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Anaplan vs Workday Adaptive Planning comparison

 

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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
4.8
Anaplan users save on costs, improve efficiency, and see increased sales and ROI, especially within the first year.
Sentiment score
7.2
Adaptive Insights offers significant ROI and savings through efficient budgeting, reporting, and enhanced planning within the first year.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.2
Anaplan's customer service is responsive and helpful, though complex issues may take longer, and lacks a support portal.
Sentiment score
7.7
Adaptive Insights' customer service is lauded for quick, efficient responses, knowledgeable support, and valuable resources, despite occasional delays.
The technical support from Anaplan is amazing, with a dedicated team to assist in case of any issues.
Lead Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
...they often try to sell packages or new products every time I seek technical support, which is not satisfactory.
Director - Finance Systems at QualiTest Group
We are getting the kind of support that we need from Anaplan.
Anaplan Solution Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Anaplan offers scalable solutions for large enterprises, enhancing connectivity and integration despite rising costs with larger implementations.
Sentiment score
6.9
Adaptive Insights offers strong scalability and efficiency, though integration and implementation efforts vary across different organizations.
Anaplan had issues before, but the new Polaris engine solves them.
Lead Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Anaplan is praised for stability, reliable performance, minimal maintenance, improved integration, and consistently high uptime ratings of nine out of ten.
Sentiment score
7.0
Adaptive Insights is highly stable with quick issue resolution, praised for reliability, version control, and minimal downtime.
Anaplan is performing very well with new features.
Director - Finance Systems at QualiTest Group
 

Room For Improvement

Users desire enhanced Anaplan features including better automation, visualization, customization, pricing, performance, and machine learning capabilities to boost adoption.
Adaptive Insights must enhance pricing, integration, data visualization, planning features, UI, support, and functionality for better competitiveness.
If any kind of history can be captured on the front-end UX page, that would be really appreciated and helpful.
Anaplan Solution Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Anaplan cannot perform some tasks handled by Planning Analytics due to their different foundations, Anaplan on Hyperblock technology and TM1 on OLAP.
IBM Planning Analytics SME and Developer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Reducing latency during huge data imports is necessary, as server hang-ups can create significant problems.
Technology Lead at Randstad Digital
 

Setup Cost

Anaplan offers premium pricing from $30,000 annually, with costs based on user, storage, tier, and additional features.
Adaptive Insights offers competitive subscription pricing with efficiency benefits, though costs vary by user type and quantity.
Currently, Anaplan is more expensive compared to other tools.
Product Support Engineer at JSW
The pricing is slightly on the premium side, but I do not have detailed knowledge about the exact licensing structure.
Lead Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Anaplan offers user-friendly, cloud-based, real-time planning and integration with strong automation, reporting, and scalability for diverse industries.
Adaptive Insights delivers scalable cloud solutions with integrated reporting, enhancing business planning through consolidation, forecasting, and ERP integration.
The integration is very seamless compared to any other tools in the market, making Anaplan quite easy to integrate with different tools.
Anaplan Model Builder at Xenlytics
Anaplan's connected planning feature is its most valuable aspect, allowing for seamless financial planning, HR planning, and updates.
Lead Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Data Orchestry functions similarly to cloud integration management but is provided directly by Anaplan, where users can view the data directly, whether they are standard users or Anaplan developers.
Applied Model at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Anaplan
Ranking in Business Performance Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Production Planning (2nd), Predictive Analytics (4th)
Workday Adaptive Planning
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 (4th), Reporting (24th), Data Visualization (21st), ESG Reporting Software (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Anaplan is 6.4%, down from 14.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workday Adaptive Planning is 5.0%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Performance Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Anaplan6.4%
Adaptive Insights5.0%
Other88.6%
Business Performance Management
 

Featured Reviews

Segun Oladele - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager, Accounting at BIC
Reporting and forecasting have become more automated through intuitive data organization and flexible number calendarization
I do not have any improvements from my own end at this time.There are some specific features or functionality that I would like to see included in Anaplan in the future. From what we have been using, I do not think there is any specific one because we import and export numbers. Importing and exporting with CSV files is already available in Anaplan. I do not have any special requests from Anaplan. I still decided to give Anaplan an eight because I have not seen a specific dashboard on Anaplan. Anaplan could have a dashboard where you can see the flow of your numbers displayed on pictorials rather than just saying this is the number. Simple dashboards should be implemented.
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
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

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Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

HP, ForeScout, DocuSign, EAT, Pandora, Aviva, Intel Security, Zalora
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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