ibi WebFOCUS vs. Workday Adaptive Planning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ibi WebFOCUS
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
The ibi™ WebFOCUS® product is an enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and visualizations. Combining these capabilities and data science in one unified containerized platform, the WebFOCUS® solution can be used to make data-driven decisions across the enterprise and provide reports, dashboards, and customer-facing applications at scale.N/A
Workday Adaptive Planning
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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.N/A
Pricing
ibi WebFOCUSWorkday Adaptive Planning
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ibi WebFOCUSWorkday Adaptive Planning
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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ibi WebFOCUSWorkday Adaptive Planning
Top Pros

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Features
ibi WebFOCUSWorkday Adaptive Planning
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
7.7
11 Ratings
6% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.3
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.06 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.011 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.011 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
9.3
13 Ratings
14% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.013 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Formatting capabilities10.013 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.08 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration10.012 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
8.2
11 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Publish to Web10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.09 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Versioning6.010 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling10.011 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
6.3
10 Ratings
25% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.7
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)6.08 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.09 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.07 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
9.0
11 Ratings
5% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.0
1 Ratings
3% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.011 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.011 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.011 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
5.9
11 Ratings
30% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.5
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access9.011 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile Application3.32 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.08 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
8.6
3 Ratings
8% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
REST API10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.7
174 Ratings
5% above category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.5160 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings9.0171 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings8.7166 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings8.9157 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings8.3171 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.6
140 Ratings
5% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings7.8105 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.867 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings6.780 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings7.659 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings8.593 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings6.9116 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.5
162 Ratings
3% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.6143 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.5157 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings8.1156 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.6135 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.7
132 Ratings
4% below category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings7.1114 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings7.394 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings8.1107 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings7.6111 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings7.995 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings8.366 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
ibi WebFOCUS
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.3
152 Ratings
0% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings8.8118 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings8.1146 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings8.1112 Ratings
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User Ratings
ibi WebFOCUSWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(16 ratings)
9.0
(203 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(5 ratings)
7.7
(43 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(109 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(11 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(3 ratings)
8.1
(33 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(27 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(12 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
ibi WebFOCUSWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
IBI (Information Builders)
I would less recommend it because it looks like IBI is receding a bit from the European market. I would not be certain for future support. Knowledge in the market in western Europe is limited Functional wise the application suits almost all situations. I would for sure recommend it purely based on its capabilities
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Workday
Adaptive is much more versatile than most planning software, and in most ways better than Excel for planning and analytics. It is great and bringing together data from multiple sources, especially if on the Workday platform, and really allows your team to collaborate in real time without any issues unlike trying to work in Excel workbooks at the same time or needing an adminstrator to enter data for you. Power users can even update models and reports themselves and share with others. The flexibility of designing your own models is also great in allowing you to plan however granular you need and have different methods of planning for different business units but bring it all together consolidated.The reporting is the least useful feature. Yes, OfficeConnect gives you all the power of Excel and PowerPoint and is great if you can utilize it, but for now it only works on Windows when many businesses have shifted to Apple or Google platforms. Also, OfficeConnect is not fast or easy to use, like the web reports and web dashboards, which are great for quick ad-hoc reports but not great for presentation-level reports. This creates a huge disconnect in the quickness of analytics, if you want to run and show in depth analytics you'll need OfficeConnect due to the limited functionality and limited formula capabilites of Adaptive web reports which requires someone to build and maintain and refresh the OfficeConnect reports which is slow and not easily shared with other users.Also the planning functionality of the 3 sheet types have not been updated in years. Some new features or sheet types would be greatly appreciated.
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Pros
IBI (Information Builders)
  • One thing that has always been good at WebFOCUS is how they interact with the customer on items. They take suggestions and implement them. In addition technical support is timely and very detailed.
  • I think they keep up with and lead in implementing new technologies in the BI space. One case of this are the ability for user to create their own easy dashboard using the green plus buttons. Also the ability to link d3 into and have the ability to implement new types of graphs is nice.
  • I have been to a spoke at one of their user conferences and they are worth going to. In addition to all of the great seminars the interaction you get with vendors and other users is key in the growth of your knowledge. I've learned so much for my time at these conferences.
