Case Study: NEC advances data-driven management with Adaptive from Workday

NEC unifies planning data for AI-ready management with Workday

NEC, a global technology company, faced challenges in achieving data-driven management due to its reliance on spreadsheets for planning data like budgets. This created a gap between planned figures and actual performance data, hindering timely plan-to-actual comparisons and the use of AI analytics. To address this, NEC selected Adaptive from Workday to serve as a central planning data platform.

Workday's solution centralized NEC's dispersed business planning data, replacing a manual, spreadsheet-based process. This provided a unified platform to manage budgets and plans as a continuous data stream, making decision-relevant information more consistent and accessible. By connecting planning data with actual performance data and AI analytics, Workday helped NEC build a foundation for AI-native management and take its data-driven initiatives to the next level.