Customers

"The Adaptive Planning investment has been a great value that continues to exceed my expectations."
- Chris Dickson, Director of IT, Allen Vanguard

"Adaptive Planning allowed us to significantly improve the quality and depth of our information, and dramatically improved our decision making capabilities."
-George DiFlavis, CFO, Valley of the Sun YMCA

"The Adaptive Planning team has been extremely responsive and willing to work with us."
- Shilo Jones, President, evo

"With Adaptive Planning, we reduced our budget process by more than 50%."
- Karen Wesley, Manager of Analysis, ACCESS Community Health Network

"For anyone still dependent on Excel spreadsheets for corporate budgeting, Adaptive Planning is the easy and smart transition to a modern, web-based application."
- Deborah Lansford, CFO, CORT

Featured Success Stories

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2nd Wind Exercise

Retail

300 employees

Eden Prairie, MN

“Adaptive Planning helps us to be more proactive as the market changes. The multi-dimensional reporting and what-if scenarios enable us to determine how to protect our margins even when overall sales are down.”
–Tom Kelly, CFO and CIO, 2nd Wind Exercise Equipment

Results:

  • Transformed a static annual budget into a rolling forecast
  • Enabled what-if scenarios that protected profit margins
  • Helped 2nd Wind identify its highest-margin fitness equipment

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ACCESS Community Health Network

Healthcare

Chicago, IL

“What appealed to us about Adaptive Planning was the web-based delivery model, which made the software easy to access across more than 60 health centers. In addition, it offered functionality that met our core challenges, including an audit trail, automatic consolidation, and what-if analysis and reporting capabilities.”
–Karen Wesley, Manager of Analysis, ACCESS

Results:

  • Rolled out to 110 users across more than 60 clinics
  • Reduced budget process timeline by 50%
  • Delivered 24 hour/ day access to managers

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Affymax

Biopharmaceutical

150 employees

Palo Alto, CA

“The great customer service and reliability of the application have been big reasons for our satisfaction with Adaptive Planning.”
–Caroline Lepiane, FP&A Manager

Results:

  • Developed a five-year plan for their planned operating expenditures and expected revenue
  • Enabled scenario planning
  • Delivered more frequent re-forecasts

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Allen Vanguard

Manufacturing

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

“The Adaptive planning investment has been a great value. They continue to exceed my expectations by adding product features and providing excellent support. And their client services team is extremely responsive.”
–Chris Dickson, Director of IT

Results:

  • Decreased time spent completing the budget by 2/3
  • Enabled managers to maintain monthly forecasts in as little as 1 hour per month
  • Implemented a monthly forecast process with full P&L visibility

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Alternative Futures Group

Nonprofit

2500 employees

Liverpool, UK

“We are very proud to announce that AFG’s Finance Team has won both the prestigious ‘Third Sector Excellence Award 2011’ and the ‘Charity Times 2012’ in the ‘Financial Management’ category. Adaptive Planning was a fundamental part of the submission to overhaul its overall financial management arrangements.”
–David Smith, Head of Financial Management and Performance

Results:

  • Making complex changes to assumptions reduced from days to hours
  • Board of Directors receives reports from Adaptive Planning
  • More robust scenario modeling
  • Faster to get information out to the operation and see the full effect on cash flow, balance sheet and I&E

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American Academy of Pediatrics

Nonprofit

425 employees

Elk Grove Village, IL

“The time to implement the system is one of the most impressive things I have seen. I have worked on other IT projects and they have taken significantly longer. The implementation process could not have gone better. People are still raving about it and everyone is very happy with the solution.”
–Bill Beers, Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Results:

  • Implemented in less than eight weeks
  • Reduction in time and cost associated with budget process
  • Enthusiastic user feedback

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American Academy of Physician Assistants

Nonprofit

180 employees

Alexandria, VA

“Utilizing the new visual discovery solution, to drill into transaction level details, ensures that line managers can really understand the results and better comprehend the information. It is a fantastic business intelligence tool that has transcended beyond an FP&A solution to become our decision support system within the organization.”
–Shyam Desigan, CFO and Sr. VP of IT

Results:

  • Provided line managers with real-time access to data
  • Improved revenue forecasting
  • Enabled a decision support system for the organization

