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MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT
Captivate audiences. Inspire talent. Scale globally.
From content creation to monetization, the media and entertainment industry is evolving—fast. Workday delivers the agility and insight you need to pivot quickly and embrace the future with confidence.
Cut monthly forecast reporting from 2 days to 30 seconds.
Increased agility and flexibility to hire in a fluctuating market.
Eliminated 80% (international) and 20% (U.S.) PO requests.
SOLUTION USE CASES
A use for every aspect of your organization.
Adapt, innovate, scale, and thrive—it’s time to fast-track your digital transformation. Explore how Workday can accelerate your organization into the future.
CUSTOMER-CENTRIC QUOTE TO CASH PROCESS
Contract management.
Increase accuracy, gain business efficiency, and improve revenue visibility and predictability. With Workday, you can:
- Expedite and improve quoting and pricing accuracy
- Enable process standardization with a single source for data
- See the full picture of revenue and resource
Learn how to manage disruption with a better quote-to-cash process.
Featured capabilities.
Expedite Quoting Accuracy
Cloud-based system.
Replace spreadsheets and paper documents.
Seamless quoting.
Create a quote in minutes.
Streamlined approvals.
Ensure compliance with key metrics.
Simplify Opportunity to Cash
Unified data source.
Enable standardized processes.
Guided selling rules.
Follow preset rules to build quotes with simplicity.
Process automation.
Minimize errors and remove redundancies.
Gain Revenue Insight
Billing and financial reporting.
Understand your profitability by service, SKU, and customer.
Revenue forecasts.
Gain real-time visibility into opportunities.
Comprehensive analysis.
Create informed pricing strategies.
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Media Contract Reporting and Analysis.
Experience easy contract management, streamline contract-to-distribution effective asset utilization, and strengthen reporting and visibility. With Workday, you can:
- Utilize your back catalog to drive revenue
- Ensure the collection or payment of the contracted amount
- Forecast deferred revenue
Learn how to manage disruption with a better quote-to-cash process.
Featured capabilities.
Contract Management
Centralized system
Create, approve, and track contracts.
Maximized visibility.
Manage availability of your client libraries.
Automated invoices.
Create invoices based on billing terms and schedules.
Flexible System
Billing alignment.
Deliver greater agility and accuracy.
Built-in controls.
Ensure governance and control data access.
CRM integration.
Establish a unified view of global content performance.
Analytics
Aggregated contract data.
Gain a complete view.
Risk analytics.
Blend Workday and third-party data to determine customer risk.
Right access to the right data.
Built-in approvals, access and controls governance.
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Digital revenue management.
Recognize revenue with easy global compliance, complete revenue management across the entire contract lifecycle, and gain stronger business controls. With Workday, you can:
- Link contracts to revenue
- Run billing independently from revenue recognition
- Stay compliant with standards
Learn how to manage disruption with a better quote-to-cash process.
Featured capabilities.
Revenue Transparency
Comprehensive revenue recognition.
Meet complex revenue arrangements.
Rich transactional history.
Empower deeper analysis.
Scenario modeling.
Model revenue recognition for any contract.
Agile Cloud
One platform.
Automate your entire distribution revenue lifecycle.
Independent billing.
Separate billing from revenue for historical analysis.
Unified system.
Eliminate reconciliation between systems.
Audit and Compliance
Business process framework.
Securely manage contract lifecycle events.
Amendment controls.
Capture changes at the contract-line level.
Always-on audit.
Automatically document changes and adjustments.
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Flexible costing and business solutions.
Minimize bad debt, reduce invoicing errors, and gain deeper insight. With Workday, you can:
- Automate billing against predefined rules
- Meet new e-invoicing regulations
- Preview invoices before generation
Learn how to manage disruption with a better quote-to-cash process.
Featured capabilities.
Billing Automation
Robust support.
Bill automatically for various services and products.
Billing templates.
Quickly generate billing schedules and installments.
Billing Flexibility
Bill in intervals or milestones.
Adapt billing to your business needs.
Flexible rate configuration.
Bill hourly or daily.
Unique invoice IDs.
