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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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  • Forecasting (161)
    8.9
    89%
  • Long-term financial planning (156)
    8.8
    88%
  • Management reporting (166)
    8.7
    87%
  • Financial budgeting (166)
    8.6
    86%

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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 8.4

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8
Avg 8.4

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8
Avg 8.3

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 7.8

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9
Avg 8.8

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

8.8
Avg 8.5

Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

8.1
Avg 8.2

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8.6
Avg 8.5

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

7.9
Avg 8.1

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

8.5
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

Workday Adaptive Planning aims to power a new generation of business planning, and drive business agility in a fast-moving world. The Workday Adaptive Planning Business Planning Cloud offers modeling capabilities for organizations of any size, and helps users to collaborate, gain insights, and make smarter decisions faster. The vendor states that more than 3,800 organizations across 50-plus countries currently use Workday Adaptive Planning.

According to the vendor, Adaptive Planning helps mid-size & enterprise organizations’ leaders better manage their business:
  • Adaptive Planning enables organizations to break free from static planning, to active planning
  • Active planning is collaborative, comprehensive, and continuous
  • Active planning requires a solution that’s easy, powerful, and fast
Capabilities include:
  • Automated Budgeting and Forecasting to increase productivity
  • Self-Service Financial Reporting allowing users to create, share and personalize reports
  • Integration with Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Intacct, & MS Dynamics

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 Video

Active Planning: An Alternative to Static Planning

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 Journal entries and reports 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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Gajendra Kumar Gangwar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is very powerful while someone would like to work on multiple sheets together.
  • We can also integrate or we can say copy the data from external excel sheets which makes life easy.
  • It is also very helpful for planning without affecting the organizational budget for every department. It is very easy to use and manage.
  • There are some limitations of this tool as well and personally I didn't like the way it restrict us to change the sheet frequently, it can be lead to wrong calculations for monthly or quarterly planning.
  • This is also not much flexible, it should have integration mechanism to connect with other tools and data accessibility too.
  • Sometimes we also faced the slowness issue while performing complex task. This can be improved.
Leonardo Cordero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Analysis of PL data by segments
  • Improve our Business Partner support to review the data
  • Prepare the data to extract, load and upload PL by Region
  • Opex analysis
  • Budget process
  • Allocation expenses
  • Forecast data
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It helps create dynamic plans for finances, operations and various functional units in an organization all under one platform
  • It helps in scenario modeling to help analyze various business events and report by any number of business dimensions including channel, customer or product
  • It can be integrated with any system including ERP, BI or CRM
  • For complex KPI, it takes times in case the dataset is huge and can lead to business disruptions if not done in real time
  • It cannot be shared with new individuals or stakeholders who were not initially added to a particular plan
  • Plans cannot be shared easily over mail and require third party integrations
Brian Goldrick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Forecasts very easily
  • Setting up formulas to auto populate certain areas makes it much easier for budget owners to fill it out.
  • Collaboration between the FP&A team as well as the budget owners is all done within Workday Adaptive Planning rather than through team messages or emails. Much more efficient.
  • There have been some issues with the mapping between Workday Adaptive Planning and our accounting system, Intacct, that has required additional support beyond what we were able to do in house.
  • Some of the formulas break due to budget owners not knowing what they are doing. This has been fixated with updates to Workday Adaptive Planning over the years but it still pops up every once in a while.
  • Better reporting functionalities.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keeps everything HR and Team management wise in one place
  • Excellent and easy to use layout and user interface
  • It's very easy to navigate and find your way around even for first time users
  • Requires minimal training to get up and running
  • Sometimes it can be a little difficult to find smaller details within the software that you might be looking for
  • Can be a little overwhelming to those that are just looking to use one particular function
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Headcount Planning
  • Expense Forecasting
  • Software Amortization Schedule
  • The more dimensions you add, the slower the software becomes.
  • Not many great training tools for newer users
  • Tracing formulas between sheets is not the best
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Creation of Versions.
  • Reporting and Dashboarding.
  • Model Flexibility.
  • Web reports within Dashboard would be great.
  • Version to Version referencing within model formulas.
  • Calculations within reports that allow you to add data across different versions.
December 18, 2022

