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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 Trial
  • 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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Amy Kee, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive allows you to be very precise. Accuracy is good but is still very dependent upon the information you put in. The more you automate things, the better. Accuracy is lost when overrides or manual inputs are used. Adaptive definitely helps with faster reporting and analysis. Ad hoc reporting is where we have seen the fastest and most beneficial results.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have implemented management reporting through OfficeConnect to create polished, updatable financial close packages - we anticipate using many more features going forward, but are not there yet in our implementation cycle.
January 30, 2018

Adaptive Admin Review

Zach Miles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Adaptive Suite has allowed us to "go the extra mile" in terms of reporting. Before Adaptive, our company could only populate high level, quarterly reports using Excel. The time involved was also extensive due to multiple versions of everything. Now that Adaptive has paved the way towards more standardization and "Push Button", we have the time to construct more in-depth and automatic reporting and analysis functions.
Meghan Gardiner, CPA, CA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Faster reporting cycles for sure. We are able to make last minute forecast changes on a whim with little effort, compared to hours needed in Excel. Templates are all set up with results available with a click of a button.
January 18, 2018

Great tool

Scott Clapton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Reporting has become more standardised, and allows users to self-serve results, rather than wait for someone from finance to send them results.

Reporting has become much more user driven.

Richard Danis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

The data quality and accuracy has been improved as part of the report because we are not entering data manually into spreadsheets for reporting. Data is linked to Adaptive Insights which also makes much faster to prepare the financial reports for the organization.

Dashboards are just starting to be used but the possibilities are really exciting.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suite has definitely improved the data quality and accuracy of our reporting. Since the human element of sharing spreadsheets has gone away, reports are both faster and more accurate. The intuitive dashboards as well as the ability to create ad hoc reports on the fly is a definite advantage to my analysis.
Imran Mohammad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

The integrity of the data has greatly improved. The quality and accuracy of how the data is handled, stored, and displayed are key strengths. The turnaround time to make changes while modeling is amazing.

Communication has improved a lot as well. The suite makes it easy to for people to access, and view their results in a real-time basis.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe i have responded to this previously. We now do a rolling 12 month forecast. What if scenarios are run at will based on scenarios as they occur due to the ease of use. Month end reporting times have reduced significantly. As mentioned before, what if analysis now happens at the board level as the need occurs due to the ease of use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have seen faster and more responsive what-if analysis. There is definitely an increase in accuracy and data quality as well as more sophistication to the forecast model. We are able to analyze the actuals to see what drivers are projecting accurate forecasts and which drivers need further analysis. This has made our model richer as well as more accurate.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Data quality and accuracy has been better. It's easy to pull the reports from Adaptive Suite than Quickbooks. Our external Accounting team seems to like using it for financial reporting. Overall, Adaptive Suite has been a good place to keep our financials and to trust that we are pulling the right information.
Nicholas Amoroso, CPA MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive has improved data quality, accuracy and the overall reporting of financial results on a monthly basis. Without question, the budgeting and forecasting cycles have improved for everyone involved. No more wasted time collecting Excel files that may have errors in them.
Jennifer Summitt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When going through due-diligence last summer, there were numerous ad-hoc data requests that were all time-sensitive. My colleague and I were able to slice and dice the actuals/forecast/plan data to meet every reporting requirement. Adaptive OfficeConnect for Excel was very powerful and enabled my FP&A colleague and I to build reports and adapt existing reports very quickly; we didn't have to rely on anyone from our IT division or from our Accounting team to assist us.
Bryan Schmidt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Single source of truth. Pre-Adaptive I might have had 2-3 excel spreadsheets and difficult to determine which was the correct spreadsheets. Now, all the data resides within Adaptive.

Dashboards. No dashboards pre-Adaptive. Now the dashboards provide a quick summary of the key numbers and metrics.

Response time. Ability to report quicker and more accurately. The time to review the product in final form used to take 2 people 16 hours combined. That time to review has been reduced to 1 person for 2 hours.
Justin Wade | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive has enabled a quick and accurate monthly generation of current year or multi-year forecast. All forecasts are updated immediately once actuals are integrated.
Lisa VanHuystee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive certainly allows for quick reporting. Once reports are published you click on the report make your selections and the data is display quickly. It is very easy to write reports for almost any situation, Variance analysis, management reporting, CEO and CFO summary reports are all examples of reporting I utilizing in Adaptive.
October 20, 2017

We love Adaptive!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive reporting capabilities have enabled us to provide timely and accurate feedback to all business partners. Since implementing Adaptive, business partner forecast participation has increased. Before Adaptive everything was based in Excel and it was very difficult to update monthly management reports. Adaptive reporting has also made the creation of board meeting presentations dramatically more efficient.
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