Workday is thrilled to again be recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software for our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
It is a privilege and an honor for us to announce that for the fourth consecutive year, Workday has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software1. We are incredibly proud of this sustained recognition for our Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute.
We believe this recognition wouldn't be possible without our customers who inspire and challenge us every day. Their success is the ultimate validation of our approach. We are especially pleased to share that in addition to this recognition, our customers have spoken loud and clear with Workday being named a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Financial Planning software in 20252. We are the only vendor to be recognized with the Customer’s Choice distinction for three straight years.
We believe this recognition for Financial Planning is part of a broader acknowledgment of Workday’s strength across the entire enterprise management suite. Workday has also been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises3 and a Leader in the inaugural 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP Finance4.
Market volatility is now the operating environment—not the exception. Geopolitics, tariffs, supply chain shifts, and constant org change mean decisions can’t wait for quarterly cycles. Organizations face constant challenges navigating growth, restructuring, and market pressures, each having a ripple effect across the business. Driving growth amidst this backdrop is harder than ever.
The old ways of siloed and disconnected people, processes, and technology are obsolete. We can no longer build financial forecasts in isolation or make decisions without a clear view of how one move impacts the bigger picture. Too often, this process starts in a spreadsheet, moves to a diagram, and ends up in a deck. Sound familiar? Has anyone been part of a reorg recently?
The outdated process is too slow. Organizations today need something fundamentally different: an intuitive, modern experience that connects people, data, and intelligence in real time. Customers need a planning solution that can help them make high-speed decisions, combining human judgment with intelligent automation at scale, turning change into opportunity.
Organizations today need something fundamentally different: an intuitive, modern experience that connects people, data, and intelligence in real time.
Our continued placement as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software fuels our strong conviction about our vision for the AI-driven, connected enterprise. This recognition is not an endpoint: It is momentum. In our view, it underscores the value of a single, unified platform that breaks down operational barriers and delivers intelligence where it’s needed most. By empowering the entire organization with collaborative planning—seamlessly linking finance, HR, and operations plans—we enable teams to shift their focus away from data consolidation and modeling, and toward genuine strategic leadership, navigating volatility, and making better, smarter, faster decisions that fuel growth. And because Workday Adaptive Planning is data source agnostic, it can connect to any ERP or transactional system that drives the business.
This is why we continue to execute on a vision that goes beyond simple automation. We’re focused on providing predictive, personalized guidance to every decision-maker across the business so they can help their organizations grow.
We’re excited about the next era of enterprise planning, one driven by agentic AI and a truly connected approach. We look forward to continuing our partnership with our customers to build the most agile, resilient, and intelligent organizations in the world.
The chief IT officer at Deloitte Government and Public Services has experienced real-world results. “Workday Adaptive Planning is ensuring we have the optimal technology framework in place for all aspects end to end, from planning, modeling, and budgeting in near real time. So we are empowering our leaders and our people to make better decisions,” he says. “We have experienced extraordinary results.”
With more than 7,000 global Workday Adaptive Planning customers, Workday is helping businesses navigate a world where data change is constant. Our focus has been on making planning simpler, smarter, and more collaborative for every single user, translating to faster alignment and immediate actions and decisions.
The CFO of McLaren Racing recognizes this advantage. “Every financial decision impacts our results on the track. Now we have a total view to make the best and most competitive decisions,” she says.
At Workday, we’ve deeply invested in AI, but not just for automation’s sake. Our approach is fundamentally human-centered and AI-augmented. We’re removing the massive, repetitive grind of data access, modeling, and consolidation, freeing up FP&A teams to focus on their most critical task: steering the business. The modern experience we deliver is intuitive and brings intelligence directly into planning, empowering every user to communicate and collaborate directly in context with the data.
Workday’s advantage is rooted in our unified, AI-first platform with human-in-the-loop governance. This combination ensures that while machine learning accelerates forecasting, scenario planning, and data preparation, human expertise remains the final authority.
By combining the speed and accuracy of intelligent automation with the critical judgment of your team, we deliver faster, better-aligned decisions and superior business outcomes. This is essential for navigating today’s constant market volatility, where organizations must be able to respond fast to uncertainty.
Planning Agent represents a new era for enterprise planning. It is Workday’s AI-powered solution built to fundamentally transform how work gets done across the entire planning lifecycle. It moves beyond simple automation to act as an expert planning partner for analysts, planners, modelers, and administrators, bringing an intuitive, zero-friction experience to the complex, cross-functional process of enterprise planning.
The agent streamlines and eliminates manual, time-consuming tasks like data wrangling, data consolidation, and complex analysis. This unlocks time for FP&A teams to shift their focus to genuine strategic leadership and higher-value decision support.
Our first role-based skill is designed for analysts by enabling a conversational interface that dramatically reduces time-to-insight while improving analysis quality to drive stronger outcomes. Instead of manual data extraction and complex dashboard navigation, users can ask natural language questions to instantly surface trends, anomalies, and variance drivers—empowering self-service analytics that reduce bottlenecks and accelerate decision-making.
The initial Planning Agent features bring conversational intelligence to your planning data, including:
Ask Workday: Enables users to interact with their data and planning models using natural language, making data access immediate and insight generation instantaneous for every decision-maker, even those outside of finance.
Data exploration: Transforms how FP&A teams interact with Adaptive Planning data by enabling conversational analytics that dramatically reduces time-to-insight while improving analysis quality.
Variance analysis: Automatically identify material variances, provide root-cause traceability, and generate clear explanatory insights. This accelerates analysis and provides continuous confidence in performance drivers.
We think our continued recognition as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software for the fourth straight year affirms our commitment to our customers and our vision for the connected, AI-driven enterprise. Workday’s approach unifies finance, HR, and operations data, empowering organizations to move beyond slow, siloed planning and make high-speed, strategic decisions to fuel their organizations’ growth in the face of constant market volatility.
From being recognized as a Leader for our completeness of vision and ability to execute in the Magic Quadrant to being named a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Financial Planning software for three straight years, the message is clear: Workday is delivering the modern, intelligent planning experience the market demands. We’re proud to partner with our customers as we continue to push the boundaries of enterprise planning with our human-centered, AI-augmented platform to unlock faster, better, smarter decision-making at scale.
1Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software, Regina Crowder, Sid Sahoo, Mike Lashinsky, 2 December 2025.
2Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Financial Planning Software, By Peer Contributors, 30 May 2025.
3Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, By Robert Anderson, Johan Jartelius, Tomas Kienast, Sam Grinter, Denis Torii, Chaithanya Paradarami, 13 October 2025.
4Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP Finance, By Mike Helsel, Irmina Melarkode, Nick Duffy, Nisha Bhandare, 27 October 2025.
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