Item: Workday Adaptive Planning
Rating: 9
Author: Tom Podany

Usability

Pretty intuitive, non-finance users pick it up quickly and actually use it.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adaptive Insights for our whole company budgeting / spend and headcount management as well as our P&L roll up and reporting.

Pros and Cons

Labor cost forecasting.
Comparison of actual to forecast and variance analysis.
User friendly, we have many non-finance users that input and track their spending with limited finance support.

Cannot open more than one Office Connect file at a time, this is very frustrating. Have been told this is going to be fixed but it has not.

Return on Investment

Good solution for a controlled, integrated budgeting system.

Reporting

Less errors / confusion with a controlled environment as opposed to doing budgeting using spreadsheets.

Role Impact

Improved understanding and tracking of spending trends and variances.

Alternatives Considered

Adaptive is easier to use, more intuitive. Works very well in a medium size company application.

Well suited for spend and headcount forecasting and variance reporting / analysis. Pretty good at management reporting when coupled with Adaptive Office Connect. We download all of our actual P&L line items into Adaptive for comparing actual to forecast, including transaction detail allowing relatively easy drill down capability.

We tried to do some more complicated forecasting such as revenue and cash flow forecasting and the modeling was difficult to do in Adaptive versus doing this on spreadsheets.

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