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American Massage Therapy Association

Nonprofit

Evanston, IL

70 employees

“Adaptive Planning allows the finance department to be a strategic partner with the rest of the organization by providing better information in a more timely manner. We have reduced the annual budget process from 3 months to 2 months.”
–Byron Kanaley, CFO, American Massage Therapy Association

Results:

  • Self-implemented and rolled out to 20 users in less than 30 days
  • Reduced the annual budget process time by 1 month
  • Enhanced the planning process by making corrections based on variance in plan vs. actual

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Appalachian Mountain Club

Nonprofit

16,000 volunteers and 450 full time and seasonal staff

Boston, MA

“After using the trial, Adaptive Planning passed with flying colors. We purchased a three year subscription for 26 users. The implementation process was smooth and we experienced both strong project management support, and technically proficient consulting. Best of all it was not exorbitantly expensive because all meetings were conducted over the web.”
–James Tague, Controller

Results:

  • Leveraged platform for what-if scenarios
  • Improved actuals vs. variance analysis and reporting
  • Conducted more frequent forecasts

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Bandwidth

Communication Network Provider

300 employees

Research Triangle Park, NC

“I looked up SaaS budgeting software and discovered Adaptive Planning. Adaptive Planning’s trial was very helpful in setting up an initial model in order to get executive buy-in. Adaptive Planning fit our requirements and the price was a very good value.”
–Jason Dean, Director, SMB Financial Planning & Analysis

Results:

  • Company re-aligned on a divisional basis and Adaptive Planning was a very visible and useful tool during that process
  • Financial modeling done in Adaptive Planning
  • Executives are bought in to the solution and engaged with it
  • Adaptive Planning has become part of the finance team’s daily lives

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Boston Scientific

Manufacturing

St. Paul, MN

“With Adaptive Planning, we achieved a better budget process with an investment of $15,000 compared with the millions of dollars and years of investment spent maintaining the on-premise Hyperion solution.”
–Mark Powers, Sr. Finance Manager

Results:

  • Implemented in one month
  • Rolled out to 25 users
  • Improved management reporting and analysis as well as end-customer satisfaction.
  • Allowed the consolidation of two additional full-time equivalents into existing team

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CollabNet

Software

Brisbane, CA

170 employees

“With Adaptive Planning, we’ve increased the efficiency of our planning process by 25 to 40 percent.”
–Tom Clark, CFO

Results:

  • Increased the frequency of forecasts from semi-annually to quarterly
  • Ran detailed “what-if” scenarios to guide business decisions
  • Engaged vice presidents and directors in budgeting and forecasting

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CORT Business Services

Retail— Rental Relocation Services

2,200 employees

Fairfax, Virginia

“Adaptive Planning was the only solution that made sense. It offers a huge leap forward in terms of functionality, without turning everyone’s world upside down. A great selling point of Adaptive Planning was that no internal IT resources were required to get the budgeting project done. Our IT resources are better spent on other company objectives.”
–Deborah Lansford, CFO

Results:

  • Cut the budget process in half
  • Rolled out to 400 contributors across the organization
  • Reduced time spent forecasting by 80%

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Crittall Windows

Manufacturing

200 employees

Witham, Essex, UK

“Now with Adaptive Planning, I use the application on a more proactive basis, updating the forecast as the year goes on. Once you have built the initial model, it is easy to update and build reports”
–Graham Eyles, Financial Controller

Results:

  • Streamlined budget process with one unified platform
  • Saved a tremendous amount of time
  • Enhanced forecasting process
  • Improved accuracy of budget

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DemandTec

Software

300 employees

San Mateo, CA

“For someone who has not used this application, it is much more flexible than you would imagine. In today’s age with all the web-based technology available, it doesn’t make any economic sense to stick with Excel.”
Steve Stein, FP&A Manager

Results:

  • Improved scenario analysis capability
  • Sped up the process of developing a revenue forecast
  • Delivered key reports to stakeholders and executive management

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DHL Global Forwarding Ireland

Transportation and Logistics

Dublin, Ireland

“Implementing Adaptive Planning saved us 3 weeks of manpower across 3 people, the equivalent of 5 full time weeks. Next year will be even faster.”
–Andrew May, CFO

Results:

