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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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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
It's currently used by finance department for reporting purposes. Adaptive captures the data in multiple accounts and dimensions. It provides transparency in presenting the actuals/budget/forecast figures to the relevant business unit. It enables the user to identify an anomaly and drill down to the lower level dimension to investigate the root cause. It is also being used as a budget and forecasting tool with several versions across all business unit cost centres.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights (AI) is being used for budgeting and forecasting and for financial reporting. It is used across the organization. The budgeting/forecasting solution is used primarily by the treasury team and the financial reporting solution is used by the accounting team, however, all departments are encouraged to use AI to view current expectations and to see budget and actual details.
March 18, 2018

Basic Review

Ernie Leonard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Every department in the organization uses Adaptive Insights. Most of the users do budgeting and reviewing of actuals in Adaptive. It allows us to transmit the financials to each specific person without having to send individualized monthly reports.
Karen Phillips | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, I am using Adaptive Insights for our budgeting, forecasting, and variance reporting. I am working with my Adaptive support team to also begin using Adaptive for scenario planning. The reports are being used across our entire organization.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's used across the whole organisation. It's mainly used as a consolidation tool whereby our 5 operating countries (and head office in London) enter summaries from their Trial Balances, and then it is consolidated here in London. We also make limited use of the planning tools for Budgeting or Forecasts- though this is only to a limited extent.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive across the whole organization. We use it for budgeting including sales forecasting, expenses, sales commissions calculations, capital expenditure planning and various budget reporting. We also use it for our financial reporting system throughout the organization. We are starting to build out dashboard and kpi metrics.
Amy Kee, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Insights across all departments for budgeting purposes. On a monthly and sometimes daily basis, we use Adaptive for reporting purposes within our department, across other departments, and for external reporting purposes. We also use Adaptive within our department for forecasting. Adaptive allows us to make changes and communicate results of those changes quickly to employees, board members and investors.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is being used by our organization as the source of financial truth for FP&A. We constructed our budget in Adaptive Insights, are using it for rolling forecasts, and are using it as the source system for investor and management financial reporting.
January 30, 2018

Adaptive Admin Review

Zach Miles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Titan International, Inc. primarily uses the Adaptive Planning module to consolidate Actuals and Planning versions into a single source environment. Titan also gathers metric data, detailed sales information, and capital spending projects through various inputs and data loads. With the data housed in Adaptive, Titan has the ability to populate various monthly/quarterly reports, packs, and presentations using a single tool. Titan has 50+ locations around the world and every location uses Adaptive Planning.

One of Titan's weakest areas is technology (multiple outdated ERP systems). As Titan is currently implementing a worldwide Cloud ERP system, Adaptive has functioned as the "glue" for data gathering and collaboration (instead of Microsoft Excel).

Georgeta Elena Precup, CPA,CGMA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Adaptive Suite across the entire company. We have a very complex structure with over 100 P&Ls. Adaptive allows for transparency and the flow of data. We use Adaptive for forecasting, budgeting, analysis, and reporting.
Meghan Gardiner, CPA, CA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as our main budget/forecasting model within the FP&A team and executives have read-only access to pull up monthly financial results for their respective departments. It helps us more reliably budget and forecast, eliminating the need for a large Excel model, which is prone to user error and can get difficult to maintain as it gets bigger and more robust. It also allows us to perform quick forecast changes or sensitivity analysis, usually only requiring a change in an assumption or input. This becomes very useful during quarter end reporting where changes are required at the last minute.
January 18, 2018

Great tool

Scott Clapton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Used by entire finance department as well as operational management. It addresses the problem of analysing data across our multiple legal entities, enabling us to gain insights and view data across a variety of different contexts.
Richard Danis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DCC uses Adaptive Insights for planning and budget across 40 business units. Those 40 business units are geographically dispersed across Canada. Adaptive Insights has allowed us to transform our planning and budgeting from an Excel model that required a lot of maintenance to an easy to use format user have adoption easily. It has also shortened the time it takes to do monthly financial reporting. The additional benefit is the dashboard capability that we didn't have before.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Adaptive Suite across the whole organization, for budgeting and forecasting, as well as reporting. We have created a full P&L and balance sheet, and detailed revenue and expense models for planning. Our company also uses Office Connect as well as Discovery and Adaptive Integration.

Adaptive Planning allows our organization to plan a full, detailed, bottoms up budget once a year and easily make updates during quarterly forecasting. We are able to quickly view our key metrics and trends and make decisions faster and more accurately. Multiple users are able to access the system at one time and tight SOX controls allow us the flexibility in setting up security access.
Imran Mohammad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is being used across the whole organization for our planning and forecasting processes. We have over 40 users that actively use the system and engage in the planning process. The immediate consolidation of planning input into reports and seeing the results is the biggest benefit that the organization receives from using Adaptive. From a finance perspective, the ease of modeling, scenario and version control, and ad hoc analysis are big benefits.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Suite as our primary budgeting and forecasting tool. The Suite is managed by the Finance team but the business owners have access to view reports, and update their budgets and forecasts. We were using Excel spreadsheets prior to implementing the tool, and we found that the spreadsheets were not scalable, were prone to errors, and it was difficult to build the sophistication that we needed in our forecasting. We are in high-growth mode and needed more agility with our planning.
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