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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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  • 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
Incentivized
We use Workday Adaptive Planning mostly for our monthly and annual P/L planning. Recently, we started using model sheets for Capex cash spend tracking. Workday has helped with version control which is crucial with over 50+ users.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Planning on a daily basis as a key function of my job. We utilize Adaptive for personnel planning, product P&Ls, Budgeting, Forecasting, Bookings, dashboards, and reports. Adaptive is incredible in its functionality and flexibility. Adaptive has been the most valuable tool (outside of Excel) for myself as an FP&A Manager.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We purchased Adaptive Insights three months ago and are currently still in the implementation phase. We have our PnL currently up and running but it is our intention to build a full three statement model in Adaptive. The very intuitive interface allowed us to progress quickly with the implementation. At this moment all of our users are from the local finance teams but as we progress with the roll-out of our functional budgeting we will give other departments viewing and reporting access as well.
Daniel Killpack | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive across the entire organization, which includes 5 major departments and 85 business units/chapters. We plan each year in Adaptive and track and manage expenses. We use Discovery to monitor KPIs. Before Adaptive, everything was in spreadsheets that had to be consolidated by hand. Before Adaptive generating the monthly reports for each unit took 1 week per month, or 3 months of the year. Now, all financial information is available instantly. Better access to information and KPIs has allowed us to lower our expenses and increase revenue. All the grumbling about budget season has stopped and I'm actually hearing people say that they "love Adaptive."
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Workday Adaptive Planning to help understand our spend across the company by GL code as reported via Netsute. Though not perfect, the tool allows me to segregate this spend and extract insights by comparing against time, Dept. and other variables. This is best done by extracting via Excel and manipulating the data there.
Brian Goldrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning is being used by our entire company. The admins of the system are on the financial planning and analysis team. Each budget owner goes in to fill out their department's budget first, which is then reviewed by the FP&A team/CFO and there are typically three iterations of going back and forth on the requested options. This is way better than how we previously budgeted, which was on an Excel spreadsheet.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Workday Adaptive Planning for budget and forecast planning, reporting (utilizing both web and office connect excel reports), and analytics. The system is primarily used by finance now, until we role it out to other departments in our business; which we’ve already begun to do. With Workday Adaptive Planning we are able to compile large amounts of data from the bottoms up but also have the flexibility of modeling at a high level. The system is versatile and can be used for not only financials, but headcount, and performance data as well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company's core financial forecasting is done in Adaptive, integrated with our Workday FINS platform for our GL. Adaptive is the key component in our financial and company performance forecasting. We were coming off of homebuilt and manual planning tools, and the shift has made us a lot more responsive to the changing environment of the last 3 years. Executive team trusts the results, and is confident that we have the tools we need to provide insights.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Workday Adaptive Planning for our budgets and forecasts that end up back in Workday Finance. We also integrate Actuals from Workday Finance, HCM, and other software to create comprehensive analytics and reports.
Mark McConkie | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is being used across the entire company as our budget software. We also use it to generate some operational metrics, and are expanding that functionality now. We have all of our financials, track our bookings, and track our ARR in Adaptive.
Jack Kersjes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, and other operational reporting. We also use the dashboard for both financial and operational data. It is used by our executives and all our department directors. It has greatly streamlined our budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes. Additionally, the dashboard provides a means to communicate KPIs in an efficient manner.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning is used to plan and maintain financial forecasts and spending during ongoing R&D projects. It is kept up to date with budget allocations, forecast changes, and most immortally it helps us to smartly track remaining budget to make sure we are within our allocation. Once the project is finalised, it is also used to track revenue generation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an organization that represents over 230,000 members, we are using Adaptive Insights to generate reports that provide transactions and more drill down reports by department and sub categories across the entire organization. This enables all departments to review their budget at any time without waiting for the monthly reports to be distributed. In addition, this helps eliminate human errors as we are able to pull the reports and drill down to the exact transactions to review and confirm that they are coded correctly. We like that the system is web-based - accessible from anywhere as long as you have internet access. The only setback is our staff travel expenses are generated separately - not sure the reasoning behind that action.
Gajendra Kumar Gangwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were capable to onboard departmental budgets accessible to users on the cloud instead of using the excel sheets. We able to extend our vision and helped the account managers to keep them updated, save time and use the budget with less manual efforts. It also helped to manage the spending and project the budget.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday adaptive planning helps manage business of all sizes by providing analytical insights, forecasts and reports that help take business decisions with ease. It does not depend on shifting business needs or use of legacy software's and provides help in complex planning. One can track EBITA, growth, performance and other key performance metrics and is easy to integrate with CRM, ERP and BI solutions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday is used by our entire company to manage and handle all aspects of Human Resources, Budgeting, Individual Goals, Training, and keeping track of each individual learning and courses they have taken. From an HR management standpoint, it is the backbone of our company.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Planning is a scalable FP&A tool that allows the company to make adjustments to budgets and forecasts with speed and efficiency. Instead of creating numerous excel files, Adaptive Planning has live cases of forecasts, budgets, and actuals. It is sheet based like Excel, but you can also use to plan all of your financial statements.
December 18, 2022

Forecasting made easy

Manuel Lora Fernández | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adaptive is being used across a department within one of our Divisions. Adaptive allows us to prepare and project our monthly Forecast and annual Budget. The Adaptive built-in reports are key for our department to analyse the evolution of our forecast and the comparison with our budget. Furthermore it gives you a tool to control the projection of our intercompany recharges.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Adaptive Insights for mainly budgeting purposes and running monthly budget vs actual reports. It has helped the company dramatically with ensuring that we are using the correct and same version of the approved budget. We have 27 different entities creating budgets and within those entities up to 80 different departments. Before Adaptive Insights, there were a lot of Excel spreadsheets emailed back and forth. This created issues with version control. Adaptive Insights has also forced the company across all entities to map their chart of accounts in a similar fashion and use accounts for the same purpose.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Adaptive as our system of record planning and reporting application. The FP&A team is the primary editor of information, but read-only information is widely consumed across the org.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workday Adaptive Planning is used for Financial Planning and Reporting activities. Workday Adaptive Planning is being used across the whole organization . Every cost center manager prepares an annual plan within Adaptive Planning.The FP&A team is the primary editor of information, but read-only information is widely consumed across the org. It helps in dynamic planning through collaboration across the team during planning. Adaptive Planning is also valuable for forecasting.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have multiple units that need to be budgeted on an annual basis. Each of these entities is responsible for their own budgets using some assumptions driven by corporate. At the end of the process, it all has to be pulled together. Previously, using Excel, this was at least a full day process, with similar turnaround times every time something was changed at the base level. Now that process takes minutes.
August 01, 2022

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Martin Davila | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my organization, Adaptive Insights is used by managers only and some other workers at the second level. The only issue we currently have is that the data is uploaded manually, therefore, the other users don’t have the information updated real time.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Workday is a wonderful product that is very intuitive for the end user and for core HCM. Adaptive, Workforce Planning, Recruiting is where Workday falls down. What it does, and it does it well, is truly capacity planning, top-down, and not true Strategic Workforce Planning as described by the ISO standard or those organizations who excel at it. It can be modified to do those things with the use of a data lake and additional fulfillment modeling code. However, it still would struggle to fully integrate procurement (contingent labor and SOW labor), Industry X.O, Future Workforce, and external econometric data into the models.
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