  • Saved the equivalent of 5 weeks of work by the finance team
  • Budget is more reliable
  • Ability to analyze actuals variance against plan and drill in to the details

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DocuSign

Software

180 employees

San Francisco, CA

“The reporting is the holy grail of Adaptive Planning. Being able to drag and drop fields for reports is a great feature. Finally, it is very easy to import data from different data sources for improved forecasting and reporting.”
–Mike Wong, Director of FP&A

Results:

  • Saves a dramatic amount of time
  • Ability to make a change to an assumption and the model automatically updates
  • No longer sending individual spreadsheets out to the field
  • Rolled out to the exec staff

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Drobo

Technology

100 employees

San Jose, CA

“We now produce a better budget with Adaptive Planning. In addition, we utilize the Great Plains connector for Adaptive Planning, which has shaved one day’s time off the process when we want to conduct variance analysis. With the connector, it takes less than five minutes to bring ERP data into Adaptive Planning–it’s pretty incredible.”
–Danielle Murcray, CFO

Results:

  • Rolled out to executive management team
  • Introduced quarterly forecasting
  • Implemented the Great Plains Adaptive Planning connector for variance analysis

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evo

Retail

40 employees

Seattle, WA

“Adaptive Planning has really improved our ability to manage to a budget. Once or twice a month, we bring in our actuals, see how we’re trending and make course corrections as needed. It’s easy to re-plan on the fly.”
–Shilo Jones, President

Results:

  • Increased the accuracy and integrity of the company’s financial model
  • Decentralized budgeting process
  • Enabled managers to create what-if scenarios for on-the-fly planning

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Feuerstein institute

Business Services

Jerusalem, Israel

“i enlisted a consulting firm, sana group, to help us build a three-year strategic financial operating plan for the organization. they immediately recommended we build the model in adaptive Planning. My instinct was to build the model in excel, but Jacob greenblatt, Principal of the sana group said “no, we are going to do this in adaptive Planning and you will understand why.”
–Chaim Guggenheim, CEO

Results:

  • Implemented the solution in two months
  • Reports delivered to executive team
  • Managers held accountable for financial impact of department

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First National Bank Alaska

Financial Services

700 employees

Anchorage, AK

“Adaptive Planning is so much more flexible than Excel that it is easy to revise your budgets and set a new plan going forward when something significant changes in your business.”
–Rachel Nichols, Special Projects Manager

Results:

  • Created a driver-based plan
  • Implemented more frequent forecasts
  • Improved variance analysis

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GeekNet

Media

Fremont, CA

100 employees

“Revising our plan within one day would have been impossible on our old spreadsheet system. With Adaptive Planning, all stakeholders were able to easily identify the areas requiring modifications and the department heads were able to view the combined numbers on a real-time basis.”
–Jeffrey Chalmers, Corporate Controller

Results:

  • Revised an annual plan within two days
  • Enabled better business decisions through increased visibility into budget information
  • Importing actuals from an Oracle financials system, making it easier for department managers to stay on plan

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Goodwill Southern CA

Nonprofit

1900 Employees

Los Angeles, CA

“The process of rolling out this solution was seamless. Budget participants quickly felt comfortable and were happy to be more involved in the process.”
–Jonathan Martin, Budget/Information System Specialist

Results:

  • Introduced robust reporting of actuals vs. plan
  • Reduced one finance headcount allocated to budget preparation process
  • Enhanced employee satisfaction with budgeting process

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The Greenfield Group

Manufacturing

200 employees

North Wales, UK

“Adaptive Planning costs a fraction of what other solutions with comparable features and functionality cost. Pound for pound it is the best value system I have seen.”
–Simon Nichol, Finance Director

Results:

  • Implemented the solution in less than 8 weeks
  • Budget contributors can log-in and see only the information relevant to them
  • Saved tremendous time previously spent consolidating information and error checking

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Hayes Management Consulting

Business Services

100 employees

Newton, MA

“Adaptive Planning delivers the robust functionality I need to manage the business, monitor the bottom line, and stay on track with a budget and plan. It also allows management to focus more on strategy versus data gathering.”
–Ethan Carlson, VP Finance

Results:

  • Implemented in less than one month
  • Conducted comparative reporting on actuals vs. plan
  • Improved visibility into the business through forecasting

