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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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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 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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I use Workday Adaptive Planning to help understand our spend across the company by GL code as reported via Netsute. Though not perfect, the tool allows me to segregate this spend and extract insights by comparing against time, Dept. and other variables. This is best done by extracting via Excel and manipulating the data there.
  • Summarize data.
  • Clean layout.
  • Aggregate across sources.
  • Ease of use.
  • Robustness.
  • Data dynamism.
Best suited if it is complementing NetSuite source data, not great as the sole platform for BI in spend searchable by specific variables. Also, this should be expected to be used as a data repository, not really to manipulate. For this, you will need outside tools. For small orgs, should be be fine, for larger remits, suggest looking at dedicated platforms.
  • Data centralization.
  • Accessibility.
  • NetSuite integration.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
48%
4.8
Long-term financial planning
60%
6.0
Financial budgeting
70%
7.0
Forecasting
60%
6.0
Scenario modeling
N/A
N/A
Management reporting
50%
5.0
Consolidation and Close (7)
25.714285714285715%
2.6
Financial data consolidation
60%
6.0
Journal entries and reports
60%
6.0
Multi-currency management
N/A
N/A
Intercompany Eliminations
N/A
N/A
Minority Ownership
N/A
N/A
Local and consolidated reporting
60%
6.0
Detailed Audit Trails
N/A
N/A
Financial Reporting and Compliance (5)
46%
4.6
Financial Statement Reporting
60%
6.0
Management Reporting
50%
5.0
Excel-based Reporting
70%
7.0
Automated board and financial reporting
50%
5.0
XBRL support for regulatory filing
N/A
N/A
Analytics and Reporting (6)
25%
2.5
Personalized dashboards
60%
6.0
Color-coded scorecards
50%
5.0
KPIs
N/A
N/A
Cost and profitability analysis
N/A
N/A
Key Performance Indicator setting
40%
4.0
Benchmarking with external data
N/A
N/A
Integration (3)
56.66666666666667%
5.7
Flat file integration
60%
6.0
Excel data integration
60%
6.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
50%
5.0
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
  • Positive to help organize info and reducing need for manual integration.
  • Prevents me from having to collate raw data from AP
  • Avoids total lack of spend visibility
Workday Adaptive Planning capabilities has impacted my organization's business processes mainly as a result from gaining visibility into previous years' spend in given GL codes which I can then use to revisit stakeholders on what spend may or may not be needed into the new year during year end Procurement strategic sourcing and renewals.
Workday Adaptive Planning's design is fairly straight forward however, for Procurement as an analytic tool is not quit robust enough and needs to be used in concert with other tools. From Procurement's perspective as a financial planning tool, this needs to be taken into consideration as it is no panacea. no where near it.
Workday Adaptive Planning is not as robust as SAP Ariba, but it is certainly better than BadgePass. The trouble with BadgePass is that it can be a but clunky in some modules that seem like clear bolt ons to the main product UI. Whereas, Ariba was clearly built to satisfy Procurement needs.
It's pretty good for what it does and provides streamlined BIs. However, larger organizations could look at other more robust S2P/BI solutions , but this is certainly worth taking a look at.
The integration occurred before my time. For SAP Concur, we are currently getting ready for and so far so good.
18
Our folks using Adaptive Planning work in the Human Resources, Financial Planning and analysis, Procurement and business intelligence and other parts of the company that need access to and participate in the budgeting and planning process in connection with the company's current and future spend, budgeting and planning needs. There is some off line coordination between some of the different groups as well.
2
Mainly the folks that work closest with Adaptive planning at our company are really in the Human resources department, as they need to technically work with the different structural parameters surrounding the hiring of and planning for new, current and former employees. FP&A also has some limited but important ownership in some of the insights pulled from Workday.
  • Human resources planning
  • some operating capital planning
  • Business intelligence reports
  • We use Workday pretty much as intended
  • We may have scope to better use WD capabilities
  • I am not sure
  • this would be a great topic to cover with our WD rep
I am not sure that we are using the service as robustly as possible, and given other services we already pay for, we may need to review which services are best to keep and which can be rationalized for consolidated spend. This is not a reflection of Work Day so much, in as much as it might be that our organization may not be utilizing the software as well as it can or should be.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
First, netsuite connector API was put in place. This was followed by reporting structure and usage profiles etc.
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
The CFO was the main driver of this implementation as she had used this in a previous shop and served a the biggest internal champion. Once CFO and CEO leadership drove - all else fell in line
  • internal bandwidth availability
  • data scrubbing
  • No others issues
  • NetSuite
  • SAPConcur
  • Adaptive Planning
Integration with these platforms occurred before my time
  • Evisort
In the future there may be integration with Evisort or another contract management platform
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
No. Just these two.
I would advise that all files are segregated and backed up separately an discreetly, this will allow for cleaner pulls and updates and being able to have a single point of refence backed-up locally or on your cloud. This is good advise for any integration.
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