Adaptive Insights - My thoughts after a year of use.
December 21, 2015
Adaptive Insights - My thoughts after a year of use.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adaptive Suite
Here at HireVue we use the Adaptive Suite to address our forecasting and budgeting needs.
- I believe that Adaptive's OfficeConnect tool is a leap forward. I can pull data and create reports right in Excel rather than using the web and exporting.
- With Adaptive I have been able to move the once-per-year budget process to a monthly forecast process. I would have been unable to accomplish this with Adaptive's planning tool.
- The ease of the system and fairly straight-forward UI has enable quick ramping of new users. Making adoption and use of the system more widely utilized and accepted.
- OfficeConnect is a great tool providing an easy way to access the system data. However, it is a pull-only tool. I would love a connection to push and pull data, like Hyperion Planning has.
- One concern I have is system upgrade and maintenance. I feel like I have to use the Adaptive Consultant a little too often to accomplish upgrades or large changes to the model or system. There is enough similarity to Excel and/or VBA coding that an power Excel user can accomplish most things but there are a few things that I feel I am forced to use a consultant for to get right. However, that may be my lack of knowledge or unwillingness to try and learn everything.
- Hyperion Planning
I used extensively the Hyperion Planning tool use the Essbase technology. Adaptive has several easier to use functionalities and does well compared to that tool. Adaptive, is a cloud-based solution which enables easy access not requiring a vpn connection. Also, being cloud-based you are free from trying to acquire the servers needed to implement and then upgrade the system. We give up some flexibility in using Adaptive but too much flexibility can also by just more rope to hang yourself with. If I had a larger team and could dedicate more resources I would likely choose something with more flexibility but for now Adaptive is a great solution.