Workday Adaptive Planning

Avantages

1. Easy to adapt , manage and built our own dashboard for end users based on data.
2. It is extremely good and wonderful for managing and creating reports in seconds.
3. Quick and easy implementation.
4. Extremely reliable and we have never seen this kind of performance , no latency noticed till now.

Inconvénients

1. Little disappoint with customer care support and timeline.
2. User management is completely manual.

Avantages

Workday allowed us to do all of our financial planning in one central hub. We can easily budget, generate financial statements, and run many different what if versions for all revenue and budget scenarios. Super user friendly for all planning options!

Inconvénients

It was slightly tough to implement and get things started in the system, just very different than other financial planning tools I’ve worked with. Once you get it implemented, everything is smooth sailing!

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Avantages

Use it for accounting purposes both domestic and imports in our retail company. It is more intuitive and flexible to configure compared to our previous software PeopleSoft.

Inconvénients

It's proprietary so integrating into our internal tools is challenging.

Avantages

It does everything and FP&A team could ever wish for.

Inconvénients

It takes quite some time and training to learn how to use.

Avantages

I mainly used workday when I was working for FedEx. It was useful when organizing bank statements and schedules. Keeping up with benefits and Tax information was a plus as well.

Inconvénients

The only thing I had an issue with was after the update of the workday; there was not a clear enough explanation of how to navigate the apps. The new dashboard shows you everything on the main screen. You still needed to somewhat navigate through the site yourself and figure things out on your own.

Avantages

great for budgeting and tracking expenses during month or quarter for large companies, easy to use interface, nice clean layout

Inconvénients

way to expensive unless you own cooperate businesses or companies, not suitable for small business owners

Avantages

Everything you need is right there. Great all in one software. View time off taken, time off requests, paystubs, taxes, ect. Everything is at your fingertips.

Inconvénients

Everything is at your fingertips if you can figure out where it is. The user interface is a little confusing at first and navigating the site isnt the easiest.

Avantages

The biggest pro about Workday Adaptive Planning is the easy to use dashboard as it offers a drag-and-drop functionality. This helps with making the dashboard easy to use for people with limited technical expertise.

Inconvénients

The only con that I would say is that the advance features within Adaptive Planning have a deep learning curve and can take time to learn.

Avantages

Great backend for hr department, easy to understand.

Inconvénients

It can be made little easier for users to impliment.

Avantages

This was a new platform for me, I loved how easy it was to navigate ands start booking time off

Inconvénients

No cons found yet, everything seems pretty straight forward.

Avantages

We use Adaptiv for our budgeting purposes. Their importing function makes it easy for users to upload data for analysis. Adaptiv planning has made our budgeting planning easy!

Inconvénients

There were a few bugs in the past, but they have been resolved.

Avantages

Workday is an easy and clear app. We can manage our professional life.

Inconvénients

It's not something really essential, but I couldn't close the signs of alerts even when I check the messages, because it is not clear how to do it.

Avantages

Our employees were used to working with Excel spreadsheets. We considered such an approach not completely effective, so our choice turned next to Adaptive Insights. There are no restrictions on the size of the documents. This program is synchronized with other applications, including such important for us solutions like SAP and Oracle. We like the high accuracy of the reports we can create on the tool’s base. It is also important that all data are in one place and don’t require much effort for their processing and analysis. Adaptive Insights is a multifunctional tool with a robust and well-thought-out suite of features. This application allows our employees to track finances, budgets, sales, resources, and labor contribution. With its help, our company’s managers are also able to collect divergent data, make various kinds of reports, build models, and make optimal business decisions.

Inconvénients

It would be better if Adaptive Insights had an opportunity to filter for specific months while working with spreadsheets. This lack of functionality makes our work a bit confusing sometimes. We wouldn’t mind adding more advanced features to the planning tools as well. We believe it would behoove this product if it had several tutorial videos on how to use it to the full extent. Even though we find this tool user-friendly, it doesn’t mean at all that it is so for every company.

Avantages

Reporting is good, and also the ease to run the report.

Inconvénients

Metadata maintenance is a bit complicated, and also customisation is also not at par.
UI and admin features can improve.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

Feature set is very strong.
Customer support is among the best in the industry. Highly responsive to detailed technical questions.

Inconvénients

Like any new platform, it took our team a few months after go-live to really utilize the power of the tool, but now it simply a resource that we can't live without.

Avantages

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.

Inconvénients

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.

Avantages

The best part of the software for me is the ability to quickly create reports based on any selected dimensions, levels, and timeframes. This is something that historically would have taken us a significant amount of time and is now done in minutes.

Inconvénients

My least favorite parts about the software are the difficulty in navigating the data sheets and the inability to lock formulas and values in historical versions while updating formulas going forward. I would love to see greater functionality to search in data sheets by specific columns.

Avantages

This is a solid software base that my firm uses to consolidate forecasting data and pull those forecasts for board review. It is a great platform to use for data warehousing and to pull massive subsets of data. Those pulls can then be used and pasted into Excel or whatever template that you need to generate the proper metrics.

Inconvénients

The functionality is not as user friendly as you would like. The customized reporting is complex and hard to understand. I would recommend sitting in on a seminar or tutorial before committing to it. It isn't quite user friendly and, for us, we don't use it for anything but generating massive paste fills to be dumped into our reporting templates.

Avantages

Workday Adaptive Planning is very convenient to use especially when it comes to financial planning solutions and enterprise planning, they really provide it.

Inconvénients

I don't see any downside or lack of this product and that is why I rated it 10.

Avantages

Easy to implement and maintain. Easy for end users to understand how to use the software and the models. Give you instant access to "the whole picture". OfficeConnect is great for reporting.

Inconvénients

Some admin functions are still a little tedious. The built-in reporting module needs some upgrading, but it's adequate.

Avantages

everything- ease of use

Inconvénients

none

Avantages

- Quick and easy to consolidate all accounts for all business units
- Status tracking is made easy
- Superb customer services

Inconvénients

Would love to see the changes in future releases:
- Ability to import formulas rather than having to manually set up 1000+ formulas in Adaptive;
- Ability to line up notes in reports

Avantages

Ease of implementation and use.

Inconvénients

Still developing some modules, need time to improve

Avantages

It has easy-to-use features that are good for reporting, planning, and data visualization.

Inconvénients

The only that I don't like with this software is that it freezes and crashes on my computer. But I think I need upgrades on my computer. Overall, the software is good.