Corporate Planner vs Workday Adaptive Planning

Corporate Planner is a corporate performance management platform for operational management, planning, analysis, and consolidation. It supports flexible financial planning, forecasting, trend calculations, and scenario analysis, with ad-hoc analysis and real-time reporting. Integrated financial planning connects profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow, and covers budgets, liquidity, and capital expenditure. Solution areas include sales, HR, risk, fixed assets, costs, consolidation, and management reporting. The maker lists more than 350 standard integrations that connect source systems to a central database, with upstream value changes updated automatically. Workflow-driven task management and automation are included, along with more than 300 built-in business functions. Users can work through web or Excel clients and customized dashboards on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. The software is available on-premise or in the cloud. Its cloud service runs on Microsoft Azure, with data hosted in Germany's Trusted Cloud or another EU country. Pricing is on request. The maker says its platform is certified to German audit standards IDW PS 880 and IDW RS FAIT 1 and 4.

Workday Adaptive Planning supports companywide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and analytics. Teams can use it for scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning and financial consolidation. Interactive dashboards, self-service reports and process guidance support collaboration. It connects with ERP and general ledger systems, spreadsheets, databases, and cloud or on-premises sources; listed integrations include Workday, NetSuite, Salesforce, Sage Intacct and Microsoft Dynamics GP. Excel connectivity can send financial data to reports and presentations with one click. Listed capabilities include unlimited versions, unlimited what-if scenarios, no data limits, an unlimited audit trail and single sign-on. Production and non-production instances are included; secondary instances depend on the contract. The 30-day trial includes core planning capabilities, guided walkthroughs and a step-by-step guide. Pricing is on request, and close and consolidation pricing also requires a quote. The offering includes 24/7 support and Workday Community access. Salesforce imports have restrictions for some reports, app integration data and objects requiring a subquery.