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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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Krishna Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Workday Adaptive Planning is the best tool for all your planning, budgeting and forecasting, including medaling, consolidation and reports, Its easy to implement for admin and consultants, I believe integration required bit more streamline process change. UI changes required for admin page and other area, as some time action button or item where we take action looks very small.
Marvin Hartsfield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Workday Adaptive Planning has detailed online help with both articles and videos that are comprehensive. It has a lot of similarities to Excel, which most finance people are already familiar with, plus the user interface is intuitive and easy to pick up. The online support team is quick to respond and very knowledgeable.
Tony Phan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The portal is very easy to use when you already get used to it. Due to its complexity and multi functions available in the portal, new joiners might need to take sometimes to get used to it. Interface is very user friendly once you get to know it. It does not feel like a software but rather be a website where you can get all of your HR related matters.
April 16, 2021

Outsanding Solution!

Brad MacDonald | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From an Administrator's standpoint, it is as intuitive as you can get. The ability to create versions and scenarios is without equal.
From a (non-finance) users perspective, many have expressed to me their appreciation for a powerful system that is very easy to understand and use.
Warren Sampson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From a modeling perspective, Workday Adaptive Planning is very flexible and easy to manage. Generating new models, modifying existing models, renaming accounts without the model melting down; these are all very usable. We find that there's a bit of a learning curve for our user community in navigating some of the sheets, but once they get a feel for the options and how to pivot around their data a world of possibilities is unlocked.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I've only used Excel in the past for budgets and clunky reporting tools for making reports or tools that were too complicated for a non-IT user to manipulate. With a finance background, I find the tool easy to use and manipulate and the possibilities are endless.
March 11, 2021

Great planning tool!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Very easy to navigate and Adaptive support is helpful in troubleshooting any questions. Does not take long to get up and running with a simple model and very flexible structure. Challenge is more on designing the best model rather than Adaptive limitations.
Dmitry Zaichenko, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have users in all parts of the business that have access. [Even those who] are not financial individuals love the ease of use while being able to drill down and clearly understand what is happening in their department. All levels of the organization find Workday Adaptive Planning useful for both executive level reporting, financial reviews as well as detailed planning by multiple users.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Since implementing Adaptive Insights in 2014 we had 3 administrative users. Since then we have grown to 50+ users that actively participate in the budget process and are accountable for their annual planning. Each year we request feedback from our users and each year they say that Adaptive Insights is easy to use and continues to make the budget process a seamless process.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For basic usages, like check actuals for month-end close or for budgeting purposes, Adaptive Insights is great. Building out more complex and business oriented features, can be a challenge and a lot of going back and forth until the data is correct. This can be time consuming and not particularly useful in a time crunch. OfficeConnect does resolve this time issue, but from my experience, Excel is helpful when needed to build random reports quickly.
Ben Balch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adaptive Insights is easy to use and easy for end users to adopt. We use Adaptive Insights for expense planning, forecasting, and scenario planning. We are a small organization and have several non-technical people that have been able to adopt the system. The product is very similar to a spreadsheet, so anyone with a basic working knowledge of how to enter numbers in a spreadsheet could be trained to use Adaptive Insights.

If your planning is more complex, you'll need someone with the appropriate level of technical skills to help facilitate that level of planning.
November 16, 2018

Time Saving

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall, I believe the usability is excellent. I have no real complaints about the system.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Menus are easy to navigate, sheets are straightforward and flexible and you can work on your budget/forecasts without being at the office. The cloud based system makes it easy for users to complete their processes offsite and without needing there work provided computer. Creating new reports using both the web based Adaptive tool and OfficeConnect is quite simple with very minimal training.
September 27, 2018

Adaptive a home run product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I've only had positive experiences with Adaptive at the two company's I have used the product at. The ease of use is very impressive and has saved me and our team alot of wasted time.
September 20, 2018

The efficiency of Adaptive

Steve Paul, CPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The software is easy to maintain for a person with a non-IT background. I love the fact that I don't have to call our internal IT team every time there is a problem within the system. I have the knowledge and confidence to fix the problem myself. I also find it easy to develop reports, ad-hoc analysis within Adaptive.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are proficient in Excel modeling then it is not too difficult to use. There are probably ways to create more shortcuts to see frequently used views. I did not need any extensive training to learn how to navigate the program.
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