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There's definitely a remix theme to Workday's music to kick off the event as the Tuesday morning keynote starts #wdayrising

CEO Aneel Bhusri takes the stage and starts with a cheeky wave to SAP and Oracle and a focus on change #wdayrising

Bhusri points out a new department category of customers: procurement #wdayrising

Workday has become a cloud leader over the past 14 years: revenue over $3.5 billion and approaching 12000 employees #wdayrising

Within all the business updates, Bhusri points out Opportunity Onramps with a focus on veterans, underserved youth populations #wdayrising

The big theme at Workday Rising: For A Changing World

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Bhusri brings up Business, Technology, and Society issues, including a focus on security and privacy #wdayrising

Bhusri brings up the success of Workday Planning post @AdaptiveInsight acquisition, including a highlight of the Elastic Hypercube

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Workday worked especially on recruiting, payroll, and org structure over the past year #wdayrising #hcm

Bhusri points out increasing maturity of financial and procurement management with industry specific focus and automation #wdayrising

Bhusri provides a quick shout-out to Workday Student, including new client @Wellesley College #wdayrising

And also Analytics, where Prism Analytics is now live #wdayrising

Sayan Chakraborty appears via video to describe Workday's investment in #machinelearning

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Ali Fuller takes the stage to introduce Workday People Experience as a comprehensive and accessible HR experience #wdayrising

Fuller goes through aspects of People Experience such as knowledge from a variety of data sources, help & support when you need it, and a Video-First approach #wdayrising

Barbara Lawson takes the stage and challenges why finance is stuck in the 80s #wdayrising

Lawson points out three areas where Workday is working on automating and machine-aided finance processes including procure to pay, record to report, and contract to cash. A lot of work in fixing journal and transaction reconciliation. #wdayrising

Lawson presents Accounting Center as the analytics engine to support accounting and provide data lineage across transactions #wdayrising

David Somers presents on HR with a focus on two areas: skills insights and talent marketplace #wdayrising

Skills Insights provides a machine learning aided skills groups and taxonomies #wdayrising

Talent Marketplace matches job opportunities to internal employees based on skills, which can prevent churn and provide a road to upskilling #wdayrising

Pete Schlampp brings up new data discovery capabilities as Discovery Boards to accelerate ability to create reports and conduct self-service. #wdayrising

Schlampp announces Workday People Analytics with graph analysis for these 5 areas: hiring, organization composition, talent and performance, retention and attrition, and #Diversity and inclusion. #wdayrising

Bhaskar Himatsingka describes the state of Intelligent Planning at Workday #wdayrising

Emily McEvilly speaks on the current state of customer service at Workday #wdayrising

Workday shows a focus on templates and configurations to accelerate time to value, including plans for a dozen role-based dashboards #wdayrising

"One more thing"

Workday's James Cross presents a new a #blockchain based Workday Credentials to verify skills, experience, and identity, supported by a mobile app called Wayto

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Aneel's key takeaways of Workday, including an ongoing focus on intelligent automation

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