The IDC report, sponsored by Workday, focuses on the use of cloud services to improve financial agility and provide better insights and action for U.S. state and local governments. The report highlights several drivers of transformation for these governments, including government stimulus creating more financial opportunities and complexity, changing work norms and staff shortages leading to more investment in automation, and the inability to obtain insights and analyze disparate data inhibiting good financial stewardship. The report also notes that U.S. state and local governments are looking for financial management tools that can provide "insight to action," and that the use of cloud-based systems is extending to specific financial management functions.