INNOVATIVE EPM FEATURES

World-class innovation for faster, smarter planning.

At Workday, innovation drives everything we do. Learn how key features of Workday Adaptive Planning utilize powerful AI and machine learning (ML) to help you plan with confidence and move your business forever forward.

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Conversational planning.

Use generative AI to easily surface relevant insights, and get recommended actions based on those insights.

Conversational planning.

Quickly surface data, uncover contextually relevant insights, and get recommended actions through written prompts and queries powered by generative AI—all within a streamlined user experience.

Predictive forecaster.

Leverage internal data, external data, and machine learning to see what lies ahead.

Predictive forecaster.

Generate predictive demand forecasts using not only your historical data, but also additional regressors in the form of other datasets to drive even greater accuracy. 

Personal what-ifs.

Proactively create your own scenarios for greater insight into factors that can impact your plans.

Personal what-ifs.

With what-if scenarios, you can proactively plan against factors that can impact your budgets, without affecting your base planning version (new scenarios can be merged into the base version, if desired).

Observability metrics.

Gain insight into your Workday Adaptive Planning instances from a centralized viewpoint. 

Observability metrics.

Centralized visibility into how your Workday Adaptive Planning instances are used enables you to optimize planning usage and gain better insights.

Bottom-up workforce planning.

Plan alongside stakeholders across your organization in an easy-to-use, guided interface.

Bottom-up workforce planning.

Our guided headcount planning experience enables Workday Human Capital Management users to plan alongside FP&A and other business stakeholders within an easy-to-use interface designed for HR professionals.


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