Acumatica vs. Workday Adaptive Planning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acumatica
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Acumatica delivers a set of cloud-based business software applications with dashboards, reporting tools, integrated document management, centralized security, and customization tools.
$1,000
per year
Workday Adaptive Planning
Score 7.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Workday Adaptive Planning streamlines planning workflows, using AI and real-time data integration to improve collaboration and provide predictive forecasts for better strategic analysis.N/A
Pricing
AcumaticaWorkday Adaptive Planning
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AcumaticaWorkday Adaptive Planning
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPricing is always consumption-based with no five-year lock-ins or termination penalties. The Acumatica ERP pricing structure allows adding casual users, suppliers, and customers without paying for additional licenses. The cost is based on the features and resources utilized, not on the number of users who access the system. An Acumatica partner works with users to understand specific requirements, determine the proper resources and modules for the company, and presents a price for the license.
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Community Pulse
AcumaticaWorkday Adaptive Planning
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Acumatica
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Features
AcumaticaWorkday Adaptive Planning
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.4
169 Ratings
13% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Pay calculation7.5150 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.3118 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.5145 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.3
498 Ratings
11% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
API for custom integration8.3469 Ratings00 Ratings
Plug-ins8.4422 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.2
611 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability8.5505 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions7.9601 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.7
630 Ratings
5% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Dashboards7.9598 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports7.4618 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports7.8606 Ratings00 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.7
910 Ratings
13% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Accounts payable8.5877 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounts receivable8.4764 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support7.8349 Ratings00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.2498 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.3722 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.2571 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.3620 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.2
607 Ratings
3% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Inventory tracking8.0593 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.4309 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management7.9423 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.5
617 Ratings
8% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Pricing7.9524 Ratings00 Ratings
Order entry8.3555 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit card processing7.8375 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.0515 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Orchestration7.7307 Ratings00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.7
721 Ratings
15% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Billing Management8.1530 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management8.0648 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management7.3382 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting7.7396 Ratings00 Ratings
Period Close8.4573 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
9.9
4 Ratings
27% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Budgeting and Forecasting9.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Costing9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost Capture9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Capital Project Management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition9.93 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.7
275 Ratings
9% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Project Planning and Scheduling7.5248 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers7.5245 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality7.2218 Ratings00 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools7.2152 Ratings00 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.9
114 Ratings
7% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Award Lifecycle Management7.8114 Ratings00 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.4
355 Ratings
6% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Bids Analyzed and Compared7.5152 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Authoring7.3122 Ratings00 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated7.9290 Ratings00 Ratings
Supplier Management7.9231 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
7.7
176 Ratings
15% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Risk Repository7.7130 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Management7.7156 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments7.9138 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Detection7.6142 Ratings00 Ratings
Remediation and Certification7.6115 Ratings00 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.6
217 Ratings
23% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Transportation Planning and Optimization7.1158 Ratings00 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management7.4149 Ratings00 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management7.1123 Ratings00 Ratings
Fulfillment Management7.8175 Ratings00 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management7.2167 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.7
237 Ratings
16% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Production Process Design7.7196 Ratings00 Ratings
Production Management8.0221 Ratings00 Ratings
Configuration Management7.8192 Ratings00 Ratings
Work Execution7.8186 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs8.2208 Ratings00 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.2
282 Ratings
14% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Forecasting7.5232 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Planning7.6268 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance Monitoring7.5228 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
8.3
166 Ratings
14% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Proposal Management7.5142 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Master Data Management7.5158 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.3
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.7
1 Ratings
0% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.0
1 Ratings
4% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.5
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.8
192 Ratings
5% below category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.0178 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings8.3189 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings7.5184 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings6.9173 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings8.5189 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
6.3
157 Ratings
23% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings5.4118 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.379 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings6.191 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings5.871 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings5.241 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings7.3105 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings7.3132 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.4
180 Ratings
8% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.0158 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.8174 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings6.6174 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings7.7151 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings5.731 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.9
149 Ratings
2% below category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings9.0108 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings7.7122 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings7.8123 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.6105 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings6.573 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Acumatica
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.1
170 Ratings
3% below category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings7.5133 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings8.1163 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings8.6121 Ratings
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User Ratings
AcumaticaWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(631 ratings)
8.3
(220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(65 ratings)
8.7
(44 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(37 ratings)
8.3
(126 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(5 ratings)
7.3
(11 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(4 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(28 ratings)
8.2
(33 ratings)
In-Person Training
4.9
(5 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Online Training
7.7
(4 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(19 ratings)
8.6
(27 ratings)
Configurability
6.5
(3 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.3
(4 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.6
(2 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.3
(5 ratings)
8.2
(12 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
4.1
(5 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.1
(4 ratings)
6.4
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
AcumaticaWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
Acumatica
Coming from Sage, when you have to post financial data, it locks the system. Acumatica, there is no delay, there is no downtime. Dashboards. My CEO recently asked me, "I really want to see what our top customers are and what markets that they're spending the most money in." Acumatica had that widget already prepared for me.
