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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Amy Kee, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive has honestly made me and my role indispensable. I am generally the only one in my organization trained and comfortable enough with it to be able to make changes easily. And, management is very pleased with the quick and painless results we are able to get from Adaptive.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights helped us to make budget changes faster. In the past, if a change was made in one department, it took some time to run the changes through all budgeting schedules. Data in Adaptive Insights is connected so a quick change flows through the system. This also makes it more accurate and reliable, as it's very easy to make a mistake if you are manually making a change in multiple schedules.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights has allowed us to shave headcount in our FP&A department and given us much more time to think about the soundness of our forecast processes, rather than spending time on the raw math and the consolidation of numbers. I have far more confidence in the documents I get from my team when I know they're coming out of Adaptive Insights.
January 30, 2018

Adaptive Admin Review

Zach Miles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Essentially, Adaptive has reduced the overtime spent on checking the quality of submitted data, monthly / quarterly reporting and any special requests from upper management. With Adaptive, I now have time to examine the areas where we need the most improvement. Instead of looking at our business through the rear-view mirror, we can now focus on where our business is headed.
January 18, 2018

Great tool

Scott Clapton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
More time for strategic analysis, less time on compiling month end reports, and much less time on compiling and creating annual budget spreadsheets. Has allowed us to implement monthly rolling forecasts.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suite has allowed me to spend more time analyzing our financial results as opposed to creating the reporting. Our dashboards are still a work in progress but I expect even greater strategic information to be garnered using Discovery.
Imran Mohammad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall, avoiding building financial models from scratch is a huge time saver. Having the stability of Adaptive to do planning without having to update the models year after year and then not having to worry about formula errors is great.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Significantly more time for strategic work as the budget and forecasting cycle is shorter now. Less time spent on budgets, more time on analysis and what if scenarios. More value-add analysis than playing around with Excel. It should be a no-brainer for any finance individual to make the decision to use this product. The ROI is so easy. Spend money on Adaptive or spend hours playing around with Excel. The payback comes in the finance teams efficiency and quicker more accurate information to executives for decision making.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My role is the admin of Adaptive Suite, as well as reviewing month-end reporting and compiling the forecast. Adaptive has enabled me to build a more sophisticated model compared to the Excel model that we used previously. I spend less time checking that my sums are correct, that changes in one part of the model have flowed through correctly to other parts of the model, and that I have the most recent Excel model. In this way, I am able to spend more time on value-add activities, as well as making sure that the forecast is as realistic as possible. I have also been able to design new reports and build out new parts of the model to address different business problems.
November 10, 2017

Adaptive Suite Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I can't say that it's provided more time to be more efficient or effective in other planning areas. We're using the tool in a basic way to get a task or process completed but are not using it in an expanded manner to reap other benefits that it is capable of providing.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suite has overall been beneficial to my role. The user interface could be more friendly and aesthetically pleasing but for the most part, it does its job. I know where to go to find the reports I need and export with ease. There's never been errors and I trust the information I am given via Adaptive.
Jennifer Summitt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Migrating from Essbase to the Adaptive Suite has transformed my role. I can create very detailed budgets/forecasts, easily perform flux/variance analyses and budget managers now have the ability to run their own budget/forecast vs actual reports at month/quarter end. As a result of the improved efficiency, I can focus my efforts on analyzing results, improving forecast accuracy and creating more meaningful forecast/board decks for our CFO.
Bryan Schmidt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used to have 185 spreadsheets and 400 workbooks pre-Adaptive. Now I have about 10 with Adaptive. I'm able to now refocus time on analysis, helping other business managers and providing better reporting. My time is now more efficient and effective. I've been able to redeploy my time to better value added activities.
Justin Wade | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
By using Adaptive it saves my many hours per month freeing up time to look at KPI's and think more strategically about where the organization should head which previously was pushed aside due to time constraints.
Lisa VanHuystee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive has definitely improved my time for analysis. We spend less time getting data into the system because the sheets are easy to use and tailored to individual business needs which allows more time for meaningful analysis.
October 20, 2017

We love Adaptive!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive has enabled us to expand our multiple scenario planning capabilities. Prior to Adaptive most of my time was spent updating the Excel model manually. Now there is real value add with Adaptive since we can update quickly and see trends easily. Adaptive has enabled business partners to become active and consistent contributors to the planning process versus the old model of participating in an annual budget and quarterly forecasts.
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