Adaptive Insights vs SAS Activity-Based Management comparison

Workday and SAS are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #10, while SAS is ranked #18. Workday holds a 5.0% mindshare in BPM, compared to SAS’s 2.5% 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

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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

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (4th), Reporting (26th), Data Visualization (20th), ESG Reporting Software (15th)

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

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 5.0%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Activity-Based Management is 2.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Adaptive Insights	5.0%
SAS Activity-Based Management	2.5%
Other	92.5%

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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_user530763

CEO at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

Helps to compare production costs across different departments. Try CostPerform from QPR.

Helps to compare production costs across different departments The data integration is very complex Visualization of the cost flow is not user-friendly It takes hours to build OLAP cubes to analyze the results of the model We have been using this solution for three years. I would rate the…

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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 reporting tools are what I gain the most benefit from."

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

"More accurate, reliable, and timely forecasting."

"It's very stable."

"Our organization is able to use Adaptive to complete a major majority of our monthly management and quarterly Board reports, and by refreshing reports and pages automatically, it creates the monthly report package with little to no manual staff work."

"Adaptive saves us huge hours in budgeting, for each roll-up it saves us two hours at least, and we usually have more than 20 roll-ups."

"It has helped us to automate a lot of our processes."

"We have gone from an organization that looked backwards at financials and had a one-time annual budget to an organization that looks forward, has rolling forecasts, long-term planning, metrics, and push button reporting."

More Adaptive Insights pros

"The product helped determine the organization's true cost of providing its products and services to customers."

"The product allows us to calculate the distributed cost across activities."

"Cube generation is a valuable feature."

"Helps to compare production costs across different departments."

"We use ABM as an expense allocation model and it has improved the awareness and accountability of the cost incurred due to the traceability feature."

Cons

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

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

"Better user interface (UI)."

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

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

"Pricing can be made better affordable to SMEs. Every year price increase is an issue."

"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."

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

More Adaptive Insights cons

"It could be made much more simpler. Most of the time it looks like a black box for developers."

"We experienced severe performance issues when the models created are getting more details and becoming more complex."

"The interface is poorly designed and could really use an improvement to compete with other comparable software."

"The usability needs to be improved but bear in mind that we did not have the latest update."

"The data integration is very complex Visualization of the cost flow is not user-friendly It takes hours to build OLAP cubes to analyze the results of the model"

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

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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

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