Comparison

Pigment vs Workday Adaptive Planning

Learn why organizations switch from Workday Adaptive Planning to Pigment.
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Streamline your planning experience

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Single platform experience

Leverage a single platform to address your business needs.

  • Simplified data and user management
  • Native, business-owned data integrations
  • One interface for planning and reporting
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Business decisions at scale

Pigment supports organizations as they grow and scale.

  • Seamless integration with IT infrastructure
  • Ongoing flexibility with evolving planning processes
  • Pre-built templates to adapt to changing needs
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Integrated planning at its best

Allow your finance team to become a true business partner.

  • Real-time connection between applications and teams
  • Engaging user experience across Finance, Sales, and HR
  • 360 visibility with fine-grained access controls
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Transform the way you plan

Automate data imports UI

Automate your data imports

Access all your data with direct and real-time integrations

Automate your imports with the Scheduling feature

Benefit from a single source of truth

Native scenarios UI

Run native scenarios on the fly

Create scenarios in one click

Visually compare all possible outcomes in a single chart or grid

Make your scenarios read-only to prevent unwanted data inputs and imports

Spreadsheet experience UI

Access a spreadsheet experience on demand

Switch to a familiar spreadsheet view without leaving Pigment

Ease inputs for end-users with cell-level inputs and formulas

Use it as a scratchpad environment, and feed the results back to your model

Create reports UI

Create stunning reports

Format any table, including conditional formatting

Create bar charts, line charts, waterfall charts, treemaps, and more, in a matter of clicks

Display your organization’s colors in your charts

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The #1 Workday Adaptive Planning alternative  is Pigment

Workday

Multidimensional modeling engine
Granular access controls and audit logs
Native direct integrations

Updates happen in real time and across applications, no matter how many users work on the same model.

Updates can take up to several minutes if other actions are being done at the same time.

Advanced workflows

With Pigment’s Automation Center, workflows are easily set and managed by business users in one single place.

Workflows can only be set up at the cost center level, and may lack granularity (e.g., different due date for a given cost center).

HR and Financial plan reconciliation

Pigment connects Financial, Workforce, and Sales plans in a single platform with seamless data flows between applications.

Financial and headcount plans live in two separate instances for existing Workday customers.

Business-owned what-if scenario planning

Business users can create and update any number of scenarios in one-click, allowing them to quickly visualize and understand the impact of their decisions.

Only platform administrators can set up scenarios, making it difficult to update assumptions over time or compare different versions dynamically and on-demand.

In-product conversations

Teams can easily add comments directly at the cell level, reply in-thread, assign tasks and notify collaborators of changes, all in Pigment.

Collaboration in Adaptive is limited to notes. It is not possible to reply to a thread or tag another user.

Business-owned maintenance

Business users are able to build, update and maintain their models over time on their own, in any way they want.

Heavy reliance on internal experts and external consulting firms, which may result in additional costs over time.

Centralized reporting

Pigment offers advanced formatting options for highly customized reporting, down to the cell level, in a centralized location.

Reporting is disconnected from the planning process and can take place across different interfaces, making it difficult to use and find the right information.

"Amazing experience using Pigment for our internal process and annual planning needs. The system is easy to use, adapts to our organization's needs and the product continues to innovate."
IT Services · 30B+ USD
"Good experience implementing the tool, very strong user interface making it easy and fun to use. Stakeholders have been impressed by the look & feel which helped rolling it out to a broad audience."
Consumer Goods · 3B-10B USD
"Its ease of use, advanced analytics and collaboration capabilities make it a valuable asset for any organization looking to improve its performance and achieve its goals."
Finance · 500M-1B USD
"Futuristic planning and modelling platform. Provides excellent user experience, is highly adaptable, sleek , and saves us a TON of time. Could not imagine forecasting without it."
IT Services · 250M-500M USD
"Pigment is a very user friendly tool. It really is capable of doing magic in terms of financial planning."
Software · 3B-10B USD
"Pigment has become an invaluable tool in our organisation, both for actual margins analytics and scenario modeling."
Retail · 50M-250M USD
"We now have a collaborative tool to better steer our budget and be more efficient during forecasting period... We have onboarded many stakeholders and receive very positive feedbacks."
Services · 50M-250M USD

Further reading

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