We've been working hard to extend the Workday Cloud Platform since announcing it one year ago. David Clarke shares how early adopters are using the Workday Cloud Platform, and discusses our new App Creator, which even non-developers will be able to use, and our Workday Marketplace, which hosts solutions by our software and content partners to extend and expand your Workday experience.
To quote poet and environmentalist Wendell Berry, “The Earth is what we all have in common.” Erik Hansen, senior sustainability manager at Workday, shares three takeaways from the Global Climate Action Summit. That includes Workday’s joining of the Step Up Declaration alongside 20 other tech companies, and how we’ll participate as part of the coalition.
PwC’s “Workforce of the Future, The Competing Forces Shaping 2030” reveals four possible worlds of work for 2030. The papers’ authors marry facts-based business reporting with the imagination of science fiction to illustrate not just what’s possible, but what’s probable depending on the choices we make, and even include some specific pointers for HR leaders. Read more in this brief review.
Do CFOs collaborate effectively with their marketing, operations, HR, sales, and IT peers? Our “Finance Redefined” study—which gauged the views of more than 670 senior finance leaders around the world—revealed that the answer is “no” in many cases. Learn the three things CFOs can focus on to strengthen collaboration with others in the C-suite.
Mental health issues do not discriminate: Approximately one in five individuals experience a mental health condition in their lifetime. Watch our panel discussion to learn how to reduce the stigma associated with mental health.
With new lease accounting standards (ASC 842) set to take effect at the end of the year, corporate accounting teams are focused on getting ready for the transition, which won’t be an easy one for many companies. In this interview, Robert Kugel, senior vice president and research director at Ventana Research, discusses the impact of the new lease standards, the challenges they create, and how finance should be thinking differently about compliance with these and future changes.
We conclude this year’s Workday Rising Daily with a recap of great discussions around diversity and inclusion, and a look at how some attendees gave back to the Las Vegas community by mentoring young job seekers on-site. Finally, we share with you some truly inspiring insights from bestselling author Shane Snow on how we all can continue to go further together. We look forward to seeing you at Workday Rising Europe in Vienna, Nov. 13-15, or next year at Workday Rising in Orlando, Oct. 14-17!
Did you miss the Innovation Keynote at Workday Rising? Or maybe you were there but want to revisit the highlights. We’ve trimmed the 90-minute keynote down to a 15-minute, news-packed highlights video. Take a look!
Workday Rising started Wednesday morning with the Culture Imperative Keynote, featuring Great Place to Work CEO Michael C. Bush and some fantastic panelists. We also provide recaps from today’s Business Leader Forums: one on how General Electric is using artificial intelligence and machine learning, one focused on data privacy, and another on how several companies have reinvented performance management. Read more in today’s Workday Rising Daily.
Welcome to day two of the Workday Rising Daily. In this edition, we reveal all the news announced in Tuesday morning’s Innovation Keynote. We also provide recaps from sessions where finance leaders discussed challenges and opportunities facing their organizations, and a session where human resource leaders discussed the value of upskilling your workforce.
At Workday, we are extremely proud that Indian River State College, whose overriding mission is to enable the success of students, is the very first higher education institution to go live on Workday Student. Paul O’Brien, vice president for institutional technology and CIO, and Meredith Coughlin, assistant dean of enterprise systems at IRSC, discuss their Workday experience and the power of one unified system.
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.
Almost all companies produce far more data than they can analyze, and for quite a while, Workday’s goal has been to help companies extract valuable insights. Today, we’re pleased to announce Workday People Analytics, a new application that will give executives, organization leaders, and HR business partners a view into the most critical trends in their workforce, and an understanding of the most likely drivers of those trends.