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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting - it's easy to use and very easy to customize for different info various stakeholders may need.
  • Automating budget process based on various formulas, drivers, etc.
  • Ease of building scenarios and comparing scenarios through reporting.
  • Org structure - have a field for a code and a name separately, similarly to how the GL accounts work - this will eliminate the need for mapping.
  • Ability to auto sync org structure info from outside GL software.
December 16, 2016

Adaptive Suite Review

W. Stephens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 1 - Click reporting. Either Matrix reporting or Office connect are the choices and both are great. Just having the ability to roll dates forward and run reporting packages on a monthly basis alone is something most analyst dream of, Adaptive is for real.
  • Multiple connectors. We not only have our Oracle connect pulling trial balance data on demand but we also have ADP, and Transaction connectors in place. Having all of these connectors in place save untold amounts of time and allows you to develope some really strong processes to make monthly close and planning a breeze.
  • Attributes and Dimensions: tagging your data will make life easier but too many will make it tough. Be smart but most certainly use them, it's an important component of analysis but segmenting the business in ways that make analysis more simple is at your finger tips. You just have to develop a plan of action and put it into place.
  • Model Sheets are complicated.
  • Some parts of the suite are not very intuitive, like formulas. It takes work.
  • It would be nice to have 2 Actuals versions. Just a thought.
December 01, 2016

Adaptive Suite Review

Jose L. Velez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Tying into our existing GL software
  • Ability to work from any device
  • Faster report generation
  • Reporting needs work
  • Better support for custom formulas
  • More videos and documentation
August 15, 2016

Great Product

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The drag and drop report builder is very user friendly and flexible.
  • The ability to add Office Connect and use Microsoft Office products as an extension of Adaptive in order to build professional reports in real time is great!
  • The implementation was extremely smooth.
  • Adaptive is currently testing an Excel interface for their sheets. Looking forward to having this as a tool.
Byron Kanaley, CPA MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Great User Interface .....Easy for non-accounting people to use.
  • Reporting - The reporting is primarily drag and drop with various attributes to allow for multiple views of data with the same template.
  • Analysis - The addition of Adaptive Discovery add to the abiliity to analyze financial and operational data.
  • Integration - Adaptive Planning integration includes GL balances, transaction detail and non GL sources such as Salesforce and Payroll data
  • The consolidation module works well but will need to handle more complexity at the enterprise level.
  • The process and workflow modules continue to develop.
  • The integration modules continue to add more operations source data.
May 23, 2016

