“We need to work with best-in-class partners in the technology space to help us go faster.”
"With Workday Adaptive Planning we were able to drive our annual variance to less than 1%. For some drivers, even lower. And that is remarkable."
“The move to a cyclical process gives employees and managers continuous feedback, coaching, and the support they need to be successful.”
“We asked all the vendors to do a proof of concept. Clear Plan’s proof of concept was very much in tune with how we wanted to manage the budgeting and forecasting process. The Adaptive product could do what we wanted it to do and the support services from Clear Plan were exactly what we needed to implement the solution successfully.”
"From a professional perspective, it gives us more time to sit back and analyze what the data is telling us versus just reporting on the data, getting the information last minute, and having to run to the next meeting and report on the numbers. It actually gives us a couple days to sit back and ask, ‘what is the data telling us."
"At Knowledge Universe, we try as much as we can to leverage technology to differentiate us from other competitors. So one of them is by giving our teachers and principals the necessary finance knowledge and the necessary skills to run their centers and their schools as if they were their own business."
"It took me 20 years to learn Excel and it's taken me two weeks to learn Adaptive. It doesn't get any better than that."
“Adaptive helps us to meld our financial data and non-financial data together to create a unified plan for the College, which we could not do before.”
“With Adaptive, we’re able to create much more accurate financial forecasts by employing real time data analysis on key business trends, and then ascertain what those trends mean for our business.”
“Adaptive Insights has helped me evolve my role from pushing around numbers, to really breaking down data and providing analysis that leads to better decisions.”
“With Adaptive, we have clear insight to make business-wide decisions.”
“We’re saving at least two days each month in FP&A work and can tell the story of what’s happening with the business across all dimensions much sooner than before with Adaptive.”
“We’re using the increased productivity with Adaptive to do new types of reporting and analysis, and to identify trends. All of this helps us continually understand business performance, share insights with the global team, and confidently decide what to do next.”
“In today’s society, you don’t have the time to turn a big ship slowly. You have to do it efficiently and effectively, and that’s where we see the analytics we get from Adaptive Insights as a true driving force.”
“We have new operational information, more ways to display and understand that information, and we’ve cut the time it takes to close our books and create new budgets, plans, and forecasts from one week to 2 days.”