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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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  • 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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November 09, 2018

Adopt Adaptive

Jonny Linehan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive Insights is a great tool by itself; however, once integrated with OfficeConnect this becomes a necessary tool that once you experience you won't want to use anything else. Creating our reports in OfficeConnect probably saves our FP&A team 10-20 hours a month. This is time we now spend on analysis instead of creating reports.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive has helped our organization to streamline the forecast and budgeting process through better version control and more hands-on involvement by local stakeholders. This has led to better planning for hiring talent and analyzing student performance/retentionn factors.
  • Reporting has become much easier to produce and modify on the fly, which allows us to be more agile when considering future growth plans or funder/donor requests.
  • While our finance team has been able to engage better with various business segments, there is sometimes a lack of investment by non-finance professionals, which can lead to a lack of trust in the overall process.
October 22, 2018

Adaptive Insights

Brian Kyslinger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We have been able to look at product line profitability and key metrics that would have been difficult to pull together in a timely manner. This has led to insights where we should focus our efforts.
  • By integrating with the accounting system we are able to leverage Adaptive to speed the accounting close with teen analysis and error checking.
  • Once we determine a metric is important we can then work with IT to capture the data and house it in the system. This allows the finance team to focus on analytics rather than data mining.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Budget and forecast cycles have been reduced due to the ease of data input by our end-users. We used to allow user a month to input annual budget data and we can now complete this process in two and a half weeks.
  • Forecasts used to be completed using Excel by our 17 divisions. Adaptive has allowed for us to complete the forecast process using the Adaptive tool which allows us to consolidate our forecasts immediately versus a manual process.
  • Month-end reporting used to take us 5 days to complete our package prior to using Adaptive. Our organization can now finalize our reporting in no more than 3 days due many of the reports coming straight from Adaptive.
Denise Lewis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Month-end reporting: It's hard to say how much time Adaptive Insights has provided, but I can say we no longer have formula errors in Excel reports and refreshing financial statements every month only takes a couple of clicks.
  • Budgeting/forecasting: We have saved a tremendous amount of time in our budgeting cycle. After importing a budget in Adaptive Insights and setting up the model with formulas, we are able to copy the most recent budget version into the next budget version and review. Being able to budget in Adaptive Insights also removes the possibility of formula and linking errors that come with Excel.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It’s been really helpful for version control. Once a month we lock a version which is important for variance analysis so we can course correct if we are deviating from plan.
  • Adaptive is good for bottoms up budgeting. You can include as much detail as necessary.
  • Adaptive is good for pivoting. Understanding how expenses are being allocated into different department, subsidiaries, and accounts are super important.
Ed Behen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We [started with] one annual budget and 4 quarterly forecasts. After implementation, we are now a monthly forecast and rolling budget.
  • The business managers take ownership of the data. Prior to Adaptive, there were always excuses for why the data was incorrect or it was not their fault. Now they own their data and are held responsible for it. Managers now take ownership and the accuracy has improved dramatically.
  • The role of our FP&A team has gone from a supportive or IT role to a team member. The FP&A team now helps the business managers make informed and effective decisions and are not just the keeper of an Excel file.
Stephanie Dechant, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our customers like using Adaptive Planning. Being in my first year with the company I work for, bringing my background in financial planning, whereas my predecessor had more of an IT logistical background, I believe that our customers have increased their appreciation in the model, particularly having someone support it that understands financial planning & analysis.
  • I believe that Adaptive Planning is efficient and user-friendly, compared to other systems that I have used, and I have enjoyed increasing my knowledge of the system.
  • Setting up and implementing Adaptive Planning has definitely been an investment, and I have worked diligently to ensure that our customers are using it to their full advantage to justify the cost.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The software has saved us a lot of time with our month end reporting. We can complete the majority of customization within the software. We download the reports to Excel and complete 1 or 2 minutes of tweaking and the reports are ready to go.
  • What-if scenarios are easy to create and we can compare these scenarios side-by-side easily.
Samantha Monastra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We use Adaptive Planning as our main budgeting software. Adaptive is always releasing new features to improve the functionality, and this makes working it is much more efficient.
  • Adaptive has many resources to help you use Adaptive. However, not many answers can be found on Google.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive Insights has dramatically decreased the amount of time spent on management reporting.
  • Adaptive Insights has allowed us to produce reports that we weren't able to develop before. This has given us a different perspective on the business and has allowed us to make more informed decisions.
March 23, 2018

Ahead of the curve.

Andy Clifton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Our budgeting and forecasting cycles are now faster, more accurate and can evolve dynamically throughout the process. This is especially important in our business which is experiencing rapid growth.
  • Our ability to push out bespoke reporting to business owners has massively improved.
  • For our most recent budget cycle, we were able to simply and quickly illustrate the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations to our board.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Has reduced our close period by 3 to 4 days.
  • Has enabled us to integrate 5 acquisitions into our group reporting without the need for any additional central resource.
  • Speeded up consolidation and reporting of annual budget.
  • Has supported the due diligence requirements as part of two equity-raise processes.
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