Compare CRD and Workday Adaptive Planning - Dec 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - CRD or Workday Adaptive Planning?

Workday Adaptive Planning is more expensive to implement (TCO) than CRD, and Workday Adaptive Planning is rated higher (94/100) than CRD (80/100). Workday Adaptive Planning offers users more features (15) than CRD (0).

Looking for the right Workflow Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

ChristianSteven Software Vs. Workday

ChristianSteven Software: in September 2002, Christian Ofori-Boateng and Steven Amani founded ChristianSteven Software Ltd. to bring their Crystal Reports scheduling and business automation software to market. Since that time, ChristianSteven Software has extended support to include Microsoft Access and SQL Server.

Workday: In 2005, software visionaries Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri met for brunch at a Truckee diner, a few miles north of Lake Tahoe. They decided to form a startup—one that would sell cloud-based finance and HR software. The two longtime friends had plenty of experience. Dave founded PeopleSoft in 1987 and served as the company's CEO and board chairma...

Who is more expensive? CRD or Workday Adaptive Planning?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Workflow Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for CRD and Workday Adaptive Planning.

CRD price starts at $7,995 per user/year , On a scale between 1 to 10 CRD is rated 6, which is similar to the average cost of Workflow Management software. Workday Adaptive Planning price starts at $15,000 per license , When comparing Workday Adaptive Planning to its competitors, the software is rated 8 - higher than the average Workflow Management software cost.

Bottom line: Workday Adaptive Planning is more expensive than CRD.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared CRD Vs. Workday Adaptive Planning based on some of the most important and required Workflow Management features.

CRD: We are still working to collect the list of features for CRD.

Workday Adaptive Planning: Ad-Hoc Analysis, Ad-Hoc Reporting, Automatic Scheduled Reporting, Dashboarding, Forecasting & Budgeting.

Target customer size

The general users of CRD are the business people that have small (having 10 – 100 employees) and/or medium-sized (having 100 – 1,000 employees) businesses that make use of the benefits from the services of IT, web and data hosting and other information related service sector, mainly in the field of business process management and business workflow. Workday Adaptive Planning is intended for large enterprises looking for easier ways for preparing cash flow projections, balance sheet forecasting and sales planning.