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Workday Adaptive Planning

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What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

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.

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Popular Features

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  • Financial budgeting (169)
    8.8
    88%
  • Forecasting (164)
    8.5
    85%
  • Management reporting (169)
    8.3
    83%
  • Long-term financial planning (159)
    8.2
    82%

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What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

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.

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  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

9.3
Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8
Avg 8.4

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8
Avg 8.2

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.7
Avg 7.7

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9
Avg 8.8

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.5
Avg 7.8

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

8.5
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

7.6
Avg 8.1

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.4
Avg 8.3

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.5
Avg 8.1

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

8.2
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

Everybody plans, and strategic planning is a crucial process for every business. This business planning software enables teams to create budgets, forecasts, and models in less time and with greater accuracy, so that the team can focus on analysis and strategy. Having up to date, reliable data, teams can focus on the story behind the numbers, and can improve business decisions and collaboration. Additionally, Workday Adaptive Planning and Consolidation delivers a unified solution that enables Accounting and Finance to accelerate the close, increase planning agility and drive faster, more informed decisions. The software was ranked a leader in Gartner's Cloud Planning and Analysis quadrant.

Workday Adaptive Planning Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features

  • Supported: Long-term financial planning
  • Supported: Financial budgeting
  • Supported: Forecasting
  • Supported: Scenario modeling
  • Supported: Management reporting

Consolidation and Close Features

  • Supported: Financial data consolidation
  • Supported: Journal entries and reports
  • Supported: Multi-currency management
  • Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
  • Supported: Minority Ownership
  • Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
  • Supported: Detailed Audit Trails

Financial Reporting and Compliance Features

  • Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
  • Supported: Management Reporting
  • Supported: Excel-based Reporting
  • Supported: Automated board and financial reporting
  • Supported: XBRL support for regulatory filing

Analytics and Reporting Features

  • Supported: Personalized dashboards
  • Supported: Color-coded scorecards
  • Supported: KPIs
  • Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
  • Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
  • Supported: Benchmarking with external data

Integration Features

  • Supported: Flat file integration
  • Supported: Excel data integration
  • Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources

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 visuallyScreenshot of Built-in audit trail and cell explorer will show the source and history of any metric, assumption or formula

Workday Adaptive Planning Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and many more!
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Polish, Dutch

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Anaplan, OneStream, and Planful are common alternatives for Workday Adaptive Planning.

Reviewers rate Scenario modeling highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Workday Adaptive Planning are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Workday Adaptive Planning Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)60%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)40%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning's design is fairly straight forward however, for Procurement as an analytic tool is not quit robust enough and needs to be used in concert with other tools. From Procurement's perspective as a financial planning tool, this needs to be taken into consideration as it is no panacea. no where near it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Workday Adaptive Planning is overall very versatile and easy to use. The formula writing and syntax takes some getting used to but if you are intentional about how the system is set up then learning how to read and digest complex formulas can be straightforward. It’s also easy to navigate the system through sheets and assumptions, some systems aren’t that way.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excel integration is exactly as advertised. The seamless integration to the general ledger is really helpful in creating cost center and company level forecasts. The planning team loves the tie in to Excel for day-to-day use. however, it's still very much Adaptive...you can't just drop an Excel power user into the doc and let them work. The learning curve from Adaptive still applies.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Jack Kersjes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My rating of 9 is really a composite of two ratings. For the users, I would give it a 10. But for administrators, I would give it more of an 8. That is because there is definitely a learning curve for the admins. It has a fair level of complexity (which is necessary), especially in the formulas and certain types of sheets. It is a product worth mastering, but it does take time to learn.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Excel user will have an easier time with it. It is intuitive and user friendly. There is always room for improving but overall my experience has been very positive. I have used excel for many years now and taken several courses, I feel like all of that has helped me to better utilise the platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is very intuitive, does not require any formal training and is easy to use for any new user. It allows dashboard style view of all metrics and pivot tables to add or remove any metric. One can create new custom metrics and do not need to add any code for it and automatically get it calculated through AI and ML algorithms. Overall, its usability is well defined and easy.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Planning is sheet based just like Excel, meaning that anyone who is proficient in using excel can be trained easily using Adaptive Planning. One of my favorite features is that you can utilize the different sheet and dimension templates from Adaptive Planning to export to excel, and then import the sheet relatively easily.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think that the budgeting side is easy and nobody in the company had any issues with entering in budgets or being able to find their budget after the fact or their actuals. The issue I have is it isn't not as easy to create reports and custom accounts for very specific charts and reports.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a standard user, the product is very easy to follow. From an implementation or administrative perspective, due to the products flexibility, it is, or at least can be, very complicated to set up. Thankfully, the support staff that is available to assist (or to actually do the work) is top shelf.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
The interface is fine but the capabilities are to limited and state of the art is not excel like but similar to this survey with sliding scales for weighting, drop and drag for data elements, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning is a very clean and user-friendly system. A typical user can likely navigate the system with little to no training. The overall navigation is easy to use; however, there is additional time needed from the team in order to understand how to build new models and maintain the system.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning is directed to any company that wants to improve its productive yields--taking into account the clear training that must be had to achieve the correct coupling of the software with our data center--and to be able to obtain the greatest possible benefits.
Krishna Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Workday Adaptive Planning is the best tool for all your planning, budgeting and forecasting, including medaling, consolidation and reports, Its easy to implement for admin and consultants, I believe integration required bit more streamline process change. UI changes required for admin page and other area, as some time action button or item where we take action looks very small.
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