Anaplan vs. Workday Adaptive Planning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Anaplan
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Anaplan is a scenario planning and analysis platform designed to optimize decision-making in complex business environments so that enterprises can outpace their competition and the market. By building connections and collaboration across organizational silos, the Anaplan platform surfaces key insights.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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AnaplanWorkday Adaptive Planning
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Anaplan
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is more flexible than Adaptive Planning--it's not limited to only financial statement planning. Anaplan can support all aspects of a business.
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is more flexible and agile to implement and can be customized to the requirements as it comes as a completely blank slate with no predefined templates. The data processing capabilities and functional logic available to set up the system are much superior. However, it …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan provides all the functions required for reporting (IRR, previous, etc.). I also find the user experience is more intuitive for both end users and modelers. Anaplan has recently came out with a myriad of new features, and have announced even more. This is an evolving …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is easier to implement, easier to use, easier to maintain than these tools. It scales easily with the business. Workflows are easy to implement. It is easy to drill down and understand how the tool obtained a specific result, giving confidence in its calculations. …
Chose Anaplan
Easy of use is Anaplan's main advantage. As Anaplan is code-less configuration, and the logic for model building is by far the simplest, it would make the learning curve less steep. This is very important when we are showing our clients that, their complicated planning scenario …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan has greater flexibility and ease of use for any use cases, It connect different planning models with ease and making it is easy to adjust to changing business structures. It is able to handle large data, it is also helps complex planning and Analytics. It is well suited …
Chose Anaplan
Both platforms are excellent but come with some challenges. They are often complex to configure and offer limited customization options. Their user interfaces are not very intuitive, and their reporting capabilities are somewhat restricted. The total cost of ownership is …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is more flexible, easier to use, has a better user interface and performs better.
Chose Anaplan
Ease of use, intuitive design, business user friendly, quick implementation time
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is easy to implement and use and provides a lot of flexibility over other tools. Solution in anaplan can be developed by a limited set of model builders and can easily implemented if build properly and understanding the business problem. Anaplan is a good tool for …
Chose Anaplan
The only platform with the flexibility that matches Anaplan is Excel. However, excel is not scalable. There are also many great point solutions out there that can do one thing well, but I have not seen anything else that can do as much as Anaplan can, and do it well.
Chose Anaplan
DocuSign is one of the early Anaplan adopters, the tool was purchased way before I joined the company. So, I have little to say about the selection process. Based on my personal knowledge, Anaplan has:
- better performance on large data volumes without the need to write …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is the most flexible solution that provides extended value across business value chains.
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is more scalable and better suited for planning outside of Financial Planning. Adaptive is limited to mostly Financial Planning and cannot do Sales Performance Management. Anaplan allows us to build models for all the different types of planning we do at our company. …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan works well where you have a requirement for complete flexibility, such as in business structure, or in calculation methodology that is bespoke. You can tailor the system to your exact requirements, whereas some products come with pre-built modules that you might …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan's UX and calculation engine tend to perform better. Regarding the UX, Anaplan's is very customizable and end-user-friendly. Some of the other solutions' UX looks very dated. Regarding the calculation engine, when an input is made in Anaplan it will calculate real-time …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is such a wonderful and powerful product. The NUX dashboards with time filters and user filters are much
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan always comes out top for me for its ability to meet any client's needs
Chose Anaplan

Other platforms offer some scale vs Anaplan by adding great user interfaces and many out of the box functionality (Time filtering, versions, predefined tables (modeled sheet), chart of accounts (debit, credit)). However, very structured architecture makes edge use cases harder …

