Elastic Hypercube Technology Workday Adaptive Planning eBook

eBook

Elastic Hypercube

Technology

Driving performance and scalability

with Workday Adaptive Planning.

Table of Contents

Introduction 03

The Power of Elastic Hypercube Technology 04

Measures of Scalability 05

Plan Without Limits 10

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Introduction.

Organizations, especially large ones, need a planning

platform that can handle big, complex models without

compromising user experience. A platform that can

support changing business conditions while remaining

powerful enough to take on complex models.

Elastic Hypercube Technology (EHT) is the next-generation,

in-memory engine for planning—and it does just that.

In this eBook, we explore how Workday brings business

agility to the enterprise with Workday Adaptive Planning,

Technology.

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The power of Elastic Hypercube Technology.

Power and scale when you need it.

Elastic Hypercube Technology efficiently calculates complex models and

elastically adds memory and compute power when needed to calculate

model elements in parallel. That’s dynamic, automatic scaling. It means

you can compare as many scenarios as you want, at the same time,

without sacrificing performance.

In-Memory

Calculations

• Real-time rollups, reporting,

and what-if analysis.

• Unlimited scenarios; seamless

reports and analysis across

any dimensions.

Flexible

Modeling

• Custom-model virtually any

kind of functional use.

• Model workforce capacity,

marketing demand generation,

and project-based planning.

Integration

Framework

• Self-service integration

management and open APIs.

• Seamlessly integrate across

ERP, CRM, G/L, and HCM.

Federated Planning

Domains

• Functional, divisional planning

and an integrated corporate plan.

• Model own aspects of the

business at needed levels

of detail and cadences.

Multidimensional

Modeling, Reporting,

and Analytics

• Multidimensional modeling for

large-scale, complex plans.

• Planning and granularity

according to the needs of

the business or functions.

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Measures of scalability.

More than ever, a planning platform needs to support the

agile needs of the business. This includes enabling any

department—finance, HR, sales, operations—to plan for its

part of the business. But too often, the limitations of software

inhibit the ability to do just that. Too many calculations, too

many complex models, too many manual errors—and the

system breaks. A slow and cumbersome planning system

narrows the view of the business and derails any attempt

to be strategic and forward thinking. Worse yet, when each

department plans for its own line of business, the departments

essentially don’t “talk” to each other, dissolving the opportunity

for collaboration.

Let’s take a deeper look into how our customers are leveraging

the power of EHT across these seven measures of scalability.

Users

Versions

Accounts

Cost Centers

Dimensions

Dimension Members Employees

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Users

EHT can support hundreds of users, so planning can extend beyond the office

of finance. With an easy-to-use interface, anyone—not just power users—can

participate in the planning process. And because the underlying models

are interconnected, finance doesn’t have to spend time gathering and

fact-checking data.

Customer spotlight:

• Top 50 customers average 900 users*

• 60+ customers have >400 users*

• World’s largest multinational consulting firm has

upwards of 3,000 users*

“

We’re using Workday Adaptive Planning in many

ways at Fletcher Jones, not just financial reporting

and not just through our controllers at our stores,

but to engage our general managers and get them

involved in the culture of planning.

Fletcher Jones Auto Group

*User is defined as a configured user in production system.

Versions

EHT gives you the flexibility to model unlimited versions without the extra

cost. You can easily change assumptions and run countless what-if scenarios,

and course correct as needed.

Customer spotlight:

• 40 customers have 400+ versions

• 800 customers have 100+ versions

• Renewable energy provider has upwards of 900 versions

“

Workday Adaptive Planning allows us to

confidently run scenarios and make more

strategic, course-altering decisions much quicker.

AGF

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Accounts

With EHT, you can manage as many accounts as you need, without the

headache. The hierarchical account and dimension structures automatically

aggregate data from plans and actuals, so no detail falls through the cracks.

