Case Study: Hortonworks achieves faster, more accurate planning and forecasting with Workday Adaptive Planning

Hortonworks Runs Enormous Expansion, High-Growth on Adaptive Insights

Hortonworks, a software and technology company that develops an open source data platform, needed to manage its enormous global expansion and rapid growth. The challenges included planning across multiple countries and currencies, simplifying budgeting and reporting, and quickly reconciling variances to their plans. They turned to Workday Adaptive Planning for a solution.

Using Workday Adaptive Planning, Hortonworks gained deeper insight with features like detailed "what-if" analysis and an 18-month rolling forecast. The software provided instantaneous analysis of changes to assumptions, enabling faster decision-making. The measurable impact included significant time savings, allowing the VP of Finance to focus on strategic initiatives instead of manual spreadsheet work, and a notable cost savings by streamlining processes to the point that hiring a director of FP&A was not yet necessary.

Hortonworks

Dan Bradford

VP of Finance