Chose Anaplan
Anaplan logic and formula is easier to understand by end users so they can be more independent when they started to use the tool. Also the self training courses are detailed and practical enough to give end users a better understanding of the functions and what they can achieve …
Chose Anaplan
Anaplan is one of the better cloud-based EPM solutions out there. While it doesn't come with a lot of features/modules out of the box, once you get it up and running it's really powerful. There is a steeper learning curve than some other EPM tools out there which are …
Chose Anaplan
I believe that Adaptive is more user-friendly. The reason being, every functionality is intuitive. Also, it has an out-of-box reporting solution that allows the use of Excel for reporting purposes. Also, Adaptive offers a planning tool that allows users access to Adaptive …
Workday Adaptive Planning
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
We had looked at Anaplan, but people on our team had a stronger comfort level with Adaptive and the sales process with Adaptive felt less agressive.
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Insights is well-positioned against the new tier of SaaS players as well as the larger, legacy, on-premise financial planning solutions such as Hyperion and IBM Cognos TM1. Its got an approachable user interface and relatively easy to use models and forecast …
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
We looked at essentially three different products. Essbase (Current), Adaptive Insights, and Anaplan. We knew that Essbase wasn't the right solution for our business with historical experience, it was too difficult to forecast at the detailed business unit, department, and …
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
We did some analysis of Anaplan, but it seemed they were built for much bigger companies. It did not seem like we could implement and maintain Anaplan without significant IT support, which was one of the main goals of the project. Anaplan did seem like it could have more …
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
Very easy to do it yourself. WIth Hyperion/Anaplan, I had to rely on outside resources to do basic model changes.
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
From our initial findings, Workday Adaptive seemed like it was going to be easier to get up and running out of the box and fit the needs of our company more.
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
We ultimately chose Adaptive Insights as we wanted budget owners to use our budgeting/forecasting tool on a regular basis, and we felt that Adaptive was the most user-friendly for non-finance folks.
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Insights is better than their competitors because they have better "best practices" implemented, the product has a great interface, it has structure so your model doesn't get too messy, and it works well. It also has great scenario planning, Excel reporting functions, …
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive was easier for me to learn than the competitor product. The other product requires custom development, which takes time. However, once up and running it is easier to do analytics with less steps by using more formulas. The caveat is that it requires considerable …
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive was already being implemented when I joined the company, but we have heard that Anaplan has better capabilities but the cost is significantly higher.
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Highlights

TrustRadius
Research Team Insight
Published

Anaplan and Workday Adaptive Planning are both Corporate Performance Management products focused on budgeting and financial planning. However, they are most commonly used in different market segments, and are ideal at different points in businesses’ growth and development. 

Adaptive Planning, recently acquired by Workday, is most commonly used by midsize companies. The CPM tool integrates natively with the Workday HCM platform and is designed to help data flow smoothly from HR to finance and accounting processes in a unified system. Anaplan is more enterprise-focused, with a heavier focus on traditional CPM capabilities like financial process management and reporting. 

Features

Anaplan and Workday Adaptive Planning both provide advantages for their users. 

Anaplan’s capabilities are scaled to enhance enterprises’ financial performance management. Reviewers highlight the platform’s flexibility and adaptability to business process and data structure changes. This customization is designed to help enterprises be more flexible and better absorb business changes. Anaplan also allows for a large number of different users on the platform for excellent collaboration support.

Workday stands out for its support for midsize and growing companies, particularly those who have outgrown their Excel-based financial processes. Its Office Connect feature creates a familiar and accessible experience for professionals used to Excel-based financial processes and reporting without adding on a substantial training curve. For those who do require additional training, the Adaptive Learning Center provides a host of self-service resources for training and development. 

Limitations

Anaplan and Workday Adaptive Planning also have certain limitations worth considering. 

Anaplan lacks some of the support that users look for from CPM vendors. In particular, some reviewers have found a lack of training materials when adopting and training on the platform. It also is limited as a standalone data warehouse for financial data. 

In contrast, Adaptive Planning reviewers have had issues with post-implementation flexibility in some areas. One area of note is the platform’s web-based reporting capabilities, which are more limited than on-premise features. Additionally, Office Connect is not a one-to-one match with Excel in terms of processes and functions, so there is still a learning curve and change management necessary when transitioning away from Excel. 

Pricing

Anaplan provides 3 different packages, all priced by custom quote from the vendor. The Basic plan includes core CPM capabilities around model building, dashboarding, and Microsoft Office integrations. The Professional plan adds on Application Lifecycle Managament and Auditing support, as well as DocuSign and additional support features as add-ons. The Enterprise plan provides all of the features beyond Bring Your Own Key, including an Informatica iPaaS license and additional computational power. 

Workday Adaptive Planning offers two packages, each priced by quote from the vendor. The Standard package includes all the core features and capabilities, while the Enterprise package adds on unlimited storage, additional automation, and sandboxing. Workday also offers 3 license types, a Full Seat, or admins, which cost the most, Contributors, which are standard users, and Viewers, which can access data but not make changes.

