Spotlight Reporting vs Workday Adaptive Planning

Spotlight Reporting is a web platform for management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation. Reporting includes visual reports, KPIs, consolidations, and chart galleries. Forecasting covers budgets, cash flow, what-if analysis, and consolidated forecasts, with monthly, quarterly, or annual views and a 60-month horizon. The service supports scenario modeling, variance analysis, and forecast-versus-actual comparisons. Spotlight Reporting can consolidate up to 75 entities; Spotlight Multi supports up to 500 and is designed for franchises and not-for-profit associations, including benchmarking and ranking. Connections include leading accounting systems such as Xero and QuickBooks, plus Google Analytics and other non-financial sources. Spotlight AI can generate or reformat commentary for an Executive Summary or Action Plan. Business costs $35 a month excluding sales tax for one organization. Business 10 and Franchise & Not for Profit cost $329 a month excluding sales tax. A 14-day trial is offered, with no permanent free plan.

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.