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Workday Adaptive Planning

byWorkday
in
4.3
2025
Market Presence: Financial Planning Software, Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions

Overview

Product Information on Workday Adaptive Planning

Updated 29th July 2025

What is Workday Adaptive Planning?

Workday Adaptive Planning’s AI-powered solution streamlines and automates planning workflows, freeing time for deeper strategic analysis and improving collaboration. With its intuitive cloud-based platform and integration framework, users collaborate on plans informed by real-time data. Business partners can access self-service, interactive reporting and analysis, reducing ad hoc requests for insights. Embedded AI capabilities accelerate the speed and accuracy of essential planning work, with support for variance analysis, contextual help, predictive forecasts, and more. Collaborative scenarios help planners analyze the impact of potential financial and operational outcomes, providing the clarity necessary to address disruptions or seize new opportunities.

Workday Adaptive Planning Pricing

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Financial Variance Analysis
Financial Variance Analysis
AI Predictive Forecaster
AI Predictive Forecaster
Financial Planning
Financial Planning

Overall experience with Workday Adaptive Planning

Business process executive
500M - 1B USD, Insurance (except health)
FAVORABLE

“Ease of Budgeting With Workday Adaptive Planning Offset by Reporting Complexity”

4.0
Sep 11, 2025
Workday adaptive planning has been a great tool overall. Its easy to use, helps steamline budgeting and forecasting. Saves a lot of manual effort. There was a bit of learning curve at first, but once I got used to it, the features really helped improve efficiency and collaboration.
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
<50M USD, Miscellaneous
CRITICAL

“Average Budgeting Software”

3.0
Sep 15, 2025
Adaptive is an effective budgeting software, but doesn't have many bells & whistles. It is a little clunky for users and some of the functionality isn't that straight forward. We are a NFP with not too many tech savvy individuals, and they often have the same difficulties each year using the site. The budget modules do work and there is plenty of room for customization, however we often find glitches and it is sometimes difficult to navigate between different budget sections.

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2025
For Market:
Financial Planning Software

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th October 2025

Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by organizations around the world and across industries.

Company Details

Updated 13th October 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2005
Head office location
Pleasanton, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://www.workday.com

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Workday Adaptive Planning Likes & Dislikes

Like

Workday Adaptive Planning is how easy it makes budgeting and forecasting. The interface is clean, and I can quickly update models without relying heavily on spreadsheets. It also allows for better collaboration across teams, which saves time and avoids confusion.

Like

It looks like an excel sheet, which is somewhat familiar to people. It is easy to grant/remove users. Once you have worked through difficult configuration, it's easy to copy one year's template to future years.

Like

The most I like about it is how is it is to update numbers and run different scenarios, earlier we used to spend hours working on excel

Dislike

Customization options, especially around reports and dashboards can be a but tricky to setup without technical help. It is powerful but not always straight forward Sometimes small changes take more time than expected.

Dislike

A little difficult to use at times. Reporting could be much easier. It is extremely overpriced for it's functionality.

Dislike

Sometimes the system runs bit slow while running big reports and the training part can be more simple

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Workday Adaptive Planning Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 60 ratings and reviews for Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions market. View all 524 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.3

(60 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
58%
4 Star
32%
3 Star
10%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.6

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Average Budgeting Software

    3.0
    Sep 15, 2025
    Adaptive is an effective budgeting software, but doesn't have many bells & whistles. It is a little clunky for users and some of the functionality isn't that straight forward. We are a NFP with not too many tech savvy individuals, and they often have the same difficulties each year using the site. The budget modules do work and there is plenty of room for customization, however we often find glitches and it is sometimes difficult to navigate between different budget sections.
  • Business process executive
    50M-1B USD
    Insurance (except health)
    Review Source

    Ease of Budgeting With Workday Adaptive Planning Offset by Reporting Complexity

    4.0
    Sep 11, 2025
    Workday adaptive planning has been a great tool overall. Its easy to use, helps steamline budgeting and forecasting. Saves a lot of manual effort. There was a bit of learning curve at first, but once I got used to it, the features really helped improve efficiency and collaboration.
  • Manager, Human Resources
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Good tool overall

    4.0
    Sep 18, 2025
    It is good, It is not easy to learn in the beginning, but once we get used to the system it really helps in budgeting and planning, I like that we dont have to do everything manual in excel anymore saves lot of time
  • Finance Associate
    <50M USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Real-Time Collaboration Enhanced Despite Initial Setup and Expertise Barriers

    4.0
    Sep 15, 2025
    it is a powerful and user-friendly tool for budgeting and forecasting. it offers flexible modelling, real-time collaboration and integrates well with other systems. Setting it up is complex, it has improved my planning accuracy.
  • INTERNAL AUDITOR
    1B-10B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Real-Time Collaboration and ERP Integration Praised by Employees Enterprise Wide

    5.0
    Oct 6, 2025
    Company-wide our overall experience has been tremendous, we have received great feedback and buy-in from everyone across the ladder.
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