Features
AnaplanWorkday Adaptive Planning
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.6
214 Ratings
1% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.3
1 Ratings
19% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.57 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.5214 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.96 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.1
8 Ratings
11% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Drill-down analysis9.18 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.18 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.18 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.5
221 Ratings
3% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Publish to Web8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.4219 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Versioning9.2192 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling7.98 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.1
8 Ratings
7% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.7
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.07 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.07 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.3
224 Ratings
6% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.0
1 Ratings
3% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.18 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.6224 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.18 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.673 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.7
213 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.5
1 Ratings
8% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.4204 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile Application7.7190 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.0198 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.0
322 Ratings
8% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.0
187 Ratings
8% above category average
Long-term financial planning9.3297 Ratings8.7173 Ratings
Financial budgeting9.4301 Ratings9.5184 Ratings
Forecasting9.3310 Ratings9.0179 Ratings
Scenario modeling9.2312 Ratings9.2170 Ratings
Management reporting7.9311 Ratings8.7184 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
7.8
275 Ratings
2% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
6.9
152 Ratings
14% below category average
Financial data consolidation8.3255 Ratings7.0115 Ratings
Journal entries and reports7.5211 Ratings6.575 Ratings
Multi-currency management7.312 Ratings6.887 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations7.39 Ratings5.868 Ratings
Minority Ownership7.38 Ratings5.840 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting8.2244 Ratings9.0102 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails8.5256 Ratings7.7127 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.1
293 Ratings
0% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.5
175 Ratings
5% above category average
Financial Statement Reporting8.9271 Ratings9.0154 Ratings
Management Reporting8.2284 Ratings8.9170 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting7.8262 Ratings8.4169 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting8.214 Ratings9.1146 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing7.31 Ratings7.028 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
9.1
313 Ratings
12% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.2
144 Ratings
2% above category average
Personalized dashboards8.7307 Ratings7.6126 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards9.3291 Ratings8.0105 Ratings
KPIs9.120 Ratings8.8117 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis9.3270 Ratings7.8119 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting9.4281 Ratings8.7101 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data9.114 Ratings8.470 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Anaplan
8.5
319 Ratings
2% above category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.5
165 Ratings
2% above category average
Flat file integration9.3309 Ratings9.2129 Ratings
Excel data integration8.2287 Ratings8.1158 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.0269 Ratings8.3120 Ratings
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User Ratings
AnaplanWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(336 ratings)
9.0
(216 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(35 ratings)
7.7
(43 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(63 ratings)
8.9
(122 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(7 ratings)
7.3
(11 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(7 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(27 ratings)
8.2
(33 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.9
(6 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(6 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(27 ratings)
9.1
(27 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(3 ratings)
7.6
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.4
(7 ratings)
8.4
(12 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.3
(4 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.2
(4 ratings)
6.4
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
AnaplanWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
Anaplan
Anaplan is a great tool for complex modeling of the future. When you are planning your actions for the future, have multiple, disparate datasets to interact with, have dozens if not hundreds of stakeholders who must contribute and need to be guided via a streamlined workflow engine, require complex logic that can grow with your org, require real-time reporting, and you need it all in less than 6 months.
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Workday
In a previous company, I was hired based on my experience with Workday Adaptive Planning. After being hired and reviewing the company, I quickly determined they were not large of enough of a company to need the program. Instead, we made better Excel budget templates, utilized OneDrive and created a better experience without the cost. Left the job after 9 months because I worked my way out of the position. My next role I looked for bigger companies and had better success with implementation.
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Pros
Anaplan
  • Anaplan can scale as your business grows, for example adding new regions into to your geographical hierarchy.
  • Anaplan is flexible and can do anything you want it to, there are no tables pre-configured that you need to fix your business process into.
  • Reading formulas in Anaplan is straight forward with a quick learning curve.
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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
Anaplan
  • Ability to decide if to apply the formula or a manual input on front end for each line item
  • Real Time Data Transfer across models. Currently Data is transferred using Processes across different models. Having a functionality to access data from any model in real time would be great
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Workday
  • Web reports and sheets are not great for in-depth reporting, and require the use of the OfficeConnect for Excel plugin and, therefore, the use of Excel for extensive reporting capabilities.