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Workday
We're a mid-size organization working with a shoestring budget and an IT skeleton crew...not much room to dedicate resources to a platform like this fully. Having it SaaS based is helpful for system management through their Helpdesk system, and a single platform also helps streamline the knowledge needed by our developers when integrating other business aspects to Workday.
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Pros
Acumatica
  • Real-time access to financials across firm's locations in India for better in-house sales, cost and financial health analysis
  • The tool is great with respect to the creation of dashboards and KPI reporting to get visual picture of profitability and cash flow metrics across projects
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Workday
  • It helps create dynamic plans for finances, operations and various functional units in an organization all under one platform
  • It helps in scenario modeling to help analyze various business events and report by any number of business dimensions including channel, customer or product
  • It can be integrated with any system including ERP, BI or CRM
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Cons
Acumatica
  • Mass updating existing BOMs or Production Order Details. For larger orders, especially if many things need to be changed it can take a painstakingly long time to update each production order one-by-one.
  • The product configurator is too flat, we definitely need nested configurations that can capture variable subassemblies.
  • Accounting has room for improvement, I don't really like the idea of SO Invoices living in a separate spot until they are Released. I have had complaints from our accounting personnel since they have to leave the "Accounting World".
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Workday
  • Dashboards are not the best for graphs/charts. However, I have heard of companies using the dashboards for forecasting/budgeting. I would like to see Workday Adaptive Planning demonstrate this part of the feature.
  • Better security or locks to prevent deleting Actuals data - you are literally one click away from doing this.
  • On the web-based reports, better functionality when needing to reverse the sign in calculations - right now it is only available for revenue vs. expenses.
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Likelihood to Renew
Acumatica
We are highly likely to renew because Acumatica has become the foundation of our ERP strategy replacing another ERP system with a more flexible, scalable platform while improving governance, planning, and operational visibility. Ongoing stabilization, roadmap investment in IBP and automation, and strong alignment across Finance and Operations give us long‑term confidence in the platform.
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Workday
For one we're in way too deep to not move forward with Adaptive. We're integrated with Workday, we do a ton of reporting with Adaptive, and it's working very well for planning and forecasting. No reason to look back or change course.
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Usability
Acumatica
The processes are very intuitive and easy to use. Whether you are entering AP bills, timecards for payroll, or AR invoices, the processes are similar and easy to use. The drill-down capability is also a huge plus as you can easily toggle between different modules without having to leave the screen you are in and navigating through a menu to get the information you need. We found that the standard reports out of the box are lacking. Our implementation did not go so well and when we were finally ready to run financial reports, it was both disappointing and frustrating to discover that the P&L was highly summarized and to get a detailed report required having to do a lot of formatting myself. I was able to figure it out on my own, but when our financials were already delayed getting published, I did not really have the time to spend trying to figure out how to build my own P&L.
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Workday
It is overwhelming at first, but once you really get to know it, you realize it is fairly simple and customizable, and then it has a lot more limitations than you first thought. Realizing those limitations and finding workarounds is when you know you've mastered the software.
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Reliability and Availability
Acumatica
It's always available.
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Workday
There haven't been any lately. The only one issue I can think of is when there was an update in Adaptive that altered our reports. Before I realized there was an issue, Adaptive reached out to let me know, so that it could be fixed.
