Workday Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning with Adaptive Decision Intelligence brings AI to the heart of your finance function - automating variance analysis, accelerating forecasts, and surfacing insights in minutes, not days.
Data Hive Consulting x Workday Adaptive Planning
Data Hive Consulting is the finance-led Workday Adaptive Planning partner for ANZ.
100+ implementations. 12+ years. Our founder started one of the first Adaptive implementation partners in Australia over 12 years ago and has delivered Adaptive Planning projects globally.
We don't just configure software - we understand the finance function it needs to serve. Every implementation is led by people who have built the models, presented to boards, and felt the pain of inadequate planning tools firsthand.
It's planning made smarter, so you can focus on what's next.
100+ implementations
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12+ years
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Finance-experienced team
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100+ implementations ~ 12+ years ~ Finance-experienced team ~
Why Finance teams and organisations choose Workday Adaptive Planning
Finance-owned, not IT-dependent
Adaptive is designed to be owned and managed by your finance function - not IT. Your team can build models, update assumptions, run scenarios, and refresh reports without raising a ticket. It's the planning platform that gives finance back its independence.
Built for speed to value
Adaptive is purpose-built for fast deployment. Most implementations are live within 8–16 weeks. And because it's configured around your business - not a generic template - your team is using it confidently from day one, not spending months in training.
AI that actually works for finance
Adaptive Decision Intelligence and Planning Agent bring genuine AI capability to your planning environment - automating variance analysis, accelerating reforecasting, and surfacing insights in minutes rather than days. It works on your governed data, inside Adaptive, from day one. Not a chatbot. Not a bolt-on. Built in.
Excel when you want it. Adaptive as the connected source of truth.
Office Connect gives your team live, governed Adaptive data directly inside Excel and PowerPoint - with a single click refresh. So you get the familiarity your team loves with the power of a proper planning platform underneath. Best of both worlds.
Scales with your business
Whether you're planning for one entity or fifty, one currency or twenty - Adaptive scales with you. Start with financial planning and add workforce, operational planning, and consolidation as your needs evolve. No ripping and replacing as you grow.
Hear what Workday Adaptive Planning customers have to say about the platform
Trusted by organisations globally and in ANZ for over 20 years
Workday Adaptive Planning is the world's leading cloud-based planning platform - trusted by over 7,000 organisations globally, including 30% of the Fortune 500, and continuously rated #1 by Gartner.
7,050+ Global Customers
750+ Customers across Asia Pacific
20+ years of continuous platform development
AI integrated - with agentic AI in the Planning Agent, and AI insights with Adaptive Decision Intelligence
#1 in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions
How Finance leaders use Workday Adaptive Planning to re-claim their time and get back to value-adding activity
From Planning to Reporting, Adaptive is a powerful AI-enabled platform that works first to build a data-foundation then deliver insights and analysis in real-time so finance can spend time on insights and analysis, rather than wrangling data or refreshing excel-workbooks.
Here are just some of the areas teams are using Workday Adaptive Planning to accelerate how they work.
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We help finance teams move beyond static spreadsheets to dynamic budgeting, rolling forecasts, and scenario modeling.
Once implemented, our clients can respond faster to change, gain deeper visibility, and make smarter, data-driven decisions that support their strategic goals.
Budgeting and forecasting
Keep up with changing demands with a suite built for budgeting, planning and forecasting.
Scenario planning
Use data-driven predictive forecasting and modelling capabilities for deeper insights, powered by AI through Illuminate.
Analytics and reporting
Report faster and more accurately with tailored reports and dashboards, interactive data visualisations and numbers you can trust.
Strategic planning
Drive business forwards with strategic planning tools that empower finance to seize new opportunities and mitigate risks.
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By integrating finance and HR data, we’ve enabled clients to align workforce plans with business objectives. Whether it’s managing headcount, forecasting costs, or planning for growth, our clients now have greater clarity and control over their people strategies.
Headcount and cost
Easily link workforce plans to financial models with up-to-date headcount plans and related costs, staying on budget.
Workforce capacity planning.
Optimise your people resources to meet current business demand by allocating the right people at the right time.
Talent planning
Model skills capacity by location, time, cost of workforce and more. Then test different scenarios to find the perfect mix.
Strategic workforce planning
People are your greatest strategic asset. Build the right team to better meet your strategic goals and business initiatives.
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We’ve worked with cross-functional teams to connect planning across departments - from sales and marketing to operations and finance. The result is stronger collaboration, more accurate forecasts, and the agility to adjust plans as conditions evolve.
Sales planning
Dynamically plan sales resources, set quotas, and optimise rep capacity – all while keeping your eye on the bottom line.
Demand and supply planning
Deliver what your customers want, when they want it, while driving efficiency and profitability for your business.
Project planning
See how your projects impact financial and operational plans so you can make informed decisions and optimise your investments.
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Our clients have significantly reduced the time and effort required for period-end close and consolidation.
We’ve streamlined processes, automated data consolidation, and improved reporting accuracy - giving finance teams more time to focus on value-added analysis.
