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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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Justin Ballesteros | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive is an excellent tool in creating dynamic models for budgets and forecasts that can connect directly to our financials.
  • The most powerful tool of Adaptive is the ability to handle complex calculations behind the scenes while mupltiple users can access our instance and see the results in real-time.
  • Adaptive Insights could improve it's user training by offering more video instructions that our included in customer subscriptions.
  • The Office Connect feature is a great tool for working with financial data in Excel. I believe this will be an area to focus on improvement as many of their competitors have better functionality with pulling and drilling into data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive eliminates the need for Excel sheets for budgets.
  • Adaptive uses the cloud to share similar data and have data updated simultaneously, where with spreadsheets you might have to wait for someone to enter data into a spreadsheet or someone manually copy data into a master file. Adaptive becomes the master file.
  • It helps store history quite well when wanting to compare things from previous periods or to look at trends.
  • When looking at totals on average selling prices, the sheet tries to average all of the selling prices instead of calculating total sales dollar and volume.
June 09, 2022

Great Product

Juljan Hebibasi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive allows me to build department-specific models driven by that department KPI's
  • OfficeConnect is remarkable
  • All modeling we did in excel will be done through Adaptive
  • Because of the volume of models (user sheets), the ability to place models in folders based on the purpose or function would be helpful. That function does not exist so we have a long list of models and searching for the one we need is not efficient
  • Better documentation and training related to advanced features in the system. We would like to enhance our modeling and make it more efficient but can't determine if what we want to be done can be done.
  • Allowing GL accounts to link to more models we are an improvement. There is a limit on how many models you can link to a GL account. Because we use Adaptive for all our modeling, we have reached the capacity and had to develop workarounds.
January 09, 2022

Finance

Fidel Botchway | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Budget management
  • Expense tracking
  • Finance management
  • There should be a seamless integration between the accounting and the budget allocated.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cloud Native
  • Intuitive
  • Flexible
  • Easy to adapt
  • Adding additional departments/regions after implementation is a pain
  • I don't love how multi-currencies works
  • Drill down is clunky
  • Performance slows down as you grow your instance
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Robust budgeting and planning sheets that allow for customizable modeling depending on the needs and area of the business
  • Web reporting out of Workday Adaptive Planning is great and is very user friendly
  • Integrations into different ERP systems, especially Workday
  • The Integration between Workday Adaptive Planning and NetSuite is difficult to get up and running. It functions well but is more complicated to set up than other ERPs.
  • Creation of sheets and normal maintenance is easy to use but can be a very complex process for those unfamiliar with how Workday Adaptive Planning works. Training is a must!
  • Lacking functionality in automating the multi-currency conversion process
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to create customizable reports based on employee requirements.
  • Simple and ergonomic interface that allows easy location of each tool, all in a single view.
  • Each employee can get their expense summary and based on this do better resource planning.
  • Real-time cost and expense planning.
  • Ability to break down all monetary movements generated in the company.
  • Allows us to create cost scenarios where we can identify factors that may affect us in the future.
  • It is not possible to copy items between tabs, causing obstacles in the work.
  • Reports should be more complete and customizable.
  • It is complicated to import spreadsheet files without having to make modifications beforehand.
James Egan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • One stop shop for employee and employer information.
  • Ability to ask for, view and give colleague feedback.
  • Ease of use, easy to navigate.
  • Easy to download important documents.
  • Some overlap between areas can be confusing for a new user.
  • Logging on from a new device can be a bit fiddly.
  • At first the time off scheduler can be a bit confusing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Ease of use
  • User friendly
  • Financial modeling
  • Budgeting
  • System updates completed during budget season. This causes issues every year for us.
  • The system does not handle multiple exchange rates very well. This causes issues for the equity section of our balance sheet.
Krishna Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • I like the flexibility to create different sheets
  • I like the flexibility to create different dashboards
  • I like the flexibility to create reports
  • You can connect any system using integration
  • Easy to adapt and learn
  • cost effective
  • More you can focus on process then tool
  • I am completely satisfied that this tool can be used with either the smallest or largest organizations (yes, it's that good). as I worked on many other tool
  • the tree structure makes it very difficult to scroll through report
  • integrations between other system need to be streamline
Marvin Hartsfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Organizes a large amount of data in a very accessible way.
  • Easy to change or modify formulas
  • Easy to learn and implement.
  • Formatting and display options for dashboards are limited.
  • Scenario planning is hard to carry from one version to the next.
  • Reporting has limited formatting options.
Tony Phan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • All in one portal related to HR details that you need to know in your organization.
  • Integrated goal/development feature that will help you in your career.
  • Requesting annual leave is extremely easy, no more emails requesting leaves.
  • Sometimes a lot of functions causing confusion, might need to set guide/help card for new employees to get used to.
April 16, 2021

Outsanding Solution!

