Shlomi Lavi /
Dec 28, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Workday Adaptive Planning or CRD?
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 Budgeting & CPM 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:
Workday Vs. ChristianSteven Software
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...
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.
Who is more expensive? Workday Adaptive Planning or CRD?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Budgeting & CPM 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 Workday Adaptive Planning and CRD.
Workday Adaptive Planning price starts at $15,000 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Workday Adaptive Planning is rated 8, which is higher than the average cost of Budgeting & CPM software. CRD price starts at $7,995 per user/year , When comparing CRD to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Budgeting & CPM software cost.
Bottom line: Workday Adaptive Planning is more expensive than CRD.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Workday Adaptive Planning Vs. CRD based on some of the most important and required Budgeting & CPM features.
Workday Adaptive Planning: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Ad-Hoc Analysis, Ad-Hoc Reporting, Automatic Scheduled Reporting, Dashboarding, Forecasting & Budgeting, Performance Measurements, Predictive-Analysis, Profit Analysis.
CRD: We are still working to collect the list of features for CRD.
Target customer size
Workday Adaptive Planning is intended for large enterprises looking for easier ways for preparing cash flow projections, balance sheet forecasting and sales planning. 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.