Aladtec vs. Workday Adaptive Planning

Aladtec works well in a large organization where employees need to access the schedule from all different locations/devices and being able to make adjustments on the go. Aladtec allows the adding of meetings, training, and work shifts all on the same calendar and details can be seen by clicking on the individual item. Aladtec allows the adding of many details and to customize looking at the calendar for each individual.

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If your company requires headcount and enterprise initiative planning across departments, it really helps to see the impacts at the company level. It is well-suited for conducting what-if scenarios and beneficial if you already have Workday HCM with position management. It may not be well-suited to companies that require custom dashboards.

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• User training is easy with Aladtec. We provided the employees with a login, and they were pros within 20 minutes of logging in.
• Shift reminders help employees remember their next scheduled shift.
• Exception alarms alert you when someone is late to work.

• Version Management. Adaptive lets us manage many versions/scenarios all in one platform with the robust ability to compare them to each other.
• Processing Performance. With the Elastic Hypercube technology that was implemented a few years back, we can watch changes flow through a complex web of formulas and arrive at an answer within seconds.
• Audit Trail. Our administrators love the ability to see and report on who made what changes when, which leads to real accountability within the organization.

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• Any specific improvements I have already mentioned to Aladtec and (I'm thrilled to report) several have already been implemented. They even made system accommodations for colorblind users - an industry first!
• I am excited to see further development of the custom forms so we can merge to a completely paperless schedule & payroll system.
• Although there is no specific fleet management tool, we have worked with Aladtec's Customer Support pros to develop a ways to accurately record all of our vehicles for scheduling maintenance, in-service and down time.

• Budgeting either isn't included or an extra fee.
• Expense reporting aspects are repetitive and hard to fully optimize.
• Finance tracking is limited to basic reports with multiple levels or drill-down...hard to fully grasp without exporting data and massaging in something else (like Excel).

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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.

Love, love, love, love the OfficeConnect interface as well as the Planning tab within Excel. OfficeConnect is so flexible, gets immediate updated data (after integrations are run). No need to recreate workbooks every month, just refresh the data. This really is the lifeblood for my CFO and leadership team. The Planning tab in Excel allows us to look at a Sheet with many, many rows and perform analysis, even sending it back to Workday Adaptive Planning.

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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.

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.

Aladtec has given the support needed, especially in learning the new system and bringing it up to speed for the entire workforce. There is a need to reach out to them when everything freezes, which is rare. This system has been fairly smooth after it had been in use for at least 6 months.

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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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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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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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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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The features, functionality, user-friendliness and cost were all factors. Aladtec surpassed all 4 of the other systems we evaluated, most especially with their customer support. We have not had major problems but the few minor glitches we had (all our fault, admittedly) were resolved quickly. The staff not only responded immediately but they made sure we fully understood what happened, helping us prevent future frustrations.

Compared to Vena, Adaptive Planning appeared to be better at scaling with us as a business. Vena uses Microsoft Dynamics as its platform and are somewhat limited in its roadmap due to what's available from Microsoft. Vena is much more linked to an Excel solution than Adaptive Planning and we felt getting our Commercial Finance Business Partners out of Excel would be beneficial to move the mindset away from being analysts to being advisors to the business. OneStream's key selling point was its ability to merge together multiple ERPs into one single platform. This looked powerful but since we were on a single ERP, we wouldn't have benefited from that key feature. The OneStream user interface also looked very dated, as did their reporting outputs. Adaptive Planning had a much more modern and appealing reporting environment.

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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

• Less time spent on scheduling. More time on staff management and operations.
• Affordable solution to scheduling and staff notifications. Very cheap compared to other similar vendors.
• Streamlined operations for our department by using this software and database. Staff can access what they need anytime they want by computer or cell phone.

• it is easier to take critical business decisions in the organization and respond to stakeholder early
• migration of resources like cloud, servers or operating system or migrations does not lead to impact on platform
• helps calculates complex metrics requires for financial and resource planning

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