As budgeting season draws to a close, companies everywhere are putting the finishing touches on their plans and projections for the new year. And while this cycle may have been like every other, with many companies finding their forecasting obstructed by complex or outdated processes that limit their ability to make strategic decisions, there is a better way.
Workday Adaptive Planning, deployed by Strada, provides companies with a streamlined, optimized platform that transforms the strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting modelling process.
What is Workday Adaptive Planning?
Workday Adaptive Planning is a powerful company-wide planning platform spanning financial planning, workforce planning, and operations planning that helps businesses of all sizes accelerate their budgeting and strategic planning processes to deliver fast and accurate analytics, budgets and reports.
At Strada, our teams bring their unmatched expertise and best practices, gained from over 16 years of experience and 850+ Workday Adaptive Planning projects, to each deployment. We help companies craft an agile, scalable solution that will meet their unique needs, grow with their business, and take their financial, workforce and operational planning to the next level.
How Workday Adaptive Planning benefits your organizations budgeting
Strada’s deployment of Workday Adaptive Planning transforms manual, error-prone planning processes, equipping organizations with a powerful tool for faster and more effective workforce and financial planning.
- Accelerate human capital planning to create dynamic headcount and skills-based plans that align your future workforce with strategic business goals.
- Utilize real-time, connected insights to quickly and easily forecast and produce accurate budgets that support your organization´s growth.
- Harness AI and ML to analyze what-if scenarios all within a single click, to better control and predict the outcome of business decisions.
Our solutions are based on an experience-backed methodology called the Strada Point of View (POV), designed to ensure you get the most out of the platform, while understanding your unique way of working. We also provide options for a pre-configured approach designed to accelerate deployment timelines and reduce costs so you can start realizing value faster.
How can Workday Adaptive Planning elevate your budgeting planning game?
With Workday’s cloud-based infrastructure and powerful built in AI and ML capabilities you can make your planning smarter, faster and more effective, Here’s how:
- Real-time collaboration: Work seamlessly across teams with up-to-date data and dynamic dashboards, ensuring everyone is aligned and decisions are well-informed.
- Scalable flexibility: Whether you’re a small business or a larger enterprise, adapt to complex planning needs with ease, from revenue forecasts to workforce scenarios.
- Predictive accuracy: Leverage AI-driven insights to minimize errors and create reliable forecasts that prepare your business for multiple scenarios.
- Agility in planning: Quickly model “what-if” scenarios and pivot plans in response to market shifts or internal changes.
- Easy to use and integrate: With its intuitive interface and seamless integration, it’s accessible to technical and non-technical users alike.
- Cost efficiency: Save time and resources by automating manual processes, improving accuracy, and reducing operational costs.
Workday Adaptive Planning Webinars
Strada, in partnership with Workday, recently hosted a series of three webinars showcasing the latest innovations in Workday Adaptive Planning and demonstrating the benefits the solution provides.
Webinar 1: Unifying Planning and Consolidation
- How to unify planning and consolidation efforts for faster close cycles.
- Review innovations that streamline data consolidation across departments.
- See how a single source of truth in financial data enhances collaboration.
Webinar 2: Assessing Capacity and Utilization
- Discover tools to assess real-time capacity and optimize resource utilization.
- Learn strategies to bridge gaps between capacity and demand.
- Gain insights into forecasting utilization for improved decision-making.
Webinar 3: Enabling Effective Project Management
- Learn how Adaptive Planning supports project tracking and accountability.
- Discover ways to manage timelines, budgets, and resources with ease.
- Gain visibility into project progress to ensure alignment with financial goals.
