Lightcast vs Workday Adaptive Planning

Lightcast provides labor-market data, software, and delivery services for enterprise, education, and government teams. Its database combines more than 2.5 billion job postings and career profiles with government labor-market information. Products include Analyst, Career Coach, Developer, GoRecruit, Recruit, SmartReq, Talent Analyst, Talent Transform, and Widget Builder, among others. APIs let customers decide when, where, and how Lightcast data appears in a website or application. Data shares can be delivered through Amazon S3, Databricks, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, SFTP, Snowflake, Snowflake Marketplace, and Databricks Marketplace. API taxonomies list more than 34,000 standardized skills, 75,000 standardized titles, and 1,800 specialized occupations. Rhetorik adds more than 800 million enriched professional profiles, 280 million company records, and 18,000 technology-product insights; its data refreshes every one to two days, with a fully assembled view published monthly. Lightcast lists consulting, software subscriptions, and custom data delivery. Analyst supports OIDC and SAML single sign-on. Pricing is on request, with web and API access.

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.