590 Workday Adaptive Planning Testimonials

"A key reason we adopted Adaptive for sales planning was to build confidence in the sales organization. The sales teams know the regions; they know the accounts; they’re the experts. Adaptive allows them to take an active role in mapping out their territories and associated quotas."

“Workday really helps managers increase ownership. Sitting with employees, you don’t have to say ‘I’ll speak with HR’ because Workday makes it easy to answer questions in real time. It’s overall more empowering for managers and employees.”

“Managers now have greater control and are much more engaged in budgeting and forecasting. There’s also greater confidence in the information and forecasts we produce—extending from the finance team to the board.”

“Using Adaptive Insights at Cochlear, we’ve been able to free up the capacity of our finance team and reinvest time in more strategic analysis of what’s driving our business today, and where we’re headed in the short and long term.”

“I now have more time to analyze the data and have meaningful discussions with each of our operations— for example, where costs can be reduced and incomes maximized. In this way, we have been able to be far more strategic, with time to share learning experiences, identify opportunities, and ultimately add value to the business.”

"Because of the flexibility of Adaptive Planning, I can now do a lot of what-if planning and what-if scenarios to see where we're going, what programs are effective, and what programs are worth keeping."

"It's going from reporting what happened, to helping figure out what's going to happen."

"After implementing Adaptive Planning, our executives have been able to spend less time looking into the line items and more time on the bigger picture view of the business."

"We can now focus on presenting management with most strategic data as KPI dashboards, and more long-term outlook scenarios. We are providing more added value to management than we ever could have before."

"With Adaptive OfficeConnect, the reporting process has become much more efficient so that more of my time can be used for analytics."

"Healthcare is rapidly evolving, it's growing, it’s changing. Adaptive Insights is a very flexible solution and it lets us match that flexibility to an industry that is constantly evolving."

“We are better able to manage expenses with Adaptive Insights and improve our margins. In the first year we saved $8 million, simply by fixing freight issues.”

"With active planning, we’re constantly iterating all the drivers in our model. It becomes smarter and smarter as you feed in actuals down at the driver level, so the level of predictability becomes better and better.”

"You can sit down with a faculty member and create a funding plan and develop models to determine what funding is available, what the needs are, how many graduate assistants should be hired. Those are the conversations we need to have to best achieve our goals."

"At the university level, we will probably be able to free up five to 10 FTEs to do higher-value activities. I hope this allows us to get greater proficiency in the proposal development stage, which is in effect our sales cycle. It’s our business development, so we want to turn our FTE savings toward supporting that effort."