Workday Adaptive Planning Release Notes

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Workday Adaptive Planning is a cloud-based Corporate Performance Management solution that makes planning easy and empowers finance teams to better support the business and drive efficiencies. It has maintained its position as a top performer on sites like Gartner, TrustRadius and G2 crowd for its features and high customer satisfaction rating.

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Workday typically releases two major updates each year, one in March and one in September, and continues to improve the software through each release.

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Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2026 R1 Review

The 2026 R1 release focuses on 3 key areas: scaling Adaptive’s capabilities with the expansion of predictive forecaster, the introduction of “Hubs” for streamlining workspaces, and sophisticated security enhancements for collaborative modelling.

What’s new in Workday 2026 R1

Past releases

September 2025

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2025 R2 Review

The 2025 R2 release introduces intuitive tools like Ask Workday and enhanced dashboard collaboration to streamline planning, simplifying forecasting and integration, and helping finance teams work more effectively to gain sharper insights.

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March 2025

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2025 R1 Review

The 2025 R1 release enhances collaboration with Shared Scenarios for team-wide “what-if” modelling. Key updates include Matrix Reports on Dashboards, improved data validation, and a mandatory UI refresh for greater consistency.

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September 2024

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2024 R2 Review

The 2024 R2 release updates the ability to submit data edits directly from OfficeConnect reports, improves monitoring via a “Long-Running Processes” report, and introduces “Archived Versions” for safer data preservation.

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March 2024

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2024 R1 Review

The 2024 R1 release provides a combination of enhancements targeted towards the end user as well as developers, such as advanced reporting, stronger integration with Workday HCM, and improved modelling capabilities.

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September 2023

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2023 R2 Review

The 2023 R2 release improves overall performance and experience for financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams with enhanced reporting interactivity, improved performance for large data sets, and new dashboarding capabilities.

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March 2023

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2023 R1 Review

The 2023 R1 release features updates to workforce planning, improving modelling capabilities, and bolstering reporting functionality. Key highlights include compensation grade modelling and improved sheet management.

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September 2022

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2022 R2 Review

The 2022 R2 release introduces alternate calendars to manage multiple fiscal year-ends, improvements to dashboards and modelling for acquisitions, enhanced OfficeConnect functionality and integration capabilities for better reporting flexibility.

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March 2022

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2022 R1 Review

The 2022 R1 release delivers faster, more accurate planning cycles. It enhances agility through greater modelling flexibility, an improved user experience, and boosted performance specifically designed for large-scale enterprise planning requirements.

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September 2021

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2021 R2 Review

The 2021 R2 update focuses on reporting improvements, streamlined sheet management and UI enhancements. Highlights include changes to OfficeConnect, new data erasure capabilities, and better navigation within reports.

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March 2021

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2021 R1 Review

The 2021 R1 release has introduced new features for modelling and reporting, updates to dashboards, expanded reporting capabilities in OfficeConnect, improved calculated accounts, and merged cube sheets.

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September 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2020 R2 Review

The 2020 R2 release focuses on user experience, reporting flexibility, and modelling capabilities, notably enabling multiple personal sheet views on dashboards and introducing derived dimension values for modelled sheets.

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March 2020

Workday Adaptive Planning Release 2020 R1 Review

The 2020 R1 release provides deeper insights and a more streamlined reporting experience. This update focuses heavily on advanced data summarisation, sophisticated visualisation tools, and significant performance improvements.

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