Bring all your data into a unified system
Pre-built integrations simplify data gathering and mapping across general ledgers, helping you easily maintain a unified source of truth.
Gain continuous insight into your financial results
Real-time, consolidated financial statements in functional and reporting currencies give you an accurate, up-to-date picture of your business.
Consolidate efficiently and accurately
Configurable, automated
Ensure compliance and control
Always-on audit capabilities self-document everything in Workday as it happens, ensuring transparency throughout the consolidation process. consolidation tasks such as translations and eliminations enable continuous anomaly detection and real-time reporting.
Key Benefits
Organisations that only plan once a year make decisions based on outdated numbers. Adaptive Planning enables you to continuously plan and budget with confidence, ensuring your decisions are based on the most current data.
Powered by AI and ML: You can easily explore "what-if" scenarios and make faster, more informed decisions with just a click - no technical skills required. If you're comfortable with Excel, you'll quickly harness the power of AI and ML for smarter planning.
Richer, Timely Insights: Get the insights you need, when you need them. With self-service reporting and real-time data, you’ll spend less time on manual tasks and more time-sharing valuable insights that drive impactful business decisions.
Boosted Collaboration: Enable your teams to collaborate more effectively by providing them with self-service reports and interactive dashboards. Chat with stakeholders via Teams or Slack directly about the numbers in Adaptive Planning linking them back to the numbers you are asking about. Your teams will align quickly and work together seamlessly to achieve your goals.
Seamless Integration: Effortlessly align your financial, workforce, and operational plans across all departments, ensuring seamless integration within your existing ecosystem.
Easy Configuration: Designed with your finance team in mind, the platform easily connects with any ERP, GL, or data source, enabling you to tailor the solution to fit your specific requirements without complexity.
Easy Deployment: Experience fast time-to-value, lower ownership costs and be up and running in a matter of weeks for initial implementation, building out from there as you and the time adapt to the platform.
Workday Adaptive Planning Services
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Every successful Adaptive implementation starts with a clear picture of where you are and where you're going.
Before we write a single line of configuration, we invest time understanding your business - your planning processes, your data landscape, your team's capabilities, and your strategic goals. From there we design a solution architecture that's built for your business, not a generic template.
What this includes:
Current state assessment of your planning and reporting processes
Data source mapping and integration planning
Solution architecture design tailored to your structure and complexity
Implementation roadmap with clear milestones and go-live targets
Stakeholder alignment and change management planning
The result is a blueprint that your whole team understands - and confidence that the build phase will deliver what the business actually needs.
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Strategic Planning. Seamless Delivery. Proven Expertise.
Our Implementation & Advisory services are built to deliver powerful, finance-led planning solutions through Workday Adaptive Planning - designed to scale with your business, no matter the complexity or industry. With one of the most experienced Workday Adaptive teams in the region, we guide you through every phase of your FP&A transformation.
Whether you're rolling out a global planning model, streamlining budget cycles, or building agile forecasting capabilities, we combine strategic advisory with hands-on delivery to ensure long-term success.
What we deliver:
Expert implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning
Strategic advisory to align planning processes with business goals
Delivery experience across APAC, EMEA, and ANZ
Support across industries including Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Higher Education, and more
Flexible engagement models to suit your internal capacity
100% focus on long-term customer value and adoption
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Training that builds confidence and keeps momentum.
Great planning tools are only as powerful as the people using them. That’s why our Workday Adaptive Planning™ training is built around your business, your models, and your team’s real-world needs. From core users to advanced planners, we help build confidence and capability from day one - so you can plan smarter, faster, and with greater impact.
Whether on-site or remote, our practical, role-based training sessions ensure your team is ready to make the most of Adaptive, now and into the future.
What we offer:
On-site or remote training options
Tailored programs aligned to your business and system setup
Role-based learning paths for finance, IT, and power users
Hands-on, practical sessions that drive adoption
Ongoing support and refreshers available as needed
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Ongoing support that scales with you.
Our Managed Services go beyond traditional support to provide flexible, expert assistance whenever and however you need it. Whether it’s technical troubleshooting, functional enhancements, or user support, we act as an extension of your team—ensuring your Workday Adaptive Planning™ platform evolves alongside your business.
We offer the ability to scale services on a weekly basis, so you only pay for what you need, when you need it. Every engagement is backed by clear service level agreements and a deep commitment to your long-term success.
What you get:
24x7 technical and functional support
Scalable, flexible service options week-to-week
Clear SLAs tailored to your business needs
Proactive monitoring and continuous platform optimisation
End-to-end support for your Workday Adaptive Planning transformation.
Our Process
Understand & Agree the Path
Before we touch the technology, we invest time understanding your business - your planning processes, your data, your team, and what success looks like for you. Together we define a solution and roadmap that's realistic, strategic, and tailored to your specific needs. No assumptions. No templates forced onto your business.
