Can you trust the numbers in Adaptive from Workday?
Adaptive from Workday, the new name for Workday Adaptive Planning, is a cloud-based enterprise planning platform for budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Its own help pages give 4 reasons its numbers can look different from what you expect. The first to rule out: A total can look too small when the person viewing it lacks access to some parts of the business, because, as Adaptive's documentation says, it adds up only what that person can see.
Is it broken, or just counted differently?
A number can look wrong because the business changed, or because of how Adaptive from Workday counts it. Below is what Adaptive from Workday keeps, where its help pages say the numbers can differ, and how to check them yourself.
What does Adaptive from Workday keep track of?
Adaptive keeps planning data that can be shown in web reports, laid out by the parameters the person running the report picks.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
You can use web reports to display Workday Adaptive Planning data, based on your report parameters.
Concept: Building Web Reports, read 2026-11-12.Adaptive can hand an owner a file of the accounts and amounts they choose.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
This page exports all specified accounts and their values.
Export Data, read 2026-11-12.
What can make Adaptive from Workday's numbers look wrong?
A total can look too small when the person viewing it lacks access to some parts of the business, because, as Adaptive's documentation says, it adds up only what that person can see.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
The total displayed contains only the contributors that you can access.
Concept: Building Web Reports, read 2026-11-12.Two people opening the same shared report can see different numbers, as Adaptive's documentation explains, since each sees only what their access allows.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
Shared reports strip out the data that users can't access and can look very different to each user.
Share Reports, read 2026-11-12.An exported file can have fewer rows than the plan has accounts, because, as Adaptive's documentation says, empty rows are dropped unless that setting is changed.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
Rows that only contain zeroes or blank cells are excluded from the export by default.
Export Data, read 2026-11-12.Amounts translated into another currency can only be shown in web reports for plan versions that allow it, as Adaptive's documentation explains.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
To use translated currencies in web reports, you can only include versions that enable it.
Concept: Building Web Reports, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check Adaptive from Workday's numbers myself?
Choosing the exact months for an export lets an owner line the file up against the same months in their bank or accounting records.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
You can select the time periods to include by using the From and To drop-down selectors.
Export Data, read 2026-11-12.A transaction report lets an owner look at the entries behind the amounts rather than only the totals.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
Create and run a transaction report to view transactions across multiple accounts and levels.
Create Transaction Reports, read 2026-11-12.Picking one currency for the whole file keeps amounts comparable when the business works in more than one currency.
In Adaptive from Workday's own words:
Select the currency in which all monetary values should be exported.
Export Data, read 2026-11-12.
How does Adaptive from Workday work with Feder?
Connect Adaptive from Workday to Feder and it joins your Money apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Adaptive from Workday.
When you connect Adaptive from Workday, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Other apps that feed Money
- Striperevenue
- PayPalrevenue
- WooCommercerevenue
- Rechargesubscription revenue
- Zohoinvoiced
- Wave Accountinginvoiced
Questions owners ask about Adaptive from Workday
- Why did numbers in Adaptive Planning change after an import?An import replaces any data already held at the same location, so a new file can change figures that were there before.
- Why are numbers missing in Adaptive Planning after a scheduled data load?When a loader runs in replace mode, cells in the load's scope that the new data does not match are deleted.
- Why is a total lower in my Adaptive Planning report or export?An account or level with no export mapping is left out of an export by default, so the exported total can be lower than the plan.
Where do these answers come from?
Everything this page says about Adaptive from Workday comes from Adaptive from Workday's own pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.
Know the day a number breaks, not the month after.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.