Adaptive Insights

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Ease of implementation
  • Ease of use
  • Easily maintained
  • Cutting edge
  • Improves accuracy and timeliness of the planning process
  • We are happy with our selection
Scott Kirk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data Integration- Adaptive integrates data from numerous sources extremely well.
  • Ease of Use- the user interface is simple to use and easy to understand and intuit.
  • Scalability - Adaptive is easy to set up to scale for growth.
  • Learning curve- although the user interface is simple and easy to use, there is still a small learning curve for tips and tricks for using Adaptive. This is the only small downside - as it is easy to get up to speed.
  • Sheet functionality- Adaptive is a great and powerful product; however, there are a few small things that feel slightly unfinished with the ways that sheets work.
  • Report customization - There is a built-in report builder that is very basic. The customizations available in the report builder are limited. I know that Adaptive plans on releasing a revamped report builder later this year, so this might fix this issue. The other work-around is to use their Office Connect product to bring data into Excel and create final reports in Excel.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive is very easy to use for all types of users. This enables wide spread adoption.
  • With the use of OfficeConnect, Adaptive allows for a much quicker close reporting. We are able to provide very detailed reports within 24 hours of accounting close.
  • Adaptive makes researching and managing spend much easier. The business is easily able to access their spend transactions on their own without having to disrupt the finance or accounting teams.
  • I wish it were easy to create dashboards within the tool.
Greg Clarke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
  • Adaptive is methodology agnostic. As strategic imperatives change from growth to operational efficiency users can change their planning approach from driver based, top down planning to bottom up, zero based or just build on prior periods with rolling forecasts and more.
  • Adaptive is collaborative and enterprise class. Enterprises can engage all users to work together in real time to build more effective plans where ones outputs are drivers to others. Yet all have visibility over where the numbers originate with drill through and drill to transaction for explaining when plans are not achieved. And all can see who changed what, when with an audit trail.
  • Adaptive reporting is fabulous.The quality of Adaptive reports is fantastic. Adaptive Reporting empowers users to streamline board quality report pack production and other reporting needs. Users can self serve for reporting. Users can annotate reports. Reporting integrates with MS Office, PDF and other applications.
  • Adaptive Discovery dashboards are nice but they are not a Business Intelligence solution.The dashboards provide users with very attractive dashboards and charts but they only enable cube based hierarchical drill. They do not enable robust, sophisticated, multi-dimensional analytics the way modern BI tools do.
  • Budget Adjustments - Adaptive Consolidation provides great functionality for entering journals. It would be nice to have this sort of capability available for processing budget adjustments especially for the public sector.
  • Email Alerts - Whilst some email alerts are enabled it would be nice if more types were added like out of tolerance alerts
Aaron Itczak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ability to create/customize dashboards.
  • The ability to manipulate dials.
  • The ability to customize reports to view/compare data.
  • There was a big learning curve for me at the beginning, and I feel I am pretty tech savvy. Making navigation easier/more intuitive would be helpful.
Brian Lawrence, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customization - ability to budget based on various drivers and to report on those.
  • Reporting - the report writer within Adaptive Suite is very powerful and allows you to create and adapt the reports to everyone's analytical needs,
  • Support - both the implementation teams and support are great with Adaptive Suite.
  • Learning Curve - there is a steep learning curve, at least for the administrators of the system. Learning how it works and how to create and customize accounts/models/etc takes some time and dedication, but is worth it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The product is very intuitive
  • We were able to customize our instance/installation to meet our specific needs
  • Customer support is very responsive
  • Product enhancements are happening regularly (e.g. the addition of level attributes to Office Connect)
  • Lacks the ability to have multiple organization structures (this would be helpful for reporting in multiple years, when a re-org happens, etc)
  • For our company, the licensing cost is somewhat prohibitive to roll out to all our locations managers (e.g. 200 additional users)
  • I would like to see drag-and-drop capabilities in lists (e.g. org structure, dimensions, level attributes), instead of clicking an up/down arrow
David Dunkley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Accessibility. The tool is accessible to all of our budget owners around the world because it is on the cloud.
  • Easy enough to use. Once we built out the infrastructure, the users had no problems going in and putting in their budgets.
  • Version! I love being able to make as many versions of the budget as I need with a push of the button.
  • Currencies. I have departments that have individuals from different parts of the world that budget their part or at least their compensation in a different currency. I had to create separate departments for those individuals because you could have multiple currencies in the same department.
  • At the end of the day I need to produce an income statement the way board members look at financials. Meaning grouping things into Sales and Marketing, R&D, and G&A. It should be easier for existing functionality to have an IS template that builds out that way without having to go and custom create it and then maintain that custom report with every change.
  • There are some complexities in the implementation that are probably unavoidable while building the infrastructure. A good implementation team helps you get through it though. Problem is however, in the future, if you make any significant changes you may be purchasing additional hours.
Lenny Wu, MBA, MA, CPA, CGA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Consolidate departmental budgets in a matter of seconds.
  • Maintain version control.
  • Control user access to different BUs and budgeting sheets.
  • My biggest pet peeve is that formula setup is a challenge. It would be ideal if formulas can be uploaded to the system rather than manually set up for all 100s accounts.
December 23, 2015

Adaptive Insights Works!

