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Sigma vs Workday Adaptive Planning comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 21, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.0
Sigma enhances productivity by 25% through efficiency, reducing development time and manual tasks for quicker data-driven decisions.
Sentiment score
7.2
Adaptive Insights offers significant ROI and savings through efficient budgeting, reporting, and enhanced planning within the first year.
It's essential for everything data-related within our company.
CEO at PeerSpot
I have seen a return on investment with Sigma; we already said that it saves about a quarter, it gets me to answers about 25% faster.
Customer Success Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
I have definitely seen a return on investment through time saving because once the dashboards are built, they are built.
Head of Marketing at a tech company with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
Sigma's customer service is praised for its accessibility, professionalism, real-time expertise, and efficient problem-solving during transitions and urgent issues.
Sentiment score
7.7
Adaptive Insights' customer service is lauded for quick, efficient responses, knowledgeable support, and valuable resources, despite occasional delays.
Their support I really think is a 10 out of 10.
The support staff are all professional users of the product itself and they are available almost 24/7 and helped me to come up with solutions to all of the problems that I had.
Business Intelligence and Analytics Intern at Workato
As Sigma is a cloud platform, you do not need to do all that maintenance work.
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
Sigma's architecture offers scalability and flexibility, managing large data and users efficiently, supporting expansion with accessible features.
Sentiment score
6.9
Adaptive Insights offers strong scalability and efficiency, though integration and implementation efforts vary across different organizations.
Sigma seemed to scale just fine with our large data sets and could handle anything we threw at it.
Business Intelligence and Analytics Intern at Workato
Permissions are easily set, so you only get to see what you need to see and you can share what needs to be shared.
Head of Marketing at a tech company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Sigma offers stable, reliable performance for daily analytics, with users experiencing smooth functionality and no major issues.
Sentiment score
7.0
Adaptive Insights is highly stable with quick issue resolution, praised for reliability, version control, and minimal downtime.
We did not face typical errors during our project with Sigma.
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Sigma requires advancements in complex queries, visualization, user interface, data modeling, collaboration, and faster processing, with improved Snowflake integration.
Adaptive Insights must enhance pricing, integration, data visualization, planning features, UI, support, and functionality for better competitiveness.
The main improvement needed is in data modeling capabilities.
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
It is about being able to hold people within the tight context of the data in the dashboard and being able to interact with it conversationally.
It is not as intuitive as I was hoping, so once you figure it out and get going, it is easy to use, but I would say at the very beginning, the learning experience is kind of hard.
Head of Marketing at a tech company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Sigma offers moderate pricing with flexible licensing, though high admin costs may limit report creation access, saving infrastructure expenses.
Adaptive Insights offers competitive subscription pricing with efficiency benefits, though costs vary by user type and quantity.
The pricing of Sigma is a concern, as it restricts our ability to provide more users with report-creating capabilities due to the high cost of admin or report creator licenses.
CEO at PeerSpot
 

Valuable Features

Sigma offers a user-friendly, scalable platform for data analysis, integrating Snowflake and enabling dashboard creation without SQL expertise.
Adaptive Insights delivers scalable cloud solutions with integrated reporting, enhancing business planning through consolidation, forecasting, and ERP integration.
Sigma has positively impacted my organization by creating a culture that we are trying to add to all processes, simplifying our processes and improving our analysis effort.
Execution Lead Principal Data Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sigma has positively affected my organization by saving us time in accessing information, which ultimately gets us to complete projects faster.
Customer Success Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Sigma is valuable because you can do pretty much anything you need to do within Sigma.
Business Intelligence and Analytics Intern at Workato
 

Categories and Ranking

Sigma
Ranking in Data Visualization
15th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (16th)
Workday Adaptive Planning
Ranking in Data Visualization
21st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Reporting (24th), ESG Reporting Software (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Sigma is 1.8%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workday Adaptive Planning is 1.7%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Visualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Sigma1.8%
Workday Adaptive Planning1.7%
Other96.5%
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2729628 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Analytics Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Great collaboration with intuitive interface and dynamic visualization capabilities
As we are exploring multiple features in Sigma, I think Sigma can add more functionality. As Power BI gives multiple modeling options in its interface with the query editor, those features can be added in Sigma for intuitiveness or for making the data very clean. From the dashboarding perspective, it performs well. However, from the modeling perspective, it requires more capabilities that can be added in Sigma. The main improvement needed is in data modeling capabilities. If they add those features in the near future, it would be very helpful for us to implement the same or do the data cleansing part in the Sigma tool itself.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sigma?
I do not know much about my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing because I am not heavily involved in that.
What needs improvement with Sigma?
I think Sigma can be improved by continuing to do what they are doing in leaning into AI and leaning into the Snowflake integration with AI. All of the conversational features that they have recent...
What is your primary use case for Sigma?
My main use case for Sigma is for enterprise dashboards, which is originally why I brought it in, and self-service analytics. A quick and specific example of how I used Sigma for enterprise dashboa...
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Also Known As

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Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Snowflake, Fivetran ,Autodesk, Flowspace, Super League Gaming, Zumper, Clover, Volta, Olivela
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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