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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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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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Robin Webber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Consolidation of cost centres and business units is great. Rollups are instant. Update a cost centre and it will automatically update all levels above it.
  • Formulas and allocations. Keep it simple if you want or work out complicated allocation algorithms. We calculate all our personnel budget information using these.
  • Workflow is a great assistance with monitoring manager responsibilities and seeing where different areas of the business are in the various budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • Adaptive Suite could do with a report formatting template, rather than relying on Excel. This requires multiple updates due to different headings required on various report versions. If it could be done as a one time update this would be great.
  • Currency adjustments should be able to made to versions where actuals are used for forecasts. At present the actual months used in a forecast can not be adjusted. As our forecasting requirements to our UK parent need to use the same rate YTD this is inconvenient and required workarounds.
  • In the hierarchy there is the ability to enter data into higher levels that overwrite any data below. At present, there is no way to disable data be entered into these levels.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The original reason for wanting to make the switch from Excel to a budgeting tool was to correct the issue of broken formulas in financial reporting. Adaptive Suite provides that kind of security.
  • Another important distinction of Adaptive Suite from Excel is version control. You don't have to be concerned that someone is looking at the wrong version of "the truth" when using Adaptive Suite. There are versions and security you can administer to control that.
  • Financial reporting has been taken from a days to weeks long process down to hours. We have many reports we had to manually update monthly that are now the click of a button in Adaptive Suite.
  • The formulas in Adaptive Suite are less easy to use than Excel. It's a bit of a different language to have to learn.
  • The language used in the program-levels, dimensions, sheets, etc. is also another language to learn and has to be translated correctly to communicate with others in the organization.
  • We often have trouble with Java in Adaptive Suite. However, I think that is being phased out.
September 30, 2015

Adaptive Insights

Denise Schultz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Provides a stable platform for budgeting and analysis.
  • Provides ability to generate "what if" scenarios easily.
  • Eliminates the error prone and cumbersome excel spreadsheet budget/forecast.
  • The latest upgrade has made navigation (updating cell information) a bit more difficult that the prior drop down menu selection.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Formulas are easy to understand and to write. It is helpful to work with a consultant to get started, but once you are started, you can maintain the system on your own. (I work in the finance office, so it is easy to manage, even for non-technical staff.)
  • Ad-hoc reporting is great - the drag and drop feature makes building reports quick.
  • Customer service is excellent.
  • Discovery could use more flexibility. It would be good to give users access in Adaptive Discovery that is separate from their data access in Adaptive Planning. Also, the headers for time or other areas can't always be changed. (For example, I can't change "2014-2015" to show as "FY2015" on some dashboards.)
  • Adaptive Insights is currently working on this, but Java is frustrating. It seems to break at the most inopportune times. I will be glad when Java is completely removed from the system.
  • Reports are limited to 15,000 rows, which is sometimes too small.
August 05, 2015

CEO

David Smooha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
  • Planning & forecasting
  • Dashboarding
  • Connectivity with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Power Point and Word).
  • Connectivity to ERP's
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Version over version comparisons are easily accomplished with Adaptive.
  • Adaptive is very flexible and can be customized to almost any business or use case.
  • Very good at waterfalling ratable revenue and for use in headcount planning and capacity planning.
  • The most important improvement that was required was the reporting interface. Now that the Excel plugin will launch soon, hopefully report templates and export to Excel will be more user friendly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive gives us the ability to view information at several levels that we can not easily do in our ERP system.
  • The workflow process will enable to see where users are at in the budgeting process. In the past, we used excel spreadsheets which was inefficient and allowed for things to be missed.
  • Ability to filter and search on sheets
  • Ability to adjust column widths in sheets to make more readable.
  • Suppress columns with 0 value.
May 01, 2015