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ITE Group, PLC

Trade Exhibitions and Conferences

1000 employees

London, UK

“After rolling out Adaptive Planning, we have received some very positive feedback from our users. In addition, we have saved tremendous time on consolidation and making changes, such as adjusting a currency rate, which used to take up to two days and now takes under ten minutes. Adaptive Planning’s support team has been fantastic as we came up to speed on the solution.”
–Darren Rao, Head of Management Information Systems

Results:

  • Implemented in less than two months and rolled out to 30 users
  • Improved access to data better identifies potential issues
  • Saved tremendous time on consolidation and making changes

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Jaguar Mining

Energy & Utilities

500 employees

Concord, NH

“With Adaptive Planning, we can now look at various slices of the database that are associated with each individual function—from a mine, a plant, or an administrative or headquarters operation. It’s a much simplified view of our business model.”
–Bob Katz, Interim Director, FP&A, Jaguar and President, FACTS

Results:

  • Enabled global business units to load data directly into the system
  • Automated process of creating internal and external management reports
  • Quickly accommodated changes to consolidations

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Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells

Energy & Utilities

9000 employees

Swindon, UK

“I appreciated that Adaptive Planning was very accessible and flexible. I could begin working on building our model immediately, with no start-up costs, and no IT infrastructure required. The documentation and training were also excellent.”
–Stephen Smith, Finance Director

Results:

  • Offers a disciplined alternative to spreadsheets
  • Provides budget access to a wider audience
  • Eliminates version control issues and errors
  • Tracks participant activity during planning process

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Jones Lang Lasalle

Business Services

40,000 employees

Phoenix, AZ

“I had been with the organization based in Phoenix, AZ, for about nine months and I recognized a critical gap in our ability to easily forecast and report on key financial data. In my role, I am responsible for managing the financial reporting process and implementing standardized accounting practices. It was critical that I find a technology solution that would allow me to automate the forecasting and reporting process, as well as better enable me to produce a portfolio of financials and KpI’s”
–Cliff Marnick, Vice President, Director of Finance

Results:

  • Engaged professional services team to implement in 5 weeks
  • Manage portfolio’s expenses within Adaptive Planning
  • Excellent customer support
  • Cycle time reduced from 20 days to 5 days

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KANA

Software

Menlo Park, CA

“Now we can conduct high level scenario planning in Adaptive Planning and validate the transactional impacts in NetSuite. Additionally, we can immediately load our approved budgets from Adaptive Planning into NetSuite and constantly monitor our budget versus actual variance.”
–James Jones, Director Financial Planning and Analysis

Results:

  • Rapid and frequent planning
  • Detailed modeling
  • Increased collaboration

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Knowledge Networks

Business Services

Menlo Park, CA

“I knew the big software packages were out of reach from a cost perspective, so I began to take look at SaaS applications that would move the organization forward at a price point that fit our organization’s resources.”
–Nerina Carpenter, Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis

Results:

  • Total time to develop the annual budget decreased by more than half
  • More time spent analyzing the data rather than collecting and consolidating
  • Security based on individual permissions down to the plan level

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Lean Logistics

Software

180 employees

Holland, MI

“We use the Adaptive Planning Connector for Intacct, to easily import actual data with the click of a button. This has saved us a lot of time and enabled us to much more quickly forecast and report on the finances of the company. The visibility into the operation has been substantially enhanced and Adaptive Planning has enabled us to drive our business forward.”
–Julie Anderson, FP&A Manager

Results:

  • Saved two days of time through automation
  • Enabled balance sheet and cash flow forecasting
  • Produced multiple scenarios based on KPI’s
  • Enhanced visibility into the operation’s financials

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Lund Food Holdings, Inc.

