Guidance and insights into financial and workforce planning.
ERP systems are one of the most critical technology investments companies make, yet implementation challenges often derail progress. A well-planned and executed ERP deployment can be the difference between failure and success.
Predictive analytics is reshaping the way organizations navigate uncertainty. By turning data into foresight, it gives leaders clarity to act decisively and keep the business moving forward, even when markets change.
Financial analysts and FP&A professionals play complementary but distinct roles in maintaining a company’s financial health. Learn how the two differ in focus, responsibilities, career trajectory, and business impact.
Accurate financial statements are essential for making informed business decisions. Follow the steps in this guide to maintain reports that are reliable, consistent, and designed to drive strategic action.
Smart inventory management is central to small business profitability and growth. With the right stock management software platform to support it, owners can position their businesses to make smarter resource planning decisions and operate with greater agility into the future.
The right accounting reports don’t just track the past—they guide the future. From essential templates to scalable systems, finance teams need to build reporting structures that drive smart, data-informed decisions.
Automation is changing how revenue gets managed—from routine manual processes to strategic, integrated, forward-thinking processes. For finance teams, it’s creating space to move faster, think bigger, and stay ahead of what’s next.
Forecasting isn’t guesswork—it’s strategy. From historical trends to AI-driven financial forecasting models, learn twelve proven forecasting methods that help enterprise leaders plan with clarity and precision.
Explore key trends and findings within the 2025 Professional Services Maturity™ Benchmark report—and how professional services organizations can leverage them for current and future success.
Finance leaders must assess risks, evaluate supply chains, and plan for a variety of scenarios to minimize the effects of tariffs while maintaining organizational agility.
Small businesses often rely on ad-hoc financial planning even as evidence shows that a sound financial plan is key for growth. Read on to learn the components of a small business financial plan, its benefits, and common challenges.
Business planning is no longer about static forecasts. Learn the ways AI-driven planning is transforming decision-making, improving forecasting, and helping businesses stay ahead of change.
Navigating uncertain times is hard for any business—but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how scenario planning tools can set your business up for success.
AI is transforming the FP&A function by providing better data, faster insights, and smart analysis at scale. But to reap the benefits, organizations must understand the current state of AI in finance.
This article defines inventory management and warehouse management, the benefits and challenges of each, and why an integrated solution to managing the entire supply chain is the best approach.
2025 is well underway—but what will the defining trends be for CFOs? Read on to learn about the importance of upskilling finance teams, adopting cloud-based solutions, and AI as a key enabler of integrated finance.
We’re honored to once again be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.
The report, which surveyed 265 members of the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services audience, explores the importance of digital transformation and agile planning within the finance function.
Continuous planning is more than faster forecasting—it encompasses specific planning practices that catalyze change and drive business agility across the organization.
Although most senior decision-makers would agree that planning has a direct impact on performance, the signs of outdated planning are distributed and often hard to spot.
A successful finance transformation reduces reliance on manual, outdated, and low-value processes, empowering FP&A teams to focus on strategic finance initiatives.
Workday has over 280 five-star reviews as of April 30, 2024, in the Gartner Peer Insights “Financial Planning Software Reviews and Ratings” report.
Healthcare’s supply chain challenges aren’t going away—in fact, they’re becoming more unpredictable. Here’s how organizations can respond to ongoing disruption with precision, agility, and resilience.
Workday continues to deliver innovation to our customers, enabling advanced planning across the enterprise for increased productivity and better decision-making.
Creating timely, accurate, consolidated, and easy-to-digest reports doesn’t have to be a painful experience for FP&A teams.
Faster, more confident decision-making starts with real-time access to data spanning the enterprise—so that finance can scenario plan in tune with a rapidly changing world. Shutterstock and Vancouver Coastal Health share their journeys to better planning.
Today’s finance teams must work both faster and better, but too often are held back by the limits of their financial technology. Here's how to change that.
At Workday, we’re building more capabilities into our financial management and planning solutions this year that leverage generative AI to boost productivity and efficiency. Learn more.
We believe our Leader position reflects the value customers gain by adopting Workday Adaptive Planning.
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.
Learn how to ensure an agile finance function so your business can address change as it happens.
Now there’s another starting point on the finance transformation journey for companies that desire to modernize their financial consolidation process along with their planning function. Learn about our new offering.
Forrester took a multistep approach to evaluate the impact that Workday Adaptive Planning can have on an organization. See the infographic for the results.
Learn how our new unified offering brings together the robust and agile planning of Workday Adaptive Planning with the comprehensive close and consolidation capabilities of Workday Financial Management.
Agile budgeting can help companies build confidence that they’re making the right choices in response to change—and work faster while they’re doing it.
By joining together to plan, measure, and optimize talent, finance and HR can elevate workforce planning, taking it from a static exercise that attempts to guess future needs to an active process that’s able to adjust to constantly changing operational realities.
A new report from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services finds that organizations that leverage collaborative technology between the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and the sourcing and procurement functions can optimize their supply chain.
Organizations, especially large ones, need a planning platform that can handle big, complex models without compromising user experience. Learn how Elastic Hypercube Technology (EHT)—Workday’s next-generation, in-memory architectural engine for Workday Adaptive Planning—is making that possible.
Our Workday Adaptive Planning software has an overall rating of 4.8/5 based on 84 reviews from professional financial end users. Read on to discover what our customers have told us about the impact strategic business planning has had on their organizations.
By envisioning and preparing for what’s ahead, organizations can be far more agile, proactive, and successful.
In today’s highly volatile business environment, only modern finance-enabled companies can keep pace with change, drive innovation, and manage costs. In a new podcast, learn why scenario planning, continuous planning, and rolling forecasts are central to this effort.
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.
Combat analysis paralysis by first assessing your current planning tools and then imagining an ideal partnership.
Organizations that connect their workforce planning with their finance planning are better able to chart their futures in an ever-changing digital world.
Effective workforce planning unlocks ways to address emerging talent requirements, including smarter matching between talent supply and demand.
Enterprise performance management (EPM) software enables companies to monitor, measure, and adjust performance across all business units.
When decision-makers have the ability to understand what’s happening with the business now, they can accurately model what is likely to happen in the future.
Timely, accurate financial management reporting helps business leaders make informed decisions based on their organization’s financial health. Here are four steps you can take to improve your reporting process and increase agility.
An enterprise performance management (EPM) solution that imposes a consolidation-led model for planning will burden FP&A with a rigid tool that hampers agility.
Traditional planning practices can leave organizations poorly equipped to anticipate and respond to economic or market shifts. Learn how cloud-first modern planning software makes a big difference.