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Workday Adaptive Planning

Overview

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.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://forms.workday.com/en…

Offerings

  • 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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Attribute Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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We are using Adaptive as our system of record planning and reporting application. The FP&A team is the primary editor of information, but read-only information is widely consumed across the org.
  • Excellent documentation with articles and videos.
  • Strong implementations network of consultants.
  • Accessible staff for Q&A (like formulas Friday and other weekly sessions).
  • Being cloud only, occasionally the model may be slow to load or update.
  • Certain features like user assigned sheets are edit only or no access (no read-only access).
  • Dimension level security is coming in a future release (Fall 2019).
  • Cannot have multiple security profiles per user (one profile per account).
Adaptive is great for lining up multiple version (variance analysis) and a nice mix of structure and flexibility. We still maintain some more complex models outside of the system in Excel and application scripts like cohort models.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
74%
7.4
Long-term financial planning
70%
7.0
Financial budgeting
80%
8.0
Forecasting
80%
8.0
Scenario modeling
50%
5.0
Management reporting
90%
9.0
Consolidation and Close (6)
63.33333333333333%
6.3
Financial data consolidation
80%
8.0
Multi-currency management
80%
8.0
Intercompany Eliminations
N/A
N/A
Minority Ownership
50%
5.0
Local and consolidated reporting
80%
8.0
Detailed Audit Trails
90%
9.0
Financial Reporting and Compliance (4)
92.5%
9.3
Financial Statement Reporting
90%
9.0
Management Reporting
90%
9.0
Excel-based Reporting
100%
10.0
Automated board and financial reporting
90%
9.0
Analytics and Reporting (6)
46.66666666666667%
4.7
Personalized dashboards
100%
10.0
Color-coded scorecards
90%
9.0
KPIs
90%
9.0
Cost and profitability analysis
N/A
N/A
Key Performance Indicator setting
N/A
N/A
Benchmarking with external data
N/A
N/A
Integration (3)
90%
9.0
Flat file integration
90%
9.0
Excel data integration
90%
9.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
90%
9.0
BI Standard Reporting
N/A
N/A
Ad-hoc Reporting
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling
N/A
N/A
Data Discovery and Visualization
N/A
N/A
Access Control and Security
N/A
N/A
Mobile Capabilities
N/A
N/A
  • Reduced our FTE needs by two.
  • Instilled trust in the numbers across the org by providing a highly available, cloud-based access to the system. No more emailing reports.
Both increased the speed to report and model as well as the accuracy. The major lift is getting the model set up in the first place. The maintenance of the model is relatively straightforward thereafter.
For non admins, the experience is fairly similar to Excel. The formula builder and documentation makes it easy for power users.
Adaptive stood out because it seemed on the easier end to implement and has a wide customer base (so it is easier to hire people who have used the system before). The total cost of ownership was competitive and scales with the number of seats.
50
Broad use in Finance and Accounting. Executive and P&L owners consume information via reports and dashboards.
4
3 person FP&A team and 1 business systems person.
  • Management reporting
  • Long range planning
  • Budgeting
  • Headcount reporting
  • Attrition reporting
  • Sales planning model
  • Adhoc modeling
  • Distributed planning
  • Headcount management
We will evaluate other tools that are newer but will likely renew.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
The product feature set needed to uplevel our prior Excel models.
We would evaluate other newer tools on the market that are aimed at SMB orgs.
  • Third-party professional services
Alight Carlson
No
Change management was minimal
Clean chart of accounts and dimension structure is key for a smooth transition of accounting and operational data into the system.
  • Currency conversion
  • Choosing sheet types
  • Learning syntax of new system
Planning is key. And, it is very important to think about the system you want, not just a porting over of a legacy model/process.
  • Online Training
Had both synchronous and asynchronous content. This allowed our users to learn according to the styles that fit their personality the best.
The right amount of structure for us. It comes as a blank database so it is very customizable, almost to its fault.
Try and build for the new system and not recreate the Excel models that you already have.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
We added our logo and custom color palette.
No - we have not done any custom code
Amazing support. Very responsive and quick to resolve. There is also a strong network of consultants.
No we didn’t. It wasn’t an option at our renewal.
No
We recently needed urgent help with a model restore and the team resolved in the same day.
  • Reporting
  • Integration set up
  • Permissions
  • Actualizing data
  • Provisioning accounts
  • Changes to the level structure
No
I don’t foresee us outgrowing this tool at any point in time.
Their support downtime can be inconvenient. About 1 hour per week.
  • Salesforce
  • Workday
  • AWS
Two way connections for the CRM which is great. It was moderate lift to get set up and relatively easy to maintain.
They have good native and API based connections so you aren’t limited by native connections.
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
The best integration provider we’ve seen in the planning tool market. Great mapping interface.
Have the ability to manage connections without IT involvement.
Being part of the Workday company now has been frustrating with the higher prices and relentless cross selling.
Support and sales are very responsive.
This is now available in house at Workday which is convenient.
Price by license count.
Good read only seat access
Yes
No disruption through any of their semi annual upgrades.
  • Expanded feature set.
  • They don’t announce in advance
No
No
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