Retail

3200 employees

Edina, MN

“If I had all the time in the world to create something, this is what I would build. It has the look, functionality and ease of Excel, but it also has sophisticated features that allow more flexibility in your planning process. We have a lot of in-depth Excel knowledge in our staff, so this made Adaptive Planning a natural fit. Adaptive Planning is a low cost tool that does not require IT support to manage. It’s relatively easy to use and quick to roll-out.”
–Gwen Hendrickson, Director of Finance

Results:

  • Rolled out to 40 users
  • Utilized reporting capabilities
  • Import and export data in minutes
  • Easily change assumptions and formulas

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McKinstry

Architecture & Engineering

900 employees

Seattle, WA

“Users love the application because the model was built in such a manner that everything was pre-defined and all they had to do was enter the data and the application calculated and rolled everything up. In addition, managers can log-in from anywhere and even work on the budget while on vacation.”
–Mike Shannon, Sr. Finance Analyst

Results:

  • Rolled out to 58 users
  • Reduced the budgeting time by 65%
  • Eliminated hours of work each month to produce executive dashboard reports
  • Saved 10 hours per month developing business unit reports

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Konica Minolta

Manufacturing

7,000 employees

Ramsey, NJ

“The biggest benefit of using Adaptive Planning has been the ability to produce reports. It is much easier to create key management reports now because Adaptive Planning is the only place in the organization that houses data across all platforms, including headcount reporting, unit sales, and service revenues based on the number of machines in the field.”
–Christopher Reale, Director,Corporate Planning & Analysis

Results:

  • Reduced the budget process by 33%
  • Eliminated 1.5 people within the Financial Analysis team
  • Increased visibility into financials and data accuracy

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Michael Baker Corporation

Business Services

2,800 employees

Moon Township, PA

“Each year, rather than spending weeks of our time trying to develop budgeting and forecasting reports in Excel for any given request, we can run reports in Adaptive Planning in a matter of minutes. In the past, delivering an accurate report on a large account with multiple projects was difficult and required IT involvement. Now it is just a click of the button.”
–Samuel Reed, Finance Manager

Results:

  • Eliminated more than 100 hours of finance work
  • Delivered a more accurate budget with consistent formulas
  • Provided profitability visibility across thousands of projects, 37 locations and 140 reporting roll-ups

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Museum of Contemporary Art

Fine Arts

95 employees

Chicago, IL

“We were all looking to transform our budgeting processes and Adaptive Planning was the solution reconnecting us around a common goal. After signing up for a free trial, I found the application intuitive and robust and immediately built a model to show the capabilities to our CFO. I also appreciated that the application was designed by a CFO to be similar to Excel.”
–Peggy Papaioannou, Controller

Results:

  • Developed a budget, a mid-year forecast, and a final year projection
  • Annual product releases continually enhance the application
  • Report templates enable easy generation of reports

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National Dairy

Manufacturing

5,000 employees

Dallas, TX

“For what we wanted to accomplish, Adaptive Planning made more sense than the big enterprise applications. It was a more adaptable solution and allowed us to easily make changes and adjust assumptions. It also required a shorter implementation timeline and was more affordable. Cost was a secondary consideration. What we needed was a more flexible solution for budgeting and forecasting and Adaptive Planning really stood out.”
–Clint Bowers,Corporate Treasurer and Financial Reporting Manager

Results:

  • Deployed Adaptive Planning to 40 users across the company
  • Delivered a communication portal to the field
  • Increased accountability of sales team in the field

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Northstar

Financial Services

450 employees

Omaha, Nebraska

“Everyone is really happy with Adaptive Planning. People can log-in from wherever they want because it is web-based. Now people are logging into Adaptive Planning frequently because it is easier to make changes in this tool. The ability to drill-through into a cell gives people the background detail they need. The ability to run real-time reports and trust the data is a huge benefit for our organization.”
–Andrew Rosenberg, Financial Analyst

Results:

  • Rely on Adaptive Planning for all financial reporting
  • Understand true financial picture of the company
  • Implemented 12-month rolling forecasts

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The NPD Group

Market Research

1,200 employees

Port Washington, NY

“Adaptive Planning was one of the most successful roll-outs of software ever experienced at The NPD Group. After three months of using Adaptive Planning, the finance team received a standing ovation at the annual corporate meeting. Now that speaks to the adoption and the return on investment of Adaptive Planning.”
–Wendy Baum, EVP, Finance

Results:

  • Reduced consolidation and roll-up time by 2 weeks
  • Conducted budget process in less than three months
  • Software roll-out heralded as one of the best in company history

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PaySimple

Software

75 employees

Denver, CO

“By implementing Adaptive Planning, we have a great reporting platform available to our organization. Now I can measure key performance indicators across our business. The ability to keep a dynamic forecast up to date and run scenarios quickly and easily is a big benefit.”
–Carol Wood, CFO

