What to expect at Workiva's Amplify event: Join theCUBE Sept. 15-16. As companies entrust more responsibility to artificial intelligence, managing governance and regulatory reporting becomes even more essential. Workiva Inc.'s platform provides AI-powered collaboration tools for streamlining financial reporting, governance and sustainability management. The company emphasizes data security and privacy while helping customers automate time-consuming tasks. "Workiva sits at an important intersection of enterprise data, business context, controls and accountability," said Krista Case, principal analyst and practice lead of cybersecurity and cyber resilience at theCUBE Research. "As AI moves from recommending actions to taking them, enterprises will need trusted context and clear guardrails around what AI is allowed to do. That creates an opportunity for Workiva to become an important control point between AI-driven decision-making and the governed business processes where those decisions are executed." Workiva's Amplify 2026 event will feature insights from leaders in accounting, finance, regulatory compliance and sustainability, with coverage by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's livestreaming studio, from Sept. 15-16. Tune in to hear experts discuss how Workiva is harnessing AI to automate governance and financial reporting for organizations. (* Disclosure below.) How AI is reshaping governance. The industry is shifting from using AI as a supporting tool to giving agents the power to make decisions. Workiva acts as a conduit, educating users on how to employ AI agents in their decision-making processes and giving them the ability to develop their own AI tools. "I expect a major theme at Amplify to be the shift from AI-enabled to AI-native," Case said. "That means moving beyond using AI to make existing tasks faster and instead redesigning workflows around what AI makes possible. For finance, sustainability and GRC [governance, risk and compliance], that transformation also has to be grounded in trusted data, traceability and governance. The opportunity is to move faster without sacrificing confidence or accountability." Workiva reported a strong second quarter, with total revenue increasing 19% year over year and exceeding the high end of its revenue guidance. It also launched three specialized agents in July, with the intention of alleviating the labor-intensive work that goes into cross-referencing and assessing data. Workiva Knowledge is an intelligence layer that grounds agent interactions in an organization's data, instructions and content. "AI can reduce the coordination work that happens before a decision is made, from gathering information and reconciling different versions of the truth to identifying what actually requires human judgment," Case said. "But confidence in an AI answer is not the same as confidence in the information behind it. In finance, sustainability and GRC, provenance, controls and human accountability become even more important as AI plays a larger role in decision-making." TheCUBE event livestream. Don't miss theCUBE's coverage of Workiva's Amplify event, Sept. 15-16. Plus, you can watch theCUBE's exclusive content on demand after the event. How to watch theCUBE interviews. SiliconANGLE Media Inc. offer you various ways to watch theCUBE's coverage of Workiva's Amplify event, including theCUBE's dedicated website and YouTube channel. You can also get all the coverage from this year's event on SiliconANGLE. TheCUBE podcasts. 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Workiva reported second-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations, with revenue reaching $255.3 million and adjusted earnings per share of $0.77. The cloud reporting platform provider posted an 18.6% year-on-year revenue increase and significantly improved its operating margin to 4.6%, up from negative 10.3% a year earlier. CEO Julie Iskow highlighted strong demand from large enterprise customers and credited operational improvements for the margin expansion. The company raised its full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $3.39 at the midpoint, a 16.7% increase. During the earnings call, analysts focused on sales cycle dynamics, subscription growth sustainability through 2030, fund reporting adoption in financial services, margin improvement prospects, and early customer response to new AI agent products. Despite the positive results, shares declined modestly following the announcement.

Workiva reported second-quarter revenue of $255.29 million, up from $215.19 million a year earlier, and swung to a net income of $13.44 million after a $19.40 million loss. The company maintained full-year revenue guidance of $1.04 billion with positive operating margins. Workiva launched new AI agents and its Workiva Knowledge intelligence layer to enhance reporting and compliance workflows. The company also filed a $238.88 million shelf registration for 3,900,000 Class A shares tied to an ESOP-related offering. The profitability shift supports Workiva's investment thesis around scaling revenue whilst maintaining positive margins. Customer adoption of the new AI tools will be key to sustaining profitability without margin erosion. Regulatory timing and AI adoption pace remain central risks to the company's growth trajectory.