Adaptive Insights vs Zoho Analytics comparison

Workday and Zoho are both solutions in the Reporting category. Workday is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.2, while Zoho is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.8. Workday holds a 0.4% mindshare in RT, compared to Zoho’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Zoho users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Adaptive Insights and Zoho Analytics are competing in the business intelligence category. Zoho Analytics appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive data analysis features and cost-effectiveness.

Features: Adaptive Insights provides comprehensive budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning tools. It excels in financial departments with its robust budgeting features, OfficeConnect integrations, and cloud-based solutions. Zoho Analytics offers extensive data analytics and visualization tools. It integrates seamlessly with various applications for data reporting and provides versatile analysis tools for many business functions.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights could benefit from a shorter deployment process and potentially more intuitive interfaces for new users. Furthermore, its cost model may be prohibitive for smaller businesses. Enhancements in integration capabilities with other software systems could also be beneficial. Zoho Analytics might improve its depth in financial-specific functionalities to broaden its appeal to finance-heavy sectors. Additionally, the platform could benefit from further enhancing its user interfaces to compete with more expensive tools. Enhancing customization options for reporting formats could improve user satisfaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights involves a more detailed deployment process, which may require significant time and resources but is supported by strong customer service throughout the implementation. Zoho Analytics offers a streamlined deployment that is quicker and simpler, complemented by comprehensive customer support, making it attractive for businesses looking for rapid implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights has a higher initial setup cost due to its specialized tools, which may result in a longer ROI period. Zoho Analytics offers a more budget-friendly price point, allowing for quicker ROI and significant immediate cost savings. The pricing model of Zoho Analytics is competitive, further enhancing its appeal to businesses looking to maximize value without compromising on functionality.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Reporting

12th

Ranking in Data Visualization

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Performance Management (8th), Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), ESG Reporting Software (5th)

Zoho Analytics

Ranking in Reporting

9th

Ranking in Data Visualization

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (12th), Embedded BI (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 0.4%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho Analytics is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Yogesh Kumar Mali

Managing Director at ALPHA LABS TECH PVT LTD

An easy-to-set up solution that helps in the scheduling of reports and dashboards

A lot of integrations are available with Zoho Analytics. There is a limitation that we cannot create more than 300 columns in a worksheet on Zoho Analytics. The data can be in millions. There are some limitations on the reports that depend on the various combinations of data you get. So there is always an error that gets thrown out if you are building complex reports.

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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

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

"It's very stable."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"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."

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

"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."

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"The tool's most valuable feature is its dashboard."

"Scheduling of reports and dashboards is the most valuable feature of Zoho Analytics."

"We moved the data from Zoho Creator to Zoho Analytics and created reports."

"The integration interface is very easy to use and allows you to directly connect to a variety of APIs."

"Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"We really like that it's user friendly and has a lot of combinations and charts. They're good compared to other tools. We used a free Elastic product, comparatively, this solution is good because of their support, UI, and connecting to databases is very easy."

"We use the solution for financial and sales analytics. It brings data from our IT incident management tool. Hence, we have three business use cases for IT support, sales and financials."

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Cons

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

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

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

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

"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 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."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

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

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"The customer service and support for this solution could be improved by faster response times."

"I have a lower rating when it comes to Zoho Analytics. The tool has poor performance. It needs to improve the dimensions and measures."

"The improvement needed is regarding the number of API calls. Currently, Zoho Analytics only allows us to update data hourly. It would be much better to have updates more frequently every half an hour."

"The navigation on the interface is not intuitive."

"The solution does not provide call center facilities for customer support."

"The support for Zoho Analytics is pathetic."

"There should be more types of graphics available for use in the reports."

"They should provide white labeling with a cheaper option. I know they have a white labeling feature in which I can white label Zoho Analytics with my company theme, logo, and URL, but it seems a little expensive. If they can make it cheaper, it would be great. The same is applicable to Tableau."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

"It's affordable."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

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

"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."

"The product is expensive."

"I would recommend looking at your usage and whether the Zoho One license model would work for your organisation. It is very cost effective if you use other Zoho tools."

"Zoho Analytics costs $ 4,200 per month, billed yearly."

"The tool's pricing is similar to other Zoho applications and is affordable."

"An exact ROI is hard to calculate. However, we have definitely made sales that would have been much harder, or unlikely, as a result of the speed with which we were able to prepare comprehensive analysis."

"I don't feel that price is an issue for this product."

"For one license the pricing is about $35 a user."

"The product's licensing is reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

73%

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Financial Services Firm

Insurance Company

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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 Zoho Analytics?

Zoho Analytics's most valuable feature is the ability to provide excellent analytics through a single platform.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zoho Analytics?

I rate the tool's pricing seven out of ten. The licensing costs are yearly.

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What needs improvement with Zoho Analytics?

The improvement needed is regarding the number of API calls. Currently, Zoho Analytics only allows us to update data hourly. It would be much better to have updates more frequently every half an hour.

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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

Zoho Reports is a powerful, easy-to-use and highly scalable cloud-based reporting and business intelligence platform for small to medium-sized businesses. Its flexible pay-as-you-go pricing model and scope for customization allow businesses to tailor it to their unique needs.

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Sample Customers

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