Try Adaptive!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easy to understand/use, also the help section is very easy to use.
  • Flexible. Can scale to the business, but still allows you to drill down into transaction detail when integrated with NetSuite.
  • Reporting is great. Very useful and informative.
  • Notes in dashboards. That is not currently supported.
  • Online training needs to provide more detail, probably an instance to match with the walk through so we can practice as well.
Lysien Lakuriqi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very efficient in comparing variances between your actuals and forecasts. Reports are easy to use and can be made to your liking.
  • The view has to be adjusted each time you click on a different department. There is no way to lock in the view as you are clicking through the different versions and departments.
Lee Hawthorn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Customer Support is the best I've experienced in the years I've been working with CPM software
  • Usability : It's very easy to get going with Adaptive Insights. They clearly put this at the top of their priorities.
  • Innovation : Providing the cloud based service lets us outsource the parts that are most difficult to handle - this leaves us with the bread and butter we want
  • Data integration - we'd like a self service method to hook up AI to our on premise and cloud based sources.
  • Reporting - I wouldn't describe reporting as weak - moreover, my expectations are high.
  • Structure Management - in some use cases it would be useful to lock down a version including the structure i.e. levels/attributes/dimensions
Rose Sipin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ability to create multiple reports with filters and customization is crucial to our business.
  • The abundance of training materials for basic and advance users is great. These materials have saved me from creating and distributing my own.
  • The easy to use Web interface is great. I and budget managers can access the site from anywhere. Plus it is so easy for the budget managers to understand/use, I don’t have to worry if the information is correct or not.
  • Change the save button to a different symbol. Some of our younger budget managers have never used a disk so they don't recognize the symbol.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Solid product with excellent customer support - supports mainstream budget and forecast needs well and is fairly customizable to customer needs.
  • You will need someone comfortable with a cloud based product and comfortable with using the tools formula builder along with creating customizations ... it's similar to spreadsheets in a lot of respects, but formulas don't work 100% like they do in Excel and you will create a lot of custom accounts, sheets, etc. that require a little getting used to (along with getting used to a cloud based tool).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easy to understand the tool/ Easy implementation process
  • Very intuitive and has some built in intelligence (i.e. you can set the growth percentage to populate other cells)
  • Integrates well with NetSuite ERP
  • Some minor technical issues (i.e. java script error)
Andrew Khonje | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Perform accurate calculations
  • Roll out amounts to GL codes without issue
  • Provides an easier way to manage user access
  • Allows users to create test areas to run different scenarios before implementation
  • Not a lot of tutorial videos on how to perform actions.
  • Digging and sorting through manuals can be time consuming.
February 04, 2015

