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IDC Business Value Snapshot

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  • 8 Min Read
IDC’s research demonstrates the significant value interviewed organizations across a variety of industries gained by using Workday Human Capital Management to manage and leverage talent with tight integrations, automation, scalability, and robust data analytics capabilities.

How to assess potential business value in 5 minutes

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  • 15 Min Read
Complete this short assessment to see the potential value of using Workday to run finance and human resources operations.

A rapid return: Cloud-based enterprise management platform delivers business value

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  • 3 Min Read
In this executive summary, read an overview of IDC’s Business Value examination of Workday Enterprise Management Cloud.

IDC report: The business value of Workday Enterprise Management Cloud

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  • 35 Min Read
Download the full IDC report to read analysis and examples of the revenue gains, reduced costs, rapid ROI, and other value gained by using Workday’s cloud-based platform.

A new framework for finance excellence

  • Ebook
  • 20 Min Read
Learn the competencies finance leaders need now to thrive in an AI-fueled economy.

SMBs at the leading edge: 4 key considerations for growth and success

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  • 28 Min Watch Time
Experts discuss the four key areas small/midsize businesses must lean into to stay competitive, along with predictions on technology developments that will be top of mind for SMBs in the coming years.

How CIOs can use AI and ML to build a skills-based workforce

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  • 12 Min Read
How can the IT and HR functions use AI and ML to enable a skills-based organizational strategy? Two Workday leaders share their perspectives.

SmartCIO: Less artificial, more intelligence

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  • 12 Min Read
Welcome to smartCIO magazine, our global quarterly magazine for today’s modern IT leaders.

ESG success drivers: Clear metrics, standardized frameworks, and a lot of data

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  • 4 Min Read
Creating a successful ESG strategy is largely a data issue. To succeed, the CIO must work with business stakeholders to align around strong metrics and standardized frameworks.

The sustainability imperative for CIOs

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  • 3 Min Read
A growing set of ESG initiatives will require even greater alignment between CIOs and their C-suite colleagues, particularly the CFO and the CHRO. Collaboration is critical for achieving ESG goals.

Getting to Net Zero: Executives share ESG best practices

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  • 4 Min Watch Time
Netflix Chief Sustainability Officer Emma Stuart, Bank of America Chairman Brian Moynihan, and Mars CFO Claus Aagaard share how they are looking at climate risk on the road to Net Zero.

How IT is empowering today’s workers

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  • 5 Min Read
During unpredictable times, IT teams can offer their companies a competitive edge in employee retention by helping create flexible work experiences.

The IT leader’s guide to partnerships that deliver on employee experience transformation

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  • 53 Min Watch Time
Join us as we examine the role of the CIO in employee experience transformation, and the critical partnerships between HR, IT, and HRIT in driving organizations forward.

ERP Modernization Maturity Assessment

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  • 5 Min Read
IDC has developed an ERP Modernization Maturity Assessment that will benchmark your organization’s progress against your peers.

Ignore ERP core modernization at your own peril

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  • 3 Min Read
Nine out of 10 organizations say they’ve adopted or plan to adopt a “digital-first” business strategy. And forward-thinking CIOs are rethinking traditional ERP environments as a result.

IDC Spotlight: ERP modernization is business transformation

  • Whitepaper
  • 8 Min Read
Most legacy ERP systems are good at the basics, but they’re not compatible with future requirements for rapid business change, agile organizations, and digital business models.

Rethinking ERP: Laying a path forward

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  • 4 Min Read
The prospect of transforming business-critical systems is enough to scare CIOs from tackling core modernization efforts. But maintaining the status quo presents an even greater risk to the business.

Enterprise ‘Relationship’ Planning: How to ensure successful ERP modernization

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  • 3 Min Read
Many CIOs are in the driver's seat when it comes to ERP strategy. Yet successful modernization requires effective partnership with key C-suite stakeholders, particularly the CFO.

Workday enterprise management cloud platform: The power to adapt

  • Ebook
  • 14 Min Read
Learn how your organization can use Workday Enterprise Management Cloud Platform to innovate more, grow faster, and boost employee engagement to better navigate a constantly changing world.

The CIO as the digital orchestrator across the C-suite

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  • 5 Min Read
The C-suite is increasingly shifting to the “digital dream team,” wherein every function is a technology function. In this context, the role of the CIO is critical.

The power of CIO-CFO collaboration

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  • 21 Min Watch Time
Learn how CFO-CIO teamwork can create a strong foundation for digital transformation in a rapidly changing world.

Strengthening the CIO-CFO relationship with a flexible, data-driven strategy

  • Webcast
  • 47 Min Watch Time
Learn how IT and finance leaders can come together to build flexible, unified sources of data to optimize the finance function and support more agile decision-making.

Building organizational agility: A guide for IT leaders

  • Ebook
  • 10 Min Read
We identified five key behaviors that are crucial to organizational agility, and then grouped survey respondents based on their level of adoption of these behaviors.

How Netflix broke down business barriers

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  • 2 Min Watch Time
See how Workday helped Netflix remove barriers across IT, Finance, and HR teams to boost business agility.

IDC FutureScape: Worldwide small and medium-sized business 2024 predictions

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  • 10 Min Read
This IDC FutureScape examines 10 key future technology moves by SMBs through 2029.