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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is better than their competitors because they have better "best practices" implemented, the product has a great interface, it has structure so your model doesn't get too messy, and it works well. It also has great scenario planning, Excel reporting functions, and allows for multiple users to be in the system.
Ben Balch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When we were evaluating the software solutions we wanted:
1) A product that would efficiently consolidate our annual budget.
2) Something that would be easily adopted by the entire company.
3) Had built-in audit trails.
4) Had robust reporting capabilities.
5) Had the ability to easily create different scenarios.

Adaptive Insights addressed all of our needs
Alex Humble | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am not as well informed on the competition to Adaptive; however, many financial experts that I have talked to within the industry rave about the software. A few team members of mine recently left to work for different companies and have complained to us that the software at their new positions is miles behind Adaptive. The ease of the use and capability Adaptive possesses really distinguishes it from the competition.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
NetSuite and Adaptive go well together because it automatically pulls the data into Adaptive. You can then manipulate the data once it's in NetSuite. Management reports and Dashboards are automatically updated based on the new data that is pulled in. This saves alot of time from manually pulling data from the ERP into Excel.
October 22, 2018

Adaptive Insights

Brian Kyslinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adaptive provided the best solution for the price given how we wanted to deploy the solution. For our size business they appear to the be best in class solution. Host Analytics appeared to provide the same functionality, but was for a more distributed budgeting and forecasting environment than we use now or for the foreseeable future. Hyperion was far to expensive to for us to prove out an ROI.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive blows away Hyperion from an ease of use, functionality and performance standpoint. The reason we selected Adaptive initially was the flexibility of the tool (sheets), going from manual forecasts to a web based tool and being able to build assumptions into our budget and forecasting processes. Also, the cost of Adaptive licenses provided significant savings when compared to the annual fees that we paid Oracle for use and support of their system.
Denise Lewis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For us, it came down to Adaptive Insights and Host Analytics. The benefits seemed very comparable. We ultimately decided on Adaptive Insights because it cost less to implement and the time to implement was less compared to Host Analytics. We are VERY happy with our decision to go with Adaptive Insights.
September 20, 2018

The efficiency of Adaptive

Steve Paul, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We evaluated Oracle, Host Analytics, and Tagetik. Adaptive had a local team based in Chicago and seemed to fit our sweet spot in terms of the size of their company and the size of our company. The sales team pitched the product very well.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive was easier for me to learn than the competitor product. The other product requires custom development, which takes time. However, once up and running it is easier to do analytics with less steps by using more formulas. The caveat is that it requires considerable amount of time to learn how to use the other product.
March 23, 2018

Ahead of the curve.

Andy Clifton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To be honest - Host Analytics seemed relatively similar to Adaptive. However, Adaptive was our number one choice because:

- The Adaptive suite looked a lot better. It seemed smarter and "sharper" and the data visualisation was better.
- The people from Adaptive throughout the selection process were more helpful and insightful. This was confirmed throughout the implementation where we had really excellent service and help from Adaptive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Profitstars Budget Manager
We have used Profitstars Budget Manager. I understand that it has been somewhat upgraded, however, at the time it was very slow, did not provide a full financial statement, on import/export functionality, no audit trail. Basically totally inadequate, just one step up from Excel which has the boundary control and audit issues that make Excel unworkable.
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