Adaptive Insights vs Board comparison

Workday and Board International are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2, while Board International is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Workday holds a 4.6% mindshare in BPM, compared to Board International’s 6.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Workday users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Board International users who would recommend it.

Adaptive Insights

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100% willing to recommend

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Adaptive Insights and Board compete in the financial planning and analysis software category. Adaptive Insights holds an advantage in customer support and pricing, whereas Board's comprehensive feature set and strong ROI make it a preferred choice despite its higher price.

Features: Adaptive Insights provides robust budgeting, forecasting, and reporting capabilities, allowing seamless collaboration and integration with accounting systems. It emphasizes a user-friendly design. Board focuses on data visualization, analytics, and business process modeling, providing tools for complex strategic planning.

Room for Improvement: Adaptive Insights could enhance its data visualization options, expand analytics capabilities, and offer more in-depth strategic modeling. Board might improve its user interface for ease of use, simplify initial deployment, and increase cost-effectiveness for smaller companies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Adaptive Insights is known for a straightforward cloud-based deployment, offering strong support during the integration process. Board provides flexible deployment options, both on-premises and cloud, with skilled support, though it may require a more thorough setup.

Pricing and ROI: Adaptive Insights offers a competitive pricing structure with scalable options and lower upfront costs for a quicker ROI. Board, though requiring a higher initial investment, justifies the cost with its capabilities, resulting in substantial long-term ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptive Insights

Ranking in Business Performance Management

7th

Ranking in Reporting

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Data Visualization (10th), ESG Reporting Software (2nd)

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

8th

Ranking in Reporting

18th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.6%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Board is 6.7%, up from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew Rosenberg

Adaptive Planning Manager at Alight

Adaptive scales well, simple to create new budget versions and models

For the organization I used to work at, it streamlined the process of creating budgets. It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday. So that made it easy. Reporting was pretty easy to set up as well. It streamlined the amount of time it took to do the budget as well as kind of making it simple to implement a rolling forecast process. So, it really was more just a productivity increase and time shortening for the budgeting and forecasting process.

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Wiboon Thabsuwan

Senior Consultant at IMD Company Limited

Easy to use and requires less time to learn or understand its features

I think the product is good in terms of ease of use. The interface looks really nice and very easy to use. Every command appears in the icon. It looks like you don't have to understand everything about the command. You do not necessarily have to know more, or I would say that there is less time for our study about the products. Functionality-wise, it is quite easy to use and requires less time to understand or learn about the product. I am a software vendor, so I do not use the tool myself. I use it for my clients. My clients mostly use it for budgeting and timing purposes. I would say that's really less maintenance at all because they can do everything by themselves. It is good in terms of ease of use.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Changes to corporate structure, account codes are updated in all versions including prior years, hence "one-version of truth" as claimed."

"It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday."

"It helps develop a more unified work format throughout the company."

"Reports are allowed to be edited for aesthetic purposes, which is lacking in a lot of other dashboard tools."

"Forecasting changes that instantly flow through all financial statements."

"The important feature is integration with source data. It connects to various ERP systems, including Workday, Intact, and others. It can also import actuals and compare them to PlanPoint quite easily."

"We utilize planning on a daily basis, therefore we find it to be the most valuable product for our organization."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its dashboard."

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"The ease of being able to get the data into BOARD is what makes it nice for people with a semi-IT background."

"Now, we have only one version of the truth."

"The flexibility and the user-experience are the most valuable features of the solution."

"By using Board we can do a lot of free analysis. We can change the layout of a table and even the end-user can change the layout of a table. And in Board 11.2 you can save the layout. That's very useful for the customer, it's a very good function."

"Instead of taking two people a week each month to perform our internal KPI reporting, the same two people can have it done in a day."

"The ability to do write back and visualization, with minimal IT development orientation."

"All the reports are prepared automatically."

"It allows people to quickly create dashboards with reports."

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Cons

"Adaptive Insights could improve the data designer interface to make integrations easier to set up."

"Discovery (the data visualization module): Needs to catch up with BI leaders, such as MS and Tableau. E.g., sorting by amounts in column charts and page slicers to control all visuals."

"Their customer support team is slow to respond and not extremely confident."

"Better user interface (UI)."

"We tried Discovery and OfficeConnect at one point and found them too cumbersome, at the time."

"Users continue to become more advanced and are looking for more advanced solutions."