Customer spotlight:

• 50 customers have 10,000+ accounts

• ~250 customers have 5,000+ accounts

• Wealth management firm has more than 70,000 accounts

“

As a plastics manufacturer, the sales forecasting

instance includes a multidimensional cube sheet

for planning and analysis across some 3 billion

dimension combinations.

Porex Corporation

Cost Centers

A flexible architecture and a powerful modeling engine in EHT can handle

large and complex hierarchy structures while allowing business users to

make the changes they need.

Customer spotlight:

• ~1,000 customers have 1,000+ cost centers

• ~300 customers have 3,000+ cost centers

• Fifth-largest food and beverage company has more than

60,000 cost centers

“

It became challenging maintaining the budget in

Hyperion. Each time a business condition changed

or a product was added or removed, we had to

rely on technical coders in the IT organization to

customize Hyperion and re-run scripts.

Boston Scientific

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Dimensions

Unlike many ERP and planning systems that limit dimensionality, Workday

Adaptive Planning allows you to segment data, filter formula references, and

slice reports across an unlimited number of dimensions. So you can get a

complete understanding of your business.

Customer spotlight:

• Customers average 30+ dimensions

• 500 customers average 100+ dimensions

• Multinational bakery product manufacturer has upwards

of 500 dimensions

“

Without Workday Adaptive Planning, we wouldn’t

be able to run a gigantic project and make

decisions in real time.

TELUS

Dimension Members

Analyze and report on what matters most. With Workday Adaptive Planning,

you can segment and filter your data by region, entity, channel, product,

customer, and more so you can monitor and measure performance with a

customized view.

Customer spotlight:

• ~700 customers have a dimension with 5,000+ members*

• 300 customers have a dimension with 14,000+ members*

• Major public university has a dimension with more than

130,000 projects

“

The many different custom dimensions and

attributes make it easy to slice and dice the data

to your liking.

HelloFresh

*Members represent the unique endpoints within a dimension,

tantamount to “nodes.”

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Employees

Reliable driver-based calculations allow for different assumptions

across dimensions, such as project labor category, headcount, and

multiple geographies. Workday Adaptive Planning delivers just that.

Customer spotlight:

• 200 customers have a modeled sheet with 40,000+ rows*

• Nearly 100 customers have more than 40,000 employees

• Multinational professional services company has more than

500,000 employees

“

We’ve now been able to build a full headcount list

for our group, building in all the different tax rates

across various different locations, and also building

in attrition has enabled us to have a more accurate

headcount forecast.

Kindred Group

*Model sheets are commonly used to model list elements—personnel rosters,

contracts, equipment, opportunities, and so on. The number of rows reflects

the discrete elements; the columns reflect attributes about them.

Measures of Scalability

Enterprises across many industries rely on EHT to deliver robust modeling

and unlimited what-if scenarios at virtually any scale and complexity, without

sacrificing performance or slowing down the system. Let’s look at the model

profiles of some of our large enterprise customers.

Large Enterprise Model Profiles

NATIONAL RESTAURANT CHAIN

Users: ~130

Use Case:

Financial Planning

Workforce Planning

Revenue, Expense, Headcount

Levels: 3K

Dimensions: 19

Accounts: 2,700

GLOBAL BAKER

Users: 1,300

Use Case:

Financial Planning

Expense Budgeting

Headcount Planning

Levels: >6,500

Dimensions: >490

Accounts: >17K

PHONE MANUFACTURER

Users: 300

Use Case:

Financial Planning, Expenses

Corporate and Retail Personnel,

CAPEX, Management Reporting

Levels: ~43K

Dimensions: 22

Accounts: >2K

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Plan without limits.

Workday Adaptive Planning built Elastic Hypercube Technology to speed

results, elastically and automatically adding memory and computing

power when you need it. With our fine-grained understanding of

model dependencies, EHT delivers results for even the largest and

most complex models. And it calculates changes only when required.

Compare as many scenarios as you want, at the same time, without ever

sacrificingperformance.

Learn more at workday.com/planning.

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