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"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions.""Automated reporting.""We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization.""Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements.""Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools.""Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed.""The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily.""It's very stable."

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"Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."

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Cons
"Better user interface (UI).""Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident.""Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals.""Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions.""Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work.""It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that.""The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up.""The product's configuration process could be faster."

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"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."

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  • "Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."
  • "Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."
  • "Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."
  • "Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."
  • "Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."
  • "Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."
  • "Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."
  • "It's affordable."
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  • "Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
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    Top Answer:Here are some of the pros and cons of OneStream XF and Adaptive Insights for FP&A in the professional services industry OneStream XF Pros: Unified platform for FP&A, budgeting, forecasting,… more »
    Top Answer: It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.
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    Also Known As
    Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning
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    Overview

    Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes. 

    With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

    Birst Networked BI and Analytics eliminates information silos. Decentralized users can augment the enterprise data model virtually, as opposed to physically, without compromising data governance.

    A unified semantic layer maintains common definitions and key metrics.
    Birst’s two-tier architecture aligns back-end sources with line-of-business or local data. Birst’s Automated Data Refinement extracts data from any source into a unified semantic layer. Users are enabled with self-service analytics through executive dashboards, reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics. Birst Open Client Interface also offers integration with Tableau, Excel and R.

    Birst goes to market in two primary ways: as a direct sale, for enterprises using Birst on internal data to manage their business; and embedded, for companies who offer analytic products, by embedding and white-labeling Birst capabilities into their products.

    Birst’s is packaged in 3 available formats: Platform and per-user fee; by Department or Business Unit; by end-customer (for embedded scenarios).

    Sample Customers
    1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday
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    Financial Services Firm9%
    Educational Organization7%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Retailer17%
    Logistics Company8%
    Real Estate/Law Firm8%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Adaptive Insights is ranked 11th in Reporting with 18 reviews while Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting. Adaptive Insights is rated 8.4, while Birst is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Adaptive Insights writes "Facilitates leveraging the query reporting engine and modeling engine into Excel spreadsheets but there is room for improvement in terms of performance ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". Adaptive Insights is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Anaplan, Oracle HFM and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, whereas Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx.

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