Meet global invoicing standards.
Easy to Use
E-invoicing framework.
Comply with increasing regulations.
Consolidated invoices.
Simplify billing across parent and subsidiary companies.
Invoice proposals.
Review invoices before generation.
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Media rights and clearances.
Gain visibility into collections and future cash flows, establish more efficient and streamlined management of rights, and gain greater control over risks. With Workday, you can:
- Gain visibility into your worst-performing paying assets
- Establish a unified view of projects synched with rights and clearances
- View the status of your rights
Learn how to manage disruption with a better quote-to-cash process.
Featured capabilities.
Real-time Avails
Predictive AR collections.
Effectively manage account receivables.
Rules blending.
Blend rules with ML recommendations for matching efficiencies.
Historical payment insight.
Use past payments to streamline collections.
Unified System
Machine learning.
Automate tasks using rich Workday data.
One source of truth.
Improve decision-making across workflows.
Faster Compliance
Unified view.
Gain insight into revenue licensing obligation and royalties calculations and payouts.
Automated dunning letters and alerts.
Reduce invoice and billing time and bad debt.
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Revenue reporting and forecasting.
Accurately report revenue and forecast, act on real-time information, and gain deep customer insight. With Workday, you can see things like:
- Your revenue for H1
- Your deferred revenue for Q3
- Revenue for linear vs. SVOD channels
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Featured capabilities.
Real-Time Data
Dashboards.
See your revenue data at a glance.
Reports.
Gain deep business dimensionality.
Deferred revenue visibility.
Create more accurate forecasts.
Greater Controls
Compliance support.
Gain visibility into ASC606/IFRS15 compliance.
Gain greater visibility.
See short- and long-term deferred revenue by contract element, contract, and customer.
Self-service portal.
Drive customer ownership.
Automated and Scalable Finance
AUTOMATED AND SCALABLE FINANCE
Accounting process automation.
Faster period close, improved finance efficiency, increased time for analysis. With Workday, you can:
- Automate accounting from disparate data sources
- Ensure accuracy of your financials
- Accurately import production accounting data into your general ledger
Learn more about how to set your organization up for success.
Featured capabilities.
United Data
High-volume data ingestion.
Bring in ad placements, stock-based compensation, M&A data, and more.
Accounting transformation.
Transform business-events data into accounting.
Automated Close
Real-time accounting.
Automate currency translations, earnings calculations, and intercompany eliminations.
Real-time consolidation.
See live consolidated results.
Automated processes.
Automatically complete tasks, route approvals, and distribute reports.
Deeper Insights
Rich dimensionality.
Spend more time on analysis.
Drill back to transaction details.
See the complete data history.
AUTOMATED AND SCALABLE FINANCE
Liquidity management and analysis.
Ensure strong treasury management, reduce time to audit, and improve fraud control and checks. With Workday, you can:
- Gain insights into cash positioning and short-term cash forecasts
- Ensure your ledger balances are accurate when compared to bank balances
- Confirm your banks are changing correctly as per negotiated contract rates
Learn more about how to set your organization up for success.
Featured capabilities.
Liquidity Management
Efficient management.
Manage liquidity by financial institution, currency, cash pool, and more.
Cash forecasts.
Stay on top of liquidity surplus or shortfall.
Checks and Balances
Unified data.
Keep ledger and bank balance in sync.
Reconciliation reporting.
Provide detailed and summary reports to auditors.
Bank fee insight.
Ensure fees are charged based on negotiated rates.
Signatory Controls
Change monitoring.
Track changes in bank account signatories and sync with HCM.
AUTOMATED AND SCALABLE FINANCE
Source and spend controls.
Improve negotiations with suppliers, strengthen supplier relationships, and gain greater spend oversight. With Workday, you can:
- Scale your sourcing process
- Gain full visibility into your contracts
- Turn suppliers into partners
Learn more about how to set your organization up for success.
Featured capabilities.
Sourcing Effectiveness
Supplier portal.
Streamline collaborations.
Simplified RFx.
Speed up the RFx and reverse auction process.
Ensure effectiveness.