  • It has limited formula functionality in some instances, requiring again the use of OfficeConnect for Excel for extensive calculations.
  • I would like to see new planning sheet types or upgrades to existing sheet types; functionality has been the same for over 10 years.
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Likelihood to Renew
Anaplan
Anaplan is a very strong multi-dimensional modeling tool that provides a calculation engine to empower a complex planning process. It is fairly easy to learn for those with experience in similar tools, or excel. It forces structure and auditability that spread sheets do not have, along with extensive security capabilities
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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
Anaplan
Anaplan's usability is very good. Users can customize reports and make adjustments with very little training. They can quickly plan and collaborate very easily. Making large adjustments or creating complex functionality may require more experience or training but a lot of tasks can be completed by users with very little experience
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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
Anaplan
There are very few outages. Maintenance is scheduled on two or three Saturdays per month, so as not to affect businesses. When there is an outage, users are kept informed of progress to restore the platform and typically this takes no more than an hour. Anaplan customer support is very responsive if we ever have questions about platform issues
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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
Anaplan
Everything is calculated in memory in the cloud. It's nearly instantaneous updates when you make changes. The only time things get a little slow is when you have a massive model with very intricate calculations...but "slow" for Anaplan is not what I would call "slow" for something like Hyperion. We used to have Hyperion calcs that ran for 60 mins before you could use data. The equivalent would be 60 seconds in Anaplan.
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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
Anaplan
Support quality has dropped since Thoma Bravo has taken over. I think some serious re-focus needs to happen here -- part of the beauty of being in the Anaplan community was how involved you felt in it before. Before I didn't dread sending a support ticket, now I am starting to.
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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
Anaplan
In my opinion, in-person training is always the best if you have the option to do so. This allows real-time interactions with the instructions, whereas the online training I took required me to write-down questions, email them, and wait for responses. This slows down the process, as you can imagine. That said, in-person training is an extra cost and it likely isn't needed for everyone. I would suggest selecting a small number of people to take in-person training and then having them act as mentors to the rest of your team. That way, as the rest of the team takes the online training, they have a resource to help them in real time.
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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
Anaplan
Anaplan training materials are clear, simple, easy to understand and to follow. Visuals are excellent. The vendor is good at updating training materials in a timely manner and encouraging users and administrators to keep coming back to Academy site for refresher courses or new feature courses. I really like their interactive diagrams
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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
Anaplan
The platform allows a flexible implementation mechanic to be put in place, since the possibilities and functionalities are vast and there are very few things the tool cannot do well. The solutions for the financial planning and the integrated business planning we put in place were easily adopted by the end users and their day-to-day work was made easier.
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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
Anaplan
Compared to OneStream and Venna Anaplan offers a more modern look and feel of the platform. It is better situated and maintained in regards of platform updates as it's a full SaaS software there are never any issues with the system version as it's always automatically up to date with no backward compatibility issues. Due to the flexible nature of the modelling engine, it is also better suited to perform larger multi-department use cases, like IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
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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
Anaplan
No answers on this topic
Workday
Good read only seat access
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Scalability
Anaplan
We have managed to leverage Anaplan for financial planning and forecasting across the business. It is now used by almost every department, with more than 50 users (but I know of companies that have hundreds of users) and still the platform is quick and reliable. It is easy to make changes to divisions and departments or add users and apply different user settings - the core part of the model is not affected and end users can continue their work without any disruption
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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
Anaplan
No answers on this topic
Workday
This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
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Return on Investment
Anaplan
  • We've typically seen an average of 40% removal of time from processes using Anaplan an enabler
  • Though difficult to quantify, we consistently find our processes less error prone than in the past. Essentially, we've removed a previously "hidden cost" of risk due to poor data quality that was buried in our processes.
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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

Anaplan Screenshots

Screenshot of Platform: The Anaplan platform is a unified cloud-based solution that connects people, data and plans to enable complex scenario modeling.Screenshot of OpEx Planning. This is where users review revenue-target-setting goals by brand, season, and capacity all on a visual dashboard.Screenshot of Supply Planning. This visualization breaks down costs across assembly production to project profitability and align an organization's supply chain to market opportunities.Screenshot of Territory and Quota Planning. This dashboard is used to track of sales goals and quotas across territories and industries to optimize sales performance.Screenshot of Headcount Planning. Here, users can align workforce plans with strategic plans, and see where the best qualified talent resides to fit an organization’s staffing needs.Screenshot of Marketing. This interface drives efficiency across planning, and is used to budget against planned activity.

Workday Adaptive Planning Screenshots

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