Adaptive Insights vs SAS Activity-Based Management comparison

Workday and SAS are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.2, while SAS is ranked #18. Workday holds a 4.5% mindshare in BPM, compared to SAS’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 20% of SAS users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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100% willing to recommend

SAS Activity-Based Management

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20% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAS Activity-Based Management and Adaptive Insights compete in cost management and financial planning, where Adaptive Insights is often favored for its adaptability in dynamic financial planning.

Features: SAS Activity-Based Management enables detailed cost transparency, powerful activity-based costing, and OLAP data extraction. Adaptive Insights offers cloud-based planning, integrated reporting with MS Office, and user-friendly personnel planning.

Room for Improvement: SAS Activity-Based Management could improve in deployment speed, user interface, and integration with contemporary platforms. Adaptive Insights could enhance its data visualization capabilities, provide more advanced budgeting functionalities, and expand its global customer support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAS Activity-Based Management requires a longer deployment time and more technical expertise, while Adaptive Insights offers a quicker setup and extensive customer support, enhancing user experience through efficient assistance.

Pricing and ROI: SAS Activity-Based Management has a higher setup cost, potentially prolonging ROI realization. Adaptive Insights offers a lower initial cost with quicker ROI, making it a more cost-effective option in delivering value over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Business Performance Management

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (12th), Data Visualization (11th), ESG Reporting Software (4th)

SAS Activity-Based Management

Ranking in Business Performance Management

18th

Average Rating

5.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.5%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Activity-Based Management is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management

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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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it_user195021

Performance Management/VP at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

OLAP data extraction and export is a valuable feature but the drilling function needs to be brought back.

ABM: * We use ABM as an expense allocation model and it has improve the awareness and accountability of the cost incurred (due to the 'traceability' feature as mentioned in no.4 above). * We are able to run and refresh the expense allocation result based on monthly source data (Driver Quantity) to derive more accurate data for reporting. (We are aware that many other organisations are using excel spreadsheet to perform their allocation and it has very much restricted the frequency and complexity of the allocation that they can be performed). EG has helped to handle huge database ETL which definitely improve efficiency.

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

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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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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

SAS Activity-Based Management is an analytic application that models business processes to determine cost, profitability and drivers. With this solution, organizations can make informed decisions that streamline processes, deliver revenue growth and reduce costs across the organization.

SAS

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

Bank of Queensland, Barclays Bank, BioMar, Danske Bank, Danske Spil, DPPS, First Allied

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