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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is well suited to annual and rolling forecasts to aid in the budgeting and forecasting process. It is also well suited to customized financial reporting and analysis. My understanding is that AI also supports dashboards, however, we have not implemented this capability yet.
March 18, 2018

Basic Review

Ernie Leonard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have only just started using Adaptive. This is something that we are going to be using more features as time goes on. I use it to review the actuals to budget during month end close. The reporting we were able to build in the system has helped speed our review process up.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's well suited to situations where you need a low cost consolidation system. It's cheap but very effective and easy to both roll out to subsidiaries and for the subsidiaries to learn to use. It also doesn't require much in the way of ongoing support from expensive consultants.

It's less well suited for organisations who want a consolidated picture of the trial balance from their subsidiaries.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is a nice tool for pulling in data from various sources not just the ERP. We bring in payroll hours data so the operations team can easily review hours worked versus the hours planned because we have a lot of seasonal employees who are budgeted more in an hour time frame by function rather than by person specifically. We also bring in customer level data so you can drill into a customer and get to the transaction level detail when needed. Training is key. You have to keep users on it so they don't forget how to use it. It helps if you you can have some power users or analyst type people who really understand the product.
Amy Kee, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Internally, Adaptive makes budgeting and reporting amazingly simple. External reporting has been more of a challenge, as some external users of reports want more visibility into where the numbers came from.
Chip Auscavitch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The more complex the organization, the more the tool's flexibility will be apparent. It really helps you implement best practices, and makes it easy to change things on the fly. You reduce the amount of estimation, and use historical results and calculations to determine various rates.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is very well-suited to budgeting across an organization where there are multiple stakeholders in multiple locations, and when rollups are essential. One note of caution is that if you are working with data sets of very large cardinality, and have complicated revenue buildups, it is possible to strain the capacity of the underlying data cubes and calculation engines - long lags can be experienced if you work with this kind of data.
January 30, 2018

Adaptive Admin Review

Zach Miles | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Adaptive is well suited for a business that uses Microsoft Excel (like my company did) for its consolidation, planning, reporting, and analysis. Adaptive almost entirely eliminates IT's involvement in those processes so it's beneficial to any business with limited IT resources.

Adaptive is also well suited for businesses looking to adopt rolling forecasts with multiple scenario views of the future.

Georgeta Elena Precup, CPA,CGMA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The application is hosted by Adaptive, however, it is customized to the customers' needs. Based on the data you have in Adaptive, Adaptive will give you what you need. There are certain administrative areas that I wish were better, for example, I wish there was awash to set up user roles with personnel only access
Meghan Gardiner, CPA, CA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Any company looking for a sophisticated way to budget, forecast and perform monthly variance analysis is well suited for Adaptive. If you would like to analyze your products on an aggregated level or sales based on geography. Or are a SaaS company like Intelex to analyze ARR and renewals. All types of companies could benefit from letting Adaptive do the work for you.
Richard Danis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

Adaptive Insights is well suited to the planning and budgeting of employee and general and administrative expenses. You can also create powerful models for revenue with multiple dimensions for detailed planning.

The version control is easy to use and allows for the creation of multiple what-if if scenarios.

The reporting allows you to combine the multiple versions into a single report to compare versions.

Imran Mohammad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suites is the best mix and/balance for modeling, reporting, and analysis out in the market today. It offers the best of cloud-based computing, mixed with Excel-like features and the experience of the best planning and analysis models that a company can buy. The pricing is not inflated and is well balanced with the feeling of a light-weight system that is fairly agile and easy to use and intuitive.
Tom Podany | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited for spend and headcount forecasting and variance reporting / analysis. Pretty good at management reporting when coupled with Adaptive Office Connect. We download all of our actual P&L line items into Adaptive for comparing actual to forecast, including transaction detail allowing relatively easy drill down capability.

We tried to do some more complicated forecasting such as revenue and cash flow forecasting and the modeling was difficult to do in Adaptive versus doing this on spreadsheets.
November 14, 2017

Adaptive Review

Brian Macias | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive has allowed us to move away from spreadsheets and onto a single platform where users across our organization can engage, enter, and review financial information. We use Adaptive for revenue planning, personnel planning, expense planning, grant planning and monthly reporting. Cycle times for annual budgeting, monthly forecasting and monthly reporting have been significantly reduced with Adaptive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's] Well suited for a company that runs complex budget scenarios with a requirement for many updates due to changing dynamics of the business. Well suited for small companies with small finance departments. Days of spinning budgets in Excel get reduced to hours in Adaptive. Obviously good for large distributed corporations who need a consolidated view. Why wouldn't you use this program in this day and age where departments are trying to save on salaries. The program easily saves you headcount and pays for itself.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Suite is well suited for companies that need a more agile planning method than Excel, or for those companies who are trying to transition to driver-based modeling. The tool connects well to other systems (Salesforce, NetSuite, Sage Intaact, etc.), so it's a great choice for a company looking to get to a single source of truth and to incorporate all of the various financial and non-financial metrics in one dashboard or report. For those companies that are incredibly complex, with many different legal entities and different ways of forecasting for each entity, Adaptive Suite may not be a good choice. While it can handle complex models, there are limits to the number of formulas in each version and in the instance, and the account structure may get too unwieldy in this tool.
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