Forecasting made easy

Manuel Lora Fernández | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Flexibility
  • Ease of use
  • Intergration with other tools (SAP, SAP FC, Excel)
  • Reporting
  • Formatting of the built-in reports
  • Performance should be inproved for larger datasets
  • Dashboard improvements. Formatting and the option to integrate reports
  • Better integration with Workday
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It does well with version control. I can ensure that all 27 entities know exactly which version is the correct budget that is approved.
  • It does well with scenario planning. I can easily make adjustments with to the budget whether that is pushing sales, expenses, headcount, or capital projects.
  • It does a good job with enforcing unity with the chart of accounts.
  • It does permissions for different groups well.
  • It did reporting groups and distribution well.
  • There has been a real lack of training. This has caused issues especially with creating new reports.
  • There could be better shortcut keys similar to Excel.
  • There could be a better search functionality with the self tutorial area.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Excellent documentation with articles and videos.
  • Strong implementations network of consultants.
  • Accessible staff for Q&A (like formulas Friday and other weekly sessions).
  • Being cloud only, occasionally the model may be slow to load or update.
  • Certain features like user assigned sheets are edit only or no access (no read-only access).
  • Dimension level security is coming in a future release (Fall 2019).
  • Cannot have multiple security profiles per user (one profile per account).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Eliminates the need for Spreadsheet with far better collaborative feature
  • Excellent User interface and ease of usage.
  • Great analytics and charting. It stores historical information and is valuable for forecasting and comparing with historical data.
  • Excellent tool to create dynamic models for budgets and forecasts that can connect directly to financials.
  • Trend Analysis
  • This being a SAAS Solution , sometimes the models are slow to update and load
  • The search functionality can be improved with some user friendly tutorials.
  • Not sure if it supports shortcuts like Excel. Seasoned excel users would like to have similar shortcuts.
  • Documentation and training can be improved , specifically around creation of complex models and integration with other tools.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is one database, so there is no pulling together or consolidating of data
  • It allows for structural changes to be made such that if a corporate decision is made that impacts everyone, or even a segment of the units, the change can easily be made in minutes
  • At the end of the process, often times we will want to dig into the numbers, and possibly change some, based on how they all roll up. Previously, this was an Excel nightmare. Now it is instant and seamless.
  • Discovery provides an "at your fingertips" display of every KPI that you can dream up, as well as trends, breakdowns, and projections that are driving or being driven by those indicators.
  • I would like to see the ability to completely turn off all calculations for a budget version, such that it is locked down, and would require an act of Congress to change a number. We have had a few cases where something was inadvertently changed AFTER the budget was finalized.
  • The ability to back-up an entire budget would be helpful (see the comment above).
Justin Ballesteros | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive is an excellent tool in creating dynamic models for budgets and forecasts that can connect directly to our financials.
  • The most powerful tool of Adaptive is the ability to handle complex calculations behind the scenes while mupltiple users can access our instance and see the results in real-time.
  • Adaptive Insights could improve it's user training by offering more video instructions that our included in customer subscriptions.
  • The Office Connect feature is a great tool for working with financial data in Excel. I believe this will be an area to focus on improvement as many of their competitors have better functionality with pulling and drilling into data.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adaptive eliminates the need for Excel sheets for budgets.
  • Adaptive uses the cloud to share similar data and have data updated simultaneously, where with spreadsheets you might have to wait for someone to enter data into a spreadsheet or someone manually copy data into a master file. Adaptive becomes the master file.
  • It helps store history quite well when wanting to compare things from previous periods or to look at trends.
  • When looking at totals on average selling prices, the sheet tries to average all of the selling prices instead of calculating total sales dollar and volume.
June 09, 2022

Great Product

Juljan Hebibasi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive allows me to build department-specific models driven by that department KPI's
  • OfficeConnect is remarkable
  • All modeling we did in excel will be done through Adaptive
  • Because of the volume of models (user sheets), the ability to place models in folders based on the purpose or function would be helpful. That function does not exist so we have a long list of models and searching for the one we need is not efficient
  • Better documentation and training related to advanced features in the system. We would like to enhance our modeling and make it more efficient but can't determine if what we want to be done can be done.
  • Allowing GL accounts to link to more models we are an improvement. There is a limit on how many models you can link to a GL account. Because we use Adaptive for all our modeling, we have reached the capacity and had to develop workarounds.
January 09, 2022

Finance

Fidel Botchway | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Budget management
  • Expense tracking
  • Finance management
  • There should be a seamless integration between the accounting and the budget allocated.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cloud Native
  • Intuitive
  • Flexible
  • Easy to adapt
  • Adding additional departments/regions after implementation is a pain
  • I don't love how multi-currencies works
  • Drill down is clunky
  • Performance slows down as you grow your instance
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Robust budgeting and planning sheets that allow for customizable modeling depending on the needs and area of the business
  • Web reporting out of Workday Adaptive Planning is great and is very user friendly
  • Integrations into different ERP systems, especially Workday
  • The Integration between Workday Adaptive Planning and NetSuite is difficult to get up and running. It functions well but is more complicated to set up than other ERPs.
  • Creation of sheets and normal maintenance is easy to use but can be a very complex process for those unfamiliar with how Workday Adaptive Planning works. Training is a must!
  • Lacking functionality in automating the multi-currency conversion process
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to create customizable reports based on employee requirements.
  • Simple and ergonomic interface that allows easy location of each tool, all in a single view.
  • Each employee can get their expense summary and based on this do better resource planning.
  • Real-time cost and expense planning.
  • Ability to break down all monetary movements generated in the company.
  • Allows us to create cost scenarios where we can identify factors that may affect us in the future.
  • It is not possible to copy items between tabs, causing obstacles in the work.
  • Reports should be more complete and customizable.
  • It is complicated to import spreadsheet files without having to make modifications beforehand.
James Egan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • One stop shop for employee and employer information.
  • Ability to ask for, view and give colleague feedback.
  • Ease of use, easy to navigate.
  • Easy to download important documents.
  • Some overlap between areas can be confusing for a new user.
  • Logging on from a new device can be a bit fiddly.
  • At first the time off scheduler can be a bit confusing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • A very intuitive solution from a budget contributor point of view. The sheets are clean and the drag and drop functionalities make it easy to get started.
  • The many different custom dimensions and attributes make it easy to slice and dice the data to your liking.
  • The Adaptive logic is different than the Excel logic so it does require you to revise your current Excel models to bring them onto the platform.
  • We are still trying to figure out if, and how easy it is to bring more complex models to Adaptive (predictive modeling, Monte Carlo simulations etc).
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