Measure sourcing performance.
Risk Management
Streamline contracting.
Save time on purchasing.
Improve compliance.
Better manage onboarding and risk.
Contract insights.
Obligation and renewal management.
Increased Visibility
Buyer workflows.
Modern buying experience.
Improved reporting.
Gain insight into total spend analysis.
AUTOMATED AND SCALABLE FINANCE
SEC and ESG reporting.
Improve reporting efficiency and transparency. With Workday, you can:
- Prepare for new disclosure requirements
- See which suppliers are helping your sustainability goals
- Identify the largest sources of scope 3 emissions
Learn more about how to set your organization up for success.
Featured capabilities.
Social Reporting for ESG
Progress tracking.
Measure progress and identify areas for improvement.
Consolidated information.
Understand workforce composition, diversity, and more.
Syncs with other features.
Use with analytics, VIBE Index™, and learning.
Supplier Risk and Sustainability
Supplier ESG data collection.
See supplier risk and uncover ways to improve.
Scope 3 emissions reporting.
Report on emissions from supplier spend.
Emissions Modeling and Planning
Impact modeling.
See the impact of your reduction efforts.
Emissions data.
Understand where your material emissions come from.
AUTOMATED AND SCALABLE FINANCE
Multinational support.
Adjust to changing international standards and requirements, set and maintain consistent internal controls, and improve insights into all corners of your business. With Workday, you can:
- Easily comply with local countries laws and regulations
- Standardize the presentation and delivery of customer invoices
- Track global production incentives
Learn more about how to set your organization up for success.
Featured capabilities.
Global Solutions
Predefined country accelerators.
Quickly enter new markets.
Configurable.
Adapt the system to meet your unique needs.
Regional reports.
Tailor standardized global reports to your region.
Control and Agility
Global frameworks.
Deploy in new countries with delivered regional data.
Always-on audit.
Get full audit trails everywhere you operate.
Statutory report.
Meet global compliance standards.
Global Finance
Real-time consolidation.
View consolidated results anytime.
Flexible processes.
Quickly change how you operate.
Streamlined workflows.
Remove manual intervention and reconciliation.
AUTOMATED AND SCALABLE FINANCE
Financial and management reporting and analysis.
Improve finance efficiency, close and report faster, and deliver deeper insights to managers. With Workday, you can:
- Ensure accurate reports
- Tailor reporting to individual roles
- Include operational details as needed
Learn more about how to set your organization up for success.
Featured capabilities.
Robust Reporting
Object data model.
Build reports with unlimited dimensionality.
Unified data.
Bring financial, workforce, and operational data together.
Secure distribution.
Send out reports based on security permissions.
Deeper Insights
KPI scorecards.
Track business performance.
Dimensional analysis.
View your business across any dimension.
Integrated Platform
Data hub synchronization.
Blend external data for reporting.
Continuous and Companywide Planning
CONTINUOUS AND COMPANYWIDE PLANNING
Bookings and subscription modeling.
Build deeper scenario modeling, establish more granular forecasts, and improve accuracy of reporting and forecasting. With Workday, you can:
- Model your subscription waterfall
- Ensure more ad spend and billing is aligned
- Triangulate new bookings
Featured capabilities.
Robust SaaS Metrics
New and renewal bookings.
Gain insight into revenue.
Gross retention and churn.
Identify opportunities for improvement.
Productivity and quotas.
See how sales reps are performing.
Scalable
Integrated with GL.
Bring in data from multiple general ledgers.
Syncs with CRM.
Bring in data from your CRM for a complete view.
What-If Scenarios
Unlimited modeling.
Assess financial impact based on your top line.
CONTINUOUS AND COMPANYWIDE PLANNING
Cohort modeling and revenue forecasting.
Build deeper scenario modeling and create more granular forecasts. With Workday, you can:
- Plan multiple revenue streams
- Model time-based cohorts
- Manage ASC 605/606
Featured capabilities.
Flexible Revenue Models
Multidimensional.
Model subscription, amortization, services, and more.
ASC 605/606.
See what’s changed and how to adapt.
Bookings and billings.
