SCENARIO PLANNING SOFTWARE

Plan for what’s next—no matter what lies ahead.

Workday empowers you to quickly model complex scenarios—like new tariffs and rapidly changing trade policies—while the Planning Agent automatically surfaces the hidden drivers behind the shifts.

Screenshot of Scenario Planning dashboard showing Financial Analysis reporting data tables.
Screenshot of Scenario Planning dashboard showing Financial Analysis reporting data tables.

what you can do

Turn “what-if” into “what’s next.”

Unify data from any cloud warehouse—including Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric—to create high-fidelity scenarios. Then leverage the Planning Agent to explain variances and use virtualized drill-back to trace every scenario to its source transaction.

KEY CAPABILITIES
  • Unlimited shareable what-if scenarios

  • Support from Planning Agent

  • AI-powered predictive forecasting

  • Team-led planning

Screenshot of Workday Adaptive Planning dashboard showing a list of multiple business scenarios.

Powerful models. Impactful decisions.

Compare multiple scenarios.Driver-based scenario planning makes it easy to spin off countless, in-depth scenarios and identify the best outcome—all at a moment’s notice.

Forecast and recalibrate with agility.Automatically bring actuals into your plan and more accurately align your assumptions with actual market conditions.

Get everyone on the same page.With your entire organization operating from a single source of truth, it’s easy to stay aligned as plans change and course-correct before getting too far off track.

Create your own what-if analysis.Personal and shareable what-if scenarios allow you to create, share, and collaborate on your own scenarios for greater insight into factors that impact your plans.

“In today’s society you don’t have the time to turn a big ship slowly. You have to do it efficiently and effectively, and that’s where we see analytics within Workday Adaptive Planning as a true driving force.”

Plan for every possibility.

Predictive driver-based plans.

Use AI-powered predictive forecasting to analyze historical trends and external data.

Personal and shareable what-ifs.

Create private sandboxes to test AI-generated scenarios and model outcomes before sharing your best-case plans with the team.

Linked plans.

Break down silos with a single source of truth that connects data and dimensions across finance, sales, HR, and operations.

Robust reporting with AI insights.

Surface hidden trends and potential errors with AI-powered anomaly detection to ensure every report is boardroom-ready.

Try Workday Adaptive Planning.

Experience how continuous planning works.