Collaborate Openly
You're part of the process from day one. We keep communication clear, decisions shared, and progress visible - no black boxes, no surprises, no consultant-speak. Your team understands what's being built and why at every stage.
Plan with Purpose
Every implementation is different. We stay flexible and responsive — adapting to your business rhythm, your go-live priorities, and any changes that emerge along the way. The process fits your flow, not the other way around.
Deliver Solutions That Grow With You
Go-live is just the beginning. What we deliver isn't just a finished product - it's a governed, scalable platform your team can own, evolve, and build on. Backed by ongoing support, training, and a team that stays invested in your success long after day one..
What our clients are saying
“The implementation of Workday Adaptive Planning with Data Hive Consulting was seamless and stress-free. They worked closely with us to understand exactly what we needed, and not only delivered on that but improved it even further.
The whole project was handled extremely well from start to finish. The onboarding was smooth, the weekly project updates kept everything on track, and the final training was clear and thorough.
I would absolutely recommend Workday Adaptive Planning for the way it makes accounting, budgeting and forecasting so much easier, and Data Hive Consulting for the professional and well-executed delivery of the entire program. The whole experience was excellent from start to finish. team’s finance, solution and delivery expertise and quality of service proved to be invaluable to our success.”
“Martin and his team’s finance, solution and delivery expertise and quality of service proved to be invaluable to our success!”
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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Workday Adaptive Planning is a cloud-based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) platform designed to modernise financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. It replaces fragile spreadsheet processes with a connected, governed planning environment that finance teams can own and operate without IT dependency.
The platform has been around since 2003, originally founded as Adaptive Planning before being acquired by Workday in 2018. That's over 20 years of continuous development - making it one of the most mature and battle-tested CPM platforms on the market today.
Since the Workday acquisition, investment in the platform has accelerated significantly - particularly around AI, with Adaptive Decision Intelligence and Planning Agent now embedded directly into the platform. Today Workday Adaptive Planning serves over 7,000 customers globally, with 750+ across the Asia Pacific region.
The Data Hive team has been implementing Adaptive in ANZ for 12+ years - making us one of the longest-standing and most experienced Adaptive partners in the region.
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Excel is a tool. Adaptive is a platform. Where Excel breaks under version control, manual consolidation, and complexity, Adaptive gives you a single source of truth - with automated data flows, real-time scenario modelling, and board-ready reporting at the click of a button. Most clients see dramatic reductions in the time spent on budget cycles and board pack preparation within the first year.
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Most implementations take between 8 and 16 weeks depending on complexity, the number of entities, and data source integrations. Our finance-led approach is designed to get you to value quickly - without cutting corners on design.
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Adaptive is purpose-built for scaling mid-market to enterprise organisations - typically businesses with revenue between $20M and $750m+. It is highly scaleable thanks to Adaptive’s proprietary Elastic Hypercube data management technology. It's particularly powerful for organisations with multiple entities, cost centres, or business units that need connected planning across finance, workforce, and operations.
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Adaptive connects with a wide range of ERPs and business systems including NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, JD Edwards, Technology One, Workday Financials, Salesforce, and more. It also integrates with data lakes including AWS and Databricks, and has a native two-way Excel connector, and it integrates with Teams or Dynamics to make communication about the numbers seamless.
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Yes - and it's genuinely built in, not bolted on. Workday Adaptive Planning has two core AI capabilities worth knowing about:
Adaptive Decision Intelligence is Workday's AI engine embedded directly into your planning environment. It automates variance analysis, identifies anomalies, generates narrative commentary, and surfaces insights from your governed data - turning what used to take days of manual analysis into minutes.
Planning Agent is Workday's agentic AI capability - designed to act on your behalf within Adaptive. It can autonomously run planning tasks, respond to changes in your data, and help finance teams move from insight to action faster than ever before. Rather than waiting for a human to spot a variance and reforecast, Planning Agent can initiate that process automatically.
Both capabilities work on your data, inside your governed Adaptive environment - so you get AI that's accurate, auditable, and actually useful for finance.
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No. One of Adaptive's biggest advantages is that it's designed to be owned and managed by the finance function - not IT. Your team can build models, update assumptions, add new dimensions, run scenarios, and refresh reports without raising a ticket.
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We stay with you as you need us. Our managed services and support offering means your Adaptive environment evolves as your business does - whether that's adding new entities, building new models, training new team members, or taking advantage of new platform capabilities as Workday releases them.
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As an implementation partner, we bring something Workday can't - hands-on finance expertise combined with deep Adaptive technical knowledge. Our team has built the models, presented to boards, and felt the pain of inadequate planning tools firsthand. That means we design implementations around how your finance function actually works, not a generic template. With implementations across ANZ and globally, we've also seen what works - and what doesn't.
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Adaptive is priced on a subscription basis, with licensing fees based on the number of users and modules required.
Implementation costs vary depending on scope and complexity.
We're happy to provide a ballpark estimate after a 30-minute discovery conversation - no commitment required.
More questions? We offer a 30 minute exploratory call to answer any preliminary questions you might have. Book a meeting below.
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