Make faster decisions with a planning process you can trust.
Build faster budgets, more reliable forecasts, and a Workday Adaptive Planning model that actually works for your business.
Ascend Planning Solutions helps finance leaders turn complicated planning processes into streamlined, scalable systems that give their teams the confidence to spend less time managing spreadsheets and more time driving the business.
Your planning process shouldn't hold your business back.
You need accurate numbers and fast answers. But when your planning process depends on disconnected spreadsheets, outdated models, or workarounds inside Adaptive Planning, even simple questions can take weeks to answer.
Sound familiar?
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Your budget takes months to assemble, and by the time it's approved, the business has already changed.
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Multiple versions of the forecast are circulating, and no one is completely sure which numbers are right.
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Leadership asks, "What happens if we open two more locations?" and getting the answer takes weeks.
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You're paying for Workday Adaptive Planning, but your team is still doing much of the real work in Excel.
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The person who built your model left, and no one knows how to maintain or change it.
You shouldn't have to choose between the system you invested in and the way your business actually operates.
Trusted by finance teams that expect more from their planning systems.
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End to End Projects Completed
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Integration Projects
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ERP, EPM & BI Systems Integrated to Adaptive Planning
Turn your planning system into a strategic advantage.
Ascend Planning Solutions helps finance teams get more from Workday Adaptive Planning through implementation, optimization, advisory, and ongoing support.
We bring deep finance and business systems expertise to every engagement, combining senior-level FP&A experience with extensive Workday Adaptive Planning experience.
But we don't start with the software.
We start with your business.
We identify the financial and operational drivers that matter most to your organization, then design a planning solution around the decisions your team needs to make.
The result is more than a better model. It's a planning process your team can understand, manage, and adapt as your business changes.
A clearer path to better planning.
Assess Your Planning Process
Start with a 30-minute Planning Assessment to discuss your current process, business priorities, and biggest challenges. We'll identify opportunities and give you an honest recommendation, even if we're not the right fit
Design & Build Your Solution
We design your planning model around the way your organization actually operates, then build it in stages. Regular reviews keep your team involved and ensure the solution supports the decisions you need to make.
Equip Your
Team
Your team shouldn't need an outside expert every time something changes. We train finance leaders, administrators, and budget owners and provide the documentation they need to confidently use and manage the system.
Keep Moving Forward
Your business will change. Your planning system should be able to change with it. After launch, we provide ongoing support, administration, model enhancements, pre-budget reviews, and expert guidance when you need it.
The expertise to make your planning process work.
Whether you're implementing Adaptive Planning for the first time or trying to fix a system that no longer fits your business, we help you build a planning environment your team can rely on.
Spend less time managing the numbers.
Spend more time using them.
Imagine having a planning process that works with your business instead of working around it.
Build budgets faster.
Spend less time chasing spreadsheets and reconciling versions.
Forecast with confidence.
Know where your numbers come from and trust the information you're putting in front of leadership.
Answer questions sooner.
Run scenarios and evaluate opportunities without spending weeks rebuilding the forecast.
Reduce key-person risk.
Give your team the training, documentation, and systems knowledge they need to confidently manage the planning process
Get more from your Adaptive Planning investment.
Use the system as a strategic planning tool instead of paying for technology while the real work continues in Excel.
Deep finance expertise.
Deep Adaptive Planning expertise.
A partner who stays.
Finance teams are under pressure to answer bigger questions faster.
You need to know what the numbers mean, what happens next, and what the business can do about it. But when your planning process is buried in spreadsheets or your Adaptive Planning model no longer reflects the way your organization operates, getting those answers becomes harder than it should be.
Ascend Planning Solutions was built to solve that problem.
With deep experience across finance, FP&A, business systems, and Workday Adaptive Planning, we help organizations build planning environments that support the way they actually work.
And our involvement doesn't end at go-live.
We believe the best planning solution is one your team understands, can manage, and can adapt as the business evolves.
You get a better model. Your team gets more confidence. Your business gets better answers.
Ready to make planning work better?
Start with a 30-minute Planning Assessment.
We'll talk through your current planning process, where it's breaking down, and what you want to accomplish. Then we'll tell you honestly whether Ascend Planning Solutions can help and what the best next step looks like.
No pressure. No generic sales pitch. Just a conversation about your planning process.