Adaptive Decision Intelligence

Turn Al Insight into

Planning Decision

Go from questions to action. Explore scenarios and bring approved decisions into your governed plan with full traceability.

AI-POWERED PLANNING

From Planning Questions To Informed Decisions

Adaptive Decision Intelligence is an AI capability in Workday Adaptive Planning. 
It brings conversational exploration and scenario planning into a governed experience.

Ask Question

In natural language

Compare scenarios

and review assumptions.

Commit approved

scenarios to the plan.

VIDEO OVERVIEW

See How Adaptive Decision Intelligence Works

Discover how AI-powered insights drive smarter planning and confident decisions.

KEY CAPABILITIES

Turn intelligence into action

Explore how Adaptive Decision Intelligence from Workday helps finance teams understand change, evaluate options and confidently update their plans.

01 • AI FOR FP&A

Variance & Root-Cause Analysis

Using natural language, investigate unified GL and plan data, surface automated root-cause diagnostics, and generate variance analysis and executive summaries.

02 • AI FOR FP&A

Prescriptive Scenario Modeling

Compare scenarios, run Monte Carlo simulations, and close performance gaps with prescribed actions using any plan, financial, operational, or workforce data.

03 • AI FOR FP&A

Governed Scenario Write-Back

Compare the latest actuals against forecast and commit updated scenarios into Adaptive as new plan versions, preserving dimensional structure and version history automatically.

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