Adaptive Insights vs Sigma comparison

Workday and Sigma Computing are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Workday is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.0, while Sigma Computing is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.3. Workday holds a 1.2% mindshare in DV, compared to Sigma Computing’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sigma Computing users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Adaptive Insights and Sigma compete in corporate performance management. Users favor Adaptive Insights for overall support and ease of use, while Sigma's advanced analytical capabilities stand out for those investing in comprehensive features.

Features: Adaptive Insights offers planning and forecasting with robust financial analysis tools and efficient budgeting. Sigma provides intuitive data visualization and advanced analytics for deeper insights. Adaptive Insights focuses on optimizing corporate performance management, Sigma enhances data exploration and analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights has a straightforward deployment and proactive customer service, aligning with its usability. Sigma emphasizes technical integration and analytics deployment, supported by responsive assistance for resolving complex issues.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights is competitively priced, focusing on ROI through strategic corporate performance improvements. Sigma, with higher setup costs, justifies this with robust analytics promising long-term value. Adaptive Insights ensures affordability and value, while Sigma requires a higher initial investment with potential significant returns.

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Adaptive Insights vs. Sigma

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Data Visualization

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (4th), Reporting (18th), ESG Reporting Software (6th)

Sigma

Ranking in Data Visualization

12th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.2%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sigma is 2.2%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Visualization Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Sigma	2.2%
Adaptive Insights	1.2%
Other	96.6%

Data Visualization

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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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Russell Rothstein

CEO at PeerSpot

Modern dashboards and reports enhance decision-making and presentations

I would love to be able to create my own reports in Sigma, as I can do in Salesforce. Either we are not using it properly, or the software is too complicated. It would be great if there was a way for me to create reports without relying on a data analyst. I'm interested in the upcoming AI co-pilot to enable natural language generation of visualizations and reports. Also, the marketing materials did not match what I feel we've received. Regarding pricing, Sigma's pricing doesn't allow more people to have the ability to create their own reports. We have very few admin or report creator licenses, while everyone else is on a view-only mode.

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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

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

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

"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."

"It's very stable."

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

"Automated reporting."

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

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"Sigma has excellent features, such as lookup tables where you can easily bring data that are not interrelated or at different granularity."

"The most valuable aspect for me is having real-time data."

"I find the collaborative features, such as commenting, to be very valuable."

"The most valuable feature of Sigma is the detailed reports."

"Sigma serves as the visualization and reporting front end."

"Having those dashboards set up in Sigma has made things easier for me and my team because it's just going into one report."

"The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use."

"The most valuable feature of Sigma is the detailed reports."

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Cons

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

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"Adaptive Insights has a limit of 1,00,000 rows for HTML reports. It should be improved because we will have multiple dimensions that need to be populated to enhance the image."

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

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

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

"Better user interface (UI)."

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

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"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."

"Sigma could have better reports."

"The only minor area for improvement lies in handling highly complex visualizations."

"I would like to see better visualization options. That would allow me to build out more visually pleasing dashboarding in Sigma."

"Sigma can be improved in terms of speed; it would be great if it could process the data even faster."

"Sigma lacks a versioning feature to track changes. There is a need for better structuring, like a folder system, to organize diagrams efficiently."

"Either we are not using it properly, or the software is too complicated. It would be great if there was a way for me to create reports without relying on a data analyst."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"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 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."

"It's affordable."

"The retail price is set at one thousand dollars per creator per year."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

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 Sigma?

The tool's interface is easy to use. The functions listed as a part of the menu items are easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sigma?

When it comes to pricing, setup cost, and licensing, it has nothing to do with me.

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What needs improvement with Sigma?

Sigma can be improved in terms of speed; it would be great if it could process the data even faster. I think it's more of our use of it that I'm not responsible for in getting the Salesforce data i...

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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

Sigma is the next-generation of analytics for cloud data warehouses with a familiar spreadsheet-like interface that gives business experts the power to ask any question of their data no matter the query.

Sigma Computing

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