation at FT Longitude, is joined by three global emerging technology thought leaders as we dive headlong into the topic of AI and ML in the workplace.
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Workday Research: ‘AI IQ’ Study Reveals Artificial Intelligence Adoption Barriers for Business Leaders
A new Workday survey of 1,000 business decision-makers from around the globe cuts through the hype and reveals what leaders are really doing, thinking, and feeling when it comes to artificial intelligence—perhaps the most transformative technology of our lifetime. Keep reading to discover our findings.
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How Workday Helps Customers Enable Digital Success
Our Chief Customer Officer Sheri Rhodes shares her best practices to help customers realize the full value of their digital investments.
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CFOs Look to Address the Finance Talent Gap With AI and ML
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could prompt finance leaders to adopt automation more widely and rethink ways to provide value to the enterprise. A recent Fortune webcast highlighted what opportunities the new technologies might offer.
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Why Professional Services Firms Must Digitize These 5 Areas
Many professional services firms steer clients through digital transformation journeys, yet rely on disconnected and manual processes to manage their own businesses. Digitizing these areas can help firms be more competitive.
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5 reasons rapidly expanding contingent workforce cio priority
CIOs and IT leaders have valuable insight into what’s needed to create an extended workforce talent strategy that powers the future of work.
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How AI and ML Are Powering the Future of Work
At Workday, we’ve embedded AI and ML into the very core of our platform—delivering unrivaled business adaptability and competitive advantage to our customers. Here’s how.
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Workday’s Continued Diligence to Ethical AI and ML Trust
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to modernize, so do our ethical principles. Kelly Trindel, head of machine learning (ML) trust at Workday, shares how we’re building trustworthy AI for our customers and their employees.
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Riding the Wave of Innovation at Workday to Deliver a Seamless Experience
Jeff Gelfuso, Workday’s chief design officer, shares how our redesigned user experience is helping customers adapt in a changing world.
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Innovating With Our Community in a Changing World
Organizations across every industry face the same challenge: how to adapt at speed. With Workday apps and solutions—enabled by our Workday community and broad ecosystem—we bring the flexibility and adaptability our customers need to thrive.
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The Importance of Relationships for Successful ERP Modernization
Many CIOs are in the driver's seat when it comes to deciding their organization's overall ERP strategy. Yet successful transformation requires effective partnership with other stakeholders, particularly the CFO. Learn why building strong relationships across the business is critical to ERP modernization, and the business benefits that come from an adaptable platform.
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Reevaluating ERP: Paving a Way Forward
The prospect of transforming complex business-critical systems is enough to scare off some CIOs from tackling core modernization efforts. But maintaining the status quo presents an even greater risk to the business. Learn what the path to a modern ERP environment looks like.
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Global Research: Business Success Depends on Strong CIO-CFO Partnerships
Our recent CFO-CIO global survey found that IT leaders are more likely to advise on emerging technology and achieve digital transformation for the finance function once they align with their finance counterparts.
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Why Businesses Can’t Avoid ERP Modernization Any Longer
Forward-thinking CIOs are using the opportunity to rethink traditional ERP environments, with an emphasis on transforming business processes and creating a foundation for a decision-ready organization. Learn why neglecting the digital ERP core is a dead-end strategy.
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4 Trends Shaping the European Banking Sector, Part 2
In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges facing the European banking sector, the risks and barriers organisations face on the path to digital transformation, and how the sector will benefit from increased agility.
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Redefining Cloud Value in the Post-Pandemic World
Clare Hickie, CTO, EMEA at Workday, discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic heightened business demand for a shift to the cloud, and how CIOs can prove the cloud’s value to their organisations.
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4 Trends Shaping the European Banking Sector, Part 1
The banking sector has long been ripe for transformation. Yet, legacy technologies have often prevented wholesale digital change. We’ll take a look at two challenges facing the European banking sector and the risks facing organisations on the path to transformation.
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Workday Global Study: CIOs Hold the Key to Data-Fueled Transformation
According to our latest global survey, the requirements of digital transformation are placing huge demands on technology leaders. See how CIOs can gain a strategic edge in the new world of 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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CIO view | Veolia UK’s push forward with digital acceleration
Like many organisations, the world did not stop spinning for waste, water and energy management company Veolia UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, Stuart Stock, CIO at Veolia UK, tells me about the company’s move to the cloud, its rapid digital acceleration and ambitious plans for machine learning and automation.
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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.”
