In this episode of Behind the Cloud, Workday Chief Privacy Officer Barbara Cosgrove talks with host David Clarke about the main principles of GDPR compliance, Workday’s role in supporting our customers’ compliance, and the skills and capabilities needed to ensure data privacy.

Today we introduced the Workday Canvas Design System for customers, partners, and developers worldwide. It offers all the resources necessary to design and create beautiful experiences that continually look and feel like Workday. Read more from Workday CTO Joe Korngiebel.

Remember when “bring your own device” (BYOD) to work created challenges for CIOs? Now they face a new challenge: BYOC—”bring your own collaboration.” While it’s important to support better and more creative ways to engage our workforces, CIOs need a good strategy for taming this phenomenon to avoid problems down the road. Workday CIO Diana McKenzie shares five ideas for managing BYOC.

Many companies introduce new technologies without a view of the overall enterprise technology strategy. Gonzalo Benedit, president, EMEA and APJ at Workday, discusses how business and technology leaders should think of themselves as the conductors of their enterprise orchestras—owning the strategic purpose and the task of ensuring all technology initiatives meet the broader business goal.

The responsibility to comply with data privacy obligations is not one that our customers, and those considering Workday, bear alone. Barbara Cosgrove, vice president, chief privacy officer at Workday, highlights three features of Workday that directly address GDPR requirements.

In part two of this blog series, we examine three things a CIO must do to overcome resistance within the organization to move to a cloud technology strategy.

The Workday Cloud Platform has unlocked an unprecedented level of openness for our company and our customers. By opening up our platform, our goal is to trigger a new era of enterprise innovation and experiences, and to make it possible for customers to leverage Workday’s context and insight for any of their applications.

Today, Workday is announcing a unique partnership with Slack that is driven by our mission to continually place people at the center of the enterprise. Learn how Slack and Workday are working together to help people connect and get things done in the most intuitive way possible.