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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 (171)
    9.0
    90%
  • Forecasting (166)
    8.7
    87%
  • Long-term financial planning (160)
    8.5
    85%
  • Management reporting (171)
    8.3
    83%

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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 8.0

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8
Avg 8.3

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 7.6

Access Control and Security

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

9
Avg 8.7

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.5
Avg 8.0

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

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

8.7
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

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

7.6
Avg 8.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.5
Avg 8.2

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.7
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

8.3
Avg 8.3
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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 Financial budgeting highest, with a score of 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 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The positive impact is in time. It has greatly reduced the time it takes to turn around data, sending productivity rates soaring.
  • Scenario and financial statement reporting has greatly contributed to business decisions that have affected the bottom line.
Brandon Gappa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The biggest return on investment is the time the analysts and users have gained. We have never been so productive as a team.
  • Adaptive was the perfect solution to help manage our Customer Billing, we had recently transitioned billing systems and keeping track of old and new IDs across 10+ excel files was a very manual and inaccurate process. Dimension and Account mappings fixed all of that.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The largest benefit to having Adaptive so far has been the ability to build multiple budget versions with ease, including new information quickly. This reduces the amount of time it takes to make budgeting adjustments.
  • Management has found significant value in seeing the financial statements more readily, allowing decisions to be made more timely. The inclusion of actuals and forecast create a transparency of the true impact of a good or bad period with the business.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive Insights has allowed us to get better with our budgeting and forecasting which has allowed us to see where we may have previously been off. This allows the managers to adjust their processes by having the knowledge to make those business decisions.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Limin Kinsey, CPA, CFE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive has had a very positive impact on our planning process by providing the ability to collaborate and has reduced the inevitable errors encountered with our other budgeting tool.
  • Our ROI is proving out exponentially with the increased efficiencies gained, time saved from streamlining of our processes, and the overall enhancement with staff communication throughout the budget cycle.
Chris Snelling, CFA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive has reduced the time spent generating reports each month by several days. After automating with the Adaptive connector and after creating VBA programs to automate the formatting of the reports (our executives still prefer paper copies), I was able increase monthly productivity by several days. We were able to do with two people what we used to do with three.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Faster forecasting process
  • Single-source-of-truth for actuals and budget
  • More accurate forecasts
  • Allows team to forecast concurrently vs individually
  • Improves forecast scenario management
  • More confidence in data
  • Faster financial reporting
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive Insights has helped us leverage each analyst and member of our finance team so that we can run a really lean team and avoid hiring more analysts.
  • It has helped us manage our business to hit our financial targets.
Ben Balch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Before using Adaptive Insights, our annual budget process involved emailing spreadsheets back and forth. That's a very time-consuming and error-prone process. Adaptive Insights has made the process much more efficient for the Finance team and the business managers.
Alex Humble | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive saves us hundreds if not thousands of hours per year. This increase in efficiency results in cost savings north of $100k.
  • It has transformed the way we collaborate within the organization and increased morale within the finance team.
  • With Adaptive, we have truly become a dynamic, active planning finance department.
November 16, 2018

Time Saving

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Allowed us to be more efficient with the budget process. No excel spreadsheets to consolidate and roll-up budgets.
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