Accurately forecast revenue.
Configurable Templates
Retention and attrition.
Support B2B and B2C subscriber models.
Consumption.
Understand platform usage, in-game purchases, and orders.
Contract escalation.
Quickly escalate issues and ramp improvements.
Behavior Cohorts
Forecasts.
Predict user behavior based on weekly, monthly, or yearly cohorts.
Multidimensional view.
See behavior curves over time.
CONTINUOUS AND COMPANYWIDE PLANNING
Greenlighting and ultimates.
Improve planning accuracy and confidence leveraging AI, streamline board and management report production, and enhance collaboration between sales and finance. With Workday you can:
- Ensure that your projects gets greenlit expeditiously
- Use your data to support intuitive actor/script/genre prediction
- Triangulate and correlate greenlighting and ultimates
Featured capabilities.
Model Critical Metrics
Effective modeling.
Plan ARR/ACV/MRR waterfalls.
Reliable predictions.
Model gross/net retention and churn.
Sales quota planning.
Outline sales rep productivity.
Scalability and Growth
Manage databases.
Feed data content into IMDB, SAG, etc.
Understand ROI.
See the potential of your film, even with complicated financing structures.
What-If Scenarios
Run models.
Assess the financial implications across the business.
CONTINUOUS AND COMPANYWIDE PLANNING
Departmental expense budgeting.
Increase visibility, strengthen governance, and save time and money. With Workday, you can:
- Engage stakeholders in the budgeting process
- Collaborate on budgets across the organization
- Reduce your budget cycle time
Featured capabilities.
Streamlined Processes
Budget creation.
Make budgeting easy for everyone.
Financial and management reporting.
Keep stakeholders informed.
Driver-based modeling.
Analyze what-ifs to build the best budget.
Seamless Execution
Integrated.
Sync with planning, analytics, and reporting.
Real-time head count drivers.
Act on what you see.
Easy to Use
Collaboration tools.
Build budgets as a team.
CONTINUOUS AND COMPANYWIDE PLANNING
Workforce planning.
Boost retention, increase project profitability, and meet more quotas. With Workday, you can:
- Plan at the position level
- Make sure the right person is in the right position
- Compare actual hiring versus plan
Featured capabilities.
Workforce Modeling
Driver-based assumptions.
Model hiring, transfers, and retention plans.
Cost-impact modeling.
See workforce costs right away.
Global drivers.
See how global attributes impact plans.
Aligned Plans
Strategic planning.
Identify how to attract top talent.
Skills modeling.
Close the skills gap across functions.
Seamless execution.
Turn plans into action.
Staffing Insights
Intuitive dashboards.
Monitor costs and open positions.
Workforce analytics.
See what’s working and pivot as needed.
CONTINUOUS AND COMPANYWIDE PLANNING
Title profitability reporting.
Align operating budget with strategic goals, understand spend across productions, and build deeper scenario modeling. With Workday, you can:
- Understand how your greenlighting flows to title planning
- Compare windowing profitability
- Model specific revenue scenarios
Featured capabilities.
Strategic Modeling
What-if scenarios.
See how prioritization, inclusion, and exclusions affect your business.
Segmentation.
Allocate personnel and expenses.
Long-Range Planning
Annual and quarterly plans.
Build top-down and driver-based plans for the future.
TAM analyses.
Uncover market opportunity.
Acquisition Planning
M&A modeling.
Model reorgs and mergers.
Unified charts of accounts.
Roll up multiple general ledgers into one.
Workforce for the Future
WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
Modernized HR service delivery.
Achieve greater self-sufficiency, improve engagement and connection, and free up time to focus on your mission. With Workday, you can:
- Quickly roll out HR programs to a distributed workforce
- Offer employees self-service
- Better engage with employees
Want to learn more? Watch the demo.
Featured capabilities.
Digital Self-Service
Data integrity and synchronization.
Offer up-to-date information.
Faster search results.
Provide help at the moment of need.
Personalized content.
Meet people where they are.
People-Centered Design
Survey and feedback loop.
Keep communication open.
Tailored experiences.
