About Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning, formerly Adaptive Insights, is a cloud-based enterprise planning software, which offers tools to help businesses collaboratively plan using tools for modeling, budgeting & forecasting. It offers features including balance sheets, expense tracking, workforce modeling, and more. Workday Adaptive Planning helps people in companies collaborate, gain insights, and make smarter decisions using powerful modeling and analytics. The cloud-native planning and analytics applications enable organizations of all sizes to adapt to a changing world and shifting business conditions with confidence and agility.
With Workday Adaptive Planning, businesses can reduce the time and energy that finance teams spend on spreadsheet-based planning. Workday Adaptive Planning can help users make faster, more informed business decisions with tools scenario planning, forecasting, financial intelligence analytics, and more.
With the drag-and-drop capabilities available in Workday Adaptive Planning, reports can be created and edited. They reflect real-time data and give users a view of the entire business. Users can drill down into corporate metrics, operational performance, and key performance indicators to quickly identify patterns and problem areas.
Workday Adaptive Planning allows businesses to streamline the process of reassigning values from one part of the organization to another by replacing multiple complex formulas with easy-to-create allocation rules.
With Workday Adaptive Planning, businesses can deal with multiple currencies effortlessly. Financial and currency logic simplifies departmental and global planning. Multiple features, such as Automatic Currency Exchange or Cumulative Translation Adjustment, eliminate the complexities of multiple currency management.
Businesses can create and maintain multidimensional finance models within Workday Adaptive Planning with no coding required. The intuitive interface accommodates all types of modeling—workforce, capital, and revenue—across businesses of any size or industry.
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Workday Adaptive Planning
• Workday supports enterprise teams with financial planning and analytics software that helps effectively align demand for services with funding.
• With automatic consolidation and data integration, as well as a streamlined system for financial statements and models, businesses can spend their time and money on the most valuable opportunities.
• Workday Adaptive Planning also enables users to drive better business decisions with a centralized application that automatically integrates plan data and actuals from GL tools as well as other transactional systems such as HCM and CRM.
• With built-in, real-time workflow, Workday Adaptive Planning enables managers to maintain visibility and stay up-to-date with the latest business data and metrics. Teams will be better equipped to proactively manage change as you're able to model outcomes and what-if scenarios, and make more informed decisions based on the latest data.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
Not provided by vendor
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Total features of Workday Adaptive Planning: 122
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- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great product for your business
Reviewed on 07/01/2021
I have complete control over my data using this software.
I have complete control over my data using this software.
Pros
Workday makes it super easy to manage all aspects of my job from scheduling to time off and payment elections and tax withholdings anywhere at anytime.
Cons
The task workflow process seems a bit drawn out and unclear for some things. There are a lot of options that still appear even if not enabled by the administrators.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Awesome product for a great value. Takes budgeting and forecasting to a new level.
Reviewed on 01/05/2017
There are several benefits from using this software. The biggest benefit is that once your initial...
There are several benefits from using this software. The biggest benefit is that once your initial model is built you get stability compared to doing your forecast in spreadsheets. When we used spreadsheets most of our time was spent making sure formulas were correct and that there were no bust in the model. With Adaptive, you have confidence that once you test your formulas you can add/takeaway/and modify data and your calculations will work. The other benefit is that if you have a champion and insist that new data be loaded as soon as possible you always have a good/latest view of what the company expects. By doing this forecasting becomes built into your processes and not the annual/quarterly drag that the organization dislikes. Information is kept in a nice concise format that is easy to read.
Pros
The product if very adaptable. We recently went through a sell process where we were sold by a public company to a private equity firm and back to a public company within a two and half year period. Adaptive was very key to providing the analysis and financial information required for the sell process. While with the private equity firm we changed to a fiscal year but they required us to report both fiscal and calendar year numbers. We also had to push the various EBITDA adjustments back into the financial statements for comparative purposes. I also like the customer service and the fact that Adaptive pushes out a couple of major releases each year to add new functionality requested by the user community.
- Industry: Financial Services Software
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Powerful but quite a decadent interface
Reviewed on 12/09/2019
Quite effective but very sloppy interface for getting financials. The design is decades old and...
Quite effective but very sloppy interface for getting financials. The design is decades old and seems frustratingly under developed. The reporting is there but it does not have advanced functionality that you would expect from such a pricey product.
Pros
Powerful - allows you to create custom reports, filter by various parameters, create different views
Reliable - Stable and does not crash
Light - Able to work through web interface which makes it a breeze even on thin clients
Compatible - with most browsers and does not have hangups
Cons
Interface - looks like 2 generations old. Very barebones and non intuitive
GUI - the design is extremely sloppy - and requires you to know your way through.
Lack of advanced functionality
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Adaptive has created a tool that is easy to use and provides value almost instantly.
Reviewed on 01/08/2017
Pros
I love the ease of creating a budget and the ability to quickly create a new forecast. Adaptive has created a formula wizard that is similar to excel, which makes it easy for excel based planners to easily adapt. Adaptive also has an excel interface for reporting, OfficeConnect which makes reporting even easier. They have also created an upload feature to easily maintain your hierarchy, dimensions and attributes. For a company as large as ours it makes the maintenance of the system easier.
Since Adaptive is Cloud based there is no sharing excel files. I can work with anyone in my organization from anywhere and we are all able to access the same file. Since everything is housed in Adaptive we are able to collaborate easier and make better decisions.
Cons
There is always room for improvement and Adaptive is always listening to its customers. There are some features that make reporting a little clunky, rollups. They recently updated the reporting tool within Adaptive, but it doesn't seem as user friendly as the older version. Hopefully over time it will be easier to use.
- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best financial tool on the market in my opinion
Reviewed on 02/10/2016
I use Adaptive as a replacement for excel in some aspects of my job. I mainly use it as month end...
I use Adaptive as a replacement for excel in some aspects of my job. I mainly use it as month end communication to send out financial status reports pertaining to actuals vs budget vs forecast. Adaptive Discovery is one tool I utilize to aid in visualizing data in multiple ways through the use of graphs, gauges, pie charts, tables, and many more.
Pros
Allows so many different ways to breakdown data.
Great customer support. The respond quickly and are very knowledgeable.
Easy to manage users with different access levels.
Adaptive is always working to enhance or update features. The platform develops continuously, which is great for the large user base.
Hosts free webinars every so often.
Can be accessed from anywhere as long as you have internet access.
Cons
The learning curve is steep, it takes a lot of time to really get comfortable with the platform.
Not a lot of video tutorials.
The terminology can be confusing sometimes.
Adaptive is open to technical/programming suggestions but often take time to be enacted. You sometimes have to wait for the next release to get the issue resolved.
Workday Adaptive Planning FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Workday Adaptive Planning.Q. What type of pricing plans does Workday Adaptive Planning offer?
Workday Adaptive Planning offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Free Trial: Not Available
Workday Adaptive Planning products are licensed on a simple subscription basis. The pricing model is based on base price plus user seats. Contact Workday for more information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Workday Adaptive Planning?
Workday Adaptive Planning has the following typical customers:
51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Workday Adaptive Planning support?
Workday Adaptive Planning supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Q. Does Workday Adaptive Planning support mobile devices?
Workday Adaptive Planning supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Workday Adaptive Planning integrate with?
Workday Adaptive Planning integrates with the following applications:
Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, NetSuite, Oracle Cloud Financials, Sage Intacct, Salesforce Sales Cloud
Q. What level of support does Workday Adaptive Planning offer?
Workday Adaptive Planning offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, Chat
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