Adaptive Insights vs Qlik Analytics Platform comparison

Workday and Qlik are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Workday is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while Qlik is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.0. Workday holds a 1.0% mindshare in DV, compared to Qlik’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Qlik users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Adaptive Insights and Qlik Analytics Platform are in the business planning and data analysis sectors. Adaptive Insights leads in financial planning and budgeting, while Qlik Analytics stands out with advanced data visualization.

Features: Adaptive Insights provides robust financial modeling, forecasting, and collaboration tools crucial for financial optimization. It integrates with systems like Workday and offers cloud access for real-time updates. Qlik Analytics Platform delivers advanced data integration and analytics, enriching data exploration and visualization with features like Change Data Capture (CDC) for real-time data consistency.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights could enhance its data visualization and scenario analysis capabilities. It may also benefit from improving user interface customization and reporting aesthetics. Qlik Analytics can improve in areas like simplifying its deployment process, enhancing quicker learning curves for new users, and optimizing integration with third-party applications.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qlik Analytics Platform offers flexible deployment options, both cloud and onsite, with resources to assist complex enterprise setups. Adaptive Insights has a simple cloud-based deployment model appreciated for its ease of use and reliable support, making it suitable for organizations seeking rapid deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights is cost-effective with strong ROI, characterized by transparent setup costs favorable for budget-aware businesses. Though Qlik Analytics Platform may incur higher initial costs, its extensive data processing capabilities promise substantial ROI, ideal for data-intensive decision processes.

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Data Visualization

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (6th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (11th), ESG Reporting Software (3rd)

Qlik Analytics Platform

Ranking in Data Visualization

20th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qlik Analytics Platform is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. 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. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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FerranGarcia

Solution Architect at Red Hat

Offers a user-friendly interface and a variety of data visualization tools

My advice to new users considering Qlik Analytics Platform is to carefully assess their data project needs. While Qlik is a solid on-premises platform, the trend in the industry is moving toward cloud-based data solutions, including data warehousing and integration. Cloud data warehouses are often more modern, feature-rich, and scalable. If you are planning to create a new data warehouse in the cloud, it might make sense to also opt for cloud-native integration tools. The tech world is shifting towards cloud-native solutions, which better match the direction most global data projects are heading. Overall, I would rate Qlik Analytics Platform as a seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"It's very stable."

"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."

"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."

"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 most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

More Adaptive Insights pros

"It is a great platform for third party extensions, has an open API, and there are no black boxes."

"The most valuable feature of Qlik Analytics Platform is its Change Data Capture capability."

"Reporting is a valuable feature of the solution."

"Qlik offers you all the features needed to extract the raw data from the source systems including an ETL layer to transform the data and to connect the multiple data sources into one data model, easy data sharing, security and scaling features, dashboards, and report functionality to share your data with your end-users."

Cons

"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."

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"The upload feature exists, but isn't terribly useful."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

More Adaptive Insights cons

"One area where Qlik Analytics Platform could be improved is in providing better support for batch processing and traditional ETL workflows."

"It would be great if decentralized teams would have more features to manage the metadata on the dashboards, setup the specific user access rights and rules to govern incoming and outgoing data sets from/to other teams, and more features to separate the different data process layers (e.g. extraction, transformation [data quality, business rules])."

"The user experience needs to be improved."

"More freedom for custom visuals and dashboard creation would be an improvement."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"It's affordable."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"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 is the most expensive tool."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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What do you like most about Qlik Analytics Platform?

The most valuable feature of Qlik Analytics Platform is its Change Data Capture capability.

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What needs improvement with Qlik Analytics Platform?

One area where Qlik Analytics Platform could be improved is in providing better support for batch processing and traditional ETL workflows. While it excels in real-time replication, it lacks robust...

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What advice do you have for others considering Qlik Analytics Platform?

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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.

Workday

Part of the Qlik Sense family of products, the Qlik Analytics Platform puts the power of the Qlik Associative Engine and visualizations in the hands of application and web developers through powerful, open and modern API’s, allowing you to see the whole story within your data.

Qlik

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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