Of everything Workday announced at Rising last week, the one I keep coming back to is Decision Intelligence.
It is a good product idea, and an important one. Workday describes it as a single AI experience for HR and finance that works like an in-house analyst. Ask it a plain-language question and it explains changes in revenue, margin, costs, forecast variance, and balance sheet movement. It helps with close variances, reconciliation, and flux analysis. It compares options before you act. And it keeps a record of the assumptions, approvals, and actions behind every decision, all on data that is already governed in Workday.
For a CFO, that is a real upgrade. Most finance teams still answer “why did margin drop?” with a week of spreadsheets. Getting that answer in minutes, inside Workday’s permissions, is worth a lot.
But there is a second question that always follows the first one. And it is the one that decides whether the cash actually moves.
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