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
  • The newest versions of WebFOCUS have an unnecessarily complicated security layout that makes configuration difficult to accomplish without bringing in the vendor for installs.
  • This software tries to cover too many bases allowing you to switch from writing code manually to creating reports using only GUI tools. This sometimes complicates screens and functionality where the two methods don't always work well together. -though its nice to have the choice.
  • The sales force is not as top notch as many software companies
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Workday
  • Variable Time Roll-ups. Different entities within our company look at "years" differently, but we're only able to specify one global time roll-up for aggregating data quickly, which can lead to some confusion.
  • Administrative UI. Management of Access Rules and ordering sheets from an administrative point of view can be a bit tedious and have received less attention than other features recently.
  • List Sheet Reporting. Any sheet that is a variable list of things (like People, Capital Projects, Marketing Programs) is somewhat constrained in how it can be reported on. Adaptive provides two kinds of reports but both leave something to be desired when reporting on this kind of data.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBI (Information Builders)
This software is deeply engrained with my organization and has become a tool that would not easily be replaced without spending more money and resources to get the same results. License cost is comparable to other report writing tools and the capabilities are greater than the competition without having to buy multiple apps to do the same thing.
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
Best BI tool/product I have used. The others don't compare overall. Some can look fancier, but when you actually use them with large data and data from numerous systems/sources that is where most of the competition falls away. I also don't like downtime. I have basically none for a large user base with WebFocus. Even SAP Crystal Reports went down for 4 days once - 4 days because the admin password got locked out due to a glitch and we had zero reports for 4 days. WebFocus has never had more than a few minutes of downtime. It's like a tank that just keeps rolling. There is no other choice for reliable BI.
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Workday
Workday Adaptive Planning has detailed online help with both articles and videos that are comprehensive. It has a lot of similarities to Excel, which most finance people are already familiar with, plus the user interface is intuitive and easy to pick up. The online support team is quick to respond and very knowledgeable.
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Reliability and Availability
IBI (Information Builders)
Tracking availability formally for almost two years and we are at 99.8%
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
They have extremely knowledgeable techs that I have worked with over the years. Some have actually become really good friends of mine. I see them often at local user groups and when we show them how we are using their tools to save millions of dollars throughout the company
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
It's hit and miss, the last class was overcrowded and people were having trouble connecting which took up much of the time. Instructors vary
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
Plan ahead on what data will be accessible and the type of security required on the database and if you will want to use security that is built into the software. It is worth consulting with the vendor on what your plan is and how they recommend you proceed in order to get results you are happy with.
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
Webfocus handles the side of our business that is involved with our catalogs. Our catalogs is a huge revenue driver for us and this tool has been extremely useful with planning feature catalogs. Tableau is used more for marketing and merchandising purchases since we can filter data based on website sales.
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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
IBI (Information Builders)
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Workday
Good read only seat access
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Scalability
IBI (Information Builders)
No answers on this topic
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
IBI (Information Builders)
No answers on this topic
Workday
This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
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Return on Investment
IBI (Information Builders)
  • We are not yet a success story. Though we've been implementing WebFOCUS for over a year, we have very few products in our Production portal. Of course, this is not all the responsibility of Information Builders, but we were ill-advised by our 'training coordinator' in our training of staff and coming up to speed with the tools has been very slow.
  • Once skilled analysts and professional IT staff achieve a grasp of the products, they are able to very quickly create polished and well-received products.
  • The DW/BI project has helped us to establish standards and protocols of communication that will allow us to more quickly meet knowledge transfer requirements
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Workday
  • Adaptive Insights has had a positive impact on organizational expansion. With our break-even analysis we have created, what would once take place in a notebook or Excel, we have created templates and can run a conservative estimate on revenue and costs quite quickly. We have cut back on research and time on expansion by months this way, to mere hours.
  • One negative impact is the costs with implementing connections between our other ERP systems with Adaptive Insights. Currently, we would like to have near real-time data, but cannot due to the costs. Currently, I am tasked with uploading from multiple systems and this can be time consuming, especially during a close.
  • Overall, positively we have had an excellent experience. The ease of the functionality and the easy learning curve have enabled everyone on my team to have an enjoyable experience.
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ScreenShots

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 visually