Adaptive Insights vs Board comparison

Workday and Board International are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Workday is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0, while Board International is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.3. Workday holds a 4.4% mindshare in BPM, compared to Board International’s 5.5% 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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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

9th

Ranking in Reporting

18th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Performance and Strategy Management (3rd), Data Visualization (15th), ESG Reporting Software (6th)

Board

Ranking in Business Performance Management

6th

Ranking in Reporting

17th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Adaptive Insights is 4.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Board is 5.5%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Performance Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Board	5.5%
Adaptive Insights	4.4%
Other	90.1%

Business Performance Management

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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

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

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

"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."

"It's very stable."

"The integration with our payroll system to complete staff modeling during our budget and forecast processes."

"The biggest feature is the source of truth for all of our budget and forecast versions."

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

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

More Adaptive Insights pros

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

"The dynamic selections on the screen and details by function are also valuable for inside the data view."

"It has definitely saved us time, especially in our budget and planning processes."

"The reporting part has been very valuable as the capabilities of the tool do not have to change graphs, change how grids are displayed, and can create reports on the fly."

"Primary valuable features are its flexibility and versatility and, obviously, functionality goes along with that. Plus, it does that at a small footprint in the file servers, and does it very efficiently."

"I find Board to be simple and easy to use."

"My favourite feature of BOARD is the ability to write back to the OLAP DB, as well as the Rdb, and secure user data allowing databases to be flushed and rebuilt daily."

"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."

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Cons

"The product's configuration process could be faster."

"Better user interface (UI)."

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

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

"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."

"The integrations could be simpler. It takes quite a bit of internal and IT know-how to set up."

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

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

More Adaptive Insights cons

"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."

"What could be better is the manual... nowadays, most people use a web client, but on the Board manual website, a lot of the information is only about the Windows client. If they could update that, it would be helpful."

"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."

"The initial setup was very complex for us."

"It would be nice to have more connectors for other data sources. BOARD is a great tool to become the single source of the truth. Making it easier to connect data sources for niche software tools will make it easier to keep everything in one place."

"My analysts have used the technical support. Sometimes they have felt like they did not receive the answer that they needed, or you have to go and upgrade in order to address a problem. "

"We can't delete entities and cubes in Boards because it interrupts our whole data model."

More Board cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Adaptive Insights' pricing is reasonable."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"It's affordable."

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

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

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

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

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	8

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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