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Accenture and Workday Expand Partnership to Help Organizations Accelerate Finance Transformation
Co-innovation helps companies like Salesforce reimagine its financial processes globally NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Workday
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nCo-innovation helps companies like Salesforce reimagine its financial processes globally\n\n\n NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAccenture (NYSE: ACN) and Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) are expanding their partnership to help organizations reinvent their finance functions to be more agile, data-driven and customer-centric. The companies are collaborating to develop a suite of data-led, composable finance solutions that can be configured and reconfigured to help clients in the software and technology, retail, and media industries be more responsive to changing business requirements.\n\n\nThe industry-specific solutions are jointly created to integrate with Workday Financial Management to accelerate the optimization of a company’s core financial operations. Powered by data and analytics, the offerings will digitize processes through intelligent automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) and will help reduce costs, improve operational efficiencies, and empower the workforce with new skills needed to thrive in an evolving environment. The new offerings align with the Workday Industry Accelerators’ collaborative go-to-market strategy established last year to help address the increasing demand for digital transformation across multiple industries.\n\n\n“CFOs are challenged to optimize spend and increase profit margins, while finding new ways to leverage data to drive profitable growth,” said Emma McGuigan, senior managing director and Enterprise & Industry Technologies lead at Accenture. “To help our clients be truly agile and drive real-time reinvention, our expanded collaboration with Workday will provide pre-integrated finance solutions that let organizations plug the technologies of tomorrow into today’s business.”\n\n\nMatthew Brandt, senior vice president of Global Partners at Workday, added, “We recognize the need for intelligent solutions to enable the office of the CFO to navigate changing business environments and drive growth for their companies. This initiative with Accenture is an important addition to Workday’s Industry Accelerators, which combine the power of Workday with the deep industry expertise of our partners to help speed our customers' cloud transformations. The global partnership between Workday and Accenture brings together the power of our cloud-native platform with AI and ML at the core and som...