Case Study: Engine Yard achieves greater efficiency, faster insights, and a single version of the truth with Workday Adaptive Planning

Engine Yard Achieves Efficiency, Insights, and Single Version of Business Truth

Engine Yard, a San Francisco–based leader in platform-as-a-service founded in 2006, experienced rapid growth that outpaced its on-premises planning systems. Reliance on IT-run scripts and slow, fragmented reporting left budgeters and decision-makers waiting for currency conversions, departmental changes, and consolidated financial views, preventing timely analysis and strategic action.

By implementing Adaptive Planning and then Adaptive Discovery, Engine Yard created a single, visual analytics platform for workforce and spend planning, capital tracking, and cross-system metrics from Zuora, Salesforce and AWS. Users build dashboards and drill down into customer, product and geography data in minutes, cutting data-mining and reconciliation time by about two days per month and saving an estimated 3,000+ hours annually across 15+ decision-makers—resulting in faster insights, fewer disputes over numbers, improved revenue and cost control, and a more strategic FP&A function.

EngineYard

Rick Smith

FP&A Manager