Workday Adaptive Planning

I was lucky to attend Workday Rising 2025. This year, we had the chance to celebrate Workday's 20th birthday, hear the talented and genuine researcher  Brené Brown , witness a superb drone show at the Giants's stadium, and... I discovered that I actually knew more than 1 song from Duran Duran   •ᴗ• The focus was on Workday Illuminate , Workday's agentic AI platform, which is set to transform how HR, Finance, and Accounting operate. With this platform, you will be able to automate routine tasks, request analyses, explore your data more efficiently, and get assistance with formulas, logic, processes and guidance on training and learning (some of these features to be released later). I was so glad to get a preview of these promises! AI will be so helpful to alleviate annoying tasks. I don't view it as a threat, rather, I see it as a giant boost to my productivity. This aligns perfectly with Workday's motto: "AI Powered, Human Centric." AI functionalities, whe...

Adaptive released a new way to retrieve data from data warehouses, such as Snowflake, Incorta and  Microsoft Fabric (and more to come): it is called Cloud Data Connect . What is Cloud Data Connect? Cloud Data Connect is a tool that helps move data from your company's data warehouses into Workday Adaptive Planning standard or cube sheets (sheets without splits). It’s great pathway for large businesses that already have strict rules for managing data. How does it work? To use Cloud Data Connect, you set up something called a pipeline: Global Navigation Menu (aka the Hamburger menu   ☰ ) > Integration > Setup Pipeline Here’s how the high level process works: 1) Choose where the data will go: it will ask you to give a name to your pipeline (for example: "Snowflake bookings", pick a version and a sheet. 2) Get a template: download a pre-made file (template) that you share with your data storage admin. The template tells them how to organize or display the data so Adaptiv...