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Adaptive Insights vs SAS Strategic Performance Management comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights
Ranking in Business Performance Management
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Financial Performance and Strategy Management (5th), Reporting (25th), Data Visualization (20th), ESG Reporting Software (14th)
SAS Strategic Performance M...
Ranking in Business Performance Management
26th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.9%, up from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAS Strategic Performance Management is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Performance Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Adaptive Insights4.9%
SAS Strategic Performance Management1.4%
Other93.7%
Business Performance Management
 

Featured Reviews

Andrew Rosenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
it_user225768 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst/Programmer/Cellular TL at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The dashboards provide a good amount of information, but the unique keys in the underlying MySQL database caused some issues.
The dashboards/reports provide excellent and concise information/results. Also, it provides a good amount of information via the dashboard The data load and the configuration of the front end was not very easy. One of the main issues was that the SAS macros used by SAS SPM, as well as the…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."
"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."
"More accurate, reliable, and timely forecasting."
"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."
"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."
"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."
"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."
"Automated reporting."
"The dashboards/reports provide excellent and concise information/results."
 

Cons

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."
"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."
"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."
"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."
"We do have issues getting information on our customer success turnover."
"The planning functionalities are the weakest part of Adaptive Insights."
"It's complex; thinking about the business models and capabilities in Adaptive."
"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."
"The data load and the configuration of the front end was not very easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."
"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning
Strategic Performance Management
 

Overview

 

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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