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Performance
Acumatica
there have been some performance issues
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Workday
All aspects of Adaptive Insights perform well. One area that I wish was quicker was integration. When importing data from Intacct our accounting ERP platform, it can sometimes take 4 hours for the import to process. The earlier imports are done, the quicker they complete. My estimate for a quick upload is about two hours.
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Support Rating
Acumatica
I would rate the overall support for Acumatica an 8 out of 10. The support team is generally responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful when resolving issues or answering questions. Documentation and community resources are also useful. However, response times can occasionally vary depending on the complexity of the issue or support queue, which slightly affects the overall experience.
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Workday
Whenever we have had any questions, issues, or concerns, the support has been quick and thorough. [This] allow[s] us to be able to fully resolve any issues, or be connected with the right group quickly to attain the result we were after; be it from simple formatting to adding new detailed reporting.
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In-Person Training
Acumatica
Very helpful for end users
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Workday
This was extremely helpful so that they could walk you through the model and teach you more about the complexity of various areas. It is most helpful when it is specific to your organization's model. The larger in-person trainings were helpful but they tended to be more generic and entry level. The trainings that are more tailored to your specific needs are the most helpful.
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Online Training
Acumatica
Online training has gone away. Need to bring back the webinars. Live webinars are so benficial to training new employees.
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Workday
They often times tended to be way too generic or entry level. They would also become sales pitches to upgrade or get new Adaptive Planning products. The questions in the training would be very niche and specific to other organizations. They were rarely helpful to the group at large.
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Implementation Rating
Acumatica
I'd say the partner selection is critically important. I think the software is very easy to implement. It's very customizable to your business. Finding a partner that will work with you to understand your business and your needs is the critical piece to make sure that the system goes along with it.
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Workday
Trust the expertise of very strong 3rd party implementers. Having deployed Adaptive at a separate company before, I thought I knew it all (hubris, I know). Fortunately, I began to (very quickly) trust the judgment of our Carlson implementation team, and they provided invaluable insights and best-in-class processes that have benefitted me and my team greatly.
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Alternatives Considered
Acumatica
Having used Pastel for a long time in the business, it lacked certain features, or the system was not probably setup for our business needs and requirements at the time. It was also not 100% cloud based and needed to be used through remote desktop which had its limitations. Zero just had 10% of what our business needed.
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Workday
Workday became our choice because it is fully web-based and easily integrates with other systems. The learning curve for Workday was shorter than that of Dynamics. The reporting tools in Workday are more user-friendly than that of Dynamics. However Workday did not have Check Printing tools which are available in Dynamics. The organization started a project to digitize all financial transactions so it was not a priority feature. When it comes to scaling up the functionalities of Workday it was much easier than Dynamics.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Acumatica
No, annual invoices are fine. I do like that unlimited users are included.
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Workday
Good read only seat access
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Scalability
Acumatica
From my understanding, the P.O. module is not very robust, at least the last time I inquired about it. At the time, it had a one-to-one match, with one invoice for one P.O. and that isn't practical for many businesses. I don't believe it would be an easy system to use for sending out invoices, if we had thousands of retail utility customers. We do a small number of invoices because we sell wholesale power, not retail, so we only Invoice the municipality. Not each utility customer.
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Workday
We went from 2 users to 70+ users over a 2 year period of time. The application scaled wonderfully. 65 of those users were non-finance users so they were able to quickly learn the software and prepare budgets quickly and efficiently. That is the power of Adaptive and its ability to scale
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Professional Services
Acumatica
They are very responsive and knowledgeable about the product. If the rep doesn't have the ability to solve the issue, they quickly get someone else involved to assist us.
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Workday
This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
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Return on Investment
Acumatica
  • I feel like I am not using it to it's potential and it's frustrating to know that it can do more than I am able to use and more help with that would be great
  • The implementation was a lot of customize building and I felt like some of it could have been built by my partner rather than having them sit and watch me enter a bunch of stuff, especially when a lot of it was over my head in understanding
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Workday
  • It's facilitated a better financial literacy and management by the non-financial managers in the company, giving them a much better ability to see what they're spending, control it, and plan better in the future.
  • It's hard to quantify the ease of model and version management, but we could never do what we're doing now with our current staff. It would take a small army to replicate anything close to what Adaptive pulls off using Excel, if it's even possible.
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ScreenShots

Acumatica Screenshots

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Workday Adaptive Planning Screenshots

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