Results:

  • Provided the reporting platform for the organization
  • Streamlined preparation process for board and investor meetings
  • Enabled the addition of new channels and products that instantly roll up to the category
  • Eliminated data sharing and version control issues

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Papyrus

Retail

660 Employees

Fairfield, CA

“In a challenging operating environment, the ability to have real-time visibility into our results, analyze what the numbers mean, and make adjustments to manage cash flow, inventory and staffing at a store level has been a tremendous advantage for Papyrus.”
–Tom Shaw, CFO

Results:

  • Streamlined budget process
  • Reduced the time spent producing monthly financial reports
  • Provided top-level payroll forecasting

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Porex Corporation

Manufacturing

700 employees

Fairburn, GA

“Each of the vendors gave us demos. We had a team of five people and used a set of criteria that we measured each product against. In the end we all agreed on Adaptive Planning. Adaptive Planning was by far the easiest to use, which was extremely important to us. It was also the least expensive, which was a bonus.”
–Aude Richez, Senior Financial Analyst, Porex

Results:

  • Management and end-users enjoy ease of use
  • Employees empowered through ability to create their own custom reports
  • No IT resources required for global deployment and management
  • Robust capabilities support complex planning and reporting needs

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PRGX

Business Services

1600 employees

Atlanta, GA

“If you are looking for a solution that is easy to use, simple to implement, and a good price, Adaptive Planning is a no brainer. My job was riding on this. Everyone was happy with the result.”
–Todd Caito, Director, Financial Planning and Analysis

Results:

  • Users found it was easy to use
  • Can have multiple versions and lock them down
  • Develop board packs based on AP model
  • Conduct what-if analysis to see impact to the business

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PlayFirst

Online Gaming

70 employees

San Francisco, CA

“I really like the formatting features, especially when I am doing variance analysis. For those finance professionals who are still relying on Excel for their budgeting, forecasting and reporting process, I would recommend they automate it going forward. Adaptive Planning has cut a lot of time out of the process and the reporting is incredibly valuable.”
–David Nixon, Finance Manager

Results:

  • Reduced time spent consolidating data
  • Eliminated formula errors
  • Improved variance analysis and reporting

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ProKarma

IT Solutions

1600 employees

Omaha, NB/Portland, OR

“I have done modeling for 25 years. I know a good modeling program when I see it and Adaptive Planning is a dream. In one recent meeting with a department manager, the Adaptive Planning investment paid for the results of this one hour meeting.”
–Craig Stack, CFO

Results:

  • Moved to a 12 month rolling sales forecast
  • Increased visibility into department level budgets
  • Handled multiple currencies and separate entities with ease

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Quidel Corporation

Manufacturing/Pharmaceuticals

San Diego, CA

“The time savings have been huge. We’ve saved significant time across a range of functions because we no longer have to manually transfer data and manipulate data to create reports.”
–Tyler Tracy, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis at Quidel

Results:

  • Faster planning and reporting process saves more than $40,000 per year
  • Better visibility into consolidated, multiple-entity business
  • Flexibility to react to changes faster
  • Self-service reporting

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Shared Technologies

Telecommunications

Coppell, TX

1500 employees

“It’s easy for a team of people to access and use the Adaptive Planning system for budgeting and planning. The security and permission structure ensures confidentiality. Now our CFO will go into Adaptive Planning and make changes directly because it does not require an expert systems person.”
–Gwyn Goodrow, Director, FP&A and Payroll

Results:

  • Deployed annual budget for all legal entities in a short time frame
  • Enabled quarterly re-forecasts
  • Re-allocated one employee to a financial analyst role based on the time savings

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Skagit County

Government

Washington State

700 employees

“One of the key features that stood out in Adaptive Planning was the ability to model a complicated personnel structure of 700 employees with different start and end dates, 13 different unions, multiple pay structures, full-time vs. part-time employees, salaried vs. hourly employees, and three different retirement packages.”
–Trisha Logue, Budget and Finance Director

Results:

  • Rolled out to 35 users in eight weeks
  • Decreased budget cycle by 36%
  • Eliminated distribution of paper-based copies budgets

