Adaptive makes work life easier!!!
March 24, 2021

Adaptive makes work life easier!!!

Beth Higgins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Workday Adaptive Planning

We use it across the company for budgets/forecasts. The department owner is responsible for entering their own budgets, aside from personnel, into the model. It replaced a system that did not work.
  • New hires.
  • Personnel planning.
  • Detailed expense planning.
  • Integrated balance sheet, income statement and cashflow.
  • Allocation functionality is cumbersome since every time you want to make a change you have to recreate the allocation (i.e. if you need to add or delete a dept in the allocation).
  • Whenever we go into a saved locked version, instead of being at the top level, the system opens the next time at the dept level, even if you have never opened any sheets at that dept.
  • Provided the CEO with the ability to see the details in the budget.
  • Allows for fast changes since it's real time.
  • Gives dept owners visibility into their budget and spend.

Do you think Workday Adaptive Planning delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Workday Adaptive Planning's feature set?

Yes

Did Workday Adaptive Planning live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Workday Adaptive Planning again?

Yes

It's a great tool and user friendly. We haven't even tapped into all the functionality that it offers as we are still working through some integrations and band width only allows for so much to get done.
We use outside consultants (Carlson Management Group) and they have been terrific business partners. June 2021 will be 2 yrs since we signed with them and we are still actively engaged with them.
We were using Oracle EPBCS prior to Adaptive and it sucked. It always broke when we were in crunch mode and Oracle support was lousy. I have used other home grown systems which worked well for the industry we were in. I feel the Workday Adaptive Planning is spot on for budgets/forecasts planning. We are currently working on Dashboards for the Executive team (not rolled out yet) and streamlining the board reports.
It is working well for us so far. We implemented expenses in detail in the beginning and are now working through revenue/booking integration with NetSuite along with the integration with Workday for personnel.

Workday Adaptive Planning Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
7
Management reporting
6
Multi-currency management
8
Automated board and financial reporting
Not Rated
Personalized dashboards
Not Rated
KPIs
Not Rated
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
10