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Workday Adaptive Planning

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What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

Workday Adaptive Planning(formerly Adaptive Insights) is a financial planning and reporting tool. It includes automated budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting, and other active planning capabilities, including integrations with third-party products like Salesforce.

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Popular Features

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  • Financial budgeting (171)
    9.0
    90%
  • Forecasting (166)
    8.7
    87%
  • Long-term financial planning (160)
    8.5
    85%
  • Management reporting (171)
    8.3
    83%

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What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

Workday Adaptive Planning(formerly Adaptive Insights) is a financial planning and reporting tool. It includes automated budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting, and other active planning capabilities, including integrations with third-party products like Salesforce.

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  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

9.3
Avg 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8
Avg 8.3

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.7
Avg 7.6

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.5
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

8.7
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

7.6
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.5
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.7
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

8.3
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

Everybody plans, and strategic planning is a crucial process for every business. This business planning software enables teams to create budgets, forecasts, and models in less time and with greater accuracy, so that the team can focus on analysis and strategy. Having up to date, reliable data, teams can focus on the story behind the numbers, and can improve business decisions and collaboration. Additionally, Workday Adaptive Planning and Consolidation delivers a unified solution that enables Accounting and Finance to accelerate the close, increase planning agility and drive faster, more informed decisions. The software was ranked a leader in Gartner's Cloud Planning and Analysis quadrant.

Workday Adaptive Planning Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features

  • Supported: Long-term financial planning
  • Supported: Financial budgeting
  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Scenario modeling
  • Supported: Management reporting

Consolidation and Close Features

  • Supported: Financial data consolidation
  • Supported: Journal entries and reports
  • Supported: Multi-currency management
  • Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
  • Supported: Minority Ownership
  • Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
  • Supported: Detailed Audit Trails

Financial Reporting and Compliance Features

  • Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
  • Supported: Management Reporting
  • Supported: Excel-based Reporting
  • Supported: Automated board and financial reporting
  • Supported: XBRL support for regulatory filing

Analytics and Reporting Features

  • Supported: Personalized dashboards
  • Supported: Color-coded scorecards
  • Supported: KPIs
  • Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
  • Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
  • Supported: Benchmarking with external data

Integration Features

  • Supported: Flat file integration
  • Supported: Excel data integration
  • Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

Workday Adaptive Planning Screenshots

Screenshot of Adaptive Planning balance sheets.Screenshot of Adaptive Discovery visuals.Screenshot of Adaptive Planning expense variance analysis report.Screenshot of Adaptive Discovery visuals with drill-down capabilities.Screenshot of Adaptive Planning in-sheet visualizations (waterfall chart)Screenshot of Sparklines are used to visualize trends and make adjustments visuallyScreenshot of Built-in audit trail and cell explorer will show the source and history of any metric, assumption or formula

Workday Adaptive Planning Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and many more!
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Polish, Dutch

Frequently Asked Questions

Workday Adaptive Planning(formerly Adaptive Insights) is a financial planning and reporting tool. It includes automated budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting, and other active planning capabilities, including integrations with third-party products like Salesforce.

Anaplan, OneStream, and Planful are common alternatives for Workday Adaptive Planning.

Reviewers rate Financial budgeting highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Workday Adaptive Planning are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Workday Adaptive Planning Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)60%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)40%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have fully integrated Adaptive into our business processes. Our entire budgeting process is now housed in Adaptive, which also allows us to easily adjust the model to create up-to-date forecasts.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning capabilities has impacted my organization's business processes mainly as a result from gaining visibility into previous years' spend in given GL codes which I can then use to revisit stakeholders on what spend may or may not be needed into the new year during year end Procurement strategic sourcing and renewals.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Workday Adaptive Planning is centrally used in FP&A at this time. Therefore it hasn't hit many business processes outside of finance. As it relates to finance, Adaptive has helped improve processes around inputting data and reporting on that data efficiently for both budgets and forecasts. The review process for reporting and forecasting has also greatly improved.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have business line leaders that are more accountable and more aware of their unit P&L than they used to be. We have really built an effective management and accountability practice, and the associated reporting, on the backbone of Adaptive planning, and its integration with our Workday GL. We're significantly more aware and agile as a result.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are collaborating with multiple departments to automatically integrate their data into Adaptive to enhance our budgeting processes. This requires some process changes, but it lets the data owners know they are the source of the data in Adaptive instead of them wondering where we got their data from or why it may differ from what they see.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used only within one section of a large comapny. It would not be possible to estimate this unless it would be rolled out company wide. But for our department it indicators have been positive with Workday Adaptive Planning . I'm not aware of plans to role it out company wide.
Gajendra Kumar Gangwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is very powerful when it comes to data analysis, constructions of financial models and long term planning for an organizational growth and it helped us to save cost, project better plans and were capable enough to provide significant KPIs result based on which we were able to increase our revenue by 30%.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Yes, it has provides a more streamlined and automated approach to business processes as it ensures structured planning, sharing of deep business critical insights. It allows various financial and non-financial users to collaborate and be involved in planning process, support operations and sales team by helping control their models, processes, dashboard and reporting.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Planning as a source of truth for headcount planning. We store all of our personnel information, historical, terminated employees, and also budgeted headcount that carries over every month. Recruiters rely on the stored information for headcount planning. Overall, headcount reporting has been easy due to the system's capabilities.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It helped the organization with data governance. It ensured the data was clean and conformed to the requirements. This allowed the team to focus on the reports and discussing the data instead of cleaning it. It made the company have data to make better decisions and understand what impact decisions would have on the financials. It also allowed for budget owners to better understand where they were spending their money.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Both increased the speed to report and model as well as the accuracy. The major lift is getting the model set up in the first place. The maintenance of the model is relatively straightforward thereafter.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We already have Workday in the organization and integration of adaptive planning helped improve the over all experience of doing financial planning and forecasting. It helped us in streamlining our planning process and improved the reporting and SLAs.
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