Workday has introduced Adaptive Decision Intelligence, a new AI capability in Workday Adaptive Planning, the company said on 27 May 2026.
The feature lets finance and operations teams ask questions in natural language, model scenarios in minutes and commit decisions directly into the governed plan. Workday announced it at the Gartner Finance Symposium/Xpo in National Harbor, Maryland.
Adaptive Decision Intelligence combines the plans and actuals already held in Adaptive Planning with operational data such as CRM pipeline, customer revenue and project costs. Workday’s example is a finance leader asking why EMEA revenue fell short of plan and getting a breakdown by territory coverage, win rates, deal size and ramping sellers.
“Many AI planning tools today still leave analysts stitching together scenarios in spreadsheets every time a new business question comes up,” said Ben Pierce, general manager, Workday Adaptive Planning.
For finance teams, the pitch is fewer days spent pulling data from disconnected systems before a planning decision can be made.