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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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November 10, 2017

Adaptive Suite Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently limit the use of Adaptive to the finance team and it's being used strictly for budgeting and forecasting purposes. The scope of our original implementation has expanded greatly which caused us to perform a rebuild of the solution approximately 1 year ago.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suite is used by our Finance team as well as our external Accounting team. We primarily use Adaptive to model and plan. It is very helpful to have a central place where we can pull the latest financials, in various scenarios. It helps us budget and to keep track of how the company is performing.
Nicholas Amoroso, CPA MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive for all of our budgeting and quarterly forecasting across the entire company. In addition we use it for all of our monthly financial reporting at the senior leadership and department levels. It has solved the problem of consolidating spreadsheet files every time we do the annual budget or a new forecast, cutting out errors and greatly simplifying the process in general.
Jimmy Roybal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Suite for all of our budgeting, forecasting, and reporting needs. All business unit owners have access to both Adaptive Planning and Discovery. This product addresses all of our planning, BOD reporting and IR decks as well.
Jennifer Summitt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Planning to forecast personnel, capital, and operating expenses. We use a product by Adaptive called OfficeConnect as our primary reporting tool in FP&A. We import actuals data from our Oracle GL into Adaptive on a daily basis (or more frequently as needed) and we produce P&L reports for our management team that contain historical results and projections. The software is used by approximately 50 people at my company.
Bryan Schmidt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is used by all budget managers across UNITE HERE HEALTH. One budget system for all entities and all managers. Before Adaptive, I personally used 185 spreadsheets and 400 workbooks. Adaptive has allowed for greater flexibility and integrity within the budget system. I now use about 10 spreadsheets which are linked and automatically updated with Adaptive using Office Connect.
Justin Wade | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive in the Finance and Accounting Department. It's primary use use is to produce a monthly rolling forecast. We also use it for annual budget creation, actual vs. budget/forecast reporting, what-if scenarios, and resource planning. Based on it's success in Finance, we are considering rolling this out to other department leads for budgeting and resource planning.
Lisa VanHuystee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive for Budgeting, Forecasting and Long Range Planning, and Management reporting. It is used extensively across our global organization. I currently have 60 users and approximately 40 are active uses or Adaptive.
October 20, 2017

We love Adaptive!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is used across the whole organization and helps us easily analyze previous performance and model future expenses. Prior to implementing Adaptive, the company was using Excel for budgeting and forecasting - this created issues with version control and consolidation. Using Adaptive has eliminated these issues. Adaptive also makes it easy to manage levels of user access.
October 20, 2017

Adaptive works for us.

Mikel Christopherson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is used across the entire organization to deliver weekly and monthly operating results. Users include small contract managers up to Division Vice Presidents. Forecasting updates vary by contract but can be as often as monthly; the annual budget process sees heavy use across the 100 users. Our analysts work as a team to review individual contracts each month against budget and KPI's. In monthly meetings, the analysis team and operations meet to review specific results, these meetings use HTML reports in Adaptive to facilitate the reviews. Drill down capabilities in the system allow for answering questions down to the accounts payable voucher descriptions. The Office Connect tool is used each month to produce financial reports for the parent organization, board review committee, and senior management.

In some areas, we used Adaptive to collect operating data that would otherwise require emailing of files into the accounting group. This data collection then is turned into data imports into the ERP system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive across the entire organization to budget to budget for each department. In addition, we utilize the product to provide monthly budget to actual variances to the department heads. It allows all the department heads to access their budgets at anytime without the possibility of them modifying it. In addition, it cuts down on Excel formula busts and keeps a record of all budget revisions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Adaptive Suite for organizational budgeting/forecasting, as well as for life of grant reporting. The software is used across the whole organization (approximately 40 users). All users have direct access to Adaptive Suites to run monthly reports, as well as for use when they are entering budget data into the system.
Orlando Blanco | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used by the entire organization for budgeting and forecast purposes. It shows the department heads how they are trending in a live environment. The sales team also uses it to track sales to individual hospitals and OEMs. It provides them useful data and ability to create powerful reports and dashboards.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insight is used to consolidate various ERP environments to one reporting environment for the entire company. It consolidates information from many places into one place so reporting is easier. Additionally, it interfaces with our forecasting tool and communicates information to various personnel within the company.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Used across the entire organisation for the submission of actual, forecast, and budget financial results plus supplemental desired information around customers, suppliers and employees and the consolidation thereof. Consolidated and segmented reports and insights are used by the CEO and CFO and divisional managers. Also used for the submission of all associated and required financial information by operating subsidiaries to enable the corporate office to generate full IFRS compliant financial statements as required of a publicly listed company. Also used by some entities to complete full financial planning for their business.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I was a previous user/admin of Adaptive planning for about 4 years. My current company that I recently joined decided to take the plunge on a CPM system. I will be updating this review at different intervals as we go through the life cycle of using Adaptive. The main use case is to move off of spreadsheets and into a holistic "last mile of finance" approach (reporting, analysis, budgeting, and consolidation).
August 22, 2017

Great FP & A System

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suite was used mainly by the Financial Planning & Analysis department to create detailed financial projections and income statement, balance sheet and cash flow projections. It replaced a set of 22 interconnected spreadsheets and allows a much more robust financial model.
Frank Jiang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Adaptive Planning as our primary forecasting and budgeting tool, as well as for rudimentary customer level detail and cube data. It is used by the entire FPA team and allows us to work as a cohesive unit and easily deliver our budget or forecast as a single, seamless process.
Samuel Gibbs, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is only used by the finance team at my company although it can be used by the operational org as well. I just find that getting other teams to lean/use adaptive is harder in practice than theory. It is a great tool for forecasting revenue and expenses and is really great at making fast scenario-based forecasts.
Sandy Arami | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My organization uses Adaptive in our Finance department - specifically FP&A - for financial budgeting and forecasting. In my experience it is the best budgeting and forecasting system I have used. Adaptive is extremely flexible and allows you to make multiple versions of your forecast quickly, which allows you to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to create and edit a new month's forecast. It also updates in real time seamlessly for all users in an intuitive and powerful UI.
Ben Gibson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is being used across the entire company as a tool to forecast and budget monthly financial revenues and expenses. It has helped streamline our planning processes by allowing for one source of data input which in turn provides finance with one form of data output or information to build yearly financial budgets/forecasts.
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