Bob Katz, CMA, CFM, CFP® | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Flexibility - can address many different types of business problems. Haven't found a business model that can't be replicated or improved using Adaptive.
  • Comprehensiveness - includes off the shelf functionality to handle varying requirements but also has integrated solutions for BI, consolidations, reporting and data integration as well.
  • Support - Very helpful service including orientation, training and technical support.
  • Cost - Lower operating cost than most Enterprise class applications with lower cost of ownership.
  • Creating metadata (accounts, departments) framework for the CPM could be made easier with an up-to-date UI/UX.
  • List structures to address very large data sets as shown in a modeled sheet could be enhanced.
  • More flexibility to display varying time periods on screen as well as multiple versions on the same screen.
Thom Keyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I believe that Adaptive's OfficeConnect tool is a leap forward. I can pull data and create reports right in Excel rather than using the web and exporting.
  • With Adaptive I have been able to move the once-per-year budget process to a monthly forecast process. I would have been unable to accomplish this with Adaptive's planning tool.
  • The ease of the system and fairly straight-forward UI has enable quick ramping of new users. Making adoption and use of the system more widely utilized and accepted.
  • OfficeConnect is a great tool providing an easy way to access the system data. However, it is a pull-only tool. I would love a connection to push and pull data, like Hyperion Planning has.
  • One concern I have is system upgrade and maintenance. I feel like I have to use the Adaptive Consultant a little too often to accomplish upgrades or large changes to the model or system. There is enough similarity to Excel and/or VBA coding that an power Excel user can accomplish most things but there are a few things that I feel I am forced to use a consultant for to get right. However, that may be my lack of knowledge or unwillingness to try and learn everything.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Real time changes.
  • No need to distribute countless Excel budget templates to budget owners.
  • All budget owners are able to view supporting information to their budget values.
  • I still find Discovery hard to understand.
  • We have learned a lot about saving reports to our personal folders but a few got lost along the way.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive Suite does a great job of consolidating infomation.
  • Adaptive Reporting is an excellent tool to get real time results to users.
  • Navigation is easy and very intuitive. This made the training of 80 users pretty easy.
  • I would like to see a little more customization in the Adaptive reporting tool.
  • Java is a little troublesome, but it's on the docket to remove from the software.
Harry Vasels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Budgeting because of it's flexibility
  • Forecasting in different areas of the business because it allows input from our operating personnel
  • "What if" scenarios that allow us to look at the impact of making changes within the organization
  • It imports the data to Excel but it would be nice if it was a bit more flexible in converting it's formulas to Excel formulas
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Integration into our other software
  • Flexibility in budgeting (similar to Excel)
  • Ability to give specific permissions.
  • Out of the box formatting reports
  • Linking sheets within the application to automate manual processes
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive is extremely user friendly. We implemented the first phase in just six weeks and rolled it out to budget managers with a one hour webinar. People took to it immediately and needed very little support from finance to complete their budgets.
  • Adaptive is very flexible. My company was recently acquired, so there have been a huge number of changes in the ways we look at our financials under the guidance of the new company. Adaptive has eased the transition considerably because we were able to adjust the reporting and rollups very quickly, while still maintaining the detailed assumptions underlying the plan.
  • One of my favorite things about Adaptive is that finance can maintain it ourselves. The logic of the system is very intuitive, and with the cloud-based architecture, we don't need IT support to make changes to the functionality of the system.
  • Our forecasting and budgeting has become far more accurate with this system. There are less errors, as all of the data is housed in one place, and we don't have the version control issues we did with Excel.
  • For the most part, when there have been updates to Adaptive, we haven't had issues. But there were a few bugs in the last updates that required work-around solutions. I know this is normal with software, but I got spoiled with Adaptive not having problems before.
  • Some of the back end logic, while generally easy to use and figure out, can be cumbersome to update. There are a lot of manual tweaks that have to happen - I wish that some of the items could be updated with load files.
  • We have a working model that is serving us well, but I wish Adaptive had better training to help us take the system to the next level.
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