Be there for moments that matter.
Push notifications.
Keep people connected.
WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
Recruit and onboard.
Streamline the recruitment processes to hire faster and improve engagement. With Workday, you can:
- Attract the right workers for every job
- Better plan for attrition
- Assess retention risk
Want to learn more? Watch the demo.
Featured capabilities.
Built-In Automation
Dynamic candidate workflow.
Speed up the recruiting process.
Contract builder.
Send offers faster.
Automated onboarding.
Provide a seamless experience.
End-to-End Talent Acquisition
Internal and external sourcing.
Widen your talent pool.
Interview and candidate management.
Hire as a team.
Connection to compensation.
Send competitive offers.
Consumer-Grade Experience
Mobile-driven.
Allow candidates to search and apply for jobs from anywhere.
Configurable job applications.
Tailor the application to your needs.
Social media connectors.
Reach everyone’s network.
WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
Extended workforce management.
Quickly augment project teams and improve efficiency. With Workday, you can:
- Gain a full view of your bench
- Determine when to staff an FTE versus a contractor
- Easily manage the client-contractor relationship
Want to learn more? Watch the demo.
Featured capabilities.
Holistic Workforce Management
Workforce visibility.
See FTE and contingent worker availability.
Labor cost insight.
Understand cost versus profit.
Project staffing.
Align workforce capacity with demand.
Efficient Staffing
Client onboarding.
Build happy relationships right away.
Multiple staffing models.
Staff projects based on client needs.
Client oversight.
Empower clients to take charge of work.
Contingent Worker Lifecycle
Complete worker management.
Support workers from contract to retire.
Accurate invoicing.
Pay your workers on time.
Flexible contracting models.
Meet unique workforce needs.
WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
Enhanced employee experience.
Save time on administrative tasks, increase user adoption, and deliver an engaging experience. With Workday, you can:
- Make the best use of your workers’ time
- Provide self-service for everyday HR tasks
- Offer help at the moment of need
Want to learn more? Watch the demo.
Featured capabilities.
Administrative Support
Simplified processes.
Make time entry, expenses, benefits, and more simpler.
Enhanced visibility.
Deliver increased insight into work and forecasts.
People-Centered Design
Tailored reports.
Customize reports based on individual roles.
Personalized notifications.
Prompt action for day-to-day tasks.
Chatbot and search.
Provide help at the moment of need.
Consumer-Grade Experience
Native mobile.
Take care of business from anywhere.
Personalized dashboards.
Gain insights to take the right action.
Intuitive UI.
Take the friction out of tasks.
WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
Belonging and diversity.
Build a more diverse workforce and nurture a culture of inclusion and belonging. With Workday, you can:
- Understand the makeup of your workforce
- Bring in and retain diverse talent
- Use data to make an impact
Want to learn more? Watch the demo.
Featured capabilities.
Insight to Drive Change
Holistic workforce data.
Gain real-time insight to drive systematic change.
Reporting and analytics.
See outcome-based belonging and diversity metrics.
Strategic Action
Progress monitoring.
Track your D&I initiatives.
Skills-based hiring.
Ensure equitable access to opportunity.
VIBE Index™.
Ensure inclusion and equal pay.
Meaningful Experiences
Employee sentiment survey.
Measure how your employees feel.
Personalized experiences.
Foster inclusion and belonging.
WORKFORCE FOR THE FUTURE
Dynamic skills curation.
Staff your team based on skills, understand where you need to upskill, and automate skills management by leveraging machine learning. With Workday, you can:
- Meet client project role requirements
- Track skills development within your workforce
- Measure skills attained from client work
Want to learn more? Watch the demo.
Featured capabilities.
Skills Sourcing
Curate skills from various sources.
Build profiles from resume insights, learning curriculum, etc.
View gained skills.
Leverage project feedback to build skills.
Skills Assessment
Verify worker skills.
Validate proficiencies.
Evaluate skills gaps.
Gain visibility for learning opportunities.
Service Delivery
Staff based on skills requirement.
Align talent with business needs.
Match resumes to client needs.
Meet client role requirements.
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