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Christian Melendez reposted thisChristian Melendez reposted thisMeet Adaptive from Workday! Workday Adaptive Planning is now Adaptive from Workday. The new name reflects a bigger evolution already underway - a new product vision, a new era of innovation, and an ambition that goes well beyond planning. Built to adapt: explore what could happen next and move faster as conditions continuously change One connected view: bring all of your data, assumptions, plans, and insights together Decision Intelligence at the core: turn insight into action, faster Adaptive's Head of Marketing, Eric Thum, had this to say: "We’ve built the business differently: the focus and speed of a dedicated business unit, backed by Workday’s governance and trust behind us - and more than 7,000 customers around the world shaping where we go next. So yes, there’s a new name and a new look. What excites me most is what it gives us permission to build next." Welcome to Adaptive from Workday. Read the full story—link in the comments 👇
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Christian Melendez reposted thisChristian Melendez reposted thisLast week we announced Adaptive Decision Intelligence. This week, we show you what it actually does! I recorded a quick demo so you can see it in action (please be kind, I'm not as polished as my amazing SC team). Here's a few things to look out for: 🔗 Connecting your data universe — Workday Financials, HCM, Snowflake, Azure, Salesforce, and more. One glass box semantic layer. No hallucinations. Deterministic calculations you can stake your forecast on. 🔎 From anomaly to answer — we spot an issue in EMEA, drill in, find the root cause (three sales rep departures), and have recovery scenarios with a Monte Carlo simulation running before most people finish their morning standup. 📒 A briefing you can actually share — full audit trail, data sources, executive summary, written back into Adaptive. This is collaborative planning, not a chatbot conversation. 🤾 Playbooks — because nobody wants to run the same variance analysis manually every single week. Automate it. Let it monitor it for to you and report back. This is what putting the "A" back in FP&A looks like in practice. Adaptive customer? Ping me and we'll get you set up. #weplanthat
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Christian Melendez reposted thisChristian Melendez reposted thisLast week we announced Adaptive Decision Intelligence. This week, we show you what it actually does! I recorded a quick demo so you can see it in action (please be kind, I'm not as polished as my amazing SC team). Here's a few things to look out for: 🔗 Connecting your data universe — Workday Financials, HCM, Snowflake, Azure, Salesforce, and more. One glass box semantic layer. No hallucinations. Deterministic calculations you can stake your forecast on. 🔎 From anomaly to answer — we spot an issue in EMEA, drill in, find the root cause (three sales rep departures), and have recovery scenarios with a Monte Carlo simulation running before most people finish their morning standup. 📒 A briefing you can actually share — full audit trail, data sources, executive summary, written back into Adaptive. This is collaborative planning, not a chatbot conversation. 🤾 Playbooks — because nobody wants to run the same variance analysis manually every single week. Automate it. Let it monitor it for to you and report back. This is what putting the "A" back in FP&A looks like in practice. Adaptive customer? Ping me and we'll get you set up. #weplanthat
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Christian Melendez shared thisTo illustrate the power of consolidating travel, corporate cards, and expense into a single platform, TripActions commissioned Forrester Consulting to determine its Total Economic Impact on a business—including a 153% return on investment. Join us on April 21 at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET for a session hosted by TripActions' GM of Liquid, Michael Sindicich, and Forrester Analyst Duncan Jones as they explain how you can: ✔️ Increase accounting and finance team productivity by 20% ✔️ Save 30 minutes per employee expense report ✔️ Generate $227,000 worth of operational efficiency savings #travel #finance #business #consulting #webinarTripActions Webinar: How Businesses See 153% ROI with TripActionsTripActions Webinar: How Businesses See 153% ROI with TripActions
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Christian Melendez shared thisWe're hiring :)Christian Melendez shared thisWe're hiring :)How We Plan to Grow Workday’s Workforce by More Than 20 PercentHow We Plan to Grow Workday’s Workforce by More Than 20 Percent
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Christian Melendez posted thisFilled with gratitude for Procore Technologies taking me in as an eager college graduate and making my career. I will dearly miss all of my friends and mentors and will always appreciate everything I have learned from such an INCREDIBLE company. Special shoutout to Greg Scott, Dan Miller-Smith, Thomas Woolley, Bryan A. Gonzalez, Gabriel Miller-Smith, Dennis Lyandres, Jonathan Breneman and Jonathan Wang for all the guidance and good times. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!
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Christian Melendez liked thisChristian Melendez liked thisAt Workday Rising this week, we unveiled a number of innovations to enable a system that maintains itself. Our customers come to us to drive innovation - not administration. Thousands of our customers are already embracing our agents to simplify deployment, streamline configuration, and evaluate release readiness. We're delivering AI to take care of the tedium so our customers can focus on reinventing work.