Brad MacDonald | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Overall structure of the model is both powerful and simple. Accounts and levels (legal entities/cost centers) drive the overall data structure. Once this principle is firmly understood, the tool is quite easy to understand from an implementation and administrative perspective.
  • Customer support is outstanding. Even though we're a small company, Adaptive doesn't recognize that (or care). I've had conversations with a variety of their team members on a number of different topics, and they are very good at supporting our company.
  • Reporting tools are world-class. It's nice that you can have a best-in-class planning system, but without equally strong reporting tools, it really doesn't mean much. Adaptive's easy-to-build reports are both flexible and powerful.
  • Administration is easy. Helpful tools to make your system secure.
  • Our biggest challenge is that more people want the tool than we (originally) budgeted for. (This really isn't a con, but be aware that if you're moving from an Excel-based manual model, people will be really hungry for this type of tool/application.)
Warren Sampson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Version Management. Adaptive lets us manage many versions/scenarios all in one platform with the robust ability to compare them to each other.
  • Processing Performance. With the Elastic Hypercube technology that was implemented a few years back, we can watch changes flow through a complex web of formulas and arrive at an answer within seconds.
  • Audit Trail. Our administrators love the ability to see and report on who made what changes when, which leads to real accountability within the organization.
  • Variable Time Roll-ups. Different entities within our company look at "years" differently, but we're only able to specify one global time roll-up for aggregating data quickly, which can lead to some confusion.
  • Administrative UI. Management of Access Rules and ordering sheets from an administrative point of view can be a bit tedious and have received less attention than other features recently.
  • List Sheet Reporting. Any sheet that is a variable list of things (like People, Capital Projects, Marketing Programs) is somewhat constrained in how it can be reported on. Adaptive provides two kinds of reports but both leave something to be desired when reporting on this kind of data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Quick ability to update formulas and see the updated outcomes
  • Very nice to have ability to have multiple versions and compare them against each other
  • Love Office Connect, total game changer for Excel users
  • Need the ability to move items within Dashboards from tabs or even other Dashboards
  • More graphing abilities within Dashboard
  • Enhance Matrix Reporting
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Ease of administration (one or two people can handle it versus a whole team plus IT)
  • Keep adding really cool features every quarter
  • Integration with Workday HCM
  • Integration and customization with ERPs, data warehouses, CRMs
  • Great customer support--very knowledgeable, efficient, friendly, and fast
  • Approachable staff--you can reach out easily to PMs and provide and get feedback
  • Office Connect became dynamic (updates of structure, drills, grouping, exclusions, etc.)
  • Data mapping feature to overlay or fix mappings from feeding sources
  • Small bugs after new releases (but always solved very fast)
  • Could use some enhancement on UI side (but they have great improvements on the roadmap)
  • Copy to or from sandbox is done via request to support; it would be great to have an automated, on-demand way by admins
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Reports: Makes beautiful, reliable, and easy to run and customize reports in Office Connect.
  • Ability to run multiple complex scenarios and then easily produce reports comparing those scenarios.
  • Salary and headcount forecasting.
  • Foreign exchange: Works ok for the income statement, but the balance sheet has been a huge challenge and still has many issues.
  • Usability for end-users: Input sections are not clear and the only way to see roll-up is by running a report in a separate section.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • New hires.
  • Personnel planning.
  • Detailed expense planning.
  • Integrated balance sheet, income statement and cashflow.
  • Allocation functionality is cumbersome since every time you want to make a change you have to recreate the allocation (i.e. if you need to add or delete a dept in the allocation).
  • Whenever we go into a saved locked version, instead of being at the top level, the system opens the next time at the dept level, even if you have never opened any sheets at that dept.
March 11, 2021

Great planning tool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Forecasting
  • Version control
  • Ease of use
  • API
  • Transactional models (i.e. performance limitations with mass data forecast models +1MM rows).
  • Management reporting allocations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Versioning/scenario analysis - It is so easy to run scenario analysis and compare live the changes - And one can preserve the data for different scenarios and can compare any number of version against each other in minutes.
  • Formulae creation is so easy - everyone can work on Adaptive as it's more or less Excel - creating new accounts and writing formulas has never been this easy.
  • Very user friendly - It's very straightforward.
  • Actuals - if the company restate the actuals - and if that version is overly in the locked version - it changes the locked version id we updated the new actuals - It would be great if there is some way to preserve the forecast version without creating a new actual version.
  • The audit trail for the forecast changes - if that can be added it will be great.
  • Personnel sheet filters - it's very time consuming that we have to make the change and save it every time- before when we use the filter we use to get to that row/cell and still could see full sheet & were able to save after doing bunch of changes but this new way makes it mandatory to save after every change, very time consuming.
Dmitry Zaichenko, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Report creation and sharing is easy and quick.
  • Planning with multiple different dimensions, attributes and timeframes can be set up and compared seamlessly.
  • Automated actuals import is well developed and allows for more analytical work and not data input.
  • It is not a true BI solution.
  • Workflow feature needs improvement.
October 13, 2020

Adaptive Insights Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is much nicer than having Excel because you don't have to worry nearly as much about breaking formulas.
  • It enables analysts and business partners to plan together by both having access to the same numbers in the same software thus reducing confusion and helping to keep everyone on the same page.
  • It helps a lot with reporting and doing analyses on budgets vs. actuals.
  • I wish that there were a way to select multiple levels when viewing sheets instead of having to build a report.
  • It would be nice if there were slightly more access controls so that different analysts could see the headcount for their groups without giving them access to the entire company's headcount data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Implementation through the 3rd party was quick, efficient, and cost-effective.
  • It's a very flexible tool and is very easily customized for our evolving needs.
  • An ability to customize standard sheet views such as fonts/size.
  • Promote and push the training before and during implementation.
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