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Source

Financial Services

35 employees

“The real return on investment for us was the ability to have a true reporting engine in place. As our portfolio of products grows, this reporting engine is critical for us to effectively manage the business.”
–Anne-Marie Whelehan, CFO, Source

Results:

  • Introduced a new reporting engine into the organization
  • Enhanced forecasting and analysis by importing data from general ledger
  • Eliminated the errors associated with the old Excel-based process
  • Data available in centralized source

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Unitrin Direct

Insurance

700 Employees

Chicago, Illinois

“When I update a plan in Adaptive Planning, it forms the foundation of my next five-year strategic model. I don’t have to retype a bunch of information to make sure my starting point is accurate.”
–Bryan Rogers, Vice President of Finance

Results:

  • Can instantaneously recalculate entire plan to reflect real-time changes
  • Improved alignment by involving more department managers in planning
  • Easily incorporated newly acquired company into plan

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Vail Resorts

Hospitality & Property Management

13,000 employees

Broomfield, Colorado

“The major business advantages of using adaptive planning are the ability to increase efficiency and to decrease the amount of time spent forecasting. With adaptive planning, we can lock-down formulas and not worry that the budget contributors are going to change a formula in a spreadsheet and break the model. now they have the freedom to access adaptive planning online and submit the required information through workflow, which saves a tremendous amount of time for the controller.”
–Wayne McLellan, Jr., Senior Manager Lodging Finance

Results:

  • Rolled out to 58 users across two instances
  • Increased accuracy and decreased time spent forecasting
  • Improved strategic decision making
  • Enabled monthly 90-day forecasting

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Vehicle Testing New Zealand

Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Services

1000 employees

New Zealand

“Adaptive Planning proved to be far easier to use and much simpler to implement than both the on-premise and on-demand alternatives. The free 30-day trial allowed us to test the software before buying and to get hands-on experience with the robust planning and reporting capabilities.”
–Brian Elliott, Finance Manager

Results:

  • Deployed solution to 21 users in under 4 weeks
  • Saved $20,000 NZD
  • Enabled improved reporting process

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Vista Maria

Nonprofit

300 employees

Dearborn Heights, MI

“I really appreciated how structured the implementation process was. The statement of work, scoping document and detailed process for developing the budget model in Adaptive Planning enabled us to achieve the results we wanted.”
–Patrick Zurlinden, Vice President and CFO

Results:

  • Improved budget quality
  • Ability to make changes to the budget and react faster
  • Enhanced reporting capabilities

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Vocus

Software

400 employees

Lanham, MD

“Adaptive Planning is quickly becoming the most important data source for financial and operational information in our company.”
–Bas Brukx, Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis

Results:

  • Delivered a ‘single version of the truth’ by eliminating Excel errors
  • Enabled cross-departmental engagement in the budget process
  • Improved reporting and financial analysis available to executive team

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Westerra Credit Union

Credit Union

200 employees

Denver, CO

“I had used Adaptive Planning at a previous company that was in another industry. Despite the differences between that industry and credit unions, I knew the functionality could meet our needs because the application was so flexible. I also liked that the software offered a significant improvement over our existing Excel system without incurring large capital costs.”
–Jennifer Meyers, VP of Finance

Results:

  • Increased the number of alternative plans developed
  • Reduced resources spent developing management reports
  • Automated consolidation of departmental budgets

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Working Links

Public-Private Voluntary Company

1000 employees

London, UK

“Adaptive Planning has enabled us to make the budgeting process much more efficient. From an end user perspective, the solution is a lot more intuitive and users were pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to pick up and use.”
–Nigel Richards, Commercial Finance Director

Results:

  • Implemented the solution in less than two months
  • Rolled out to 15 users via WebEx training
  • Reduction in the amount of headcount spent on the budget and planning process

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Nonprofit

55 employees

San Francisco, CA

“Implementing Adaptive Planning has greatly reduced the time I spend developing our annual budget. Our managers are very happy with the tool because it is very easy to use and easily showcases data, so we can optimize programs and make adjustments. I am telling everyone about the success I have had with Adaptive Planning.”
–Claire SunSpiral, Finance Director

Results:

  • Reduced the budget process time significantly
  • Enabled variance analysis
  • Improved manager-level engagement in planning process

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