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Christian Melendez liked thisChristian Melendez liked thisWe're thrilled to announce a new partnership with Anthropic that connects our platforms and agentic experiences, bringing Claude's frontier reasoning together with Sana AI agents and Workday's trusted data and business context in HR and finance. The experience comes to life in either Sana, Workday's agentic experience and orchestration layer, or in Claude, depending on the work being done. People can start work in Claude or in Sana, with their context and controls intact in each. In Sana, Workday's agents orchestrate complex HR and finance work, turning processes that used to take weeks—like a compensation cycle or the financial close—into work that happens continuously behind the scenes, without moving data out of Workday. In Claude, employees can access Sana AI agents, analyze Workday HR and finance data, and take action right within the conversation, with every action following the customer's existing permissions and audit controls in Workday. Whichever way people come in, the rules stay anchored in Workday, and admins connect once—with no new permission model to build and no per-user setup. https://w.day/4ytszJC #WorkdayPartners #WDAYRising
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Christian Melendez liked thisChristian Melendez liked thisYesterday (10/10) marked my 10-year work anniversary at Workday! (A bit Poetic?) 🎉 🔟 🎉 🎉 🔟 🎉 🎉 🔟 🎉 I’m grateful to have spent this time with wonderful colleagues who make the work fun and the challenges worthwhile. I’ve had the chance to grow into new roles that play to my strengths, and I’ve valued the alignment with the company’s core values. Over the years I’ve asked myself more than once whether I’m in the right place and whether the work brings me joy. That questioning led me to Finding my Why, and looking back, the answer has been yes—especially because I’ve been able to keep evolving. Every day here lets me do work I enjoy while supporting my family and a lifestyle that brings me joy outside the office. Finding that balance has been a journey, and I’m thankful to have navigated it with the support of a company that cares. I’m also excited to be part of the AI transformation happening here. It’s already helping me spend more time on the parts of the role I love and less on the necessary but mundane tasks. After more than 25 years in corporate performance management, budgeting, planning, and analytics, I still find this work interesting and challenging. Watching AI take Adaptive from Workday to another level towards #DecisionIntelligence makes it even better. However long this chapter lasts, I’m glad to be part of it. Huge thanks to my amazing workmates—you’ve made these 10 years great. #Workday #10Years #FPA #StartWithWhy #DecisionIntelligence
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Christian Melendez reacted on thisChristian Melendez reacted on this10 years ago, I quit the job I had lined up fresh out of college, moved to Santa Barbara, and crashed on my best friend’s couch — all for a shot at getting into Procore. Less than a month later, at 23 years old, I became employee #600-ish. I started as an SDR and spent the next two years cold calling. I’ll never forget those 4:30 a.m. grinds with the boys — “Goose” aka Greg Scott, Nick Rosenbach and Patrick Rathbun What a time to be alive. (and at Procore!) From there, I jumped over to our Install Base team, where Matthew Chambers, Max Keswani and Brendan Nelson took me under their wing and taught me more than they probably realize. If you told that 23-year-old kid — who was just trying to convince General Contractors to take a look at Procore — that one day he’d be closing six-figure deals, negotiating million-dollar contracts, be part of a company going public, and watch it grow from 600 employees to more than 4,000… I would’ve told you that you were out of your mind. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, I became Pops to the most amazing little girl — without question, the greatest part of this entire journey!!! That photo with Thomas Woolley and Bryan A. Gonzalez at the Procore sign was taken in 2016. Nine years later, I took one of her sitting in the exact same spot. Funny how much life can happen between two pictures. Now, almost exactly 10 years after this journey started, another chapter begins. I’m incredibly grateful to share that I’ll be stepping into a leadership role at Procore this month!!! Cody Evans and Peter Huston — thank you for challenging me, pushing me, and ultimately giving me the opportunity to take this next step. I couldn’t be more grateful — or more fired up for what comes next. Gabriel Fernandez — my brother in EVERY sense of the word — thank you for convincing me to move to Santa Barbara and take that leap of faith. Miles Anderson — thank you for connecting me with Woolley and setting something in motion that NONE of us could’ve known would still be shaping my life 10 years later. And to the many, many people who have believed in me, challenged me, mentored me and stood beside me over the last decade — thank you from the bottom of my heart. 10 years at Procore. Wow. THE NEXT CHAPTER BEGINS!!!
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Christian Melendez liked thisChristian Melendez liked this98% of executives plan org design changes in the next two years. The intent is there, but the agility isn't. ❌ When markets move overnight, knowing that you need to transform isn't the bottleneck. Having the tools and foresight to actually pull it off is. Join Ben Pierce (GM, Adaptive from Workday) & Nick Kennedy (Founder, The Workforce Planning Institute), and learn how AI is moving workforce planning from guesswork to strategy. 🗓️ September 30, 2026 | Registe here: https://lnkd.in/grzkiWSY
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