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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is particularly useful for any FP&A department within an organization to better forecast, budget, and plan. It's an exceptional tool that empowers financial analysts to best present a department's financial health to a business partner. It would be less appropriate, from my experience, for departments outside of finance, unless the company does not have a strong finance department that is able to provide analysis for all departments.
November 09, 2018

Adopt Adaptive

Jonny Linehan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is well suited for individuals and business partners who are familiar with basic financial practices. Here at Workfront, we are trying to limit the amount of Adaptive users because we are working in Adaptive every single day and some budget owners aren't going in there frequently and when they do their information they look at doesn't match our information because they might forget to change the particular version they are using. This is where OfficeConnect is very useful because we can send a slide deck out each month with updated numbers for our budget owners and it is easy, stress-free, and accurate.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is extremely well-suited to implementation in organizations with multiple, segmented business units which don't necessarily have the strongest finance training/background but nevertheless are managing forecasting/budgeting for their individual unit. Adaptive has allowed our organization to develop better, more accurate reporting on a shorter timeline as a result of centralizing the entry points for all teams within the org.
October 22, 2018

Adaptive Insights

Brian Kyslinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is well suited for mid-size companies to have a budgeting, forecasting, and reporting platform. The system needs data and someone to maintain it so it would not be well suited for a small company or one without a dedicated finance team.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is great if you want to create many what- if scenarios when budgeting and forecasting. Staffing scenarios has been particularly helpful for our HR department when analyze staff needs for future years and analyzing open and unfilled positions over a certain time frame. Every so often Adaptive's response time when in the system has been slow but Adaptive has rolled out the Elastic Hypercube to take care of that issue.
September 27, 2018

Adaptive a home run product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Adaptive is very well suited for small and large companies. Like any software implementation, there is a little bit of heavy lifting up front to get it up and running, but once you do it makes the FP&A organization much for efficient and strategic. It has also been very useful for integration acquisitions.
Denise Lewis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a medium-sized holding company, and Adaptive Insights has worked tremendously well for us! We do not currently use it to consolidate our business units, but we plan on exploring that soon. If you find yourself spending numerous hours creating financial statements and budgeting in Excel, then Adaptive Insights may be for you! It saves us an exponential amount of time in variance analysis, refreshing financial statements, and budgeting.
September 20, 2018

The efficiency of Adaptive

Steve Paul, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights allows us to consolidate our reporting in a simple and efficient manner. The system is very user-friendly and a person with just an accounting background and no previous IT background can maintain the system with ease. Adaptive appeals to companies of all sizes as there are many tools each company can take advantage of.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is great for collaborative work since it is in the cloud. For example, we have multiple people managing budgets that are for different departments. These inputs need to be consolidated on a timely basis. Adaptive is good for that since it allows for multiple users to collaborate on the same platform. I do not typically work on ad-hoc financial analysis in Adaptive, however. I typically download the information and analyze outside since it’s easier for me to pivot outside of the system.
Stephanie Dechant, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would say that Adaptive is great for reporting and planning functions. However, we only really utilize the Planning segment of Adaptive Insights. I truly appreciate the ease of modeling and forecasting by implementing a few high-level assumptions and allowing the model and formulas do their work to create the outcome. From there, I can tweak and evaluate as necessary.
Samantha Monastra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am unable to rate Adaptive Insights higher than 7 out of 10 because I have not fully explored the functionality. Based on what I know and what I have seen, I would definitely recommend Adaptive Insights. I would love if more people at my company used it, so then we could share content with each other. There is a lot of content for one person to explore.
March 23, 2018

Ahead of the curve.

Andy Clifton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is very fit for us as a global company of c.600 employees. We have offices in multiple countries and have multiple users who need to access the data simultaneously. We are going through a rapid period of expansion and change as a business and Adaptive is easily able to keep up.

For very small companies, Adaptive may be too much. For a very large organization, there may be other solutions that are more suitable.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for the monthly group consolidation, annual consolidation of financial statements, consolidation of budgets and forecasts as well as for the reporting for all of these. For this Adaptive is well suited. We've looked to use it for long-term planning (10-year plans), but have found it less well suited.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive is well suited for producing a variety of reports on a monthly basis, from simple cost reports for budget holders to modeling forecasts for a variety of planning scenarios in the next five years. Easily creating multiple forecast versions from which assumptions can be quickly tweaked makes it quick and easy to model the effect of revenue growth on certain costs, amongst a plethora of other examples. The Discovery module makes producing charts and graphs simple that very quickly show trends and variances and can be taken immediately into board meetings using the presentation mode.
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