Workday Adaptive Planning is strong for FP&A and budgeting with a friendly Excel add-in — but statutory multi-entity consolidation (IC elimination, NCI, CTA, ownership) is limited, it's per-seat subscription, and it's closed. Konsolidat does the hard consolidation and stays Excel-native and open.
Adaptive shines at budgeting and forecasting; full statutory consolidation with IC/NCI/CTA is not its strength. Konsolidat is built for it.
Subscription per user, closed source. Konsolidat is MIT — run it yourself for zero license cost.
Reciprocal allocations, ownership trees, eliminations — handled in a transparent engine you can audit, not a vendor black box.
An honest comparison for a 10–500 user enterprise group over a three-year horizon. Figures are typical ranges, not quotes.
| Capability / Cost factor | Konsolidat | Workday Adaptive Planning |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Year licensing | $0 (MIT) | $$ per-seat |
| Implementation | Low–moderate | Moderate |
| Time-to-value | Weeks–3 months | 3–9 months |
| Excel-native UX | ✓ =EPM() native | ⚠ OfficeConnect |
| Statutory consolidation (IC / NCI / CTA) | ✓ Engine-driven | ⚠ Limited |
| ERP integration (SAP / Dynamics / ERPNext) | ✓ via OData | ⚠ Connector / ETL |
| Source code access | ✓ Full MIT | ✗ |
| Vendor lock-in | None | High |
Comparison reflects typical Workday Adaptive Planning deployments based on publicly available information and customer conversations. Konsolidat is not affiliated with or endorsed by Workday Adaptive Planning. Workday Adaptive Planning is a trademark of its respective owner.
Workday Adaptive Planning, like every commercial EPM, is a closed SaaS you rent — the model, the data, the roadmap, all on the vendor’s terms. Konsolidat gives you the whole application to run on your own infrastructure, inspect, fork, and own.
Konsolidat is an open-source EPM alternative to Workday Adaptive Planning: Excel-native consolidation, allocation, budgeting and variance on a ClickHouse + dbt backend, connected to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics and ERPNext, with no license fee under MIT. It's a lower-cost, lower-lock-in option — not a feature-for-feature replacement in every niche.
Self-hosted Konsolidat has no license fee (MIT); your only cost is operating it. A managed option is available. Workday Adaptive Planning typically involves six- to seven-figure licensing plus implementation over three years.
Yes — multi-entity IFRS/GAAP consolidation with FX translation, CTA, intercompany elimination, NCI and ownership changes, validated by 26 automated tests on every run.
Yes. Results come through =EPM() worksheet functions in the spreadsheets finance already uses — no new modeling UI to learn.
Book a 30-minute technical demo — a real consolidation model with reciprocal allocations and NCI, not slides.