A big fan

Michael Bright | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive Insights provides a level of accuracy and dependability that Excel models cannot approach. The task of budgeting and reporting becomes an exercise in analysis rather then data validation. Models become less uncertain when the potential for simple formula errors is eliminated.
  • Adaptive's use of sheets to drive data allows for greater flexibility than other packages I have used in the past. It allows you the ability to give detail to the numbers if needed or simply budget to a target if needed. The different spread options gives you the ability to quickly enter the data in a meaningful way.
  • I have found that the support I receive from Adaptive is world class. I can access on-line training, best practices and am even able to order short-term consulting to handle custom requests. Having access to helpful, insightful resources is more than a "nice to have".
  • Our custom connectors to Salesforce.com and Intacct make updating actuals and sales plans fast and seamless.
  • Adaptive had the issue of run time for quite a while. Loading pages could take several minutes and Java errors would come up every time there was an update. These have largely been taken care of but system speed will always be an improvement opportunity.
  • Loading data for several departments from one master screen is something I have seen in other packages and can be a powerful way to update data. Even having ways to set ratios for each department so that one number, depreciation for instance, can be entered triggering allocations to several departments. This is more of a product enhancement of course but it would make data input even more efficient.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The scalability of the product was key. We started with only one division and when we decided to roll out to the entire company there were no issues with capacity.
  • Being cloud-based was also important. We utilize the product with ZERO I/T involvement.
  • Single view of the entire company. With previous solutions it was always a difficult process to "roll up" the budget to see the big picture. Adaptive Insights instantly gives you the high level and bottom line.
  • Their reporting module is great, but I think it could be improved upon. Their OfficeConnect product is a huge step forward in that direction.
  • The Discovery product also needs some attention. At first glance it's a great tool, but when I started diving into it I realized it has quite a few limitations. I think it has enormous potential.
  • I would like to see some more structure around the creation and maintenance of the accounts structures. It's almost too easy to create accounts with little to no organization. Implementation of a strict naming scheme is left up to the end user.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Budgeting
  • Forecasting
  • Assumptions
  • Personnel
  • For color blind users the grey and blue shades are difficult to see a difference.
  • The ability to make accounts inactive and not have to delete them.
  • More help features.
Gustavo Velez velez1941@gmail.com | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Reporting - Great reporting tool with lots of options to build and customize as you need
  • Version Control - Create as many versions of the budget or forecast as needed, and lock it down to prevent tampering after its finalized
  • Data consolidation - Great tool to bring silo'ed data from you ERP and other IT or business systems
  • Dimensions - Adaptive needs improvement with Dimensions - While the functionality is there to used dimensional data, their use is limited and the performance hits can be big with larger dimensions.
  • PDF functionality - While the reporting tool allows for PDF exporting, this needs some work. The results are not very useful and there is no ability to edit the export.
  • Predictive Analytics - I think Adaptive is slowly building on this, but currently the ability to do predictive analytics is crude and cumbersome.
Olya Brase | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Salary/Personnel Budgeting - Adaptive gave us the ability to budget at the level of detail we had to have at any particular time. We've started using growth rates over the prior year, and as our model evolved we were able to update the model and budget "by person" - accounting for different % of raises, 401K match contributions, etc.
  • Adaptive Planning is also a perfect tool for stress-testing the assumptions, creating several "what-if" scenarios and easily adjusting assumptions at ANY level.
  • Adaptive Insights customer service is Amazing! One less thing for our IT department to worry about.
  • This company is always On Top of Things! Every time I think of something that would be nice to have for next budgeting cycle - they already have it in plans and rolling it out with the next release.
  • Adaptive Insights is really good about making improvements. I would recommend sending an e-mail with the summary of those improvements -or maybe even have a monthly newsletter with "Tips and Tricks". We can always attend a webinar or search for files online - but it's not always convenient - reading a quick e-mail would be.
Claire SunSpiral | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive has reached a critical balance of being simple for end users to learn quickly how to navigate, as well as being robust on the back-end to allow for sophisticated modeling.
  • Adaptive is able to handle very detailed budgeting by project, event, grant, etc, which is very helpful for many non-profit organizations. Their "cube sheets" make it very simple to quickly "zoom out" and see a full department's activity, or zoom all of the way in and see the activity for a particular department-grant-project combination.
  • Adaptive is consistently reaching for more effective functionality in the software, reaching out to customers for their feedback and actively implementing those requests, as well as developing new functionality that adds to the existing capability. They really listen to their customers and they make great decisions on how to improve the software.
  • We had some issues with Java when we first started using Adaptive. Our IT team had chosen to not allow end users to have administrator access to their computers, so the users weren't able to update Java without IT's help. There was a period of time where Java was making many updates in a short period (outside of Adaptive's control), which made it frustrating for our users and IT team to handle the volume of requests for updates. The great news is that Adaptive is writing Java out of their software, so this should be a non-issue very soon (and already we've seen improvements because many of the regularly-accessed screens have been freed of Java).
  • While I am an advocate of using their "cube sheets" for planning at granular levels like projects, events, or grants, there are some features that are not available in cube sheets. I would appreciate more attention being put towards building out more robust features with the cube sheet functionality.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive Insights has a great hierarchy and GL mapping system. When you work with thousands of lines of different types of incomes or expenses, having a nice structured mapping will save tons of time when trying to find something. Which will lead more time for analysis.
  • The reporting tool is also great. Instead of trying to find individual rows or cells to copy and paste into your own spreadsheet, writing a report in the reporting tool will give you everything you want in the format that you want. Again, saving more time for value add functions.
  • Adaptive Insights also does a great job in customer service. Whenever I have a question, I can always get an answer that day. They have even introduced me to other users in my area that have shown me several tips and tricks. This is very important because the more you know about a system the more you can do.
  • Connecting to 3rd party vendor reports would be great.
  • Creating more customizable dashboards on the cloud.
  • Creating a one click drill down into Excel would be helpful.
Robert Scrimshaw | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Adaptive allows us to get our monthly financial reports in the hands of our users very quickly, accurately and reliably. The ability to rapidly generate these standard reports, as well as ad-hoc analysis with speed and accuracy is a huge strength upon which we rely.
  • Our rolling forecasts are driver based, and often allow us to come within 3-5% of actuals on a consistent basis, allowing better decision making and improving our ability to react to situations more quickly.
  • I would love to see the ability to format and customize the look and feel of the sheets, as that is where many of our users spend the majority of their time looking at data. Also, the ability to combine graphical reports with our sheets would allow more rapid acceptance of the system as a one stop shop for financial and operational insights into information. Hopefully office Connect will provide some of that, but to be able to access the sheets in Planning more like sheets in Excel would be nice.
  • Adaptive Insights stays way ahead of the curve. If there is a nagging part of the software that needs changing or improving, they are usually catching it, or responding to user requests so quickly, that improvement is not only happening, it happens every day.
Ted Stiefel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Quick response to troubleshooting issues which is extremely valuable to us as we self-implement the software.
  • Very intuitive layout for planning purposes and the video tutorials are helpful.
  • Reporting is also intuitive, and we can easily create and modify reports to our liking.
  • I would like to see pre-built formulas for planning inventory using FIFO.
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