Adaptive Insights vs Sigma comparison

Workday and Sigma Computing are both solutions in the Data Visualization category. Workday is ranked #23, while Sigma Computing is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.3. Workday holds a 1.5% mindshare in DV, compared to Sigma Computing’s 2.1% 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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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Data Visualization

23rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (10th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (5th), Reporting (23rd), ESG Reporting Software (12th)

Sigma

Ranking in Data Visualization

11th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Visualization category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 1.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sigma is 2.1%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Visualization Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Sigma	2.1%
Adaptive Insights	1.5%
Other	96.4%

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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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reviewer2729628

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.

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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 important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

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

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

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

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

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

"Automated reporting."

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

More Adaptive Insights pros

"Sigma is a great software for non-technical business users. If someone's familiar with pivot tables or Excel or Google Sheets, they should be able to pick up Sigma pretty quickly. There is a very low bar for onboarding."

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

"Sigma has positively impacted my organization because I think it has been a huge impact, and we use it for all our reporting and our dashboards for tracking."

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

"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 feature of Sigma is the detailed reports."

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

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

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Cons

"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."

"Better user interface (UI)."

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

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

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

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

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

More Adaptive Insights cons

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

"I think Sigma can be improved because, for the last ten months since I first started here, this is my first time ever using it, and I think there is a steep learning curve."

"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."

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

"Sigma could have better reports."

"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."

"Sigma could have better reports."

More Sigma cons

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."

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

"It's affordable."

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

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"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."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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	5
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?

I do not know much about my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing because I am not heavily involved in that.

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What needs improvement with Sigma?

I think Sigma can be improved because, for the last ten months since I first started here, this is my first time ever using it, and I think there is a steep learning curve. It is not as intuitive a...

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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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