Overview
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.
Adaptive forecast creation !!!
Great way to actively plan business processes and analyze all data across business units
Workday Adaptive Planning in conjunction with Intacct accounting
Effective in cost and use but not a panacea
A Solid HR, Budgeting and Financial Planning Package All in One
Adaptive Planning is the way to go
Workday Adaptive Planning – It’s Versatile!
Forecasting made easy
Great product when properly trained
Best of breed application that is relatively easy to get up and going + maintain
Workday Adaptive Planning at a glance
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Reporting
We use the Reports module in Adaptive Planning every week, if not every day. It's helpful to quickly refresh reports and allows others at our company to run self-service reports. This has been invaluable since it frees up FP&A so we can perform more analysis.
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Popular Features
- Forecasting (161)8.989%
- Long-term financial planning (156)8.888%
- Management reporting (166)8.787%
- Financial budgeting (166)8.686%
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Pricing
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.
- 9Pixel Perfect reports(1) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 10Customizable dashboards(1) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 9Report Formatting Templates(1) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 9Drill-down analysis(1) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 7Formatting capabilities(1) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 8Integration with R or other statistical packages(1) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 8Report sharing and collaboration(1) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8Publish to PDF(1) Ratings
- 8Report Versioning(1) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8Report Delivery Scheduling(1) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
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.
- 7Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(1) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 8Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(1) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 8Predictive Analytics(1) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 9Multi-User Support (named login)(1) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 9Role-Based Security Model(1) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 9Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(1) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 8Responsive Design for Web Access(1) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 8Mobile Application(2) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 10Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(1) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning
- 8.8Long-term financial planning(156) Ratings
3-5 year financial plan with cashflow.
- 8.6Financial budgeting(166) Ratings
Annual budget for revenue and operating expenses, headcount/compensation, capital expenses, projects, etc.
- 8.9Forecasting(161) Ratings
Combining actuals and budgets, rolling forecasts, driver-based models.
- 8.9Scenario modeling(153) Ratings
Financial or operational modeling of alternate future states and planning for each.
- 8.7Management reporting(166) Ratings
Budget vs. actual or forecast, P&L’s, performance over time, between products etc.
Consolidation and Close
Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.
- 8.3Financial data consolidation(101) Ratings
Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.
- 9Journal entries and reports(65) Ratings
Ability to enter journal entry adjustments and produce reports showing all journal entries for a specific period.
- 7.9Multi-currency management(78) Ratings
Ability to handle foreign currency conversions during consolidation.
- 7.8Intercompany Eliminations(58) Ratings
Matching and elimination of intercompany revenue, expenses, and balance sheet accounts.
- 7.9Minority Ownership(34) Ratings
Consolidate financials full or partial ownership of subsidiaries, equity pick-up.
- 8.5Local and consolidated reporting(92) Ratings
Ability to report against individual business entities and the consolidated umbrella entity.
- 7.1Detailed Audit Trails(112) Ratings
Tracing changes to data and processes that were run.
Financial Reporting and Compliance
Financial statements and regulatory filings
- 8.8Financial Statement Reporting(140) Ratings
Creation and production of balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, other schedules
- 8.5Management Reporting(153) Ratings
Tools facilitating creation of internal ad hoc or standard reports.
- 8.7Excel-based Reporting(152) Ratings
Ad hoc or formatted reports using MS Excel.
- 8.5Automated board and financial reporting(132) Ratings
Tools to help automate creation of regulatory reports such as SEC filings and board books.
- 8.5XBRL support for regulatory filing(25) Ratings
Support for the XBRL standard reporting format for exchanging financial data.
Analytics and Reporting
Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking
- 7.7Personalized dashboards(111) Ratings
Create custom dashboards and reports without the help of IT or administrators.
- 7.5Color-coded scorecards(91) Ratings
Track and analyze performances with interactive, color-coded balanced scorecards.
- 8.1KPIs(104) Ratings
Select from a library of more than 6,000 key performance indicators, and incorporate KPIs into your planning process.
- 8.2Cost and profitability analysis(108) Ratings
Cost and profitability analysis provides data for business decision making.
- 7.8Key Performance Indicator setting(93) Ratings
Ability to set key performance indicators for measuring progress towards goals.
- 8.1Benchmarking with external data(64) Ratings
CPI, daily exchange rates, industry KPIs. with scheduled data refreshes.
Integration
Ability to integrate with external applications.
- 8.6Flat file integration(115) Ratings
Integration of flat files like text documents and comma separated files
- 8.6Excel data integration(142) Ratings
Ability to integrate directly with Excel data.
- 8.4Direct links to 3rd-party data sources(109) Ratings
Integration with external applications like ERP, CRM, HCM
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What is 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
- 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
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Workday Adaptive Planning Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and many more! |
Supported Languages | English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Polish, Dutch |
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Workday Adaptive Planning Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 60% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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- 7.8Likelihood to Renew39 ratings
- 7.3Availability21 ratings
- 9.1Performance10 ratings
- 9.2Usability104 ratings
- 8.2Support Rating45 ratings
- 7.3Online Training9 ratings
- 8.2In-Person Training2 ratings
- 9.4Implementation Rating57 ratings
- 8.2Configurability9 ratings
- 8.8Product Scalability11 ratings
- 8.3Ease of integration11 ratings
- 6.4Vendor pre-sale7 ratings
- 8.2Vendor post-sale7 ratings
- 7.6Data Sources17 ratings
- 7.5Data Sharing and Collaboration17 ratings
- 8.2Professional Services1 rating
- 7.3Contract Terms and Pricing Model1 rating
Reviews
(1-25 of 198)- 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.
Adaptive forecast creation !!!
- 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
Great way to actively plan business processes and analyze all data across business units
- 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
- 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.
Effective in cost and use but not a panacea
- Summarize data.
- Clean layout.
- Aggregate across sources.
- Ease of use.
- Robustness.
- Data dynamism.
- 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
Adaptive Planning is the way to go
- 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
Workday Adaptive Planning – It’s Versatile!
- 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.
Forecasting made easy
- 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
Great product when properly trained
- 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.
- 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).
Workday Adaptive Planning at a glance
- 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.
Adaptive Insights to the rescue
- 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).
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- User-friendly
- It empowers users to work on their own
- It makes it easy to view and create online reports
- The option of a template is very important for the personalization of reports
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How do you differentiate?
- Capacity Planning.
- Financial Forecasting.
- Strategic Workforce Planning.
- Future Workforce.
- Fulfillment Modelling.
Adaptive Insights to the moon
- 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.
Forecasting Replacing Excel Made Easy
- 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.
Adaptive Insights is very Intuitive
- Very Intuitive and easy to learn.
- Adaptive Insights can be managed and owned by Finance people and does not require IT involvement.
- Office Connect reporting is very useful.
- The new process tracker feature could be expanded.
Great Product
- 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.
Finance
- Budget management
- Expense tracking
- Finance management
- There should be a seamless integration between the accounting and the budget allocated.
Overall Workday Adaptive Planning is an intuitive and flexible cloud based planning tool that should be at the top of the list for consideration.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
Makes my Workday easier from an HR perspective
- 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.
Solid and intuitive planning solution
- 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).