"Being able to drill down when using OfficeConnect needs work."

"It's a Workday product; they could do a little bit better to integrate a pure-play integration with Workday, which really doesn't do that."

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"In terms of scalability, I would say that there are some limitations in the solution. It cannot handle data that is too big."

"I would like to see a better Web client, where the controls work the same way as in the Windows client. I do think that the focus is now on the Web, so it should be improved upon."

"It needs more export to Excel functionality. Right now, we're having to build within the cloud-based platform, as well as build within the Excel add-in, because the export to Excel is somewhat ugly."

"It would be nice to see truly transferable processes from model to model, as well as a method of building repetitive processes."

"We have had some challenges with newer version of the rollout in terms of stability."

"We are looking for ways to distinguish zeros versus nulls in BOARD."

"Sometimes, the data disappears from the product."

"We would like to see better logging in the procedural world."

More Board cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

"It's affordable."

"Pricing is in line with other cloud-based EPM tools. It is a subscription-based model based upon the number of users and site type if it's an admin or end-user type thing."

"Licensing seems to be worth the cost considering the efficiency Adaptive brings."

"Ensure that you have the proper pricing plan in place."

"Everything is negotiable, but this solution is low cost compared to others."

"Prior to purchasing licenses, make sure you understand which users will only need planning and which users will need both planning and OfficeConnect."

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is relative to its peer competitors. It's certainly competitive compared to a spreadsheet template that you build in Excel. It can be expensive if you need to have 100-500 budget holders giving input and building financial plans. However, in that case, it becomes an extremely good bargain. Compared to its competitors, it offers an excellent value."

"The solution is quite expensive, if it is made cheaper then we can have more clients. I rate it four out of ten."

"It is not the cheapest product on earth, but you get so much. It provides good value for money."

"In terms of the pricing, it was reasonable. BOARD is not the lowest in the market, but it was reasonable for us."

"Find a partner who will take responsibility for the implementation, and be available for support."

"The tool's price is a bit high compared to other solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Financial Services Firm

Non Profit

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adaptive Insights?

It's very simple to create a new version and do some more modeling based on your need for planning things like headcount, other expenses, and revenue, everything is configurable within Workday.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptive Insights?

12 years ago, it was very affordable. Workday has definitely increased its price since it acquired Adaptive a few years ago. So, it's affordable. But there are other more affordable solutions that ...

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What needs improvement with Adaptive Insights?

The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up. So, there could be room for just improving the integrations, making it easier to integrate outside sys...

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Is Board better than Anaplan as a Business Intelligence (BI) solution?

We've had several FP&A departments include Anaplan in their analytics discussions, and while BI information IS generated, the focus is generally on compiling input from various sources and simu...

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What do you like most about Board?

All the reports are prepared automatically.

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What needs improvement with Board?

Board's integration could be a bit more robust, but what we have works. If the design isn't right, the flexibility of Board can negatively impact performance.

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Also Known As

Workday Adaptive Planning, Adaptive Discovery , Workday Adaptive Planning

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Overview

Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that helps businesses streamline their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

With its intuitive interface and powerful analytics, it enables organizations to make data-driven decisions and drive business performance.

Workday

BOARD International - headquartered in Switzerland - is a leading global provider of software for improving business results through better decision making. By unifying Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management into a single product, BOARD enables companies to achieve a shared vision of their performance across the entire organization, and thus a single version of the truth.

BOARD provides seamless solutions for • Reporting & Analysis • Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting • Profitability Modelling & Optimization • Simulation & What-if-Analysis • Scorecarding & Strategy Management • Financial Consolidation. Based on visual modelling, BOARD has enabled global companies to deploy BI and CPM applications without a single line of code in a fraction of the time and cost associated with traditional solutions.

Board International

Sample Customers

1. Cisco Systems 2. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated 3. Deloitte 4. DocuSign 5. Dropbox 6. Electronic Arts 7. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation 8. Fitbit 9. Fossil Group 10. Groupon 11. Hilton Worldwide 12. HP Inc. 13. Intuit 14. Johnson & Johnson 15. LinkedIn 16. Lyft 17. McAfee 18. Medtronic 19. Netflix 20. Oracle 21. Pandora 22. PayPal 23. Pinterest 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. ServiceNow 27. Slack Technologies 28. Spotify 29. Symantec 30. Tableau Software 31. Twitter 32. Workday

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