Microsoft Dynamics GP vs. Workday Adaptive Planning

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Dynamics GP
Score 5.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Dynamics GP is an ERP software with accounting capabilities. It includes various packs for customizability and features tailored to specific industries’ needs. GP is offered as a perpetual license or subscription.N/A
Workday Adaptive Planning
Score 7.8 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
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Dynamics GP

No answer on this topic

Workday Adaptive Planning
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning

We did not go through a full-blown software selection process, nor have I used other products in the past. Previous to Adaptive, we used Management Reporter (formerly FRx, now part of Microsoft Dynamics GP) for our financial statements, and Excel for our budgeting. Adaptive …

Chose Workday Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Suite gave us what we needed and fit our use case perfectly. We did short list Host Analytics and they were neck and neck with Adaptive and it was a win/win for us and we would have been successful with either tool. My familiarity with Adaptive, the simplicity of …
Chose Workday Adaptive Planning

Cognos - capabilities are very similar. Cognos does allow a "push-down" (e.g. current rollup of Outside Services is $600k, enter $1mm at the highest level and the additional $400k is spread to the lowest level based on the existing spread).

We also looked at A3 Solutions, Budget …

Features
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
6.5
20 Ratings
15% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Pay calculation6.319 Ratings00 Ratings
Benefit plan administration6.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.518 Ratings00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management6.517 Ratings00 Ratings
Reimbursement management6.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
4.3
27 Ratings
55% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
API for custom integration2.526 Ratings00 Ratings
Plug-ins6.021 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
7.1
40 Ratings
14% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability5.932 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.240 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
5.4
41 Ratings
36% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Dashboards3.529 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports6.239 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports6.539 Ratings00 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
5.1
48 Ratings
39% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Accounts payable6.445 Ratings00 Ratings
Accounts receivable5.936 Ratings00 Ratings
Cash management6.436 Ratings00 Ratings
Bank reconciliation5.741 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense management4.531 Ratings00 Ratings
Time tracking8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Fixed asset management4.628 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-currency support2.919 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-division support3.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Regulations compliance3.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Electronic tax filing9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service portal7.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Global Financial Support6.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers4.721 Ratings00 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting3.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Localizations4.513 Ratings00 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations4.726 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting2.916 Ratings00 Ratings
Configurable Accounting4.217 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework3.914 Ratings00 Ratings
Standardized Processes6.219 Ratings00 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
4.6
26 Ratings
46% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Inventory tracking6.324 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic reordering1.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management4.018 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing module4.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
3.7
25 Ratings
68% below category average
Workday Adaptive Planning
-
Ratings
Pricing3.518 Ratings00 Ratings
Order entry3.521 Ratings00 Ratings
Credit card processing1.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Cost of goods sold5.325 Ratings00 Ratings
Order Orchestration5.49 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility3.912 Ratings00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution3.57 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
9.3
1 Ratings
20% 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
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.0
1 Ratings
1% 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
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
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
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
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
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
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
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
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
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.7
191 Ratings
5% above category average
Long-term financial planning00 Ratings8.8177 Ratings
Financial budgeting00 Ratings9.2188 Ratings
Forecasting00 Ratings8.5183 Ratings
Scenario modeling00 Ratings7.6172 Ratings
Management reporting00 Ratings9.4188 Ratings
Consolidation and Close
Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
6.9
156 Ratings
14% below category average
Financial data consolidation00 Ratings5.4118 Ratings
Journal entries and reports00 Ratings7.379 Ratings
Multi-currency management00 Ratings6.290 Ratings
Intercompany Eliminations00 Ratings6.370 Ratings
Minority Ownership00 Ratings5.141 Ratings
Local and consolidated reporting00 Ratings9.6104 Ratings
Detailed Audit Trails00 Ratings8.2131 Ratings
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
7.9
179 Ratings
2% below category average
Financial Statement Reporting00 Ratings8.1158 Ratings
Management Reporting00 Ratings8.8174 Ratings
Excel-based Reporting00 Ratings8.1173 Ratings
Automated board and financial reporting00 Ratings8.8150 Ratings
XBRL support for regulatory filing00 Ratings5.731 Ratings
Analytics and Reporting
Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.2
148 Ratings
1% above category average
Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.1130 Ratings
Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings9.0108 Ratings
KPIs00 Ratings8.4121 Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings7.8123 Ratings
Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.6105 Ratings
Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings6.972 Ratings
Integration
Comparison of Integration features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Dynamics GP
-
Ratings
Workday Adaptive Planning
8.7
169 Ratings
4% above category average
Flat file integration00 Ratings8.5132 Ratings
Excel data integration00 Ratings8.9162 Ratings
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources00 Ratings8.6121 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Small Businesses
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
QuickBooks Self-Employed (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Medium-sized Companies
Zoho Books
Zoho Books
Score 9.1 out of 10
Centage
Centage
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP Cloud ERP
SAP Cloud ERP
Score 8.6 out of 10
OneStream
OneStream
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(51 ratings)
8.3
(220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(7 ratings)
8.6
(44 ratings)
Usability
6.0
(7 ratings)
8.3
(126 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.3
(11 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(5 ratings)
8.2
(33 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(3 ratings)
8.6
(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)
7.4
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.2
(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
Microsoft Dynamics GPWorkday Adaptive Planning
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Microsoft Dynamics GP is well-suited for our environment, as we pay a diverse group of employees, including on-the-road drivers, shop employees (some in other locations), and office employees. It easily tracks time off, taxes, pay, etc. The reporting allows us to verify with our drivers how they are paid each week, whether it be through mileage or stop-offs.
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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
Microsoft
  • Great Plains started as back office/accounting, and that is still it's strong suit.
  • SQL and the GP programming language, Dexterity, provide a robust, scalable, and stable platform with well documented maintenance and repair procedures. Relatively easy to manage, tune, and support.
  • Microsoft support for GP verges on "particularly well". Doesn't quite get there but good enough once you know what you're doing
  • Strong partner network, including the GP User Group (GPUG)
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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
Microsoft
  • With respect to the allocations, once the expense is entered into the allocation account, you lose the ability to run any detail on just the total of the expense. It would be nice if you could run a trial balance on the allocation accounts the same way you can with regular accounts.
  • I've always thought security set up could be a bit simpler. It actually has gotten better through the years. Specifically, with eight separate entities, it would be nice to have a "master" setup where you could call up one group entity, assign the users rights, and then be finished. Currently, whenever I have a new user, I have to call up each individual entity and select all of the features I want the user to have. That means I have to do eight steps for each user.
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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
Microsoft
Due the economic challenges that Puerto Rico is having, the company has had to merge some companies in order to be more efficient. It has been easy in GP to process those merges, even thought we had to spend days to accomplish that the process was smooth and accurate. In addition we were able to streamline the purchasing and sales process and the organization is confident to keep renewing GP for the future versions.
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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
Microsoft
Though it is a basic accounting package, I believe some users do not find the old style menus and navigation options intuitive. There is also a great lack of training resources in the market, so users have to learn the product without guidance a lot, resulting in inefficient workflows and misuse or misunderstanding of many features.
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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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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
Microsoft
The rating is directed to the thrid party serive provider that we use. I do not now how good the Microsoft direct support is.
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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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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
Microsoft
Basically the challenge with this implementation was the Business Portal, too many errors and even the aplication is up and running the users are still having issues. We will start planning the migraton to GP 2015 soon.
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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
Microsoft
I come from a strong background of using SAP. SAP doesn't have the flexibility of GP, an example would be SAP doesn't allow core mods, if they catch you, you lose support. Microsoft doesn't really care about mods, but they will be quick to have the vendor you used support your issue if it is caused by those mods. With SAP your company adapts to the software, where with GP you adapt the software to you.
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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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Workday
Good read only seat access
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Scalability
Microsoft
The functionality that GP and related ISV solutions offer and the ease of integration of GP to other systems makes it an extremely scalable solution
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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
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Workday
This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Microsoft Dynamics GP allows my clients to move from a paper or spreadsheet based company to an integrated, electronic, streamlined business. I love being able to help clients gain efficiencies through the use of Microsoft Dynamics GP.
  • Microsoft Dynamics GP allows for better customer service because everything is at our fingertips. If someone calls questioning an invoice, we can easily look it up. If someone calls stating they paid an invoice with a certain check number, we can quickly run a query to find that particular check number to see where it was applied.
  • Having everything on a single platform provides ease of use for upgrades, backups and end user training. There is only one software to learn!
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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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