Adaptive Insights Initial Setup

Brian Teets - PeerSpot reviewer
Workday Adaptive Planning Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The complexity of the initial setup depends. This means a lot of it is finances, is never the same for every organization. So, if it's more typical use cases, generally, the setup is a cloud-based tool. It is fairly straightforward. That's the whole idea behind it once your implementation partner helps you to configure, but you want to be doing that knowledge to KT throughout the way because, eventually, in the end, the finance function usually owns the software. So, it is with an asterisk because it does depend. Like, if you're, it depends. A large-scale enterprise company, and you're gonna bring a lot of heavy complexity. So, if it's within the typical parameters.

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Gregory Maxwell - PeerSpot reviewer
Workday Financials & Adaptive Insights Project Manager at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Adaptive Insights is easy to deploy. However, it is challenging to configure and requires testing before deployment. The complexity depends on the business requirements.

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BT
Senior Principal Consultant (Workday Adaptive Planning) at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Adaptive Insights is relatively easy to implement and maintain compared to other competitive products. It usually requires specialized consulting support to set up, but it is straightforward. Once set up, Adaptive Insights is a tool that finance departments can use with relatively little help from their IT departments.

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Raju PK - PeerSpot reviewer
Adaptive Planning Associate Consultant (Manager) at Alight

Adaptive Insights has a straightforward deployment. Deployment for small companies takes one to two months to complete, while medium-sized organizations can take around three to six months. The deployment for large companies can take up to one year to complete and gets done in phases. 

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it_user757545 - PeerSpot reviewer
Investments and Treasury Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It is both straightforward and complex. Setting up personnel, revenue, and capital models can be complex, but the solution overall is very straightforward.

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it_user757701 - PeerSpot reviewer
Financial Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

Ours was pretty complex, because our organization has a non-traditional accounting structure.

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it_user757509 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I wasn't there.

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JT
Senior Financial Analyst at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

For the most part, it was straightforward. It was complex, in the way of understanding the setup and formulas associated with the assumptions, etc.

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it_user758661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Budget & Finance at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

Initial setup was straigthforward.

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it_user757593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Financial Manager at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

It's complex; thinking about the business models and capabilities in Adaptive.

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it_user759228 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Financial Analyst at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I wasn't around for the initial deployment.

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it_user757539 - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Reporting Analyst (Senior Level) - previsouly Analyst, Financial Reporting at a maritime company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Most module are straightforward. Others are complex due to the nature of our business, such as multi-dimensional cube sheets. Modeled sheets, with their limitations as cited above, needs special treatment.

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it_user192219 - PeerSpot reviewer
Finance Manager at a mining and metals company with 51-200 employees

Was straightforward.

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it_user759231 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Financial Analyst at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Not applicable.

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HN
Finance at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Not applicable.

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